Free Republic in the News: DC Chapter Freeps Tim Robbins

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[FreeTheHostages]

'Human Shields' Protect Reporters from Pacifist Actor
By Jeff Johnson
CNSNews.com Congressional Bureau Chief
April 16, 2003

Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - "We're here to protect you," members of the Washington, D.C. chapter of the Free Republic told reporters gathered to cover an anti-war speech by self-proclaimed pacifist and actor Tim Robbins.

"We're here to demonstrate against Tim Robbins and act as human shields for reporters in case they ask a question that Tim Robbins doesn't like and he threatens to harm them like he did Lloyd Grove of the Washington Post ," said Kristinn Taylor, co-leader of the group.

Grove wrote about Robbins' "life-partner," Susan Sarandon or, more accurately, about the fact that Sarandon's 79-year-old mother, Lenora Tomalin, is a die-hard conservative Republican who supports the war in Iraq and President Bush. During the interview, Tomalin volunteered that she believed Sarandon and Robbins had "politically brainwashed" their son, Jack Henry.

That did not sit well with Robbins.

"My 13-year-old boy, who has done nothing to anybody, has been embarrassed and humiliated by a sadistic creep who writes, or rather, scratches, his column with his fingers in the dirt," Robbins said Tuesday.

Grove reported on March 25 that he had a post-Tomalin encounter with Robbins, at a party following the Academy Awards.

"As for Robbins, we said hello to him in a crush of partygoers that included his life partner, Susan Sarandon," wrote Grove, who refers to himself in the plural in his column.

After a brief but apparently pleasant conversation, Robbins apparently recognized Grove as the author of the Tomalin report.

"You wanted to be divisive and you caused trouble in my family," Grove quoted Robbins as saying. "If you ever write about my family again, I will [expletive deleted] find you and [expletive deleted] hurt you."

Robbins did not deny the threat when asked about it Tuesday at the National Press Club.

"I'd rather not talk about the specifics of it," he said. "When someone introduces something nasty you try to just not talk about it anymore."

The actor-activist attempted to portray Grove's quoting of Sarandon's mother as an attack on his son.

"I personally think that we should lay off the children," he said. "It's not their choice that their parents are saying what they are saying. They shouldn't be vilified in the press. It's just nasty, it's not nice."

D.C. Free Republic's Taylor noted that the comment involved Sarandon's mother giving a negative assessment of the couple's parenting, not Grove "vilifying" Robbins' son.

Taylor told CNSNews.com that his group hoped their services as human shields for reporters would not be seriously needed. But they wanted to point out, "the hypocrisy of the Hollywood elite who are on the one hand demonstrating for peace yet they have a lot of violence in their hearts, as evidenced by Tim Robbins."

Robbins' complaints about an alleged backlash against those who opposed the war also seemed hypocritical to Taylor.

"People like Susan Sarandon were supporters of and participants in the 'Stop Dr. Laura' campaign to get Dr. Laura's [Schlessinger] TV show taken off the air when Paramount was syndicating it," Taylor said. "Fair play for all?"

Given the opportunity to deliver a message to Robbins, Taylor joked that he would say simply, "Please don't hit me."

Several questions were submitted by reporters to the host of the event, who read heavily edited versions of the questions to Robbins. The actor responded to each of the edited questions verbally, without any actual or threatened physical violence.

[FreeTheHostages]

This thing's going through another news cycle!

[Mr. Silverback]

"Please don't hit me."

ROTFLMBO!

[hobblemaster]

Doesn't Robbins ever shut up or is it he hasn't realized that his foot has slipped from his mouth into his tummy?!?

[DoctorMichael]

Rich, Whining, Self-Righteous, Hollywood-Leftist Bump.

[kitkat]

"Please don't hit me"!!!!!!! PERFECT. Leave it to Kristinn.

[TXBlair]

Ahhh...I heart FReepers.

[kitkat]

"Please don't hit me"!!!!!!! PERFECT. Leave it to Kristinn.

[southern_living]

Hmmmm, I wouldn't be too afraid of Robbins, he probably fights like a sissy. I'm a woman and I'm fairly sure I could take him.:)

[Caipirabob]

The actor responded to each of the edited questions verbally, without any actual or threatened physical violence.

*whew!*

ROTFLMCO!

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Bravo Zulu!

[mountaineer]

I agree. Sarandon looks like a bus station skank who probably has no problem whupping that sissy Robbins (regularly).

[FreeTheHostages]

OK, here's a ping of some good news to cheer every one up. And Yeah, Smedley's Butler has got it right. Good people of the realm, LOL, STOP congratulating me. I wasn't even there!! Congratulate Kirstinn and Angelwood and the DC Chapter members in attendance.

Oh, and weirdly, special thanks to Lloyd Grove of the Washington Post, who found out how violent Tim Robbins was for us!
I can't believe this has made another news cycle. It's as if, wait stop, the press really hates Tim Robbins too!

[Patriot1]

Wonderful FReep! Kristinn did a super job!

[Lady Eileen]

bump

[Vision Thing]

Given the opportunity to deliver a message to Robbins, Taylor joked that he would say simply, "Please don't hit me."

For anyone else who will serve as a Human Shield against peaceful Tim, don't worry about Tim hitting you. According to Kevin Costner's character in "Bull Durham", Tim's character Nuke "can't hit water if he fell out a boat."

[cinFLA]

The head of the DC Freepers was on Scarborough Country (MSNBC) yesterday.

[Doctor Raoul]

Remember, Tim Robbins thought making "Howard The Duck" was a good career move.

[FreeTheHostages]

"Remember, Tim Robbins thought making "Howard The Duck" was a good career move."

The way he's behaving, he'll be lucky to be a in children's book by that name in three years.

[FreeTheHostages]

Yeah, he was on MSNBC. A link to that thread, as well as the after action report, can be found here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/894036/posts