Posted on 06/16/2006 5:04:53 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
I think Sonny always had a soft spot in his heart for Cher.
And if you saw his funeral, you'll know that she still cared for him. Nobody's that good an actress, though she's quite good. This news has given me a whole new outlook on the person that Cher happens to be. More power to her.
Mark
Now, I've only had the one Diet Coke, and I'm not quite firing on all cylinders yet . . . but what the hell is a special irony?
Her ex-husband, who sat on that committee, was killed as a result of a head injury (from a skiing accident).
Mark
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Cher has said that she "dislikes politics," and that "politics is hard for me because I believe in truth so much." Notwithstanding both this claim and her insistence that she is "not a registered Democrat," Cher has a long record of political activism as an advocate of gun control and unrestricted abortion rights. A strong supporter of Jimmy Carter, she recalled how she went to the White House the first night of his administration: "Gregory [Allman, Cher's second husband] was from Georgia, and we supported him [Carter], so after the inauguration we were sort of just looking around the White House when Miz Lillian [the new President's mother] stuck her head out from around the corner and asked us to stay for dinner."
Cher's work on movies like Silkwood, where she worked with leftwing actress Meryl Streep, and Suspect, where she struck up a close friendship with homeless activist Mitch Snyder, led her to get involved in radical environmentalist and anti-homelessness crusades. Her heroes (in addition to Snyder and former President Carter) include her friends Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem, as well as Malcolm X.
Cher made an appearance at the 2000 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, along with other Hollywood leftists like Barbra Streisand and Melissa Etheridge, to participate in a "star-studded salute" to President Bill Clinton. While there, she was interviewed by CNN's Larry King. During the course of that interview, Cher, who was supporting Al Gore for President, disparaged then-Texas Governor and Presidential candidate George W. Bush. She told King: "More people, more women are starving in his [Bush's] state [Texas] than any other state in the United States. More children are going to bed hungry. If you look at the child council, it says that it's the worst place to raise a child. Texas is the worst place to raise a child." Cher also worked on several Democratic fundraisers in 2000, including a gala for candidate Al Gore in New Jersey that raised $1 million, and two events for First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's New York Senate run.
Just before the 2000 election, Cher raged about the prospect of another Republican administration: "Has everyone lost their f*cking minds? Doesn't anybody remember the illustrious Reagan-Bush years when people had no money and no jobs? What has happened to people's memories? It's like they have Alzheimer's or something." "I don't like Bush," she added. "I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy." Cher also suggested that the Republican Party was a party of racists and sexists. "If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?" she asked. Moreover, she stressed her concern over the fact that the President appoints Justices to the Supreme Court. "If you think the president is an ass, fine - after four years you can vote him out," she said. "But the Supreme Court - that's 30 years! The Jerry Falwells of this world will be right in your back pocket. You won't have one f*cking right left. . . . I'm passionate about this because I'm just so scared. I want people to know what's at stake."
On Election Day 2000, Cher insisted that she did not want the tax cut promised by George W. Bush. "[I]f Bush gives me back money, I don't need money. . . . I don't want money on the backs of people who are not gonna get good schools. . . . if he's not going to care about the people who need to be helped . . . if we're not going to get higher education . . . then what good is money to me? What good is more money to me? I don't want that money. Let them take that money and do what's good with it. Also, there's no free ride. Ya know, we heard that in trickle-down economics, and it never trickled down -- it trickled up! Only the rich people got it, no one else saw it."
When the Bush Justice Department decided to put a blue cover over the bare-breasted statue of Justice that sometimes appeared in the background behind Attorney General John Ashcroft during speeches, Cher complained that this amounted to censorship: "What are we going to do next, put shorts on the statue of David and an 1880s bathing suit on 'Venus Rising'? Maybe they'll start deciding what books are all right for us to read and we'll start losing all of our freedoms. This really is unbelievable. It's shocking."
Just before the 2004 Presidential election, Cher (whose daughter with Bono, Chastity, is a lesbian and gay activist) sounded the alarm for the gay community with dire predictions of what another Bush term would bring: "All the gay guys, all my friends, all my gay friends, you guys you have got to vote, alright? Because . . . the people, like, in the very right wing of this [Republican] party . . . if they get any more power, you guys are going to be living in some state by yourselves. So, I hate scare tactics, but I really believe that that's true. I think that . . . if Bush gets elected, he will put in new Superior [sic] Court judges, and these guys are not going to want to see Gay Pride Week."
Cher appeared at an October 2004 Hollywood event sponsored by Peace Action to protest the war in Iraq and condemn the Bush administration. "This is the most heartbreaking time of my life," she told the gathered crowd, "and I've experienced eleven Presidents. It's been a long time since I talked to wounded 'Nam troops but I met a lot of soldiers at Walter Reed Hospital and saw the human cost of war." She claimed that the Bush administration's alleged cover-up of Iraq War dead and wounded was "Orwellian." She repeatedly likened Iraq to Vietnam ("I wish people would speak their minds like they did in the Vietnam days"). She sympathized with the musical group The Dixie Chicks, whose member Natalie Maines took much public criticism after telling a London concert audience, "Just so you know, we're ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas."
Also at that event, Cher attacked the Bush administration for supposedly suppressing dissent ("They wrap themselves in the flag and if you dare to disagree with them in public, you're called a traitor"). Finally, she noted that she had just returned to the U.S. from Europe, telling the antiwar crowd: "Everyone over there hates us. They don't understand why we don't do something. They are more afraid of the U.S. than they are of terrorism."
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2005
A guide to the media left ...
You accused me of taking your words out of context when I made a direct quote. You, on the other hand, delibertly misquoted me in your post. Please correct your posting.
She was a Bush basher before she gave, while she gave and after she gave. She gave so she could invite herself to the congressional hearings ...
This was an extremely nice gesture by Cher to support our troops. Before everyone runs out to purchase all her albums and CDs we all need to understand she is also a dyed-in-the-wool lefty who rarely will miss opportunities to take swipes at Conservatives.
Even CNN.com calls her a liberal in their video section where they did coverage on this very story.
~ Blue Jays ~
You left out the rest of my sentence, again!
Hmmm. A couple of weeks before the scheduled congressional hearing take place, Cher makes a large donation and requests to the head of the organization that they take her along to testify. Pure publicity stunt.
From: http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2005
Cherilyn Sarkisian was born in El Centro, California, on May 20, 1946. Her mother was an aspiring but unsuccessful singer and actress who has been married six times; her father was an alcoholic who abandoned the family when Cher was just a few months old. In 1963 Cher dropped out of high school and traveled to Los Angeles, where she met Sonny Bono, with whom she started her musical career and eventually married. Within two years of meeting, "Sonny and Cher" had become major celebrities, recording the Number One hit "I Got You Babe" in 1965. During the late '60s and mid-'70s, Cher scored solo recording hits with songs like "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves," "Half Breed," and "Dark Lady" - all reaching the top of the music charts. The duo also hosted their own television program, a popular variety show called The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, which ran from 1970-74. In 1975, however, Sonny and Cher divorced.
At that point, Cher turned her attention to the pursuit of an acting career. By the mid-1980s, she was starring in critically acclaimed movies such as Silkwood (1983), Mask (1985), and Moonstruck (1987), for which she won an Oscar. Cher and Barbra Streisand are the only two female performers in the U.S. to have recorded a Number One song and won an Oscar. Cher has also had a successful and lucrative career starring in infomercials, mostly selling beauty products.
In 1994 Cher's ex-husband, Sonny Bono, was elected to the United States House of Representatives as a Republican. Cher has said that she "dislikes politics," and that "politics is hard for me because I believe in truth so much." Notwithstanding both this claim and her insistence that she is "not a registered Democrat," Cher has a long record of political activism as an advocate of gun control and unrestricted abortion rights. A strong supporter of Jimmy Carter, she recalled how she went to the White House the first night of his administration: "Gregory [Allman, Cher's second husband] was from Georgia, and we supported him [Carter], so after the inauguration we were sort of just looking around the White House when Miz Lillian [the new President's mother] stuck her head out from around the corner and asked us to stay for dinner."
Cher's work on movies like Silkwood, where she worked with leftwing actress Meryl Streep, and Suspect, where she struck up a close friendship with homeless activist Mitch Snyder, led her to get involved in radical environmentalist and anti-homelessness crusades. Her heroes (in addition to Snyder and former President Carter) include her friends Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem, as well as Malcolm X.
Cher made an appearance at the 2000 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, along with other Hollywood leftists like Barbra Streisand and Melissa Etheridge, to participate in a "star-studded salute" to President Bill Clinton. While there, she was interviewed by CNN's Larry King. During the course of that interview, Cher, who was supporting Al Gore for President, disparaged then-Texas Governor and Presidential candidate George W. Bush. She told King: "More people, more women are starving in his [Bush's] state [Texas] than any other state in the United States. More children are going to bed hungry. If you look at the child council, it says that it's the worst place to raise a child. Texas is the worst place to raise a child." Cher also worked on several Democratic fundraisers in 2000, including a gala for candidate Al Gore in New Jersey that raised $1 million, and two events for First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's New York Senate run.
Just before the 2000 election, Cher raged about the prospect of another Republican administration: "Has everyone lost their f*cking minds? Doesn't anybody remember the illustrious Reagan-Bush years when people had no money and no jobs? What has happened to people's memories? It's like they have Alzheimer's or something." "I don't like Bush," she added. "I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy." Cher also suggested that the Republican Party was a party of racists and sexists. "If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?" she asked. Moreover, she stressed her concern over the fact that the President appoints Justices to the Supreme Court. "If you think the president is an ass, fine - after four years you can vote him out," she said. "But the Supreme Court - that's 30 years! The Jerry Falwells of this world will be right in your back pocket. You won't have one f*cking right left. . . . I'm passionate about this because I'm just so scared. I want people to know what's at stake."
On Election Day 2000, Cher insisted that she did not want the tax cut promised by George W. Bush. "[I]f Bush gives me back money, I don't need money. . . . I don't want money on the backs of people who are not gonna get good schools. . . . if he's not going to care about the people who need to be helped . . . if we're not going to get higher education . . . then what good is money to me? What good is more money to me? I don't want that money. Let them take that money and do what's good with it. Also, there's no free ride. Ya know, we heard that in trickle-down economics, and it never trickled down -- it trickled up! Only the rich people got it, no one else saw it."
When the Bush Justice Department decided to put a blue cover over the bare-breasted statue of Justice that sometimes appeared in the background behind Attorney General John Ashcroft during speeches, Cher complained that this amounted to censorship: "What are we going to do next, put shorts on the statue of David and an 1880s bathing suit on 'Venus Rising'? Maybe they'll start deciding what books are all right for us to read and we'll start losing all of our freedoms. This really is unbelievable. It's shocking."
Just before the 2004 Presidential election, Cher (whose daughter with Bono, Chastity, is a lesbian and gay activist) sounded the alarm for the gay community with dire predictions of what another Bush term would bring: "All the gay guys, all my friends, all my gay friends, you guys you have got to vote, alright? Because . . . the people, like, in the very right wing of this [Republican] party . . . if they get any more power, you guys are going to be living in some state by yourselves. So, I hate scare tactics, but I really believe that that's true. I think that . . . if Bush gets elected, he will put in new Superior [sic] Court judges, and these guys are not going to want to see Gay Pride Week."
Cher appeared at an October 2004 Hollywood event sponsored by Peace Action to protest the war in Iraq and condemn the Bush administration. "This is the most heartbreaking time of my life," she told the gathered crowd, "and I've experienced eleven Presidents. It's been a long time since I talked to wounded 'Nam troops but I met a lot of soldiers at Walter Reed Hospital and saw the human cost of war." She claimed that the Bush administration's alleged cover-up of Iraq War dead and wounded was "Orwellian." She repeatedly likened Iraq to Vietnam ("I wish people would speak their minds like they did in the Vietnam days"). She sympathized with the musical group The Dixie Chicks, whose member Natalie Maines took much public criticism after telling a London concert audience, "Just so you know, we're ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas."
Also at that event, Cher attacked the Bush administration for supposedly suppressing dissent ("They wrap themselves in the flag and if you dare to disagree with them in public, you're called a traitor"). Finally, she noted that she had just returned to the U.S. from Europe, telling the antiwar crowd: "Everyone over there hates us. They don't understand why we don't do something. They are more afraid of the U.S. than they are of terrorism."
THIS WOMAN IS A COMPLETE DIP$HIT!!!!!!
Don't fall for it. Cher is big-time anti-war. Goes around the world say that people all over the world are more afraid of the US than they are of the terrorists. This was just a publicity stunt. She made the donation two weeks before the hearings (already scheduled) and invited herself along for the show. This is part of the strategy to embarass Bush and company and help the anti-war / pacifist / socialist movement.
didn't he die by skiing into a tree?
he could have used a helmet.
Wow! I'm impressed! Good for her! Another celeb who gets it and puts her money where her mouth is.
WTF?????
Oh, I'm just happy that she's helping, considering Hollywood types like Tim and Susan and Babs are spending their time protesting. And I pushed send before I noticed the inclusion of "Another celeb who gets it and puts her money where her mouth is." which was actually meant for a pm I was sending... Just having an 'off' day here. ;-)
Oh, I'm just happy that she's helping, considering Hollywood types like Tim and Susan and Babs are spending their time protesting.
I don't follow Cher all that closely, and in further reading the posts of folks better informed than I, it seems my whole hearted support of Cher is misplaced. It seems a good thing that she donated to help the retro-fit of helmets, hopefully it's safer for our troops. But it's clear she has an agenda that does as much to harm our troops, or creates extra difficulty for them, than her donation (just a tiny portion relative to her wealth).
I wouldn't brag about an anti-war, anti-Bush pacifist publicity stunt. This gal actually thinks Bush is worse than the terrorists. Her world-wide rants seek to destroy our anti-terrorist efforts which lead to many more deaths and possible future terrorist activities.
She's right out front with Susan protesting.
i finally got past your other two posts. I knew she was a leftist but didn't realize how far till today.
03/28/2003 7:00 AM, Yahoo! Music Sofia M. Fernandez
(3/28/03, 7 a.m. ET) -- Cher has successfully toughed it out in the entertainment business more than four decades, and she's not about to let the threat of terrorism deter her from going about her daily life. The Oscar-winning and Grammy-winning superstar said she doesn't even give it a second thought.
"I don't think like that, I really don't," she said.
Cher explained this week that she boarded a nearly empty airplane bound for England a month after September 11, 2001, without any fear. The singer added that the ongoing war in Iraq and the risk of retaliatory attacks hasn't changed her opinion about terrorism. "On October the eleventh, I flew to England, and no one was coming--everyone had canceled--so I pretty much had everything to myself," Cher said. "But it just didn't occur to me--I mean, that doesn't really scare me. I'm not over there fighting--I don't really have anything to worry about."
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Those that jumped out of the Twin Towers weren't "over there" either. No wonder she thinks that the Bush is worse than the terrorists.
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