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Ben Affleck:Marriage nixed by "racist, Puritanical" America
Tony Snow's radio talk show
| March 11, 2004
| Stoat
Posted on 03/11/2004 9:34:21 PM PST by Stoat
I heard it stated on Tony Snow's show today that Ben Affleck has said his marriage to Jennifer Lopez was wrecked by a "racist, Puritanical" America that can't stand the notion of a white man marrying a Latin woman.
Previously, I had heard reports that he was blaming it on the crush of press coverage, and there are lots of stories in the press and available on the Net pertaining to that. However, I haven't been able to locate any confirmation of this apparently new statement where he blames racism. I am wondering if any Freepers have seen a published version of this statement? I hadn't heard Ben Affleck try to play the race card in this way before and I would be curious to know if it's true. Thank you in advance for any help :-)
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posted on
03/11/2004 9:34:22 PM PST
by
Stoat
To: Stoat; martin_fierro
AFFLECK!
To: Stoat
I have not heard this before so I don't know if its true he made such a statement. If he did, all I can say is 1) I doubt that either he or his former fiancee were being discriminated against because of ethnicity or 2) if people were acting badly against her it must have been the libs in Hollywood as I doubt either of them spend too much time with schlubs like your humble narrator (me). My advise to him if he made the statement, "Get a Life!!".
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posted on
03/11/2004 9:57:10 PM PST
by
Lawgvr1955
(I am not completely worthless; I can always serve as a "bad example".)
To: Charles Henrickson
I heard it stated on Tony Snow's show today that Ben Affleck has said his marriage to Jennifer Lopez was wrecked by a "racist, Puritanical" America that can't stand the notion of a white man marrying a Latin woman. Yeah, we 'Murricans hate that sh*t. Riiight.
More likely he couldn't keep up the charade of being straight.
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posted on
03/11/2004 10:05:30 PM PST
by
martin_fierro
(A v v n c v l v s M a x i m v s)
To: Stoat
Yes, she was too good for him.
5
posted on
03/11/2004 10:12:51 PM PST
by
Mike Darancette
(General - Alien Army of the Right (AAOTR))
To: Stoat; martin_fierro
6
posted on
03/11/2004 10:20:28 PM PST
by
Charles Henrickson
("Does this duck make my butt look big?")
To: Charles Henrickson
"Gobble gobble."
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posted on
03/11/2004 10:22:27 PM PST
by
martin_fierro
(A v v n c v l v s M a x i m v s)
To: Stoat
Don't tell Lucy and Ricky.
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posted on
03/11/2004 11:01:48 PM PST
by
JLS
To: Stoat
It's true, alright. From today's New York Daily News:
All the same, Affleck seriously believes that America didn't want him to be with Lopez - because of issues of "race and class." The country suffers from "a heavy-duty Puritan influence," he says in Rolling Stone. "We were thought of as two different people, not just racially, but culturally."
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/172486p-150285c.html
People didn't like the two of them together because they were insufferably annoying publicity hounds. Race and class have nothing to do this. Even Affleck's fellow Red Sox fans are sick of this guy.
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posted on
03/12/2004 12:07:48 AM PST
by
NYCVirago
To: NYCVirago
Thank you very much! I appreciate your finding the source article (and I agree with your sentiments)
10
posted on
03/12/2004 12:15:59 AM PST
by
Stoat
To: Stoat
All three of John Wayne's wives were Mexican or Mexican American...didn't stop him from being an icon of "puritan America"...
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posted on
03/12/2004 3:09:15 AM PST
by
LadyDoc
(liberals only love politically correct poor people)
To: Stoat
?????? Afleck is stoned.
He was never going to marry anyone.
If anything she was his beard to cover his "other" friends.
Comment #13 Removed by Moderator
To: Stoat
This is the biggest load of horse manure I ever read in my life! Who cares who these media whores marry! I couldn't for the life of me fathom what was all the fuss over "Jen & Ben".
As a white woman married to a latin man for 23 years, if that's all it took to break you up, it wasn't a good relationship in the first place.
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posted on
03/12/2004 10:03:30 AM PST
by
gracie1
(Where are we going and why are we in this handbasket?)
To: Stoat
Thank you very much! I appreciate your finding the source article (and I agree with your sentiments) You're welcome. It was a really stupid quote, even for Affleck, and I'm glad to do my part in spreading his idiocy around! ;)
To: LadyDoc
It's odd that the only people today who discuss any past prohibition on marriages between people of different racial backgrounds are those pushing for the legalization of same sex marriages.
Then again Ben Affleck could have mistaken men in the hispanic community berating him for dating J-Lo. It may not have been because he was white, but because he was a dork.
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posted on
03/12/2004 11:05:27 AM PST
by
weegee
('...Kerry is like that or so a crack sausage.')
To: weegee
Hollywood is desperate to find a new leading man sex symbol. A year ago they People mag named Ben "The Sexiest Man Alive", and that fell flat, because Ben is as exciting as stale white bread. Then People mag moved on to Johnny Depp, who is more of a bad boy and therefore is considered more sexually charged. Anyhoo, it's all too big for me!
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posted on
03/12/2004 11:30:02 AM PST
by
Ciexyz
To: Stoat
What a self-absorbed dipsh*t.
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posted on
03/12/2004 1:41:21 PM PST
by
Viking2002
(I think; therefore, I Freep............)
To: Stoat; Admin Moderator
who and why did somebody put “trump” in the keywords when it has nothing to do with today’s campaign? It just throws things off when one uses a “keyword search” to find something pertinent in July of 2016 and this shows up from 2004!?
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