This is John Cusack, who i think i liked in High Fidelity?  and Grossey Pointey Blankey?  Yes?  I am thinking of the right person?

Right wing pundits go crazy when celebrities speak out (unless it's Arnold or Ted Nugent). The idea is that they are these out-of-touch elitists that have noidea how real 'murikans think, and they should mind their own business and concentrate on entertaining us.  I'd like to turn that around a little. The majority of pundits and editorialists are millionaires.  Most went through journalism school, which teaches you how to be "appropriate" and "objective" and leans heavily on relying on official sources.  A lot get  money and talking points from right wing think tanks.  Many are handpicked in their Young Republican days and basically given patronages from these think tanks.  They rarely talk to people outside of Washington politicians and other journalists.  There's a real dinner party social club element to political journalism.

Meanwhile celebrities are regular people who suddenly wind up with a lot of money and a voice after struggling for a long time in their field.  They don't necessarily have a great knowledge of politics or history and they often come off sounding inarticulate when it comes to talking politics, but so do most Americans, and their perspective is probably closer to the views of the average American that a Washington pundit.  At the very least, it is equally close.  Granted, they were usually the weirdos in your high school class who were in the Theater Group, but at least they're coming from ordinary families from all over America.

So when a John Cusack writes an article like this, i'm glad.  Not because it's informative or thought provoking the way a Noam Chomsky essay might be, but because maybe it's reaching an audience that a Chomsky can't reach.  And i think the right wing knows that.  The left wing has already been excluded from the political debate in our media and the "liberal" Washington pundits are usually very timid and centrist, so when a celebrity speaks out, the right wing knows they have to attack them in the worst way to shut them out.  The O'Reillys and the Hannitys probably do think that these are extreme positions, because they are views they never hear around Washington, not even from Colmes or Thomas Friedman.  But the Catos and Heritage Foundations behind the O'Reillys and Hannitys know they have to sic the dogs on them because the celebrities are inadvertently raising topics and positions that the think tanks have spent the last 30 years successfully excluding from mainstream media.