Celebrities stop eating! Want credit!

I want to preface this post by declaring my full support for the inalienable right of celebrities to express political opinions and "promote" their political activism.

Anyway, if our celebrities didn't open their pampered mouths, what would right-wing talking heads have left to scream about? The President's Iraq policy?

A lot of people would rejoice if the O'Reillys and Hannitys ran out of topics to bloviate upon. Those people haven't thought that through. Because if right-wing talkers ceased their talking, it could trigger a terrible chain reaction. Suddenly, the left-wing bloggers would have less to blog about. If things really progressed it could start getting little-kid-left-alone-in-a-recently-enlarged-house spooky for a lot of us.

But enough about that. I am more interested in the stunt Hollywood celebrities Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon and Danny Glover are trying to pull. They are going on a "hunger strike" to demand the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq.

Not such an original idea, considering lesser Hollywood participants Nicole Richie, Calista Flockhart and Laura Flynn Boyle have been on hunger strikes for years. The cause? I haven't a clue.

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They need to fire their publicists.

I'm especially suspicious of Glover's involvement in the proposed strike. He hasn't had a real hit since Lethal Weapon 4, and suddenly this?

We all know it's really just time for a new, svelte, look.

(Now, if instead of a hunger stike Glover gorged himself with food, and become so hideously obese he couldn't even land a weight loss commercial I, for one, would consider changing my opinion on keeping our troops in Iraq.)

It gets even more fishy when you read the details of the proposed strike. It is a "rolling fast," where one "activist" fasts for 24 hours and then hands over to the next "activist."

That's not much of a hunger strike. It's more like a combination of Yom Kippur and Hanukkah.

Does this means the Neo-Cons have infiltrated the peace movement?

Probably, and they are tricky.

One thing is for sure -- I don't support our celebrities right to free political speech because I believe in anything like the Constitution.

The way I see it celebrity activism equals comedy gold. The world would be a much more somber place if the glitterati decided to keep their points of view behind the velvet rope.

*above pic of desperate housewife Teri Hatcher, already striking.