Posted on 12/20/2004 9:37:46 AM PST by Jon Alvarez
Babbling Babs has a new movie coming out, titled "Meet The Fockers". Now, we merely are informing you of her participation in this film so you can make an educated decision about whether or not you wish to support her career. Personally, I wish Ben Stiller had made a different choice for an actress to play his mom. Babs is one of those Hollywood liberals who likes to tell people what is best for them and the earth, while not applying the same guidelines to her own life (air drying your laundry, for ex.). Let's also not forget her rants on her website nor her role in criticizing patriots across the country who were critical of the hit piece "The Reagans", those who stood up for an ailing President Reagan last fall.
In order to boycott it you have to acknowledge that it exists.
some of her recent rants:
This section contains statements and speeches by Ms. Streisand.
The "So-Called" Liberal Media ...Barbra Streisand
Posted on December 10, 2004
The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country. We may actually embrace the principles of liberalism, instead of using it as a tool to divide the nation. Everything good that has happened in this country is founded on the ideology of liberalism. Liberals in the past were liberators who fought for a woman's right to vote, and fought to end segregation in the United States and then to end apartheid in South Africa. Thanks to liberals, today we have public education, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, environmental protection laws, a minimum wage law...among many other wonderful programs. Such a label should be worn with a badge of honor and defended by Democrats, not allowed to be used as slander by the Right Wing.
Frankly, the idea that the media is sympathetic to conservative causes rather than liberal ones is obvious, for reasons of ownership, economics, and outside pressure. With the major networks being controlled by a small group of large corporations, the news reporting has become most often sympathetic to conservatives, for fear of losing advertising dollars and being reprimanded by the current administration.
Dan Rather was castigated by the media for airing the Bush National Guard story before completely verifying one document. As we have known for years, the details of Bush's service record offered in the story were true, as Killian's secretary even verified, although the document presented in the piece is in question. Men who served in Bush's unit for the year he claimed he was in the National Guard, have stated on record that they do not remember seeing him there. The LA times also reported the story and even printed that when asked to report to Vietnam, Bush checked the box stating "do not volunteer for overseas." Now, an award-winning respected journalist has decided to retire early with a black mark on his career. In sharp contrast, no such walking papers or even a slap on the wrist was given to those in the Bush Administration, who perpetuated false information to the public as a way to rally support for the Iraq war. Dan Rather's error didn't hold a candle to the seriousness of the lies and lives lost by entering into an unnecessary war. One's actions are a little sloppyÑthe other's actions are high crimes and misdemeanors. Among the litany of false claims by the Bush Administration were a link between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda, the purchase of aluminum tubes for nuclear weapons by Iraq, the possibility of a "smoking gun" to become "a mushroom cloud," and Iraq's purchase of yellow cake from Niger. If the President, who has formed a habit of blaming others for the mistakes committed by his administration, thought that the intelligence, defense and security information he received was bad, then Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, CIA Director, George Tenet, and National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice should have been fired immediately. Yet few in the media took aim at anyone in the Administration for their egregious errors and deceit. If Dan Rather was so excoriated for talking about a document that may not be real, the press should have pressured this administration to step down for their countless lies and irreparable mistakesÑstarting with the President. The Bush Administration's lies were far more serious and detrimental to the American public, in that it falsely represented the reasons to wage war and send American soldiers into battle. Thousands of young soldiers and a hundred thousand innocent Iraqis have died in vain, thousands have been wounded and more continue to die everyday as this war wages on. The hypocrisy would be laughable, if it wasn't so tragic.
The press failed once again with regard to fellow Journalist Robert Novak, who stooped to a low in journalistic integrity by naming an undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame in his nationally syndicated column, thereby destroying her career and putting her life and her network of associates in danger. Novak was neither fired from CNN, where he is a commentator on Crossfire, or from his newspaper column. Nor was he even publicly reprimanded. The "liberally-biased" media failed to hold Robert Novak accountable for his highly partisan and destructive actions.
Remember back during the 2000 election when RNC employees posed as "irate local citizens" and stormed polling places in Florida in order to squelch the recount process. Where was the press coverage investigating the deception and informing Americans of the truth. Where was the press coverage of Florida's highly controversial felon list, which was produced by a private contractor and riddled with inaccuracies, denying tens of thousands of eligible voters the right to vote? When minority voters are being intimidated and disenfranchised by the thousands leading up to and during a close election race, the public relies on the press to bring the story to the forefront thereby prompting immediate action by our leaders.
With the presence of Fox News, The O 'Reilly Factor, Rush Limbaugh, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post, no one can dispute the existence of a strong conservative media. However, where these news outlets feel free to proudly proclaim their "conservative bias" by sharing their unwanted opinions, prestigious TV network anchors like Walter Cronkite, Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather, Bill Moyers and Jim Lehrer carefully tow-the-line to present the news in a balanced manner. They are real journalists who objectively present the news in order to allow the audience to make up their own minds. But sadly, today some of these wannabe TV reporters make inappropriate and derogatory statements perhaps in an effort to make a name for themselves.
Despite all the claims of pushing a biased liberal agenda by the press, the Republicans have managed to win five out of the last seven Presidential elections, and this year continue to strengthen their control of the congress. Their success undoubtedly is due in part to the fact that reporters on major networks have become so fearful of either losing their job or being deemed biased, they have relinquished their journalistic responsibility to hold our leaders accountable.
Seeing as I hate Babs and Stiller is an idiot, I won't be seeing that movie any time soon.
just don't want any po'd patriots out there who go to the movies, then are upset b/c we did not warn them...
Glad you posted this. Isnt her co-star Robt Redford?
It won't be hard to resist seeing this awful movie.
My wife couldn't understand why I was so adamant about not seeing that movie. That was until I actually showed her that last FR post with old babs personal commentary. She no longer has the desire to see it either. I LOVE FREE REPUBLIC!
What does James Brolin see in her? Please don't tell me $$$. While she no doubt has more than him, he surely has plenty of his own. Brolin is an idiot.
first movie was stupid, and unwatchable on TV (it was a remake of british movie wasn't it?)
Even without BS the sequal is a must pass movie.
What makes you think Ben Stiller made the choice? That's typically a decision for the executive producer and/or director. Not a fellow actor.
Add, unfortunately, "Meet the Fockers" will rake in a ton of money.
An education in the story lines is in order for those having a problem overlooking the casting of Babs and Hoffman
An overview of *Meet The Parents*
Gaylord "Greg" Focker (Ben Stiller) aces his med school tests but becomes a male nurse instead. "Greg" asks his live-in girl friend Pam Byrnes (Teri Polo) to marry him. However, Greg must meet Pam's family.
Greg learns that her strict, conservative, religious father Jack Byrnes (Robert DeNiro) expects to be asked for his daughter's hand before she can accept. Pam is daddy's little girl and it is tradition.
Greg tries to impress Pam's parents by being something he is not. Which leads to every possible scenario of acceptance turning into a scenario of embarrassment and humilitation starting with Greg spilling the contents of an urn Mom Byrnes (Blythe Danner) father. DeNiro (Dad Byrnes) turns out to be former CIA agent with connections and a lie detector in the basement.
Coincidentally, Pam's sister (Nicole DeHuff) also has announced her wedding to a young doctor (Thomas McCarthy). Greg also meets Pam's ex-boyfriend (Owen Wilson) who happens to be a born-again christian. Of course everything that can go wrong, does, including the disappearance of Dad's beloved Himalayan cat, Jinxie.
It occurs to me that we need to lighten up a bit. Laura Ingraham's adage "shut up and sing/sit down and act" doesn't elliminate singing or acting. Entertainment is entertainment and if the BS is taken out then most forms of entertainment fill the bill.
Has anyone else noticed that, despite all the ruckus Ben Stiller made about getting Babs for his "mom," the previews from the movie tend to really downplay her role in it?
Last Babs movie I saw was "Hello Dolly"....think I'll keep it that way.....
I would have boycotted it regardless of any political affiliation of hers.
Has she ever been in a single good movie?
sorry...I ain't buying. Never forget, that's my motto.
WW2 vets still refuse to buy Japanese products. Some people have strong feelings about such things...
Elf did that w/Ed Assner last year...Look at "The Aviator"...Alec Baldwin is in it...you would never know from the ads.
she used to be my wife's fav entertainer.
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