Posted on 09/25/2011 4:38:52 AM PDT by IbJensen
“Morgan Freeman, in an interview to be aired on CNN Friday evening, says that President Obama has made racism worse in America,” Noel Sheppard writes at Newsbusters:
PIERS MORGAN, HOST: Has Obama helped the process of eradicating racism, or has it in a strange way made it worse.
MORGAN FREEMAN: Made it worse. Made it worse. Look at, look, the Tea Partiers, who are controlling the Republican Party, stated, and what’s this guy’s name, Mitch O’Connell. Is that his, O’Connell?
MORGAN: Yeah, Mitch McConnell, yeah.
FREEMAN: Mitch McConnell. Their stated policy, publicly stated, is to do whatever it takes to see to it that Obama only serves one term. What’s, what does that, what underlines that? “Screw the country. We’re going to whatever we do to get this black man, we can, we’re going to do whatever we can to get this black man outta here.”
MORGAN: But is that necessarily a racist thing?
FREEMAN: It is a racist thing.
MORGAN: Is it not Republicans, wouldn’t that say that about any Democrat president?
FREEMAN: No, they would have gotten rid of Bill Clinton if they could have.
MORGAN: They tried.
FREEMAN: They did try, but still. I don’t, they’re not going to get rid of Obama either. I think they’re shooting themselves in the head.
MORGAN: Does it unnerve you that the Tea Party are gaining such traction?
FREEMAN: Yes.
MORGAN: Why?
FREEMAN: Well, it just shows the weak, dark, underside of America. We’re supposed to be better than that. We really are. That’s, that’s why all those people were in tears when Obama was elected president. “Ah, look at what we are. Look at how, this is America.” You know? And then it just sort of started turning because these people surfaced like stirring up muddy water.
Noel responds:
Is that what it shows, or does it show that people — not just those in the Tea Party — have lost faith in this President?
Obama’s poll numbers continue to sink. This includes amongst reliably Democratic supporters such as Jews and African-Americans?
Have Jews and African-Americans suddenly become black haters?
The reality is that more and more people — even some in the media, perish the thought — are coming to the conclusion that Barack Obama was totally unqualified for the job as president, and that his performance in the past 32 months proves it.
What folks like Freeman don’t get is that there’s nothing racist about such feelings, and to make such an accusation is, well, racist.
Of course. But just for the sake of argument, let’s assume Freeman is right — that America is a racist cesspool. What role does his industry play in shaping that? Sixty years of films such as Stanley Kramer’s The Defiant Ones and Guess Who’s Coming Dinner. Twenty years of Freeman himself alternating between playing either God or the president. All for naught. If Freeman is right, then Hollywood has failed in the role that his fellow progressives set out for it. And he has failed in his choices of film roles.
But then, as fellow Hollywood elite Nora Ephron wrote in April of 2008 at the Huffington Post:
This is an election about whether the people of Pennsylvania hate blacks more than they hate women. And when I say people, I don’t mean people, I mean white men. How ironic is this? After all this time, after all these stupid articles about how powerless white men are and how they can’t even get into college because of overachieving women and affirmative action and mean lady teachers who expected them to sit still in the third grade even though they were all suffering from terminal attention deficit disorder — after all this, they turn out (surprise!) to have all the power. (As they always did, by the way; I hope you didn’t believe any of those articles.)
To put it bluntly, the next president will be elected by them: the outcome of Tuesday’s primary will depend on whether they go for Hillary or Obama, and the outcome of the general election will depend on whether enough of them vote for McCain. A lot of them will: white men cannot be relied on, as all of us know who have spent a lifetime dating them. And McCain is a compelling candidate, particularly because of the Torture Thing. As for the Democratic hope that McCain’s temper will be a problem, don’t bet on it. A lot of white men have terrible tempers, and what’s more, they think it’s normal.
And that was during the Pennsylvania primary. The Pennsylvania Democratic primary. So if those Democrats who supported Hillary were racists, if those Democrats (particularly those in Hollywood) who have abandoned Obama in 2011 are racists, and if the Tea Party is racist (pay no attention to the support they’ve shown to Allen West and Herman Cain, not to mention the diverse nature of the Tea Party itself — Morgan isn’t), then essentially Freeman is saying that America has made no progress since the days of the Woodrow Wilson and the Dixiecrats.
And his industry — and his ideology — must share some of the blame for that.
My, how low America has sunk when Hollywood looks so far down upon it.
And in just three and a half years, too.
That’s just too bad. I liked Freedman as an actor. Why oh why must they open their mouth and ruin everything.
Looks like I’ll just have to skip ALL of hollyweird all together.
Here’s a primer for actors:
If you are a soldier, fight.
If you are a teacher, teach.
If you are a banker, bank.
If you are an actor, act.
Why do the people we pay to entertain us think they are qualified as political philosophers?
Would we let actors perform brain surgery just because they are “interested” in it? Then why do we go to actors for lectures in political science?
I wish leftist actors like Morgan would just shut up and let me think well of them.
What a complete doofus. What a shame.
“Somehow the hollywood “stars” of today THINK they command all of the awe and grandeur of movie stars of times past...they don’t.”
Even when they were at their grandest, decent men didn’t bring an actress home to Mom and Dad and nice girls were strangled before they were allowed to become actresses. The rest of the country treated them as mistresses and ornaments, not people of substance and to be taken seriously.
I’d hate to think that this is an American-African thing.
Some, perhaps like Freeman’ are just so damned full of themselves that they can’t shut up and avoid pontification.
It’s like the commercial with Alec Baldwin where he is sitting in the co-pilot’s seat and begins flipping switches prior to a take-off. When the pilot begins to object, Baldwin says “It’s OK. I played a pilot.”
Don’t forget past idiotic Congressional committees that had actors and actresses appear before them to testify about some crisis in which they played a role on film!
hollyweird is hollyweird. I refuse to spend one damn penny to support these freaks.
There are some Conservatives there whom I will support. Unfortunately, they are far and few between.
What a handsome devil.
Dolphins are probably one of my favorite animals, but, because of this racist coconut I won’t go see Dolphin Tale.
Also, in true liberal Hollywood fashion, the real life character that Freeman portrays in the movie is not black.
Bob Gunton was incredible as the warden.
Morgan Freeman Calls Tea Party & Conservatives Racists for not wanting Obama Re-elected
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xaog-Sm6UGc
Come on, Morgan...
use that HIGH SCHOOL education to tell us all what it is when someone owns everything and you are forced to work for them, or else...
Yes, it is socialism and slavery too.
Morgan ‘Racist’ Freeman and Harrison “green-weenie” Ford both Hollywood liberals are spokesmen for the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA). However Freeman’s racist rant was the last straw for many AOPA members who have now declined to renew their membership due to this.
AVIATION PING
Pilot/actor Morgan Freeman is joining Harrison Ford as a spokesman for the GA Serves America campaign to educate the public and decision makers about the important role GA plays in the national economy and transportation system. AOPA recently taped a TV ad with Freeman in his hometown of Clarksdale, Miss. (birthplace of the blues). He also talked about flying with AOPA Pilot Editor in Chief Tom Haines. Watch the interview, and a behind-the-scenes look at why Freeman volunteered for GA Serves America.
http://www.aopa.org/advocacy/articles/2009/090716gasa.html
Morgan ‘Racist’ Freeman and Harrison “green-weenie” Ford both Hollywood liberals are spokesmen for the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA). However Freeman’s racist rant was the last straw for many AOPA members who have now declined to renew their membership due to this.
AVIATION PING
Pilot/actor Morgan Freeman is joining Harrison Ford as a spokesman for the GA Serves America campaign to educate the public and decision makers about the important role GA plays in the national economy and transportation system. AOPA recently taped a TV ad with Freeman in his hometown of Clarksdale, Miss. (birthplace of the blues). He also talked about flying with AOPA Pilot Editor in Chief Tom Haines. Watch the interview, and a behind-the-scenes look at why Freeman volunteered for GA Serves America.
http://www.aopa.org/advocacy/articles/2009/090716gasa.html
Morgan Freeman. The creep who marries his step-granddaughter is giving America moral advice.
People like him overpopulate Hollywood, and if they are failing in their “mission”, that’s a postive for society.
I have seen Harrison Ford talk (without a script) too
he is barely able to form complete sentences.
Like Freeman, they cannot say anything that sounds intelligent unless it is written for them
Haha...you are referring to Sally Field, Jessica Lange, and Sissy Spacek testifying in front of congress because they starred in farming movies.
Unbelievable. Just fantastic. Who would have thought it?
PIERS MORGAN - although he didn’t nail Freeman on this BS, at least is tried to show him the light and stupidity of his stated thinking on this issue. Good for him.
Freeman seems intellectually dishonest, at best. Of course, it’s a good thing to give someone another chance to get it right, but not in the case of the job as POTUS - that could have frightening consequences.
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