2000: 10 celebrity candidates for exile if Bush wins
2008: Celebrities who promise to move out of the USA when McCain wins

No explanation, no apologies for their word not being worth a damn; just the assurance that in four years, they’ll be back again sharing their political brilliance and hoping just ONE person will say they’ll be missed if they issue another empty threat that will deny us of their all-important presence.

2016

Below is the 2016 edition of the privileged waiting for someone, ANYONE, to publicly beg them not to flee the country if their candidate didn’t win the presidential election.

 

 
We wondered about a class action lawsuit only because it could be argued the thought of some of these “entertainers” fleeing was juicy incentive for many hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Americans to get out and vote for Donald Trump. It could’ve been considered fraud, at the least, as they reneged (again).

So when’s the flight? Celebrities who pledged to leave the U.S. if the Donald won including Lena Dunham, Amy Schumer and Miley Cyrus stay silent as Trump supporters mock on Twitter

Many of these narcissistic celebrities assumed the places they announced (Italy, other planets, “hell”) they’d move to actually wanted them and all the baggage self-important divas brought. Of course, when the election was over and they didn’t get the result they wanted, they reverted back to their traditional response: they were “joking” or some have just gone into hiding hoping we’ll not hold them to their word, again .

Just kidding: Stars change their minds after vowing to leave country if Donald Trump wins
Amy Schumer hits out at stars for threatening to LEAVE America now Donald Trump is President after Spain ‘joke’

I’m not leaving the country I was born and raised in.
— Whoopi Goldberg

Sure, whatever.

Some celebs have lashed out at a general public that didn’t drop everything and do as they were instructed: vote for Hillary.

Most of the Hollywood elite don’t have a single nice thing to say about any Republican or their voters… except when THEY want us to pay to see their movies television show, download their “music”, buy a product they’re pimping, or bow to a candidate their wisdom dictates we must support.

Then they “act” all nice.

When they don’t get what they demanded, it will be back to Republican/Trump-bashing at the first opportunity.

A couple of those publicly (and proudly) decided to pass on performing for the incoming President of the United States.

We’re not advocating a boycott of anything these “celebrities” participate in or produce, but here’s one thing to think about: these people WILL take any opportunity to use a vehicle to bash Republican and/or conservative ideals during one of their performances or productions and more times than not, that message will be aimed at your politically-naive, easily-awed kids.

Just something to consider.

2020

They’re at it again, assuming there are millions of people who will be all put out if they REALLY leave this time, while some arrogantly believe they speak for others….

John Legend says that Americans ‘will have to start thinking about going somewhere else’ if Trump is reelected
Rock star Tommy Lee says he’ll leave the country if Trump is reelected
Bruce Springsteen Says He’ll Leave the Country if Trump is Reelected

How arrogant these people are that wherever they decide to flee to, the people there actually want them. Of course, should Donald Trump win reelection, you won’t hear shit from these people when they don’t leave.

It’ll be like their words never had any meaning (or weight) at all.

But Rick is not just your average poster boy for media bias. He used his position in the media as a club and inflicted real world damage with casualties.

Let’s not forget how he may have stymied Rush Limbaugh’s bid to become one of the owners of the St. Louis Rams football team in 2009.

Limbaugh’s perceived racist diatribes are too many to name but here’s a sampling: He once declared that had “Slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back; I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark,” said Limbaugh.
— Rick Sanchez, 10/12/09

After being alerted to the fact he repeated a defamatory, unverified quote on the air and the possibility of a lawsuit by Limbaugh, Sanchez offered a half-assed apology where he partially blamed his “staff”. Like any warning they may have given could have stopped Rick from backing off of a big target.

Rush later brought up an interesting point.

Rick “DUI, Leaving the Scene” Sanchez. Now on CNN every afternoon, spreading filth and lies, knowingly … like many journalists, he can’t take the kind of investigation or coverage he dishes out and the rest of his people dish out. They head to the tall grass, hide behind executives. I know ordinary people go to jail for this. But he was friends with the cops! As a TV reporter, he was friends with the cops. He got preferential treatment.
— Rush Limbaugh, 10/14/09

So-called journalists will go after a subject with vicious determination but if one were to examine their pasts, we all know they’d get bent out of shape if we had access to their driving records, domestic abuse filings, defaults, credit dings, etc.

Rick Sanchez doesn’t talk much about his past and with good reason.

Minutes after midnight on the morning of December 10, 1990, an intoxicated Jeffrey Smuzinick darted out in front of a Volvo on a residential street near Joe Robbie Stadium. The driver of the car, WSVN-TV Channel 7 anchorman Rick Sanchez, became the subject of a subsequent January 16 New Times story that described the odd circumstances of the accident. Sanchez, whom a Metro-Dade police officer said “smelled strongly of alcohol,” first stopped his car but then later left the scene. A blood test to determine Sanchez’s sobriety was not administered until an hour and fifteen minutes after the collision. Though Sanchez says he tried to aid Smuzinick at the scene of the accident and flag down motorists, eyewitnesses claim the anchorman ignored the injured man and loudly told police and bystanders that blood tests were pointless, and would hurt his public image.

Best known for his stint as a sometimes-melodramatic correspondent on Channel 7’s “Crime Check,” Sanchez continues his work on the station’s evening and late newscasts while awaiting a September 13 court date on misdemeanor drunk-driving charges. His attorney, Richard Essen, now says the anchorman returned home and had “a couple of drinks to calm his nerves” before returning to the scene.
— Miami New Times, 8/7/91

Like most news personalities, Sanchez expected and apparently received special treatment.

Sanchez will be defended by Richard Essen, whose courtroom successes in DUI cases have been featured on CBS-TV’s 60 Minutes. If convicted, Sanchez faces six months in prison and a $500 fine. He has no prior DUI arrests. Sanchez will not comment on the case, Essen said on Friday.

But in January, Sanchez was quoted in the Miami newspaper New Times as saying he had police permission to go home. The article indicated that police denied Sanchez’s story.
— South Florida Sun Sentinel, 2/16/91

What has raised questions is the police handling of the accident. Before becoming an anchor on WSVN-Ch. 7, Sanchez was a reporter responsible for the station’s “Crime Check” reports. During that segment, he would take TV viewers to crime scenes, where he not only reported on the news but also seemed to be part of the action. Smuzinick’s friends and family think police gave special treatment to Sanchez because of his “Crime Check” coverage.

Officers let Sanchez leave the scene and drive to his Pembroke Pines home, ostensibly to pick up his driver’s license. He returned 20 minutes later. A blood test was not administered until one hour and 15 minutes after the accident. Sanchez’s blood alcohol level registered .15 — legally drunk.
— South Florida Sun Sentinel, 10/6/91

The story didn’t end well for Mr. Smuzinick.

Jeffrey Smuzinick, who was left paralyzed after being struck by the car of Channel 7 anchor Rick Sanchez, died Monday in a Pennsylvania nursing home. He was 36. Smuzinick was injured Dec. 10, 1990, after he ran out into traffic following a Dolphins football game. He was struck by a 1991 Volvo driven by Sanchez. Smuzinick suffered severe head injuries and was in a coma for many months.
— Miami Herald, 11/2/95

We can go down the list of so-called journalists who’ve run afoul of common decency, let alone the law, and for some strange reason they’re able to land new high-paying gigs and keep their pasts, as best they can, out of public view.

Rick Sanchez is back on the air! His viewers are back on the edge of their seats! But Miami’s famously flamboyant anchorman isn’t broadcasting news from his famously factious hometown. Sanchez hosts a prime-time show which would seem completely at odds with his staunch anti-communist upbringing: He is now a TV star for RT America, the state-funded Russian network that media analysts and U.S. intelligence officials have derided as a propaganda tool for the Russian government.
— Miami Herald, 5/23/19

They demand transparency from politicians, law enforcement, the public; pretty much anyone they come in professional contact with.

But what Rick Sanchez and many others are best at is making sure transparency and accountability stops within arms length of them and their actions.