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The Politics Guys

Ask The Politics Guys: Liberal Hollywood

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Education, News, Politics

4.4783 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2016

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

This week’s Ask The Politics Guys question comes from Jay’s daughter who, while watching the Democratic National Convention, asked her dad, “Why are most celebrities liberals?” dwh3geygSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:32.9

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are.

0:37.4

And welcome to the politics guys with your hosts, Dave Carson and Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening, wherever you are.

0:42.7

And welcome to the politics guys with your host, Jay Carson and Michael Baranowski.

0:53.0

Welcome to the politics guys. I'm Michael Baranowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.

0:59.2

My co-host this week, as always, is Cleveland Area Attorney and sometime Republican strategist, Jay, Carson.

1:08.9

Normally, I'd say here's this week's Ask the Politics Guy question, Jay, but this is kind of a special Ask the Politics Guy's question, so why don't you explain where it came from?

1:12.0

Well, this is sort of a funny one. It just kind of came up during the RN, the R&C and the DNC with my daughter, who's just sort of

1:18.5

becoming old enough to get politics. How old is that? She is 14. She's going

1:24.3

in the hospital next year. And she asked, why are so many celebrities, actors,

1:35.0

entertainers, why are they overwhelmingly Democrats and or liberals? And I thought that's really a pretty

1:43.2

good question. Okay, yeah, I think you're right. And I think let's really a pretty good question.

1:45.8

Okay, yeah, I think you're right.

1:54.2

And I think let's note that there are some conservative celebrities, like Scott Bayo.

1:54.9

Yeah.

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