Ted Danson: Rush Limbaugh, Religious Right 'Really Piss Me Off'

Newsbusters ^ | November 3, 2009 | Jeff Poor

[Rufus2007]

There's no better example than political commentary from a Hollywood elite to demonstrate how low some conservatives are regarded. According to actor Ted Danson, some conservatives just being manipulated by Rush Limbaugh and organized religion because they're not smart to formulate their own beliefs.

Danson, who has starred in both "Becker" and "Cheers," appeared on HLN's Nov. 2 "The Joy Behar Show" and was asked to respond to Rush Limbaugh's criticism of Barack Obama on Nov. 1 "Fox News Sunday." Danson questioned the notion that Limbaugh, who is a self-made success, is really "one of the people." Instead, he accused him playing on people's fears and anger to make money, which he didn't like.

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[Rufus2007]

Ted Danson, environmental alarmist talks about playing on people's fears... Pot meet kettle.

[randog]

You’ve summed it up nicely. Any man that could find any redeeming qualities in Whoopi Goldberg is a loser in my book.

[boomop1]

Wait until God get a hold of you.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Rush Limbaugh is popular because he reflects and gives a voice to beliefs already held by people who don’t possess his unique abilities.

[DuncanWaring]

Ted Danson.

Isn’t he the guy who said twenty years ago that “The oceans will be dead in ten years!”?

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

Did he not say in the early ‘90s that the polar ice caps would melt by 2010? Another useful idiot.

[ronnie raygun]

Hasbeen sadly attempting a comback. Remember Ted in blackface? He mistakenly thought he was a brother, ya know being with whoooopy the rape/rape and all.

[Berlin_Freeper]

take_ a_ pill

[Clara Lou]

Ted is searching for relevancy. Futile.

[GOP_Party_Animal]

Ted Danson is "Hollywood elite?! Maybe about 20 years ago.

I always pictured him as the celebrity guy in Michael Crichton's book "State of Fear".

[Artemis Webb]

Why would anybody care what the Has Been has to say?

[cripplecreek]

Ted Danson draws absolutley no emotion from me. Kind of like an ant.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Ted who? Saying what? Who he? (rhet.)

[steelyourfaith]

Remember back in 1988 Ted Danson said we only had ten years to save the oceans. There was nothing to be done about the oceans. Nobody could do anything. Nobody did do anything and the oceans are still there and Danson is still a moron.

[riri]

Isn't he the guy, who 20 years ago, had a hit TV show?

Don't these people have expiration dates?

[HighWheeler]

Only another idiot would ever listen to this idiot.

[GnuHere]

Making banner like the one for Kerry from Iraq:

HALP US TEDD DANESON WE R STUK HEAR IN A CHURCTH!

[Voter#537]

"Isn’t he the guy who said twenty years ago that “The oceans will be dead in ten years!”?

Did he not say in the early ‘90s that the polar ice caps would melt by 2010? Another useful idiot."

YEP

[shadeaud]

Yeah Ted you were a great example for the yute of America. Playing a skirt chaser bartender and then a ( gee, what was becker about, was he an abortionist). Great role model there bud. I suggest you put your hair piece back on and go back to the shadows where you have been hiding.

[Ann Archy]

Whoopi was the smarter one in that relationship!! He is a BAG of ROCKS!!!

[Man50D]

Go save the oceans Ted.

[sassy steel magnolia]

Ted Danson forgets he’s just an actor, making a living by pretending to be somebody else...with Rush Limbaugh there’s no pretending! He is who he is. Danson and those other actor folks need to get a grip on reality and forget their celebrity status (esp. those of yesterday!) and live REAL lives. Just cuz they can act doesn’t mean they have a better opinion than I do. We Americans have gone over the edge with our focus on celebrities and their shallow, empty-headed lives. Take away their makeup, hairdressers, trainers, managers, coaches, etc. and they’re still just a human being with faults and sins, needing God even if they deny Him!

[napscoordinator]

He is great in Damages. He can bash Republicans as long as we can bash Democrats. We really only started bashing Democrats this year. Fair is fair but really Ted Danson??? Why? Just act!

[Vaquero]

W.C. Fields: “Hollywood is the gold cap on a tooth that should have been pulled out years ago.”

“If you’re listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you’re a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we’re morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal.” - Alice Cooper

[HereInTheHeartland]

This is Ted’s female alter ego:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5oVzbwYWpg

[shibumi]

"According to actor Ted Danson, some conservatives just being manipulated by Rush Limbaugh and organized religion because they're not smart to formulate their own beliefs."

Ok, Ted. We're listening.

Tell us about all the deep, pithy insights you developed for yourself while banging the Afro-Petri-Dish.

Or did you perhaps come to great understanding while wondering if she dumped your offspring down the garbage chute in one of her multiple acts of infanticide?

Maybe the decay of your appearance into a post-Frankenstein risus has left you with nothing to do but lash out at those whose obvious success and enjoyment of life is far greater than your own.

In any case, your opinion is noted and will be given its rightful place on the ash heap of social commentary, right next to Klaus Nomi's rendition of "You Don't Own Me."

[packrat35]

I think anyone dumb enough to dump his wife of many years for Whoopi Goldberg is NOT someone I need a lecture from.

[Always Right]

I am more scared of people stupid enough to be influenced by Ted Danson

[napscoordinator]

Comeback? He is in a current show...what are you talking about. It just won an emmy too...Facts are your friend!!!

[Frenchtown Dan]

What a dork.

Playing on people’s fears? What have we got to be afraid of?
Our sinking economy?
The jobless job market?
The loss of our nation’s dignity?
A forgotten war?
Abandoned soldiers?

Rush isn’t “playing” on anything that the dumbocrats didn’t cause.

Get your head out of where the sun don’t shine, Danson.

[OpusatFR]

It’s the Irrelevant barking to the Redundant.

[shibumi]

Ants are highly intelligent, socially organized, industrious and productive.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Hey, Ted. You really piss me off.

Where and when.

[cripplecreek]

OK. He’s more like a slug.

[bray]

How did this Eco-nazi get from SoddomWood to NY w/o burning fuel??? Libocrite!

Pray for America’s Freedom

[InvisibleChurch]

[Adder]

Big deal...Ted Danson really pi-sses me off.

So what?

[InvisibleChurch]

Oops. Sorry. Didn’t see your photopost.

[Archytekt]

Ted Danson is pissed off?

music to my ears! thanks for letting us know Ted....

it gets this happy day off to an even happier start!

[lonestar]

Some people have to pop up now and then to remind how irrelevant they are.

[CPOSharky]

Rush thinks with his own mind (98.1% correct)...

Actors repeat what other people write.

[kromike]

Okay, listen up, everybody. Ted Danson is p.o'd, so we gotta get rid of Rush and the Religious Right altogether so as to get back in Ted's good graces.

/sarc

[HighWheeler]

wow.

that is one stupid woman. my 7yo neice understands more than that thing at the podium.

[Elle Bee]

Whoopie 'rape-rape' Goldberg's old boyfriend is certainly qualified to offer an informed opinion

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[JPG]

Thanks for the heads-up, Ted. I'll immediately ditch my belief in God and stop listening to Rush. I'm so grateful to have your wise counsel. /s

[sodpoodle]

**** still just a human being with faults and sins, needing God even if they deny Him!***

I’m not a psychiatrist, nor do I play one on TV, but it is my belief that for superficial beings like Danson; Conservative and religious commentary are a reminder of their childhood consciences..which have been suppressed or perverted by years of Hollyweird narcissism & immorality.

Like children who have been caught in misdeeds, they have temper tantrums.

Ted - pray & pray again!!!!

[Doogle]

ppsssstt TED..Whoopi misses you.

[tsomer]

Well Ted,
Rush would piss you off. Most of us would piss on.
Count your blessings.

[Tarpon]

I think he said we would be dead because the oceans were dead.

But all that happened is the insane got more so ... heHeHe

[jedi150]

Another Bollywood dweeb showing that he has a certian male part stuck in his ............. well you know what I mean.

Terrible actor by the way and these Boobs need to be looked at that way.