The problem with celebrities voicing their opinions, is that they are often given credibility because they have access to media.

Having access to a podium doesn't make them an expert on anything and when other media outlets cover their opinions as news, it lends credibility.

Just because they are passionate about a cause doesn't give them expert status and often many of their claims are flat out factually wrong.

Additionally, I think people tend to have a feeling of ownership over characters, and for these actors to use the characters in a way that violates that "relationship" it is distrubing.

Not to mention that the Andy Taylors and the Aunt B's of this world (and they do still exist - I live in a small town FULL of them) absolutely, positively are not going to vote for Obama! LOL

And the whole change argument in disingenuous anyway. Intellectual dishonesty.

Meanwhile, back at the video.....
I thought it was weak that Fonzie was leaning against a Chevy instead of his bike.

The problem is not that famous folk voice a political opinion - it's that they often spread the same hate-filled, anti-capitalist, knee-jerk anti-Republican or anti-libertarian divisive s**t as some of the scumbags in this very thread, and when actors do that, they are telling me they don't want me as a fan.

Not sure that's really intelligent on their part, as I spend a small fortune every year on entertainment. But hey, if some idiots want to tell me they hate me because I don't believe that government should - or has the RIGHT - to determine everything that happens in my life, I guess that leaves more of my budget to spend with entertainers that don't spend time telling me how repulsive they think I am.

That was awesome, because with a little hair and makeup they really look just like they did back when their shows were on the air, at least Happy Days anyway. I never saw Andy Griffith though.

Thanks for posting this.

Bill L,

I didn't say what my opinion is. I would have been just as angry if "Opie/Richie" and company had been blathering on about McCain.

I just get angry when someone in the public eye gets the impression that their opinion on politics, religion, or just about anything else matters to anyone but themselves.

Peanut, please. It's that sort of divisiveness that is ruining the whole country, red state or blue state. Wayne can have an opinion and express it, too -- and should be able to without people like you insulting him.

Scott, I saw the same clip the other day, of McCain saying wealthier people should pay more taxes, and it made me laugh. He's sunk so low in this campaign.

He might have gotten my vote if he'd remained the McCain of 2000 -- and picked a sensible running mate, like Crist or maybe Pawlenty. But now...

I'm sure this thread will become very ugly. Yuk.

Wayne Dunham, you're technically retarded, right?

I am SO tired of "famous" people thinking that their opinions on ANYTHING, especially politics (no matter who, or what they are championing) matter one tinker's darn.
These people for the most part can't even manage their own pathetic lives/careers so what gives them, or more importantly us, the idea that their thoughts and opinions are even the slightest bit "enlightened"?

Sadly, all three of these folks (Howard, Winkler, Griffith) were people I had good opinions of. I have to seriously question that given their sense of self importance.
Take a cue from other celebrities and tell us to VOTE, just don't try to tell us HOW to vote!

Sure makes me want to haul out a picture I have and start some mass Emailings to their contact emails. The picture shows a soldier raising a coffee cup with the caption. "How about a nice cup of SHUT THE !#$% UP!" (ok, the picture has the real 'F' word in it, but I figured it wouldn't fly here)

It's nice to see Ron Howard getting back to his roots, though Henry Winkler talking about "loose girls" was slightly unnerving.

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Gosh Pa, there's nothing new or surprising here. We have Hollywood telling us we should vote Marxist and we have Obama Squad linking to it. Now we've got several fondly-remembered television characters forever linked to the fool whose great plans come with no details other than taking money from those that work hard and giving it to those that feel entitled. I guess by association they're also linked to that ugly America-hating man he married, too.

It's telling that the biggest supporters of a socialist state are actors. You know, people whose stock in trade is being something they're not and whose arrogance fills them with the idea that they somehow know enough to tell the rest of us how we should vote. Unfortunately many of the idiots blogging and commenting here just eat it up like it was free government cheese.

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln