Posted on 10/17/2011 4:38:48 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Susan Sarandon, who won an Oscar for playing a nun, has called Pope Benedict XVI a Nazi. In response, the Catholic League has called her dumb.
Actor Bob Balaban was interviewing Sarandon, 65, onstage Saturday at Long Island's Bay Street Theater when she mentioned she sent the pope a copy of Sister Helen Prejean's book "Dead Man Walking." "The last one (John Paul II), not this Nazi one we have now," she said.
When Balaban raised an eyebrow at the remark, Sarandon merely repeated it. Some in the audience laughed.
"Perhaps only in the Hamptons could Sarandon get a laugh with such a comment," Newsday mused. Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, was more scathing.
"She's a despicable person to make these kinds of despicable remarks," Donohue, told E! Online. "It is very hard to find someone dumber than her."
Donohue said Benedict, born Joseph Ratzinger in 1927 in Germany, "was forced to join" the Hitler Youth at age 14 "as every boy his age was. Unlike the others, he deserted."
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
now it becomes clearer why Tim Robins split up..
Any minute now she’ll lose all of her TV contracts, just like Hank Williams...or maybe not.
One of my college professors had been in the Hitler Jugend. I would never have accused Dr. Merrifield of being a Nazi.
Oh, come on now. She'll elicit laughs in lots of places: Hollywood, San Francisco, the Oval Office...
Is Sarandon still alive? Who knew!
earlier piece in The Hollywood Reporter 10/17/11
Susan Sarandon Calls the Pope a Nazi at the Hamptons Film Festival
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/susan-sarandon-pope-a-nazi-occupy-wall-street-249260
Nope. Hollywood will love her even more, along with the left.
Conservative women and blacks and the religious (Except Islam and Buddhism) are OK to slur.
“Susan Sarandon calls Benedict XVI a Nazi”
Benedict XVI could care less, as well as I.
“It is very hard to find someone dumber than her.”
not really babs boxer and every other female dim in congress as well as the cbc. and that’s without trying at all.
I thought it was because she celebrated her thousandth birthday.
It is sad to see her given any attention from anyone - especially here.
It is sad to see her given any attention from anyone - especially here.
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She is a bug-eyed monster and even by hollywood standards, a royal biotch.
In the news....
Susan Sarandon calls Pope Benedict XVI a “Nazi”,
Pope Benedict XVI calls Susan Sarandon “Susan Sarandon.”
I would suggest to Sarandon to start getting used to living in an insufferably hot climate.
I’m not Catholic, but still think this reflects terribly on Sarandon. I hope this incites a boycott.
Hey Sue, your flat tires are hitting the floor...no wonder that scary talent, Tim Robbins, punted.
I am SO stealing that graphic!
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