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This particular question & response from the BNL Blog was too good to not comment on ... *tries to hide the devil's horns*

Steve, Why the sudden need to express your left-leaning politics? Do you care that you might alienate your conservative listeners? Believe it or not, we do exist. Maybe you'd rather not have us as fans.
Asked by W. Drew and answered by Steve on Saturday, October 25

I have no problem with conservatives (except for the fact that they're wrong :-) ), but I felt that I wasn't being honest with people when they tried to superimpose their own values system onto my persona. Whether it's as a Canadian, a father, a Jew or a progressive, I've just tried to express myself as I am. Rather than trying to be everything to um... you know.

Yes, W. Drew, that's right. Steve is trying to do some idiot fan house-cleaning. And he's starting with the conservatives. ;)

Personally, I could really care less about what a particular celebrity's political or personal ideologies are - whether they're liberal or conservative, religious or atheist, gay or straight - it doesn't matter.

So what if our ideologies aren't 150% copacetic? I'm not looking at this person to be my best friend or life partner! (Even then, I wouldn't expect someone to be on the same page with me about everything all the time.) I think the only way that I'd find someone's ideologies to be personally offending, or alienating, would be if they were found out to be abusing their loved ones, or anything else that would certainly be construed as disconcerting.

Then, I may not be so forgiving. (In other words, go into Tommy Lee or R. Kelly territory, and you're automatically a creepy fuck.)

That's just my opinion, of course. :^D