Posted on 11/26/2010 8:59:41 AM PST by shibumi
-By Warner Todd Huston
Its a holiday and some might say we should be charitable to the unfortunate. By unfortunate usually they mean those that dont have as much as you and I. But one might construe unfortunate to mean being gut wrenchingly stupid, too. And when one thinks of the gut wrenchingly stupid one often thinks of the denizens of Hollywood above all others. Still it is awfully hard to be charitable toward such stupidity, I have to admit.
Today I have two members of the gut wrenchingly stupid Hollywood set to report upon. It might have been three but the terminal lunacy of Charlie Sheen just goes without saying.
This week Americans stood ready to wish each other a Happy Thanksgiving, to be sure. Well, everyone was but the vapid Angelina Jolie, that is. To her this holiday isnt a day to thank God for our fortunate bounty and to reflect upon the fortuitous founding of this nation, its little else but happy murder the natives day and she refuses to take part.
Angelina Jolie hates this holiday and wants no part in rewriting history like so many other Americans, a friend of the actress tells me. To celebrate what the white settlers did to the native Indians, the domination of one culture over another, just isnt her style. She definitely doesnt want to teach her multi-cultural family how to celebrate a story of murder.
I suppose we can be charitable and ignore this ninnys kitschy musings based on her woefully incoherent view of American history. Unfortunately, it is just the sort of vapidity that is de rigueur for the empty headed Hollyweird set. As they puff themselves up imagining they care more than you about the little people, they indulge a corresponding hatred of our country all too often.
But Jolies absurd notion pales in comparison to the outright lunacy of comedienne Whoopi Goldberg (real name: Caryn Elaine Johnson). Whoopi thinks that the world does not have a Muslim problem, thinks white men are terrorists, and thinks that Muslims in the USA are persecuted more than Jews. Oh, theres more. Goldberg also thinks that the Japanese didnt attack Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Those are truly gut wrenchingly stupid notions.
In a segment on the Bill OReilly show, Goldberg unleashed this risible steam of inanity on his poor viewers and proved that Jolie has nothing on the venerable, award-winning comedienne in the department of the absurd.
As she debated OReilly well, the word debated is also bestowing a charitable air to the appearance Goldberg burdened the viewers with the following deeply thought out truths:
OReilly: Do you have a problem in history when you were taught about World War II that Japanese attacked us? Do you have a problem with that?
Goldberg: I have a problem with that. The Japanese Army attacked us.
The foolishness of the assumption behind Goldbergs point is laughable. In her view the Japanese didnt attack us. Just their army did (and OReilly corrected her that it was the air force, not the army). So, I guess when any nations armed forces are engaged in battle, no one sent them into battle? No people stands behind its own military?
Idiotic.
Unfortunately for the viewers, she went on.
Goldberg: Right now, everybody can say the Muslims are the terrorists. Two years ago, it was the white people that were the terrorists.
OReilly: What white people?
Goldberg: Oh, wasnt it white people that blew up Oklahoma City?
OReilly: Yes, two of them. Two of them.
Wow. So to Goldberg, two white guys that bombed the federal building in Oklahoma means that all white people are terrorists, yet that 19 Saudi Muslims perpetrated 9/11, that does not mean that all Muslims are terrorists? Her logic escapes me.
The truth is that neither all white people are terrorists because of the actions in Oklahoma of two of them nor are all Muslims terrorists because 19 of them perpetrated 9/11. But the fact is, in todays reality most terrorists are Muslims so Goldbergs whole underlying premise is idiotic all the way around.
One more.
OReilly: New study today, Jews in America are far more likely to be persecuted than Muslims, just came out today.
Goldberg: You know what? Im sure that someone believes that, but I believe that in neighborhoods where they dont want Muslims, they beat up kids.
Youre sure that someone believes that, Whoopi? Yeah, that someone would be the FBI whose latest hate crime statistics prove that in all of 2009 only 107 hate crimes against Muslims were reported all across the country. On the other hand, that same FBI release noted that 931 hate crimes against Jews were reported.
If hatred against Muslims was so wide spread in the U.S. as Goldberg imagines, why is there no corresponding rise in hate crimes against Muslims? And the 2009 report isnt an outlier year, either. In 2008 (see table 1) we find an equally whopping 105 anti-Muslim hate crimes reported.
There is no way to escape the conclusion that there really isnt much anti-Islamic hate crime in the U.S. even after 9/11. Despite the fevered imagination of one Whoopi Goldberg, there is many times more anti-Jewish hate crime happening in the U.S. than anti-Muslim hate crime.
Once again she proves herself uninformed, full of wild-eyed notions, and wholly devoted to devaluing America in favor of every other nation/ideology.
(See a full transcript of Goldbergs appearance at Newsbusters)
Sadly, these two geniuses are representative of the skewed, half informed, nonsense that passes for deep thought in Hollywood these days. Its hard to excuse such foolishness even on a holiday.
Thanks for posting in full.
My pleasure!
I am curious. Whoopi has such a lovely real name Caryn Elaine Johnson; I wonder how she ended up on the streets. I hear she used drugs; but what was her family like before she ended up on the streets?
Bttt.
Sad how celebrity status gives retards a platform to spout nonsense.
Here is the Direct Link to Eyeblast TV’s video of Whoopi and O’Reilley:
http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/checker.aspx?v=hdSUqGZuqG
I don’t know, but from what I’ve seen, I really don’t want to know any more in depth about her.
I’ll leave that to Ted Danson and his ilk.
No, Bill. It was the Japanese navy. Those were fleet air arm planes launched from six carriers.
If Celebrity-mongers like O’Reilly didn’t give fools like Whoopi Goldberg a forum, we wouldn’t be subjected to all this crap. As far as I’m concerned, it STARTS with O’Reilly.
I certainly am no defender of BOR.
He’s a wishy-washy opportunist in my book.
She really does have a lovely real name. Maybe she thought she needed something unusual to stand out as a comedian.
Note to Bill O, the Japanese navy attacked Pearl Harbor.
Here is a link to the Copyright/Excerpt Only list.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1111944/posts
I don’t see him listed there.
FR also has an “auto-excerpt” feature to prevent posting of full articles that are on this list. Obviously it does not include his work.
She just didn’t want to sound white, is my guess. Eff me, this broad is duuumb.
WTH uses FR daily to post his stuff. What’s he gonna do, sue FR?
IOW, FR is WTH’s meal ticket.
The White Guys were not in a Billion Member anti-american group.
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