Posted on 12/11/2006 5:04:05 AM PST by Mel Gibson
Mr. Kirk Douglas' oh-so-patrician "editorial" is the usual coded liberal tripe about how bad everything is in the U.S. and the world and how our government and taxpayers should be tapped to rectify the ills.
Douglas is a statist and a socialist. He and his second French wife are long-time leading lights in the Hollyweird liberal aristocracy. He and his family lead the priviliged life of wealthy capitalists while he advocates socialism for the peasants.
He dons aprons and serves turkey to the scruffy homeless once a year, photographer in tow, so everyone knows he's at one with the common man.
Here's a quickie partial history on his more substantial political contributions to leftist and socialists incumbents, candidates and PACs over the years:
Dianne Feinstein
Joseph Biden
William Jefferson Skyhook Clinton
George Mitchell
Joseph Biden (again)
Carol Mostly Fraud (socialist senatorial crook from Illinois)
California Democrat Central Committee
Democrat National Committee
Christopher Dodd
Carl Levin (flaming liberal)
Alan Cranston (flaming liberal
Gore Vidal for Senate (flaming liberal in more ways than one)
Michael Dukakis
Edmund Brown (Ex-Governor Moonbeam's father)
Howard Metzenbaum
If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck and contributes like a duck, it IS a duck.
Remember, Kirk Douglas in NOT Spartacus, he just was cast that way.
Leni
...he was also quite good in an earlier role, as a suave heavy in a film noir with Robrt Mitchum, can't remember the name of the film off the top of my head...the character's first name was Whit...
I liked him as the asylum attendant in "Harvey" with George Stewart.
Liked Spartacus as well. Didn't know for years that it almost got him blacklisted because the book was a favorite of the Communists in the US at the time.
#37 & 42...Thanks!...Folks need reminding!!!!
I meant #37 and #41!!!!
Thank goodness for your injection of reality to this thread.
The only reason we THINK these are such enormous and original problems is because today's media (satellite phones, Internet, etc) are EVERYWHERE, with instant communication.
Thirty years ago it took days if not weeks to get news "copy" from the bush of Asia or Africa to the civilized western world.
In Vietnam, news organizations literally hand carried newsreel film to Saigon, where it was put on the first jet heading to Hawaii.
They were lucky to get 'third' or 'fourth' day stories.
He boasts of living through what he says the "youth: inherited! Abject poverty - see dust bowl. Global warming - called summer, might want to look that one up Kirk! Genocide - Kirk your a communist sympathizer. You of all people should care less about less about that. AID's - Influenza killed more. Suicide bomber - Kamakazi pilots. Vast majority of these problems are MSM overblown crap! Blow out your candles Kirk, then go away!
HHMMM, Movie star, who cares what he thinks.
I have heard that Douglas was an admirer of communism until seeing the disillusioning actuality of it in the USSR. I don't know the truth of that story, but I have assumed him to be a leftist in any case.
Nevertheless, a great actor, with poise, charisma and humor. Just watched him in Ulysssees, with Sylvana Mangano, where he was excellent, in spite of clowning his way through the role. Sylvana was shockingly beautiful.
Ah, a rapist. Good role model in a war movie.
Loved him in "Duel"!
Indeed, an entertainer. In another era he would have been a court jester.
Best Movie EVER!!!!
"It is his generation that created it and now he wants us to fix the mess he and his generation made. "
Two comments on that:
First, he is a member of the "greatest generation". I believe they did their share of good.
Second, he's 90!!! He's had a stroke. We all know he doesn't have long on this world. He's trying to help, not trying to get someone to fix it for him. Regardless of who does what, his world won't change much before he passes on.
How about tyranny, confiscatory taxation, and selfish old people draining Social Security & Medicare?
Kirk, what's your point?
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