who discuss political issues<\/a>, as he shared why he chooses to keep his opinions to himself.<\/p>\nAppearing on the Howie Mandel Does Stuff podcast, the Landman actor said that he doesn\u2019t want to voice his political preferences as \u201cI don\u2019t know anything about it\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want to force it down somebody else\u2019s throat \u2019cause I\u2019m not an expert on that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mandel agreed with Thornton as he questioned why the public \u201cput so much gravitas [into] this group of people that pretends things\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust because you played a doctor doesn\u2019t mean you are a doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.independent.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Billy Bob Thornton has criticised celebrities who discuss political issues, as he shared why he chooses to keep his opinions to himself. Appearing on the Howie Mandel Does Stuff podcast, the Landman actor said that he doesn\u2019t want to voice his political preferences as \u201cI don\u2019t know anything about it\u201d. \u201cI don\u2019t want to force […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2449200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[480984,480983],"class_list":["post-2449199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-optamatchid2562254","tag-optauuid51i8bgm45ruiglvkbgnyb6ihg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Billy-Bob-Thornton-slams-celebrities-who-lecture-fans-about-politics.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2449201,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449199\/revisions\/2449201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2449200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}