Posted on 10/12/2012 2:31:52 PM PDT by ColdOne
"Freedom of speech means you have to allow idiots to speak, and that’s the unfortunate thing." "This guy clearly wanted to create problems," he continued referring to Nakoula Basseley, the Egyptian immigrant who appears to have masterminded the making of Innocence of Muslims. Clooney added that he saw part of the YouTube video: "It made me mad and I’m not Muslim," he said. "It made me mad for the quality of film that it was, more than anything. But the simple truth is that in order to make [democracy] work, the idiots get to have their say, too. And that’s unfortunate."
Note: Clooney used the word "unfortunate" not once but twice in his answer.
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Think about that for just a minute (you lib lurkers can take ten). Why is it so great that the 1st Amendment allows idiots to speak? Here's a hint... Because otherwise who is going to determine who's an idiot or not? (and thus allowed to advance opinions and ideas) Sure, picture your friend and confidant making that call. Nice image eh? Now picture your worst enemy having that power. Not so great. Oh, you're sure it wouldn't be all that bad? Sorry, the rest of us don't share the rosy-glasses view of human nature. Individual men and women may be great, but mankind as a whole continues to menace and subjugate one another. No-one can be trusted with the power to silence opposition, to silence the idiots.
George Clooney is beyond contempt. He demands huge salaries for acting that isn’t even acting - watch his movies - he simply acts like his “I am so wonderful that I wish I could kiss me” self. Not one iota of talent and clearly among the most “greedy” of the nation. How this buffoon thinks he can criticize anyone else’s intellect is a mystery to many of us.
What is really funny is somebody criticizing another person for making a lousy film given the number of stinkers he has been involved in.
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Exactly, he was looking into a mirror when he said it.
Clooney, the idiot extreme left-wing liberal that claims he can call President Bush anything he wants but demands everyone call Zero by the title “President Obama” and not “Obama” or anything else. He worships the Democratic party.
This is as irOnic as the US Gubbmint training me to kill commies and radical Mooslims.....
The future does not belong to those who slander the prophet George Clooney of Hollywood
So commie George must think only the intellects like him should decide which dummy should or should not get to speak. Hmmmm, my guess would be that he’d choose conservatives to be muzzled. So much for the freedoms are soldiers fought and died for. Take a hike George.
So speaketh George.
said speaking idiot...
My bad...excellent additions.
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Just have to bear in mind how dhimmi pre-submitted (to Islam) libs go orgasmic saying the phrase “the prophet Mohammed”
They only bash Christians because we won’t cut their heads off.
Going back a long ways, but it seems to me that saying, “I don’t agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it” got us to this point.
What is needed is, unfortunately, is for people to gain wisdom through experience. Sometimes, living through the wrong choice is enough. But then you have the really stupid people and ‘you cain’t fix stupid’.
When has a media liberal ever said “the Savior Jesus”? I rest my case and I’m not even Christian (being Jewish)
“The false prophet Muhammad” is the correct usage.
I agree.
Maybe Jews and Christians should start beheading actors.
(j/k...maybe)
LLS
He’s not saying free speech should be restricted so I have to admit, I agree with him and have said the same thing myself.
People forget that when the concept of Freedom of Speech was enshrined in the American psyche’, dueling was legal.
Shootin’ your mouth off could get you killed.
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