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Pierce Brosnan launches broadside at Bush over storm handling
Hollywood Buzz-Yahoo Australia ^ | 9/4/05 | AFP

Posted on 09/04/2005 10:02:30 AM PDT by Embraer2004

DEAUVILLE, France (AFP) - Pierce Brosnan lobbed sharp criticism at President George W. Bush for his environmental policies and his handling of the hurricane catastrophe in the United States.

"This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for," the former James Bond actor told journalists as he presented his latest movie at a French festival of US film in this Normandy resort town.

"I don't know if this man is really taking care of America," Brosnan said Saturday.

He was responding to a question about the Bush administration's response to Hurrican Katrina, which has wreaked massive destruction and loss of life in the southern US.

Bush has been accused of reacting too slowly and not bringing enough federal aid to bear on the chaos, which many people fear may be linked to climate change.

Bush and his officials have refused to sign up to the Kyoto protocol which aims to reduce greenhouse emissions believed to be behind climate change.

"This government has been shameful," Brosnan said.

The outburst revealed a rare moment of passion for the actor, who had been fielding questions mostly about his new film, "The Matador", and about his career now that he has refused to play in any more James Bond films.


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To: Embraer2004
"The outburst revealed a rare moment of passion for the actor..."

...'nuff said.

21 posted on 09/04/2005 10:16:53 AM PDT by Landru (dumbluck makes you look smart.)
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To: bigsigh

22 posted on 09/04/2005 10:16:58 AM PDT by Registered (They couldn't find the artist, so they hung the picture)
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To: Embraer2004; All
Hollywood needs to sit down and pour itself a nice cup of Shut the F--- up.

Anybody got any?

23 posted on 09/04/2005 10:17:08 AM PDT by concrete is my business (prepare the sub grade, then select the mix design)
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To: Embraer2004

What a freaking moron!


24 posted on 09/04/2005 10:18:22 AM PDT by eclectic (Liberalism is a mental disorder)
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To: nothingnew

Ahhh. Thank you...It did not occur to me that my tagline might be particularly relevant in THIS case...:)


25 posted on 09/04/2005 10:19:43 AM PDT by rlmorel ("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)
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To: Registered

why didn't I know you'd have something on this. Thanx!


26 posted on 09/04/2005 10:19:50 AM PDT by bigsigh
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To: Embraer2004

Let me see, Hollywood is producing visual swill coupled with actors that, every time they open their mouths, they alienate movie goers.

And Hollywood wonders why they have box office problems.


27 posted on 09/04/2005 10:19:51 AM PDT by stylin_geek (Liberalism: comparable to a chicken with its head cut off, but with more spastic motions)
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To: Embraer2004
I love watching the liberal freak show... It is such a large sector of the privlage class of socialist and their little ignorant imps.


28 posted on 09/04/2005 10:20:33 AM PDT by Porterville (Liberal Babyboomers will by anything that stinks of hippy.... So crap on a stick and sell baby sell)
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To: Embraer2004
I hope that sooner or later the MSM discovers that New Orleans did have a written emergency plan to cover the evacuation of the poor, but that the idiot mayor of New Orleans ignored it, and allowed the evacuation buses to be ruined by the flood, forgotten.

The city leaders had at least two full days to use these hundreds of buses to evac the poor, exactly as their own emergency management plan called for.

Here's the southeast Louisiana evac plan supplement, most recently revised in 2000. Go to page 13, read paragraph 5. It states:

5. The primary means of hurricane evacuation will be personal vehicles. School and municipal buses, government-owned vehicles and vehicles provided by volunteer agencies may be used to provide transportation for individuals who lack transportation and require assistance in evacuating.


29 posted on 09/04/2005 10:49:09 AM PDT by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: Embraer2004

Is it any news that some Hollywood actor whose career is going nowhere will jump at the chance to get the publicity offered by the mass media for saying outrageous things about the President?

At times like this, one would hope these Hollywood attention hogs would continue to do what they do best -- pretend to be somebody important and worthy of attention.

But can you really blame these people for prostituting themselves for the media pimps?


30 posted on 09/04/2005 11:42:35 AM PDT by MikeHu
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To: garyhope

Jugglers, clowns and minstrels providing insight on serious issues. I think I'll go ask the "Will Work for Food" guy over by the interstate ramp for some mutual fund advice.


31 posted on 09/04/2005 11:46:13 AM PDT by Emmett McCarthy
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To: Embraer2004

Another sissy boy mouths off.


32 posted on 09/04/2005 11:47:38 AM PDT by verity (Don't let your children grow up to be mainstream media maggots.)
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To: Emmett McCarthy

The mass media is really struggling for credibility now.

Instead of asking experts anymore, they just ask the man in the street for their "expert" opinion -- and failing that, they troll Hollywood to see who wants any publicity.


33 posted on 09/04/2005 11:51:37 AM PDT by MikeHu
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To: Embraer2004

Let me see if I understand this. An actor, and a foreign one at that, has suddenly become an expert an expert on how to respond to a natural disaster in the United States. Am I missing something? Who died and put him in charge?

It's a good thing I have a large DVD library of classic films. Most of the actors in them are dead, and are no longer able to pontificate on things beyond their comprehension.

Ho hum. Another Hollywood asshat to add to my don't-see list.


34 posted on 09/04/2005 11:54:32 AM PDT by billnaz (What part of "shall not be infringed" don't you understand?)
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To: MikeHu

Yeah, I guess this could land him a "serious" interview with Chrissy Matthews. The world awaits with baited breath.


35 posted on 09/04/2005 11:54:42 AM PDT by Emmett McCarthy
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To: Embraer2004

Oh my. Those with small brains and less info speak.


36 posted on 09/04/2005 11:56:43 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
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To: Registered

Outstanding!


37 posted on 09/04/2005 11:56:57 AM PDT by THX 1138
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To: Embraer2004

Another mindless prettyboy heard from...


38 posted on 09/04/2005 11:57:41 AM PDT by THX 1138
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To: billnaz

Didn't he have a starring role in a movie as the President of the United States once?

Unfortunately, a lot of today's journalists get mixed up with those who are the president and those just pretending to be the president. But most don't care now because their editors won't know the difference.


39 posted on 09/04/2005 12:00:02 PM PDT by MikeHu
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To: Registered

I like it ~ good one!


40 posted on 09/04/2005 12:06:14 PM PDT by 68 grunt (3/1 India, 3rd, 68-69, 0311)
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