I am a straight, conservative man, and I love Barbra Streisand , who has just released a massive memoir , My Name is Barbra.

God help me.

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My crush began early in life and has lasted more than 50 years. My first exposure was one of Barbra’s TV appearances in the 1960s. My mother was a huge fan, and everything stopped in the house when Babs was on The Ed Sullivan Show. I was a child at the time, but children can fall in love, too. I didn’t think Streisand was quirky-looking or attractive in an unconventional way — I thought she was straight-up gorgeous. Her voice? Not of this world.

In the 1970s, Barbra arrived on movie screens in glorious color. My boyhood crush had survived into teenhood. What’s Up, Doc, The Main Event, A Star is Born — I saw them all. During my punk phase, I snuck listens of Guilty, her great album made with Barry Gibb. Her charisma in “The Way We Were” is off the chart.

The drawback, of course, is the politics. Streisand is a true believer in liberalism. She’s an active donor to the Democratic National Committee and has a history of saying nasty things about conservatives.

I recently wrote a piece examining how the German Stasi recruited people who had absent fathers. Streisand’s father died when she was a baby. As anyone who has seen The Mirror Has Two Faces knows, Barbra’s mother was very critical. These facts may have made the funny girl a sucker for leftist indoctrination.

Her leftist stridency, a betrayal of her powerful intelligence, also leads to some serious cognitive dissonance. Barbra supports every liberal cause she hears about, then blasts the dishonest press that sell the lies. One example recounted in her memoir was when a doctor insisted that she was “a b****” based on fake news stories. “That’s the power of the printed word,” she writes. “There was no hope of changing this man’s mind. He chose to believe someone who had never met me … why couldn’t he believe the truth?” She concludes: “I have great respect for facts. The idea of just making something up bothers me.”

Me too. Which brings me to the time I was on Bab’s radar. During a nasty opposition research hit related to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation in 2018, a hit in which I was the target of criminal activity by the Left, there were calls for me to testify or be interviewed by the FBI. Liberals had set a trap, and all I had to do was walk into it.

At its height, and when I was having a nervous breakdown, I came across a clip. It was Streisand, talking to the Associated Press and calling for me to testify. I talked to the FBI for three hours and discovered that the whole thing was a criminal plot. Barbra never followed up.

Streisand is 81, so it’s far too late to turn this ship around, but just for the hell of it: The media are dishonest, Barbra — even if they are serving your interests. They lied about you, and they lied about me.

The bright side? Barbra Streisand knows my name!

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Mark Judge is an award-winning journalist and the author of  The Devil's Triangle: Mark Judge vs. the New American Stasi . He is also the author of God and Man at Georgetown Prep, Damn Senators, and A Tremor of Bliss.