You have be careful not to wind them too tight.
Posted on 03/01/2009 5:49:54 PM PST by slomark
Jodie Foster was pulled over in Beverly Hills last week for speeding. Police said the movie star’s politically-correct Prius was clocked doing 54 in a 35 mile per hour zone.
To make it even better, the whole thing was caught on tape by a crew of “Speeders,” a truTV reality show.
According to the New York Post, “Foster refused...
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Propaganda alert!
Did she refuse to sign the waiver to be on the show because her girlfriend was in the car and she didn’t want to blow her image?
The Prius drivers in Silicon Valley are as much GET THE HELL OUT OF MY WAY as any driver of any vehicle on the road.
I met her once. I thougt she was darned cute, but that was 15 years ago.
Where’s the hypocrisy here? I don’t see it.
She’s one of those elitist hypocrites. I still remember her getting pissed off at the movie audience when they cheered her shooting her assailants in the movie “The Brave One”...that they were cheering her “for the wrong reasons’.
-Great way to denigrate the movie viewer who put money into her pocket.
I see many Prius drivers speeding, but I’m sure it’s just because the cars are so quiet they don’t realize how fast they’re going. /sarc
Jodie Foster got a Prius to go 54 mph?!
She's rich. She can afford to buy those super-duper industrial strength rubber bands that your average Joe can't afford.
Jodie's gay?
"Not that theres anything wrong with that"
Got a crush on Jodie?
It won’t do you any good unless you’re a girl...
Haven’t you heard?
Please don't tell me that funny looking black dude from the Democratic primary got elected President?
The news that Jodie Foster publicly thanked her "beautiful Cydney" at a Los Angeles women's banquet has apparently pushed the magic button that allows the mainstream media to finally acknowledge that the two-time Oscar winner is gay.
In a typical report, CNN's Kiki King discussed the development by saying, almost in passing, "of course she's been with Cydney Bernard for over 14 years now."
"Of course"? If Foster's long-term relationship was so obvious to the mainstream press, why did it take 14 years to report it, and only after Foster herself acknowledged it?
Here is the double standard on outing. When it comes to heterosexual celebrities, the entertainment media can't get enough, reporting every salacious detail they can get their hands on. And when closeted celebrities are caught in scandals, they'll jump in with gusto. But gay celebrities in happy, well-adjusted relationships -- whether Ellen or Rosie or Jodie (why are they all lesbians?) -- the public is told nothing about until the celebrity says OK. Even if the gay star shows up escorted in public by her partner at event after event.
The same type of double standard holds sway with closeted politicians as well, with those accused of shenanigans investigated without any regard to privacy. But it's hands off on those with long-term relationships until they come out. Mark Foley is an example of both standards.
The alternative I have advocated for years is "equality." Apply the same rules to gay and straight celebrities, and the same rules to gay and straight politicians. Ask about their personal lives, as they would otherwise, and report their answers, whether they lie, equivocate or refuse to answer. Then report the public facts that fit or contradict what they've said.
Digging deeper into their private lives is a judgment call, just as it is with straight politicians, that inevitably involves balancing the newsworthiness of the information versus how much personal privacy must be invaded to get it. It's unthinkable that a heterosexual Hollywood celebrity of Jodie Foster would have a 14-year-relationship that went completely unreported. It's way past time that it be unthinkable for gay celebrities, too.
Is that like "Sydney" or "Kidney"?
Any liberal that speeds, spewing more carbon into the air than necessary is a hypocrite.
She’s a lez.
“She’s a lez.”
Tragedy.
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