Stars Like Beyonce Should Have Known Better Than to Play Libya

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USA Today, 3/19/11: "There has been an outbreak of sellers' remorse in pop's upper echelon: Nelly Furtado, Beyonce, Mariah Carey and Usher have ruefully acknowledged staging shows financed by Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and his family."

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught. ~J.C. Watts

Reports surfaced early last year of these celeb's performed for pay, and yet over a year later, they're just now "donating" their fees to charity.

Isn't it a sad day to see some of them sing for our president one year, a murderer the next, and today we hold them up as role models?

JustTheFacts of CA 9:38AM March 10, 2011

So then you are saying that beyonce singing for the "family members" of Qadahfi is WORSE than the US harboring the "family members" of Osama bin Laden in the US.....AND the US govt paying millions and billions to the dictators of the world for oil? So Beyonce is held accountable for singing a song and getting paid for it when the US govt is not. By US govt, i.e. the politicians..... Typical liberal rag--us world and news report either doesn't have all the facts straight or decides to just tell their side.

no wonder these mags are having problems. Reminds me why I don't subscribe.

Eddie of AR 12:42AM March 09, 2011

The United State Government probably did worst than sing a song for him. It is ashame. Singers are held more accountable for their actions than congressmen and women.

Kevin of TX 6:09PM March 08, 2011

She is the same singer who sang for obama and michelle first dance .

deb of NY 5:08PM March 08, 2011

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Susan Milligan

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Susan Milligan is a political and foreign affairs writer and contributed to a biography of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, "Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy." Follow her on Twitter @MilliganSusan.

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