Posted on 06/09/2005 11:32:50 PM PDT by Nasty McPhilthy
According to acclaimed director Steven Spielberg John Kerry lost the last election because of Hollywood ... or rather, because there was not enough of Hollywood in the race. The Hollywood mogul apparently believes that if there had been more effort on the part of tinsel town A-listers to get Kerry into the White House, the Massachusetts senator might not be wearing around a hangdog expression reminiscent of a blue-tick hound.
http://www3.contactmusic.com/news/index5.htm
In other words, if only there had been more of this http://www.nydailynews.com/front/v-pfriendly/story/212784p-183225c.html, and of course this http://www.politicalmusings.net/archives/2004/08/03/
then we would all be enjoying the blessings of Massachusetts's brand of socialism with New England characteristics.
Right on Spielberg! Just keep telling yourself that.
Seriously, if the Dems want to win in '04 they might think about making it a rule not to allow their candidate to get within shouting distance of anyone who has ever made a popular movie or recorded a hit single.
http://www.pottymouth.org/humor/shinola.html
WTF is a blue tick hound?
Hollywood wasn't active enough for Kerry? What planet is the guy living on? Does he not remember Kerry's praise of the "heart and soul of America" aftere Whoopi Goldberg's potty mouth trashing of the President?
Unending arrogance. Never ceases to amaze.
Spielberg needs to move to Cuba and hang out with his pal Fidel.
It is most likely that the Bluetick is principally descended from the quick foxhounds of England, with some introduction of the blood of various French hounds which were used for hunting big game. The French dogs were known as being very cold nosed. George Washington received five such French hounds from General Lafayette.
Blueticks were originally registered with U.K.C. as English. In 1946, at the request of the Bluetick fanciers, U.K.C. began registering Blueticks as a separate breed.
ahh...ok thanks....
He has a point....Spielberg knows the value of pop culture politics....He's got his finger on the pulse of America...I mean, after all, people tend to take you more seriously when your foreign policy platform is endorsed by Ben Affleck.
While following the links, I found this. It's a year and a half old, but this seems a good time to post it.
Bush Derangement Syndrome
Charles Krauthammer
December 5, 2003
Diane Rehm: ``Why do you think he (Bush) is suppressing that (Sept. 11) report?''
Howard Dean: ``I don't know. There are many theories about it. The most interesting theory that I've heard so far -- which is nothing more than a theory, it can't be proved -- is that he was warned ahead of time by the Saudis. Now who knows what the real situation is?''
-- ``Diane Rehm Show,'' NPR, Dec. 1
It has been 25 years since I discovered a psychiatric syndrome (for the record: ``Secondary Mania,'' Archives of General Psychiatry, November 1978), and in the interim I haven't been looking for new ones. But it's time to don the white coat again. A plague is abroad in the land.
Bush Derangement Syndrome: the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency -- nay -- the very existence of George W. Bush.
Now, I cannot testify to Howard Dean's sanity before this campaign, but five terms as governor by a man with no visible tics and no history of involuntary confinement is pretty good evidence of a normal mental status. When he avers, however, that ``the most interesting'' theory as to why the president is ``suppressing'' the 9/11 report is that Bush knew about 9/11 in advance, it's time to check on thorazine supplies.
When Rep. Cynthia McKinney first broached this idea before the 2002 primary election, it was considered so nutty it helped make her former Rep. McKinney. Today the Democratic presidential front-runner professes agnosticism as to whether the president of the United States was tipped off about 9/11 by the Saudis, and it goes unnoticed. The virus is spreading.
It is, of course, epidemic in New York's Upper West Side and the tonier parts of Los Angeles, where the very sight of the president -- say, smiling while holding a tray of Thanksgiving turkey in a Baghdad mess hall -- caused dozens of cases of apoplexy in otherwise healthy adults. What is worrying epidemiologists about the Dean incident, however, is that heretofore no case had been reported in Vermont, or any other dairy state.
Moreover, Dean is very smart. Until now, Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS) had generally struck people with previously compromised intellectual immune systems. Hence its prevalence in Hollywood. Barbra Streisand, for example, wrote her famous September 2002 memo to Dick Gephardt warning that the president was dragging us toward war to satisfy, among the usual corporate malefactors who ``clearly have much to gain if we go to war against Iraq,'' the logging industry -- timber being a major industry in a country that is two-thirds desert.
It is true that BDS has struck some pretty smart guys -- Bill Moyers ranting about a ``right-wing wrecking crew'' engaged in ``a deliberate, intentional destruction of the United States way of governing'' and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, whose recent book attacks the president so virulently that Krugman's British publisher saw fit to adorn the cover with images of Dick Cheney in a Hitler-like mustache and Bush stitched-up like Frankenstein. Nonetheless, some observers took that to be satire; others wrote off Moyers and Krugman as simple aberrations, the victims of too many years of neurologically hazardous punditry.
That's what has researchers so alarmed about Dean. He had none of the usual risk factors: Dean has never opined for a living, and has no detectable sense of humor. Even worse is the fact that he is now exhibiting symptoms of a related illness, Murdoch Derangement Syndrome (MDS), in which otherwise normal people believe that their minds are being controlled by a single, very clever Australian.
Chris Matthews: ``Would you break up Fox?''
Howard Dean: ``On ideological grounds, absolutely yes, but ... I don't want to answer whether I would break up Fox or not. ... What I'm going to do is appoint people to the FCC that believe democracy depends on getting information from all portions of the political spectrum, not just one.''
Some clinicians consider this delusion -- that Americans can only get their news from one part of the political spectrum -- the gravest of all. They report that no matter how many times sufferers in padded cells are presented with flash cards with the symbols ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, PBS, Time, Newsweek, New York Times, Washington Post, L.A. Times -- they remain unresponsive, some in a terrifying near-catatonic torpor.
The sad news is that there is no cure. But there is hope. There are many fine researchers seeking that cure. Your donation to the BDS Foundation, no matter how small, can help. Mailing address: Republican National Committee, Washington DC, Attention: psychiatric department. Just make sure your amount does not exceed $2,000 ($4,000 for a married couple).
After duds like AI and The Terminal, Spielberg needs to worry about making decent movies again.
I found a very interesting breed site - perhaps you would like to take a look at it. It has a bunch of breeds I've never heard of before.
http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/a-z.htm
People say I'm no good
I'm crazy as a loon
'cause I get stoned in the morning,
I get drunk in the afternoon.
Kinda like my old blue tick hound
I like to lay around in the shade.
And I ain't got no money
but I damn sure got it made.
'Cause I ain't askin' nobody for nothin'
if I can't get it on my own.
If you don't like the way I'm livin'
You just leave this long haired country boy alone.
-Charlie Daniels
This breed of dog can go for thousnads of $$, depending on the bloodline.
Matt Da...mon. :0)
http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/Default.aspx
Spielberg.. STOP IT! I love your movies, and I'm looking forward to War of the Worlds. Don't keep talking politics, please!!
He should know better, he made Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan which should/are conservative masterpieces.
Time to bring out F.A.G.! I believe Matt Damon will have a word or two to say about this... ok, two words exactly.
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