Last night I wrote about some dipshit Hollywood actors whining about how they were being lambasted about their views on the upcoming war. The Screen Actors Guild was even bringing up 'blacklisting', which is a bunch of bullshit. The only people in Hollywood who have to worry about blacklisting are conservative actors, not liberal ones. Anyway, my response is to not watch their shows on television, not to buy their albums if they are musicians, and not to pay to see their movies. I watch most of my movies on cable anyway.
I got all sorts of comments about this. Kim du Toit commented that some actors are so good, like Tom Hanks and Paul Newman, that he is able to ignore their politics. Tom Hanks is not as annoying as Mike Farrell and Martin Sheen. And Paul Newman donates all the money from his Newman's Own products to charity, so he does some good with his celebrity. I guess this argument is akin to Wagner is so good we can ignore his rampant anti-Semitism, which I do, since he's been dead for over 100 years. Fortunately, I don't think Martin Sheen, Sean Penn, George Clooney, and especially Jane Fonda, are competent enough actors that I want to see their performances. I never watched the television series MASH, because I thought it was a second rate knock-off of the movie. The person who wrote the book that the movie and series was based on felt the same way.
Sharon felt bad because she faced the problem of actors she liked being in the same movies as actors she despised. Now, I didn't demand people do this. This is just me. I'm voting with my remote control and my wallet. Unless the movie has real good special effects, I'll wait until it comes on Showtime or HBO. As for TV, I stated my reasons yesterday for not watching The Left Wing. If it's made by Hollywood about a president, it has to be left wing propaganda and Hollywood's version of the president they wish Bill Clinton had been.
But, if Hollywood is making propaganda and we exercise our freedom to ignore it, don't whine about it. Those no talent dipshit Hollywood celebrities can use their fame to mouth off all they want. I just don't want to hear them whining when it affects their careers. Actions have consequences.
I believe in the First Amendment. So did the Founders. That's why they put it first. And what did they put second? The right to bear arms. They wanted us to have the right to speak out against an oppressive gummint and the wherewithal to overthrow it.
Because I believe in the First Amendment, and the right of Chrissie Hynde to say something so incredibly stupid like "I hope the Muslims win" (Well Chrissie, I hope you enjoy wearing a burqa and being treated like a second rate animal, since that is what will happen if "the Muslims win". And what do you think of your song Ohio being Rush Limbaugh's theme song?.), this story from Reuters, sent to me by Jim, is very upsetting.
According to the criminal complaint filed on Monday, Stephen Downs was wearing a T-shirt bearing the words "Give Peace A Chance" that he had just purchased from a vendor inside the Crossgates Mall in Guilderland, New York, near Albany.
"I was in the food court with my son when I was confronted by two security guards and ordered to either take off the T-shirt or leave the mall," said Downs.
When Downs refused the security officers' orders, police from the town of Guilderland were called and he was arrested and taken away in handcuffs, charged with trespassing "in that he knowingly enter(ed) or remain(ed) unlawfully upon premises," the complaint read.
Now, either I'm missing sumpin' or this is total bullshit! Busted for a T-shirt? I realize the intelligence level is not too high in New York as evidenced by the fact that they have elected Chuckie Schumer, Hillary Rodent Clinton and Jerrold 'the hut' Nadler (And every time I see Jerry, I think of the fat guy in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, and I wonder when he is gonna explode.), but this is ridiculous. Busted for a T-shirt? What is in the water in New York?
I don't care what was on his T-shirt. This is ridiculous!
And I'm a little bit upset at what went on here in Atlanta when the President was here last week. There were some people protesting the war and they were spat on by the pro-war crowd. That makes me ashamed of our side. That is uncalled for. That's the kind of bullshit I expect from the left. But, I guess we are entitled to a little rioting. After all, Molly Ivins in one of her columns which I fisked talked about Bush's shock troops, the ones who staged the white-collar riot during the Florida vote count. Yep! I remember them. There were about 25 white-collar, tassle-loafered, pocket protector sporting thugs. Look out! It's the Bush White Shirts!
And here is a fine example of freedom of speech.
Give 'em hell, grannies!
Posted by denny at March 5, 2003 08:24 PM