Posted on 02/17/2006 7:20:20 AM PST by jerod
Does anyone have Richard Dreyfuss's call for impeachment when the then sitting president committed crimes in an attempt to fix a court case in which the president was the defendant and an American citizen was the plaintiff?
In a desperate bid to gain a seat on Hollywood Squares, washed-up actor, Richard (Dick) Dreyfus accused President Bush of something or other. Dreyfus, who wants to remind his latin talent-scout brothers' his first name is pronounced ree-CAR-dough en espanol, ...
"Television did this. Television created the sound bite and then shrunk it," the actor said. "Television replaced words with images so that people make extraordinary decisions based not on prose or any attempt at analysis," but on pictures instead.
Will we believe our lying eyes or will we believe Richard Dreyfuss?
I saw the dummy at Oxford. What an idiot! My favorite part was when he was talking about the upcoming election. I remember he saying flat out. ''As we all know ''Kerry will win''. We will correct the mistake that was made in 2000''......... Ha ! I would have loved to have seen his pathetic sour puss face the night of the election.
I haven't visited this site in a while, and I was reminded of a past experience by a C-SPAN caller a few days ago, who held gushy regard for the openness of the debate here, while he lobbed harsh criticism of The Democratic Underground, which he decried as exclusive, for liberals only. I couldn't believe what he said. Perhaps Free Republic had changed, I thought. I mean, surely a conservative wouldn't make a claim that egregiously false.
To see what the case was, I decided it was time to drop by. This article about Richard Dreyfuss seemed like the perfect thread to check, since the story contains one of the more blood-boiling conservative targets: an actor. More precisely, an actor critical of the administration. Well, a perusal of the posts suggests that nothing has changed since my last visit, and this remark above by PCTech is typical of the level of the discussion, and is pervasive throughout the length of the thread: snide, single-line dismissives that could have been left unsaid, except that the authors had a compulsion to see their own names as part of the team, even if that tiny name is attached to the most embarrassingly and gleefully inane comments. PCTech himself submitted multiple comments, none of them better or more thought out than the one I quoted above. I'm incredulous that people can sustain interest in a forum that provides nothing above this level of discourse. It's like a dysfunctional glee club.
Dreyfuss's comments deserve more than childish derision, whether you disagree with him or not. His concerns are shared by literally millions of other Americans -- and people of the world, really -- that our values have been compromised, and we know longer carry the inspiring torch of human rights, that somehow, to our disgrace, the world has to look elsewhere. If you had nothing to counter to his remarks, you would have looked wiser to say nothing, and merely digest the article and move on. Why these silly responses? I know right wingers are taught by their noisy radio pundits to summarily disrespect all entertainment personalities (unless they're conservative -- like Ted Nugent -- in which case, their professions become irrelevant and their words quoted as gospel), and the assault must be shrill and seething. But Dreyfuss's concerns are legitimate and sincere. Your childish derision seems silly in comparison to his mature presentation, a fact you'll never come to appreciate as long as you continue with this approach. You don't look good, let me tell you. Show a little class and formulate a thought or two. Spend time thinking about it, about what you object to. Then write your response. Don't join this gleefully stupid chorus just so you can fell like you belong.
Now. Let's see how long this post lasts.
It stays, you go.
lol - you so bad....;-)
Torture Dreyfuss.
"I wish I knew how to quit you!"
Wait, I do know how to quit you.
ROTFLOL!
Oh, I did laugh out loud at that poster! Thanks for the chuckle.
Perfect casting!!!
"'libo-conservo-middle-of-the-roado,' and I have been for many years."
Make that a 'libo-wacko-left-wingo-moonbato.'
Thank you. I couldn't have put it more eloquently myself.
Now. Let's see how long this post lasts.
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Tschüss, Kafka.
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