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Byline: Michael Chapman, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Celebrities sell that's largely why their celebrities. Britney Spears' latest hair-mess makes headlines and sells newspapers. Anna Nicole Smith's death is fodder for nearly every media outlet in America. When Oprah Winfrey talks, millions of people listen. Unfortunately, when celebrities talk politics, it also sells, and buyers should beware.
Rosie O'Donnell, a co-host of ABC's "The View," which reaches nearly 2 million Americans every day, is a hard-core leftist not shy to express her politics. On Sept. 12, 2006, for instance, she said on "The View": "Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America." A few weeks later, Nov. 9, she lectured co-host Elisabeth...
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