Jon Voight, whom they tout as a rare conservative voice in Hollywood, apparently wrote a scathing anti-Obama, anti-democrat op-ed in a major newspaper (I can't recall which). Now some are talking about blacklisting him from movies. CNN and Voight were all up in arms about it, and I expect that it will be a new contard cause celebre today. My question is......where was CNN and Jon Voight when the Dixie Chicks were having their music pulled off their radio for their comments about Bush and the Iraq War? Where were they when Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon were blacklisted for their opposition to the war? As I recall, CNN was little different from Faux Noise at that point. The cons wanted to see their careers destroyed as retribution for questioning the god-like vision of Bush and Cheney. If Jon Voight was concerned about their blacklisting, he sure did a good job of hiding it too.

So, contards, is blacklisting good or bad? It's either good for everyone, or bad for everyone. I for one don't want to see it happen to Voight, as your political views should never, ever be a consideration for your job. I know that's an unpopular view in the current administration, especially at the Justice Department, where you apparently had to pass a very strict neocon litmus test to get or retain your job as a prosecutor. Even so, in America, NOT Amerika, we are supposed to judge your fitness for a job by your experience, abilities and skills, not your ideology. I may think Voight is being a jerk (a common theme in his life), but I defend his right to his opinion.

So contards, man up. Ready to say the blacklisting of the Dixie Chicks, Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon was wrong? Or will we play the same old repub double standard game, bemoaning suggestions that Voight be blacklisted but that the blacklisting of the above performers was justified?