Posted on 10/10/2005 6:39:23 AM PDT by submarinerswife
Hearst: U.S. needs defense against panic attacks, too
Patty Hearst has a message for folks who are worried about terrorist attacks: Stop wringing your hands, people!
"I was kidnapped by terrorists. It's not like I'm numb to this and think it can't happen. But get real!" Hearst admonished. "There's so much weeping and wailing and memorializing, my feeling is it'd be a lot healthier if people didn't externalize so much and kind of bucked up a little bit."
The 51-year-old media heiress was famously abducted by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974, then served 21 months in prison for bank robbery and was pardoned by Bill Clinton.
"What good is our government if they can't keep our level of fear at a point where we can think about what's really going on?" she told Lowdown. "We are a nation with the most frightened people on the planet. People who come over here just laugh at us."
Hearst - who today lives a quiet life in Connecticut with her bodyguard-turned-husband, Bernard Shaw - confided: "It's better to have a lower profile."
The tabloid celebrity culture "has reached a ludicrous level," she added. "How many times can you look up someone's skirt and think it's fascinating? 'Look, they're pumping their own gas!' … We had a subscription to one magazine, which I won't name - I just had to call up and cancel it because there were 18 pages of people scratching their a- or licking their fingers or blowing their noses."
Hearst is hyping her Oct. 19 guest appearance on the Sci Fi Channel's animated series "Tripping the Rift," in which she voices a former stripper. "I've always wanted to be a cartoon character," she admitted. "I've practically been reduced to that in real life."
boy! talk about pathetic.
I gotta go with her on this one.
The hand wringing and hysteria is only in the media.....most people don't give terrorists a second thought during their day....
NeverGore :^)
How true.
Still wondering what you gave to slick willie for that pardon.
Have Ron Palillo or Nadia Comaneci weighed in yet?
She is the perfect spokesperson for the left because she symbolizes how big parts of the left have spiritually joined up with and even helped the terrorists.
Advice from Patty Hearst. How special!
I agree with everything she said, except for the above. That's not the job of the government. If someone has a problem with irrational fear or anxiety, he should consult a psychiatrist or clergyman.
-ccm
"The 51-year-old media heiress was famously abducted by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974, then served 21 months in prison for bank robbery and was pardoned by Bill Clinton. "
That just about says it all re Ms. Hearst's credibility
about anything. Who could doubt the Clintons received a sizeable contribution from the Hearst family vaults!
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