[lancer]

Some details of the interview have been posted previously, but this account seems to have more detail than the others. Glad to see Denzel hold his own against this hag.

[tob2]

Streep needs to read Luke 22:36-38. While Jesus said to turn the other cheek and all that, He didn't mean for us to be doormats.

As to the movie, I'm interested in seeing this remake as the original was very creepy, especially the part played my Angela Lansbury.

[lowbridge]

"It was a question about, when you put Jesus on the campaign bus to stump for you, you have to really listen to what he says," explained Streep. "Because he says, 'If a man smite thee on the cheek, let – you turn the other, that he may smite also.' And he says, 'He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword,' and he says, 'Love thine enemy.' Jesus could have raised an army against the people that persecuted Him. He didn't. So, that's what I was pointing out in my speech. And I couldn't really imagine Jesus – like, I couldn't imagine how Jesus would vote. Jesus was the Prince of Peace. Would the Prince of Peace vote for a war president?

Libs are hypocrites. They complain about the President "putting Jesus on the campaign", but turn around and quote the bible and Jesus when they feel it suits their purposes.

[lowbridge]

I'm an ex-slave

Then I must be a former inmate of a nazi concentration camp. And I was one of the jewish slaves that built the Pyramids in Egypt.

[irishtenor]

Denzel's an ex slave?

[Redmen4ever]

I have hardly met a Christian who knows what Jesus was saying. When a man hits you on the right cheek, he is hitting you with his left ("weak") hand. This is an insult. Do not return an insult for an insult. Turn the other cheek. See if he hits you with his right ("strong") hand. Remember, Jesus was expounding on the law of retribution, an eye for an eye and all that. Jesus was saying this law of retribution doesn't apply to insults. In my army days, we put it this way, don't get into a pissing contest. Oh course, Jesus put the same idea a bit better. Children put the idea this way, sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. When he was about to be taken in the Garden, he said if he wanted he would call down an army of 10,000 angels, but he had come to be offered up. Well, he was offered up, and now it's time for the 10,000 angels to kick some butt!

[Rockitz]

Addendum to the interview from an e-mail I received:

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Did you see the Denzel Washington interview with Katie Couric on NBC last Friday morning? Not many people are talking about it. They are wishing it would go away and are trying to sweep it under the rug.

But it's not going to happen! :-)

It basically went like this.

Meryl Streep and Denzel were on the today show "live" with Katie Couric to talk about the movie "Manchurian Candidate." At one point Katie asked Denzel, "have you seen Fahrenheit 9/11?" To which Denzel replied, "No, and I have no intentions on seeing it." Katie and Meryl were "so noticeably" taken
aback! It was so cool! :-)

Then, a discourse (or more preferably, a fight!) began between all three of them with Denzel being barraged with all kinds of anti-Bush, anti-Republican comments, but "the man stood his ground" and soon enraged the women so much
that they couldn't get a word in edgewise. Meryl Streep turned blood red and she sat with her legs crossed and her one leg shaking up and down fuming!

Then Katie uttered the words that put the final nail in her coffin, she said to Denzel "you see, that's the problem I have with 'you people'." She of course did not get to finish her sentence because Denzel pounced on her verbally by responding "YOU PEOPLE! YOU PEOPLE! Just what do you mean You
People! Do you mean 'You People' as in me as a Christian, or do you mean 'You People' as in me as a REPUBLICAN?" She then tap danced her way through the next minute of the show. But Denzel went out fighting and declaring that Fahrenheit 9/11 is nothing but propaganda and lies distorted to support a
Democratic cynical film directors views.

Whoo hoo!! I love this man! :-) There's a celebrity that deserves to wear the uniform in movies and I don't mind at all.

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All I've got to say is way to go Denzel!!!

[Mr. Jeeves]

"Of money," said Streep. "Money's bad."

"Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

"Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another - their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun."

-- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged