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Willis Is Mad As Hell... (I am not a Repulican ;-)
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| Feb 24, 2006
| Gregory Ellwood
Posted on 03/01/2006 9:28:13 AM PST by Smogger
...Willis had a ball discussing a number of other topics, such as politics. Willis has identified himself as a Republican in the past, and before a journalist could even ask for his opinion on recent current events, the star interrupted him to set something straight.
I'm sick of answering this [expletive] question," he says. "I'm a Republican only as far as I want a smaller government, I want less government intrusion. I want them to stop [expletive] on my money and your money and tax dollars that we give 50 percent of... every year. I want them to be fiscally responsible and I want these [expletive] lobbyists out of Washington. Do that and I'll say I'm a Republican... I hate the government, OK? I'm a-political. Write that down. I'm not a Republican."
Willis was so riled up that given more time he might have actually announced his candidacy for something (there's always next time). And yet, Willis wasn't done! Entertainment Weekly just listed "Die Hard 4" as one of the top movies the magazine never wants to see made. Talk about setting someone off...
"Entertainment Weekly hates me. They've hated me since they've been a magazine," Willis says. "[Expletive] them, and you can go and tell them that. Why does anybody hate anybody? Y'know, because they have some beef. Who cares?"
(Excerpt) Read more at movies.msn.com ...
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Great stuff. In that case, Bruce, I am not a Republican either ;-)
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posted on
03/01/2006 9:28:17 AM PST
by
Smogger
To: Smogger
2
posted on
03/01/2006 9:30:25 AM PST
by
rellimpank
(Don't believe anything about firearms or explosives stated by the mass media---NRABenefactor)
To: Smogger
I would say the same if I had the chance (check out my tag line)...I would leave out the [expletive] part though ; )
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posted on
03/01/2006 9:31:00 AM PST
by
socialismisinsidious
( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
To: Smogger; Old Sarge
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posted on
03/01/2006 9:31:03 AM PST
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: Smogger
Bruce, I think the term you are looking for is "conservative."
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posted on
03/01/2006 9:31:30 AM PST
by
Thrusher
("...there is no peace without victory.")
To: Smogger
This one is awesome!
"The next thing we know, Willis has segued into a rant about disgraced author James Frey and the dress-down Oprah Winfrey recently gave him on her TV show. "[To have Frye be] sucker punched on Oprah by one of the most powerful women in television just to grind [her] own ax," Willis says visibly frustrated. "Oprah, you had President Clinton on your show, and if this [expletive] didn't lie about a couple of things, I'm going to set myself on fire right now. James Frey's a writer, he can write whatever he wants. It's shameful how he was treated."
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posted on
03/01/2006 9:31:35 AM PST
by
fhlh
(Polls are for Strippers.)
To: Smogger
So is he or isn't he announcing the new movie,
DIE HARD, '08?
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posted on
03/01/2006 9:31:45 AM PST
by
Paul Ross
(Hitting bullets with bullets successfully for 35 years!)
To: Smogger
whatchootalkinbout, Willis?
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posted on
03/01/2006 9:31:54 AM PST
by
Rakkasan1
(Muslims pray to Allah, Allah prays to Chuck Norris.)
To: StarCMC
Where did the rest of that line go?
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posted on
03/01/2006 9:32:34 AM PST
by
Toby06
(Hindsight alone is not wisdom, and second-guessing is not a strategy)
To: Smogger
We have broken all the records on reckless spending
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posted on
03/01/2006 9:32:49 AM PST
by
soccer_maniac
(Do some good while browsing FR --> Join our Folding@Home Team# 36120: keyword: folding@home)
To: Toby06
hmmmm.... well.... if YOU wanna take your chances and post it, go right ahead!!! *G*
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posted on
03/01/2006 9:33:10 AM PST
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: Smogger
"[To have Frey be] sucker punched on Oprah by one of the most powerful women in television just to grind [her] own ax," Willis says visibly frustrated. "Oprah, you had President Clinton on your show, and if this [expletive] didn't lie about a couple of things, I'm going to set myself on fire right now. James Frey's a writer, he can write whatever he wants. It's shameful how he was treated." LMAO
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posted on
03/01/2006 9:34:22 AM PST
by
tx_eggman
(Islamofascism ... bringing you the best of the 7th century for the past 1300 years.)
To: soccer_maniac
We have broken all the records on reckless spending
Now we are pulverizing the jukebox.
Records, jukebox, Get it?
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posted on
03/01/2006 9:36:46 AM PST
by
ExcursionGuy84
("Jesus, Your Love takes my breath away.")
To: Thrusher
Bruce, I think the term you are looking for is "conservative"
Maybe not...the imperialist socialists running the federal government today just think they're a new kind of "conservative"
After all, Fred Barnes once wrote in the neocon house organ The Weekly Standard:
Sure, some conservatives are upset because he has tolerated a surge in federal spending, downplayed swollen deficits, failed to use his veto, created a vast Department of Homeland Security, and fashioned an alliance of sorts with Teddy Kennedy on education and Medicare.
Then, he went on to dismiss these trivial concerns of what Barnes calls "small-government conservatives"...you see, according to Barnes, the Bush Administration is a "big-government conservative" administration
Like the old Soviets or 1984...change the name of something and you change its very nature...call a liberal socialist a "conservative"...and voila...he is
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posted on
03/01/2006 9:40:06 AM PST
by
Irontank
(Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty -- John Adams)
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To: Smogger
"I'm a Republican only as far as I want a smaller government, I want less government intrusion. I want them to stop [expletive] on my money and your money and tax dollars that we give 50 percent of... every year. I want them to be fiscally responsible and I want these [expletive] lobbyists out of Washington. Do that and I'll say I'm a Republican... I hate the government, OK? I'm a-political. Write that down. I'm not a Republican."
Sounds like a republican to me.
But, perhaps Bruce is being defensive because he wants to make sure that he's considered for future roles in movies. We know how it goes, republicans are frowned upon and blacklisted and get fewer roles than liberals/democrats.
BTW, did anybody catch him last night with Conan O'brien? He seemed uncomfortable there and not funny at all when he tried. Regardless, I like the guy.
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posted on
03/01/2006 9:43:12 AM PST
by
adorno
Comment #17 Removed by Moderator
To: Irontank
"..the imperialist socialists running the federal government today just think they're a new kind of "conservative""
You're right. Sadly the same goes for a number of people around here.
To: Smogger
And just in case no one could figure it out, Willis states the obvious. "I'm pissed off today." After 30 minutes or so of Willis' blunt rants, the Hitlist was left with one indelible image: Willis' longtime publicist, Paul Bloch, covering his face with his hands in disbelief. Bloch was most likely thinking "I pray that they don't print this stuff." Ah, too late...
Mr. Bloch should be told that he has nothing to worry about. I, as well as many others I'm sure, love Bruce even more now after this rant. "I'm mad as 'ell and not gonna take it any more!", is as endearing today as it was when first expressed so many years ago in 'Network'.
To: Smogger
Bruce said it bluntly and plainly... it's really frustrating to see Repubs in charge of everything - and have them spending the treasury like a mob of drunken sailors...
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