Dissecting celebrity evil             

The Trump White House recently used an excerpt of Sabrina Carpenter's "Juno" in an ICE video. Predictably, the woke Pop warbler and erstwhile Disney personality lashed back.

"Inhuman" and "evil and disgusting" were among epithets she spat re the law enforcement agency. (And not the "criminals, rapists, and murderers ICE is arresting for deportation," noted Breitbart.)

Carpenter's subversive spectacle recalls that many show business, news media, and far-left political personages cheered the murder of Christian conservative Charlie Kirk. 

So, too, have entertainment-industry has beens, in desperate grabs for contemporary relevance. None will be named by this writer, who doesn't wish to aid miserable lost souls' quests.

I believe there are two reasons some celebrities acquit themselves so despicably.

First, unfortunately, a hatred market exists. And just as there are garbage-hearted people with wallets, there breathe conscienceless graspers with big eyes. Whether someone is selling a candidacy, movie ticket, TV program, recording, or any other commodity, market-viability is surely a consideration. 

No matter the sorrowfulness of Charlie's assassination (and prior attempts on President Trump's life), status hunters prioritize profit in grubby calculations. Potential sales-chart downturns from foul public brayings would be negligible. 

A star's audience yesterday likely already knew his leanings. New anti-American rants might heighten ardor in desired precincts. 

Persons previously outside a celebrity's base - well, they were already not in the equation. Save for this: Non-fans who vocalize criticism play as much of a role in stoking celebrity as do rah-rah fanatics. Controversy means headlines. Headlines mean sales.

"Why do you think Frank Sinatra punches some driver in the mouth?," Alice Cooper manager Shep Gordon asked writer Bob Greene, in the seventies. "To get into the straight press - which is hell of a lot harder than getting into the entertainment press."

From Gtreta Garbo donning slacks in the 1940s, to the Sex Pistols cursing on 1976 UK television, to current Pop and Rap annoyances hurtling toward cameras to bellow blueprinted hatred against goodness, celebrity has often been a schemed contrivance, not an organic product.

Too, audiences want to believe they and a celebrity are as one. That the person on screen, stage, or stump shares their opinions. Surely, that is especially the case for callow enthusiasts. Their generational contrarianism is a knee-jerk animal. Many, I suppose, are eager to shout or do absolutely anything to antagonize the world at large. To feel significant. 

They will spend monies on whoever claws most attention-gettingly at existing mores. 

Important to remember is that entertainment names may say one thing in public - to curry fan approbation - but seize opposite voting levers when in a booth's secrecy.

Of course, there is second possible explanation for celebrities' stated terribleness: They may truly be terrible people.