Jonathan Chait: "I have mixed feelings about movie stars who get involved in political causes. On the one hand, it's a little sad that people need a movie star to make them interested in politics. Nobody should care what movie stars think. On the other hand, given the reality that people care a lot about what movie stars think, it's a moral good for movie stars to use their fame to direct people toward what they consider worthy causes." But caring about what movie stars think doesn't make their thoughts about worthy causes worthy -- or long-lived. Anybody remember Haiti, that other cause célèbre? All I hear are crickets, and the sounds of Catch-22.
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