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AMERICA TELLS HOLLYWARPED WHAT TO DO WITH ITS BUSH-BASHING OSCAR TELECAST
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| March 25, 2003
| letters column
Posted on 3/25/2003, 10:47:46 AM by Liz
Edited on 5/27/2004, 12:12:48 AM by Jim Robinson.
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You gotta love the Academy Awards: an event where a collection of self-important, empty-headed "artists" spend an evening bashing the president and then cap it off by paying tribute to a pedophile and rapist [Roman Polanski].("Oscars turn to Bush-bash," March 24 NY Post). I guess we know where Hollywood's moral compass points.
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That's telling 'em, America.
Like we need this bunch of self-absorbed Hollyweird types ranting on America.
Dysfunctional Follywood habitues are known for their ruthlessness. They'd stab their mothers in the back to get an award, recognition and media facetime.
These self-serving narcisstic phonies can only "feel good" about themselves when they play the part of victim.
Sickos.
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posted on
3/25/2003, 10:47:47 AM
by
Liz
To: Liz
Let Lizzie grubman out of jail with conditional parole.
To: Liz
This is a bit long but worth the read.................
Enjoy--
Who's Smarter?
The Hollywood group is at it again. Holding anti-war rallies, screaming
about the Bush Administration, running ads in major newspapers, defaming
the President and his Cabinet every chance they get, to anyone and
everyone who will listen. They publicly defile them and call them names
like "stupid", "morons", and "idiots". Jessica Lange went so far as to
tell a crowd in Spain that she hates President Bush and is embarrassed to
be an American.
So, just how ignorant are these people who are running the country? Let's
look at the biographies of these "stupid", "ignorant", "moronic" leaders,
and then at the celebrities who are castigating them: President George W.
Bush: Received a Bachelors Degree from Yale University and an MBA from
Harvard Business School. He served as an F-102 pilot for the Texas Air
National Guard. He began his career in the oil and gas business in Midland
in 1975 and worked in the energy industry until 1986. He was elected
Governor on November 8, 1994, with 53.5 percent of the vote. In a historic
re-election victory, he became the first Texas Governor to be elected to
consecutive four-year terms on November 3, 1998 winning 68.6 percent of
the vote. In 1998 Governor Bush won 49 percent of the Hispanic vote, 27
percent of the African-American vote, 27 percent of Democrats and 65
percent of women. He won more Texas counties, 240 of 254, than any modern
Republican other than Richard Nixon in 1972 and is the first Republican
gubernatorial candidate to win the heavily Hispanic and Democratic border
counties of El Paso, Cameron and Hidalgo. (Someone began circulating a
false story about his I.Q. being lower than any other President. If you
believed it, you might want to go to URBANLEGENDS.COM and see the truth.
Vice President Dick Cheney: Earned a B.A. in 1965 and a M.A. in 1966, both
in political science. Two years later, he won an American Political
Science Association congressional fellowship. One of Vice President
Cheney's primary duties is to share with individuals, members of Congress
and foreign leaders, President Bush's vision to strengthen our economy,
secure our homeland and win the War on Terrorism. In his official role as
President of the Senate, Vice President Cheney regularly goes to Capital
Hill to meet with Senators and members of the House of Representatives to
work on the Administration's legislative goals. In his travels as Vice
President, he has seen first hand the great demands the war on terrorism
is placing on the men and women of our military, and he is proud of the
tremendous job they are doing for the United States of America.
Secretary of State Colin Powell: Educated in the New York City public
schools, graduating from the City College of New York (CCNY), where he
earned a Bachelor's Degree in geology. He also participated in ROTC at
CCNY and received a commission as an Army second lieutenant upon
graduation in June 1958. His further academic achievements include a
Master of Business Administration Degree from George Washington
University. Secretary Powell is the recipient of numerous U.S. and foreign
military awards and decorations. Secretary Powell's civilian awards
include two Presidential Medals of Freedom, the President's Citizens
Medal, the Congressional Gold Medal, the Secretary of State Distinguished
Service Medal, and the Secretary of Energy Distinguished Service Medal.
Several schools and other institutions have been named in his honor and he
holds honorary degrees from universities and colleges across the country.
(Note: He retired as Four Star General in the United States Army)
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld: Attended Princeton University on
Scholarship (AB, 1954) and served in the U.S. Navy (1954-57) as a Naval
aviator; Congressional Assistant to Rep. Robert Griffin (R-MI), 1957-59;
U.S. Representative, Illinois, 1962-69; Assistant to the President,
Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, Director of the Cost of
Living Council, 1969-74; U.S. Ambassador to NATO, 1973-74; head of
Presidential Transition Team, 1974; Assistant to the President, Director
of White House Office of Operations, White House Chief of Staff, 1974-77;
Secretary of Defense, 1975-77.
Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge: Raised in a working class family
in veterans' public housing in Erie. He earned a scholarship to Harvard,
graduating with honors in 1967. After his first year at The Dickinson
School of Law, he was drafted into the U.S. Army, where he served as an
infantry staff sergeant in Vietnam, earning the Bronze Star for Valor.
After returning to Pennsylvania, he earned his Law Degree and was in
private practice before becoming Assistant District Attorney in Erie
County. He was elected to Congress in 1982. He was the first enlisted
Vietnam combat veteran elected to the U.S. House, and was overwhelmingly
re-elected six times.
National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice: Earned her Bachelor's Degree
in Political Science, Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of
Denver in 1974; her Master's from the University of Notre Dame in 1975;
and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the
University of Denver in 1981. (Note: Rice enrolled at the University of
Denver at the age of 15, graduating at 19 with a Bachelor's Degree in
Political Science (Cum Laude). She earned a Master's Degree at the
University of Notre Dame and a Doctorate from the University of Denver's
Graduate School of International Studies. Both of her advanced degrees are
also in Political Science.) She is a Fellow of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences and has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from Morehouse
College in 1991, the University of Alabama in 1994, and the University of
Notre Dame in 1995. At Stanford, she has been a member of the Center for
International Security and Arms Control, a Senior Fellow of the Institute
for International Studies, and a Fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover
Institution. Her books include Germany Unified and Europe Transformed
(1995) with Philip Zelikow, The Gorbachev Era (1986) with Alexander
Dallin, and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak
Army (1984). She also has written numerous articles on Soviet and East
European foreign and defense policy, and has addressed audiences in
settings ranging from the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Moscow to the
Commonwealth Club to the 1992 and 2000 Republican National Conventions.
From 1989 through March 1991, the period of German reunification and the
final days of the Soviet Union, she served in the Bush Administration as
Director, and then Senior Director, of Soviet and East European Affairs in
the National Security Council, and a Special Assistant to the President
for National Security Affairs. In 1986, while an international affairs
fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, she served as Special
Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 1997, she
served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender Integrated Training in
the Military. She was a member of the boards of directors for the Chevron
Corporation, the Charles Schwab Corporation, the William and Flora Hewlett
Foundation, the University of Notre Dame, the International Advisory
Council of J.P. Morgan and the San Francisco Symphony Board of Governors.
She was a Founding Board member of the Center for a New Generation, an
educational support fund for schools in East Palo Alto and East Menlo
Park, California and was Vice President of the Boys and Girls Club of the
Peninsula. In addition, her past board service has encompassed such
organizations as Transamerica Corporation, Hewlett Packard, the Carnegie
Corporation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Rand
Corporation, the National Council for Soviet and East European Studies,
the Mid-Peninsula Urban Coalition and KQED, public broadcasting for San
Francisco. Born November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama, she resides in
Washington, D.C.
So who are these celebrities? What is their education? What is their
experience in affairs of State or in National Security? While I will
defend to the death their right to express their opinions, I think that if
they are going to call into question the intelligence of our leaders, we
should also have all the facts on their educations and background:
Barbra Streisand: Completed high school Career: Singing and acting
Cher: Dropped out of school in 9th grade. Career: Singing and acting
Martin Sheen: Flunked exam to enter University of Dayton. Career: Acting
Jessica Lange: Dropped out college mid-freshman year. Career: Acting
Alec Baldwin: Dropped out of George Washington U. after scandal. Career:
Acting
Julia Roberts: Completed high school. Career: Acting
Sean Penn: Completed High school. Career: Acting
Susan Sarandon: Degree in Drama from Catholic University of America in
Washington, D.C. Career: Acting
Ed Asner; Completed High school. Career: Acting
George Clooney: Dropped out of University of Kentucky. Career: Acting
Michael Moore: Dropped out first year University of Michigan. Career:
Movie Director
Sarah Jessica Parker: Completed High School. Career: Acting
Jennifer Anniston: Completed High School. Career: Acting
Mike Farrell: Completed High school. Career: Acting
Janeane Garofelo: Dropped out of College. Career: Stand up comedienne
Larry Hagman: Attended Bard College for one year. Career: Acting
While comparing the education and experience of these two groups, we
should also remember that President Bush and his cabinet are briefed
daily, even hourly, on the War on Terror and threats to our security.
They are privy to information gathered around the world concerning the
Middle East, the threats to America, the intentions of terrorists and
terrorist-supporting governments. They are in constant communication with
the CIA, the FBI, Interpol, NATO, The United Nations, our own military,
and that of our allies around the world. We cannot simply believe that we
have full knowledge of the threats because we watch CNN!! We cannot
believe that we are in any way as informed as our leaders.
These celebrities have no intelligence-gathering agents, no fact-finding
groups, no insight into the minds of those who would destroy our country.
They only have a deep-seated hatred for all things Republican. By nature,
and no one knows quite why, the Hollywood elitists detest Conservative
views and anything that supports or uplifts the United States of America.
The silence was deafening from the Left when Bill Clinton bombed a
pharmaceutical factory outside of Khartoum, or when he attacked the
Bosnian Serbs in 1995 and 1999. He bombed Serbia itself to get Slobodan
Milosevic out of Kosovo, and not a single peace rally was held. When our
Rangers were ambushed in Somalia and 18 young American lives were lost,
not a peep was heard from Hollywood. Yet now, after our nation has been
attacked on its own soil, after 3,000 Americans were killed, by
freedom-hating terrorists, while going about their routine lives, they
want to hold rallies against the war. Why the change? Because an honest,
God-fearing Republican sits in the White House.
Another irony is that in 1987, when Ronald Reagan was in office, the
Hollywood group aligned themselves with disarmament groups like SANE,
FREEZE and PEACE ACTION, urging our own government to disarm and freeze
the manufacturing of any further nuclear weapons, in order to promote
world peace. It is curious that now, even after we have heard all the
evidence that Saddam Hussein has chemical, biological and is very close to
obtaining nuclear weapons, their is no cry from this group for HIM to
disarm. They believe we should leave him alone in his quest for these
weapons of mass destruction, even though it is certain that these deadly
weapons will eventually be used against us in our own cities.
So why the hype out of Hollywood? Could these celebrities believe that
since they draw such astronomical salaries, they are entitled to also
determine the course of our Nation? That they can make viable decisions
concerning war and peace? Did Michael Moore have the backing of the Nation
when he recently thanked France, on our behalf, for being a "good enough
friend to tell us we were wrong"? I know for certain he was not speaking
for me. Does Sean Penn fancy himself a Diplomat, in going to Iraq when we
are just weeks away from war? Does he believe that his High School Diploma
gives him the knowledge (and the right) to go to a country that is
controlled by a maniacal dictator, and speak on behalf of the American
people? Or is it the fact that he pulls in more money per year than the
average American worker will see in a lifetime? Does his bank account give
him clout?
The ultimate irony is that many of these celebrities have made a shambles
of their own lives, with drug abuse, alcoholism, numerous marriages and
divorces, scrapes with the law, publicized temper tantrums, etc. How dare
they pretend to know what is best for an entire nation! What is even more
bizarre is how many people in this country will listen and accept their
views, simply because they liked them in a certain movie, or have fond
memories of an old television sitcom!
It is time for us, as citizens of the United States, to educate ourselves
about the world around us. If future generations are going to enjoy the
freedoms that our forefathers bequeathed us, if they are ever to know
peace in their own country and their world, to live without fear of
terrorism striking in their own cities, we must assure that this nation
remains strong. We must make certain that those who would destroy us are
made aware of the severe consequences that will befall them.
Yes, it is a wonderful dream to sit down with dictators and terrorists and
join hands, singing Cumbaya and talking of world peace. But it is not
real. We did not stop Adolf Hitler from taking over the entire continent
of Europe by simply talking to him. We sent our best and brightest, with
the strength and determination that this Country is known for, and
defeated the Nazi regime. President John F. Kennedy did not stop the
Soviet ships from unloading their nuclear missiles in Cuba in 1962 with
mere words. He stopped them with action, and threat of immediate war if
the ships did not turn around. We did not end the Cold War with
conferences. It ended with the strong belief of President Ronald Reagan.
PEACE through STRENGTH
Strong Message
This is outstanding. This lady tells it like it is.
Last week, the Shelby County Alabama Legislative Delegation hosted a
"Stand
Up for America Rally." More than 1,200 people attended including featured
speakers Chief Justice Roy Moore, Adjutant General Mark Bowen and
Alabama State Auditor Beth Chapman.
Attached is a copy of Mrs. Chapman's speech, which resulted in five
standing ovations, tremendous applause and an encore. It's a short read and well
worth it.
I hope you enjoy it as we continue to "Stand up for America!"
The program may be viewed Wednesday, March 5th at 8:00 PM on Charter Cable
Channel Six in our area.
Stand Up for America Rally Speech By: Beth Chapman
I'm here tonight because men and women of the United States military have given their lives for my freedom. I am not here tonight because Sheryl
Crowe, Rosie O'Donnell, Martin Sheen, George Clooney, Jane Fonda or Phil Donahue, sacrificed their lives for me.
If my memory serves me correctly, it was not movie stars or musicians, but the United States Military who fought on the shores of Iwo Jima, the jungles
of Vietnam, and the beaches of Normandy. Tonight, I say we should support the President of the United States and the U.S. Military and tell the
liberal, tree-hugging, Birkenstock-wearing, hippy, tie-dyed liberals to go make their movies and music and whine somewhere else.
After all, if they lived in Iraq, they wouldn't be allowed the freedom of speech they're being given here today. Ironically, they would be put to death at the hands of Sadam Husssein or Osama Bin Laden. I want to know how the very people who are against war because of the loss of life, can possibly be the same people who are for abortion?
They are the same people who are for animal rights but against the rights of the unborn. The movie stars say they want to go to Iraq and serve as "human
shields" for the Iraqis. I say let them buy a one-way ticket and go.
No one likes war. I hate war! But the one thing I hate more is the fact that this country has been forced into war-innocent people have lost their lives - and there but for the grace of God, it could have been my brother, my husband, or even worse my own son.
To: Liz
Here's an idea. Since the leftist dems and Actors Guild like tax increases so much, why not put in a new $50 per ticket War Tax on movie tickets? Can you hear the howling about the unfairness of it all. Then the poor and deprived couldnt afford to see a movie. I say do it.
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posted on
3/25/2003, 10:53:47 AM
by
doosee
To: sheik yerbouty
She's already out ....only served about 28 or so days for ramming and injuring 16 people. That's what you call "justice."
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posted on
3/25/2003, 11:17:06 AM
by
Liz
To: Liz
I heard that fat POS Moore state that he made those comments because he had his finger on the pulse of what most Americans feel. The only thing he has his finger on is the speed dial to Dominos...
To: Liz
"...She's already out ....only served about 28 or so days for ramming and injuring 16 people. That's what you call "justice."..."Can I shoot her, Liz?
Aw crap! The goddam FBI is here again, and I don't even look like a damned Arab!................FRegards
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posted on
3/25/2003, 11:43:24 AM
by
gonzo
(Save the trees - wipe yer ass with a spotty owl.....)
To: gonzo
Can I shoot her, Liz? It's true people come to me to get "permission" for any number of activities and I try to be accomodating, really I do.
But, frankly, on your request, I'm gonna have to take a pass.
No, you may not.
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posted on
3/25/2003, 11:52:23 AM
by
Liz
To: Far Right Of Left
The only thing (Moore) has his finger on is the speed dial to Dominos... LOL. Sure looks like lotsa extra-cheese and pepperoni has gone down his gullet. LOL.
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posted on
3/25/2003, 11:53:57 AM
by
Liz
To: doosee
Great idea. Hitting Hollywarped in the pocketbook should do it.
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posted on
3/25/2003, 11:55:05 AM
by
Liz
To: Far Right Of Left
"I heard that fat POS Moore state that he made those comments because he had his finger on the pulse of what most Americans feel. The only thing he has his finger on is the speed dial to Dominos..."
Ugly is, as Ugly does.
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posted on
3/25/2003, 12:06:37 PM
by
auggy
To: Liz
A total boycott of all things hollywierd is the only thing they will understand. BUT Mainstream America hasn't the will to turn them off totally. Even for 30 days.
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posted on
3/25/2003, 12:08:25 PM
by
GailA
(THROW AWAY THE KEYS http://keasl5227.tripod.com/)
To: Far Right Of Left
LOL So true...Flint Fat---. Sorry, USA, that this bullhog came out of MI. (Michael Moore, that is)
To: Far Right Of Left
No, I think he has someone do that for him, so all he really can do with any success is vegetate (which looking at him, he does quite a bit of).
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posted on
3/25/2003, 12:17:23 PM
by
GOP_Raider
(OAKLAND RAIDERS AFC CHAMPIONS!!!!)
To: Liz
We are fighting a war on many fronts. De-funding the "useful idiots" in Hollywood is mandatory for all FReedom loving individuals.
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posted on
3/25/2003, 12:18:30 PM
by
PGalt
To: Far Right Of Left
I heard that fat POS Moore state that he made those comments because he had his finger on the pulse of what most Americans feel. The only thing he has his finger on is the speed dial to Dominos... What a fantasy. 71% of Americans are in favor of the military action. What pulse is he feeding off of? Delusional fool.
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posted on
3/25/2003, 12:21:33 PM
by
YourAdHere
(Christy will win Survivor)
To: Liz
>>I ask my fellow countrymen to join me in boycotting all movies. <<
A great idea! Besides denying these airheads broadcasting time, one stands to gain a much richer life by avoiding American film and most T.V. programming, too. (I haven't watched movies or most T.V. programming in 20 years.)
IMHO, why waste a moment of one's life watching rich people have fun or act out some false reality on a screen?
There is much to do that is more rewarding, and when my life comes to a close, I will feel that I have really existed, rather than sitting back and watching someone else do it.
So, boycott American film, for the well-being of your country and your health!
risa
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posted on
3/25/2003, 12:24:56 PM
by
Risa
To: Liz
Do we really need to remind ourselves that we are dealing with a group of
professional pretenders?
All it takes for them to exist among us is the ability to read and speak. And the former apparently is not crucial.
The abyssmal dearth of perspective and knowledge that they display might explain their cluelessness at their assesment of their importance to our society.
What puzzles me is why I and others would spend any time acknowledging them.
To: gonzo
Barry..."can I shoot her?"
Not now. We'll just have to wait until '04. It'll be a gaggle of "TOO's". Even the Hildebeast might "wade" in w/her ankels in tow.
"...Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum..."
Mustang..John...sends.
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posted on
3/25/2003, 1:24:38 PM
by
Mustang
(Evil Thrives When Good People Do Nothing!)
To: Liz
They can't even get their morals right.
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