# Celebrity Exodous? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 15, 2000, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-exodous/45778 "2000-12-15T18:18:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2000, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-exodous/45778/1 "2000-12-15T18:18:47Z")
Before the election, I seem to remember several prominent liberals saying that they would renounce their US citizenship if Dubya Bush was elected president. Whoopie Goldberg comes to mind as one such celeb. Who else made this promise? And now that Bush has won, is there any evidence that any of them are actually going to do as they threatened? ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2000, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-exodous/45778/2 "2000-12-15T18:20:45Z")
Make that title “Celebrity **Exodus**?” :o ---
**Author:** ![peace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@peace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peace)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2000, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-exodous/45778/3 "2000-12-15T19:12:25Z")
I can’t wait. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2000, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-exodous/45778/4 "2000-12-15T19:16:52Z")
Barbara Streisand is supposed to be leaving too. (So _that’s_ what they mean by democracy in action… 😉 ) But seriously, I think it’s an Urban Legend. I’ll see what I can dig up on it though. ---
**Author:** ![davesink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@davesink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davesink)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2000, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-exodous/45778/5 "2000-12-15T19:21:00Z")
Alec Baldwin and presumably Kim Bassinger ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2000, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-exodous/45778/6 "2000-12-15T19:26:20Z")
The only famous person who has come out on the record as saying he would move to another country if George Bush were elected was Robert Altman. Alec Baldwin denied that he was moving anywhere. ---
**Author:** ![hardhead365](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/71c47a/32.png) [@hardhead365](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardhead365)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2000, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-exodous/45778/7 "2000-12-15T19:31:17Z")
Alec Baldwin (according to the drudge report) but that was if _Clinton_ lost to Bush Sr. Seems Mr. Drudge was about 8 years late on his scoop. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-exodous/45778/8 "2000-12-16T06:43:40Z")
Basically the whole celebrity exodus story was just propaganda. Apparently one minor celebrity said he would leave the country if Bush was elected and this was blown up into reports that a number of outspoken Hollywood liberals had made this declaration. ---
**Author:** ![peace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@peace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peace)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-exodous/45778/9 "2000-12-16T15:46:33Z")
## The whole thing is just ahother example of lip service and symbolism liberals like. Everything stops when it comes to their door. Peace ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-exodous/45778/10 "2000-12-16T16:07:14Z")
I thought this was going to be a thread about famous people in the Bible. Oh, well, carry on. Um, peace, what part of “One person said it, and it was blown out of proportion” is difficult for you? ---
**Author:** ![peace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@peace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peace)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-exodous/45778/11 "2000-12-16T17:24:42Z")
## No part is difficult for me. Nevertheless, what I said is true and your irrutation only confirms it. Peace ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-exodous/45778/12 "2000-12-16T17:26:38Z")
Some people seem to have the unfortunate attitude of “I know this story isn’t true but I’m going to believe it anyway.” Which I guess explains Reaganomics. ---
**Author:** ![peace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@peace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peace)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-exodous/45778/13 "2000-12-16T18:22:59Z")
Little Nemo, if you are talking about be, I believe that the story is true (I heard some clowns say it on TV). How’s “Reaganomics” enter the picture? It still works. ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-exodous/45778/14 "2000-12-16T22:21:42Z")
You **believe** something??? Dude, this is General Questions. Cite or back off. Take that _belief_ stuff to GD or MPSIMS or something. ---
**Author:** ![peace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@peace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peace)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-exodous/45778/15 "2000-12-17T01:25:53Z")
## Yes, Sir! Peace ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-exodous/45778/16 "2000-12-17T01:33:46Z")
CatBiker: Cite–\> [http://fff.fathom.org/pages/CatBiker/gus.jpg](http://fff.fathom.org/pages/CatBiker/gus.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2001, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-exodous/45778/17 "2001-01-02T18:51:04Z")
Alec Baldwin and Robert Altman haven’t moved out yet (too bad). But Pierre Salinger appears to be making good on his promise. He told the _Georgetowner_ magazine > [@](#): > > If Bush wins, I’m going to leave the country and spend the rest of my life in France As far as I know, his ties to the U.S. have been pretty tenuous for a few years now. I think he was based in Paris when he was an ABC corespondent, and he has been living in Provence for a while, where he and his wife run a [Bed and Breakrast](http://www.ibbp.com/europe/france/vaucluse.html) . He did have an apartment in Georgetown which he now says he’ll sell.