Posted on 09/07/2011 7:10:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
She scored points with me when she accepted Sgt. Scott Moore’s invitation to the Marine Corps Ball, but, with her recent comments to the U.K.’s “Stylist” magazine, she lost that clout.
“I love Barack Obama, I voted for him and I will forever be proud of my vote,” she said, before defending his performance during the debt ceiling debate. “I know that he [Obama] tried. I know because you keep reading these reports of him trying to compromise with the Tea Party and the Republican Party and trying to come to a 50/50 agreement. I don’t think it was one. I feel the Democratic Party compromised everything and the Republican Party compromised pretty much nothing.”
Clearly, “these reports” she’s referring to came from limited sources. She’d've read a far different rendering of the debt drama if she had clicked on Hot Air a time or two.
But what really got my goat was the way she bashed Middle America. In a sequence of remarks in which she lamented the general lack of political knowledge among young people — and encouraged young voters to educate themselves simply by reading (a laudable sentiment) — she suggested folks in flyover country are less aware than those on the coasts.
She chided the younger generation for not reading books, the news, the paper, and then zoned in on “Middle America.” “So obviously you are incredibly ill-informed to the point where they will go do these tests in Middle America… And they’ll ask, ‘OK, what party are you?’ And they’ll say, ‘Republican.’ ‘Why?’ And they can’t even tell you. They have no idea what the Republican Party stands for. Why did I vote for Obama? I can tell you why I voted for him, what I agreed and disagreed with him on, for hours.”
Her advice for the youth of today: “Whoever you vote for, don’t do it just because. And don’t tell me it’s because of religion either because that whole thing is knocked completely out the window. So you better just educate yourself.”
I’ve been searching for these “tests” she refers to, but I’m having little success finding them. Still — let’s say Kunis is right and Middle America is less plugged into the national and international political scene than the coasts. I’d buy that for several reasons — the news media is concentrated on the coasts, the nation’s capital is on the East Coast and international travel is easier from the coasts. But, if that is true, in my observation, it’s at least as much because residents of “the rest of the country” are busy running businesses, raising families and going to church on Sunday as it is because they’re apathetic, as Kunis implies. But then, in Kunis’ opinion, religion is “knocked completely out the window” (by what she doesn’t say), so maybe the faithful should spend Sundays watching talk shows instead of listening to homilies to earn her esteem.
Additionally, anecdotally, I’ve met far more Southerners who’ve ventured to visit major cities on the seaboard than I’ve met coasters who’ve ventured to visit major cities in the Midwest and South. All of this is to say: the so-called “D.C. disconnect” probably does exist — but the disconnect goes both ways. That’s one reason I applauded House leadership’s decision to allow representatives more time in their home districts. Kunis might want to take her own advice and educate herself about what Middle America — and the Tea Party — actually stands for before she dismisses it out of hand.
I’m falling behind on pop culture. What’s this braindead ditz’s claim to fame?
And I am proud that I didn’t spend my money on seeing her idiotic movie Friends With Benefits..her claim to fame is that she has a pretty face and big boobs..other then that, nothing upstairs but a bunch of rocks where brains should have been
Stand her on her head, and you’ll see exactly what she’s good for.
I never thought I’d hear an actor dumber than Richard Dreyfus...I may have been wrong.
I thought she is Russian. Or something.
who is this person?....honestly.....never heard of her...
ROTFL.......WHO???
Laz IS the expert. Ask Laz.
When did she get the big boobs? Man. I'm so falling behind pop culture.
She was on that 70’s show and the movie recently Friends with Benefits.
As far as I know her first big job was the brunette bimbo on That 70’s Show. Of late she was in the movie Black Swan. I don’t know what she’s done besides those.
Oh, I believe she was born in Russia.
She was a cast member of That 70s Show.
She was on That 70’s Show.
She’s the voice of Meg on Family Guy.
She was with Denzel Washington in The Book of Eli.
Done a number of other movies and TV I can’t recall right now.
Sadly, she’s a Ukranian Jew that should know better.
Yeah, I saw her in The Book of Eli.
She must miss home USSR
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