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Michael Moriarty: Todd and Sarah Palin Are My Heroes
Big Hollywood ^ | August 23, 2011 | Michael Moriarty

Posted on 08/23/2011 4:50:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The Toothless Rottweiler

Big Hollywood has a fairly young audience so I don’t think the pluses and minuses of old age would much interest them. However, my self-appointed assignment here as Sarah Palin’s guard dog has brought me more than a few black comedy dramas as the toothless Rottweiler I am. The attack dog’s “growl” within me starts the second I hear or see anyone looking down on the former governor of Alaska.

Why?

I’m a survivor of parents who chose to have not just one but two abortions.

Learning about abortion at the age of 9 automatically enlists you in the Survivor’s Guilt Club. Toss in an ugly divorce and you have a domestic war zone with two, indelibly damaged “Survivors”, my sister and I. Add “Children of Alcoholics” and, well, we have a play by Eugene O’Neill and August Strindberg, plus Freud’s Oedipal theories running riot in a young artist farmed off at 11 years of age to Prep-School-As-A-Safe-Zone.

Further dramatic details of my upbringing are peppered through my memoir, The Haunted Heaven, available, chapter by chapter, at enterstageright.com.

I have, however, made it into my 71st year and am quite proud of the few achievements that have adorned my life and, thanks to Alcoholics Anonymous, I have made peace with my ten lost years as a drunk in Canada.

Though Sarah Palin is my heroine; Trig, her son, is my hero.....

(Excerpt) Read more at bighollywood.breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: abortion; michaelmoriarty; moralabsolutes; palin
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1 posted on 08/23/2011 4:50:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Mrs. Don-o

Great article from Mr. Moriarty.


2 posted on 08/23/2011 4:55:15 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("There is only one remedy for ignorance and thoughtlessness, and that is literacy." R. Mitchell)
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To: Tax-chick

Yes indeed. Stunned to see he’s 71, dang time flies. What a great actor though. Had no idea he had such a rough time.


3 posted on 08/23/2011 5:16:04 PM PDT by visualops (Proud Air Force Mom)
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To: visualops

No, I didn’t know anything about his life, either. I remember him in films from the 70s, though, and then as the first DA on “Law & Order.”


4 posted on 08/23/2011 5:18:12 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("There is only one remedy for ignorance and thoughtlessness, and that is literacy." R. Mitchell)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Perpetual intoxication and drunkenness...the explanation for liberal thought...just as I suspected.


5 posted on 08/23/2011 5:19:17 PM PDT by CharlesThe Hammer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Perpetual intoxication and drunkenness...the explanation for liberal thought...just as I suspected.


6 posted on 08/23/2011 5:19:27 PM PDT by CharlesThe Hammer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Good article


7 posted on 08/23/2011 5:41:42 PM PDT by WHBates
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Joe Biden would “understand” Moriarty’s parents.
(If she hasn’t yet, I hope Palin comments on Biden’s latest outrage, soon.)


8 posted on 08/23/2011 5:45:53 PM PDT by Lady Lucky
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To: Lady Lucky

Moriarty’s parents, were, after all, over the limit. Right Joe? Everyone on FR should take a minute to read this gripping column. Bob


9 posted on 08/23/2011 5:52:07 PM PDT by alstewartfan ("The movie's rolled down to the last reel. It's got an ending you never planned. Harry Chapin)
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To: onyx

For your ping list.

Excerpt

Trig survived because of his parents! No two people on earth are more heroic for me than Mr. and Mrs. Palin.

Add on to that the disparaging, elitist attitudes Sarah Palin has endured as a Vice-Presidential Candidate and still deals with subsequently and with divine grace?

Mrs. Palin is Saint Sarah for me.

The same diabolical calls for abortion that ensued upon Trig’s conception were echoed in the perversely feminist labels the Progressives plastered on Sarah Palin for being the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate.

The thicker the flying mud aimed at Sarah Palin, the nobler, stronger and more beautiful she becomes in my eyes. If the rest of America knew what I know about being the survivor of abortion, they’d feel about Sarah Palin as I do.

*snip*

Yes. Only the performance of my music by a respected American orchestra will bring me back to America.

That and Sarah Palin’s Second Inauguration Ceremony as President of the United States!

George Washington will have had nothing on us!!!

http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mmoriarty/2011/08/23/todd-and-sarah-palin-are-my-heroes/


10 posted on 08/23/2011 6:02:29 PM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: Lady Lucky
Yup, she did, but some time ago!

http://conservatives4palin.com/2011/08/governor-palin-and-the-difference-between-responsive-leadership-and-reactionary-politics.html

11 posted on 08/23/2011 6:03:15 PM PDT by BillM
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12 posted on 08/23/2011 6:10:01 PM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I can only imagine the pain he must have felt throughout his life, knowing not only that his parents had aborted two siblings, but that either he, or his sister, was a survivor of a 'failed' abortion. No wonder he became an alcoholic! God Bless the man for getting sober, and turning his life around.

I love how he's supporting Sarah, though!!

13 posted on 08/23/2011 6:13:30 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: BillM

Thanks, but I’m waiting for her to address Biden specifically for his remark about China’s one-child policy. I don’t see that at the link, just her position on the policy.
Not long ago she let Biden have it, over his “Tea Party terrorist” remark. She called it “vile,” if I recall.
China’s one-child policy is far worse than that, and yet Biden finds it understandable.
I’ll be amazed if she doesn’t rip him one.


14 posted on 08/23/2011 6:17:36 PM PDT by Lady Lucky
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Professor Moriarty, I presume?


15 posted on 08/23/2011 6:22:43 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; STARWISE; Virginia Ridgerunner; Clyde5445; RedMDer; trisham; Bigtigermike; ...
GAME ON!


Sarah Palin's Busy Ping List!


16 posted on 08/23/2011 7:00:14 PM PDT by onyx (If you enjoy FR, support it! If you support Sarah Palin & want on her Busy Ping List, let me know.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

17 posted on 08/23/2011 7:05:32 PM PDT by South40 (Perry: There is a path to citizenship for ILLEGAL ALIENS who have served THEIR country)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; onyx

Game On!

18 posted on 08/23/2011 7:18:40 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

cool!


19 posted on 08/23/2011 7:19:33 PM PDT by ken21 (ruling class dem + rino progressives -- destroying america for 150 years.)
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To: RedMDer

TRULY, NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND

20 posted on 08/23/2011 7:21:05 PM PDT by MestaMachine (If the truth hurts, prepare yourself for a LOT of pain.)
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