GERE TAKES ON BILL (Richard Gere says Bush has done more for Aids than Clinton!)

NY Daily News ^ | 2/5/03

[areafiftyone]

Gere takes on Bill

Richard Gere stunned fellow liberals Monday by suggesting that President Bush is doing a better job of fighting AIDS than President Bill Clinton did.

Introduced by Sharon Stone at a fund-raiser at Cipriani 42nd Street for the American Foundation for AIDS Research, the "Chicago" star hailed Bush for his State of the Union proposal to contribute $15 billion toward the AIDS battle in Africa and the Caribbean. Gere then addressed the track record of Bush's predecessor in the White House.

"I'm sorry, Sen. [Hillary] Clinton, but your husband did nothing about AIDS for eight years," Gere said.

By that point, Sen. Clinton, who joined Mayor Bloomberg and honorees Anna Wintour and Lorne Michaels at the event, had left the restaurant. But a spokeswoman for the senator said yesterday that Gere's claim was "simply not true. The Clinton administration increased funding for AIDS research, prevention and treatment by over 400% and tripled funding for international AIDS programs."

Meanwhile, veteran Clinton-basher Christopher Hitchens is suggesting that the former President was a CIA informant at Oxford University, where the two were students in the late 1960s.

"I think he was a double," the author of "No One Left to Lie To" claims in the latest issue of the conservative quarterly Doublethink. "Somebody was giving information to [the CIA] about the antiwar draft resisters, and I think it was probably him."

Clinton's spokesman Jim Kennedy declined to comment on Hitchens' spy story.

[aristeides]

Germaine Greer has apparently also admitted on Brit television that Clinton propositioned her.

[DoughtyOne]

That's a valid observation. Does that mean it's irrelevent? Look folks, Gere is a fellow traveler. Is he ours or theirs? Do you think his donations are going into our coffers?

[Cosmo]

I think Gere's rant has more to do with the willingness of the clinton regime to ignore Tibet and embrace China

[dennisw]

Germaine Greer has apparently also admitted on Brit television that Clinton propositioned her.
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Could she be that "famous lesbian" that Hitchens said that he and Clinton had a piece of back in their Oxford days?

[miss marmelstein]

You do know, don't you, that Al Sharpton was an FBI informant? There are stranger things on earth than creeps being snitches.

[aristeides]

I strongly suspect so.

Also from that link: ANECDOTES: Told of she was propositioned by an American student who asked her "would a middle class boy stand a chance?" when she was giving a talk at Oxford years ago. He later turned out to be future US president Bill Clinton.

[Poohbah]

I know - first the Washington Post and now Richard Gere - Did I really wake up this morning or am I still in bed?

This might explain the flying pigs I just saw out my window...

[MrB]

"I'm sorry, Sen. [Hillary] Clinton, but your husband did nothing about AIDS for eight years,"

ah, come on, he talked about it a lot!
That's important to liberals, isn't it?

[dennisw]

That's a valid observation. Does that mean it's irrelevent? Look folks, Gere is a fellow traveler. Is he ours or theirs? Do you think his donations are going into our coffers?

He would donate money to Tibetan causes not to politics. I would never place him with the stupid goo-goo liberals. He's coming from another place. Here is something of his that I do not agree with. 

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>Dalai Lama devotee Richard Gere is preaching that the best way for
>Americans to deal with the 11 September terrorist attacks is with "the
>medicine of love and compassion." The Buddhist actor is a great
>believer in karma and stresses the importance of pity for everyone -
>including terrorists. He insists we must also think about "the
>terrorists who are creating such horrible future lives for themselves
>because of the negativity of this karma. If you see it from a much
>wider point of view, we're all in this together. We're all intimately
>interconnected in all of these actions." He adds, "It's all of our
>jobs to keep our minds as expansive as possible. If you can see them
>[the terrorists] as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to
>give them medicine, and the medicine is love and compassion. There's
>nothing better."

 

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[princess leah]

Someday Hillary will not be able to "run away" from hard questions or the truth about her and her fellon husband! I would even watch NBC, ABC, or CBS if they were to actually grill her on any number of issues! But the pinko commies at the networks will never aim for the truth!

[danneskjold]

Wise Up is a song from the movie Magnolia, which has a scene of frogs falling from the sky in it.

Sorry...I thought that's what you were referring to...

[Delbert]

And Gere has done more for PVC pipe and rodents than either one of them.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks Dennis. It's my thought that Gere may not be out there on the platform with Sarandan, but he has never announced a departure from his past views either. Look I agree that his efforts on behalf of the Tibetins is good. I think that has more to do with his religion than anything. Remember, he was a Budhist in the 1980s too. Nothing has changed there. I think you folks are overlooking the obvious, but that doesn't mean I'm right.

Thanks for the comments.

[Moleman]

Boy, that feels better- monkeys just flew out of my @ss

[HumanaeVitae]

Could she be that "famous lesbian" that Hitchens said that he and Clinton had a piece of back in their Oxford days?

Possibly. Clinton has an established track record of turning women into lesbians.

[hobbes1]

LOL...

Not really, just an End of the World kinda thing,

[meandog]

You are wrong on this response. Go study how a basket is made.

...it is difficult for me to believe that Beelzebubba, the coward who stressed how much he loathed the military, would have anything to do with any agency dedicated to the preservation of America! However, I do not believe in UFOs, nor intelligent life on other planets (that is life on a level equal to humans) either.

[aristeides]

More evidence that Greer met Clinton while at Oxford: The Female Eunuch was one feminist text that did not argue for equality. At a debate in Oxford one William J. Clinton heard me arguing that equality legislation could not give me the right to have broad hips or hairy thighs, to be at ease in my women's body.

So Clinton attended debates at the Oxford Union. No surprise from a Rhodes Scholar interested in a political career. Christopher Hitchens, I believe I remember reading someplace, was president of the Oxford Union.

[dennisw]

http://www.americasfuture.org/viewBrainwash.cfm?pubid=210

You think Bill Clinton was recruited by the CIA?

  Somebody was giving information to them about the anti-war draft resistors, and I think it was probably him. We had a girlfriend in common—I didn’t know then—who’s since become a very famous radical lesbian. So one of us was doing something wrong, or right [laughter]. Anyway, everyone on the left was besotted with him—Strobe Talbott, Robert Reich, Ira Magaziner, particularly. I had every reason to think that Clinton was a creep and a phony. So I tried to say to the left you’re mad if you think

 

[L.N. Smithee]

"I'm sorry, Sen. [Hillary] Clinton, but your husband did nothing about AIDS for eight years," Gere said.

That's not true. He engaged in sexual behavior that put him at risk of contracting HIV.