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Rex Murphy: Hollywood Cause-Merchants Should Keep Their Noses Out of Issues They Know Little About

Rex Murphy: Hollywood Cause-Merchants Should Keep Their Noses Out of Issues They Know Little About
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio speaks during the signing of the Paris Agreement on climate change at the United Nations in New York on April 22, 2016. Jemal Countess/Getty Images
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Celebrities, from the C-list to the A-list, have been infesting politics for half a century now. Various halfwits and noodleheads have convinced themselves that because they lucked out in the entertainment lottery, landed a slot on some spin-off soap opera, or because their vulgar howlings won them a Grammy or its so-low-rent equivalent, a Gemini, or stole a moment of the “big time” in Vegas or Hollywood, that their burst of luck or happenstance and the odd appearance on Entertainment Tonight means they have “something to say” to the world.