Steven Spielberg, Barbra Streisand Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom

The Hollywood Reporter ^ | 11/16/2015 | The Staff

[Maceman]

Director Steven Spielberg, singer James Taylor and multihyphenate Barbra Streisand are set to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Obama administration said on Monday.

Producer Emilio Estefan, singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan and conductor Itzhak Perlman are also among Hollywood notables who will receive the honor on Nov. 24 at the White House.

Composer Steven Sondheim, who was awarded the honor last year but wasn't able to attend the 2014 ceremony, will be awarded the honor this month.

"I look forward to presenting these 17 distinguished Americans with our nation’s highest civilian honor," said the President in a statement. "From public servants who helped us meet defining challenges of our time to artists who expanded our imaginations, from leaders who have made our union more perfect to athletes who have inspired millions of fans, these men and women have enriched our lives and helped define our shared experience as Americans."

Last year, mogul Oprah Winfrey, actress Meryl Streep, singer Stevie Wonder and anchor Tom Brokaw were among the recipients. Spielberg was in attendance at last year's ceremony.

Read more at: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/steven-spielberg-barbra-streisand-awarded-840641

[Old Retired Army Guy]

Streisand??? Her accomplishments are sleeping with Bill Clinton in the White House, being a blabbermouth about liberal causes and donating lots of money to liberal candidates. I guess the donations are the key to the award.

[OttawaFreeper]

Didn’t Streisand’s business interest a number of years back produce that repulsive anti-gun TV movie about Democrat Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy?

[kenmcg]

Let’s hope a true America loving patriot wins the next election. Wouldn’t it be great to see Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin and Michael Savage receive the medal of Freedom instead of this constant stream of libs.

[polymuser]

No Jane Fonda?

I’m disappointed.

[Sooth2222]

"War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength."

[SMARTY]

If each of the got ONE that means your dog should get THREE!

[CrazyIvan]

Where’s Jane Fonda?

[tflabo]

They can wear their president’s metal around their necks like an albatross. It means nothing from a nothing pResident.

[ETL]

"Director Steven Spielberg, singer James Taylor and multihyphenate Barbra Streisand are set to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom"

From Jan 2015...

Folked up diplomacy: A week late, John Kerry and James Taylor remind France "You've Got a Friend"

By Doug Powers | January 16, 2015

The Obama administration didn't send a high level official to the rally in Paris last Sunday (the president was of course unaware of what was going on), and John Kerry showed up today with an apology and an offering:

Kerry brings singer to Paris presser to play "You've Got a Friend" after US no-show at rally

What, no Joan Baez? If ISIS wasn't on the run before that, they will be now.

http://michellemalkin.com/2015/01/16/folked-up-diplomacy-a-week-late-john-kerry-and-james-taylor-remind-france-youve-got-a-friend/

[tflabo]

Yes we will give our enemies Spielberg movies and Babras songs so they will love us instead and not fight to take away our freedoms.

[GreenHornet]

I’m surprised that well known transvestite, Bruce Jenner, wasn’t included in that group.

[ETL]

Where's Jane Fonda?

Jane Fonda sounds climate change alarm in Toronto
The Star ^ | July 4, 2015 | Christopher Reynolds

"The climate change problem is the issue of our civilization. It will affect everything about our lives if we don't do something about it," she [Jane Fonda] says.
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Here's Hanoi Jane remarking on the agenda that Obama refers to as (quote)
"The fundamental transformation of the United States of America"...

November 22, 1970 -- During a fund-raising tour for GI deserters, Vietnam Veterans Against the War and the Black Panthers, Jane Fonda is quoted in the Detroit Free Press as telling a University of Michigan audience:

"I would think that if you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would someday become communist," and "The peace proposal of the Viet Cong is the only honorable, just, possible way to achieve peace in Vietnam."
http://www.wintersoldier.com/index.php?topic=Timeline
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Fonda made the following statement at the University of Texas:
"We've got to establish a Socialist economic structure that will limit private profit-oriented businesses. Whether the transition is peaceful depends on the way our present governmental leaders react. We must commit our lives to this transition ...... We should be very proud of our new breed of soldier. It's not organized but it's mutiny, and they have every right." --Karen Elliott Dallas Morning News December 11, 1971

From 1972: "I am not a do-gooder, I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman."

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No great surprise here...

From RushLimbaugh.com:
Hanoi Jane Endorses Obama
April 3, 2008

REPORTER 1: Jane, who are you voting for?

REPORTER 2: Who gets your vote?

FONDA: Obama.

REPORTER 2: Oh, my God. Heaven help us all.

RUSH: The reporter for TMZ said, "Oh, God. Heaven help us all." Obviously the reporter is an Obama supporter.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_040308/content/01125111.guest.html

[sheik yerbouty]

Sickening! 0bama’s dhimmi piggies..

[Garvin]

Presidential Medal of Freedom - “An especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.”

[VTenigma]

Wow, look what you get for those huge donations.

[DH]

The MEDAL OF FREEDOM is it?

I actually thought many years ago (when I was young and had a head full of mush (R.Limbaugh) the Medal of Freedom meant something about promoting freedom.

Boy! Was I wrong! It is only given for the support of group indoctrination to the entertainment industry and the advancement of Political Correctness.

Of course, we all know with each generation being indoctrinated, our freedoms actually diminish.

Maybe they should change the name to “The Medal of Propaganda.”

[BlueDragon]

Yes we will give our enemies Spielberg movies and Babras songs so they will love us instead and not fight to take away our freedoms.

Smart Power! Her ness approves.

Hollywierd = always good for buckets of cash & mindless mouthing support for Dem politicians.

Remember;

SMart Power! You go, girl! (right to [fill-in-the-blank])

[Maceman]

Spielberg deserves it. His films changed the way how movies were done and watched.

That's what Oscars and Lifetime Achievement awards are for.

[redfreedom]

He’s just diluting the significance of the award much the same the as the Nobel Peace Prize was made utterly worthless when given to obama.

Additionally, giving such awards to the undeserving is an insult to those who have gotten it in the past that actually deserve such awards.

[angcat]

LOL give Nugent a cabinet position.