The world that
Kerry's Coalition of the Unwilling
made for the Vietnamese children
BBC photo of DaNang school children at ceremony commemorating the fall of Saigon
The world that
Bush's Coalition of the Willing
made for the Iraqi children.
Posted on 07/26/2004 12:55:54 PM PDT by RightWingReader
Flipping channels almost always ends up being a big mistake. If I stray too far from ESPN, or the serene comfort of the GLOF (Gorgeous Ladies of FOX), I almost always end up seeing something that is best left unwatched. Friday night was no different, as I ran across Meryl Streep talking Jesus with Katie Couric. It was a theological reactor meltdown, resulting in a verbal radiological release that would have had the real Silkwood running in fear of re-contamination.
Having told myself months ago that I wouldn't encroach upon the frustrating subject of the Hollywood left in the foreseeable future, I nearly changed the channel immediately. Overexposure to Hollywood idiocy had left me jumpier than Yasser Arafat after a car backfires. I'd sworn to take at least a yearlong hiatus in writing about Twizzler-brained socialist thespian dunces who have settled to the bottom of the Tinseltown bile vortex, but this time, it was too good to pass up.
During a portion of the interview, Streep used many of the teachings of Jesus to attempt to prove that President Bush, while professing to be a Christian, can't possibly be one because he took America to war. Streep said that Jesus taught us to "turn the other cheek," and "love your enemy." When you listen to the Hollywood left incessently bash Bush, are you struck by their ability to "turn the other cheek" and "love their enemy"? What an interesting position – Bush is a warmongering monster of greed who must be stopped, and people who killed over 3,000 Americans just need a little hug? Sometimes I think those ivory towers are so high that there's no oxygen up there.
Streep wondered aloud who Jesus would vote for, opining that she had trouble believing that He "would ever vote for a wartime president." Couric looked on, awestruck, but probably only because Denzel Washington was sitting next to Streep. Katie was acting toward Denzel like Dom DeLuise while in the presence of cheesecake, so we'll give Couric the benefit of the doubt and assume she was too distracted to notice that the smoke alarm was set off by all the misfiring synapses in the room.
It could come as bad news for Meryl to learn that just about every president was a wartime president. There's always some sort of strife, whether publicized or not, occurring somewhere in the world. Both Bush presidents battled Iraq, Johnson and Nixon had Vietnam, under Carter, the CIA got involved in the Soviet Union-Afghanistan war and the Selective Service Act was passed. Reagan had Panama and Grenada – and made some potholes in Libya – and Clinton stormed the britches of Normandy.**
(**Normandy DeCupp, cocktail waitress at a Little Rock area "Hooters")
Whenever you hear Hollywood liberals making positive references to religion, you can be sure it's not because they've stopped trying to prevent the Ten Commandments from being posted on public property, put a halt to making movies which portray Christians as lobotomized hillbillies, or that they're tithing to anything other than the Screen Actors Guild or the local Benz dealership – you know they're invoking the name of Jesus only to criticize Bush, who is like a World War I foxhole when it comes to getting heretofore non-believers to suddenly find religion. Unfortunately, the religion they do find is for all the wrong reasons – out of hatred for the man they accuse of being full of hate.
The tactic among the anti-Bushers this election year is clear: Don't run from Jesus, but rather fake a religious high ground – a loft from which they can claim that Bush is merely a warmongering zealot lobbing bombs at the innocent in the name of his twisted view of the Lord. The phoniness is surprisingly obvious coming from people who have made fortunes acting.
If Streep actually believes that "love your enemy" and "turn the other cheek" means embracing defenselessness, then I suppose we can look forward to a possible time when terrorists are rolling up the Pacific Coast Highway on their way to blow up Malibu, and Meryl will be putting out the welcome mat. Of course, in reality, she'd be complaining that Bush didn't send in the Armed Forces to protect her soon enough – which, as she may describe, would be "a very non-Christian thing to do, since Jesus defended his flock, unlike George W. Bush."
It's a self-imposed Catch-22 from much of Hollywood – a place where hateful, spiteful and crazy words are born ... and the birth is almost always breach. In this particular case, due to a viral condition known as "Streep throat."
Meryl Streep - Yet another Hollywood bankruptcy...
Isn't she also one of the band of stars who is trying to get the whole upper half of Maine to be turned over to the Federal Government for a park?
The world that
Kerry's Coalition of the Unwilling
made for the Vietnamese children
BBC photo of DaNang school children at ceremony commemorating the fall of Saigon
The world that
Bush's Coalition of the Willing
made for the Iraqi children.
Or that shortly before crucifixion, Jesus told the disciples to arm themselves.
Since Kerry voted for the Iraq War, Streep must think he is not a Christian either.
Streep and other Democrats suffer from collective and selective amnesia regarding the war in Kosovo. There, Clinton took us to war without seeking U.N. approval (because he knew he wouldn't get it), against a country that posed no threat to the USA, and in a region teeming with ancient ethnic and religious rivalries. The ratio of civilian deaths (estimated 2,000-5,000) to American military deaths (zero) was the worst in our history. (Assuming that a high ratio of civilian to military deaths is a bad thing.) No American president has made greater efforts to avoid civilian deaths in wartime than George Bush. Compared to WWI, WWII, Vietnam, and the Civil War, Bush is a model of restraint.
"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery.'
But I say to you, everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away.
I never realized Meryl was a literalistic Bible reader. Perhaps after she convinces most of the hetero males in Hollywood to tear out their eyes, she can go on to discuss what turning the other cheek means.
She can certainly act like an intelligent person but acting is an illusion.
I have to think that even the Almighty would want to slap this silly twit.
You think God likes to see his creation left in the garbage of the abortion clinics? Kerry won't defend God's creation.
The most surprising part of that interview was Denzel Washingtons response when asked if he was political, he said yes but didnt say which stripe but when he spoke of the troops about defending them and helping them I get the feeling he is of the conservative persuasion, especially when coupled with previous remarks about Mel Gibsons Passion of the Christ and him being the son of a minister, he could be a closet republican afraid to come out of the closet in hollywood.
As i remember denzel is a christian, not sure about his political views, i was hoping he was going to let meryl have it a little harder. at least he told her next time to read the hole book. i would really like to hear more christians speak out.
I am not a student of the Bible and cannot tell you at great depth many details about it. However, I can sniff out a fake calling herself a Christian in just a few minutes of listening.
Meryl Streep, SHUT THE F*** UP!
So it is written, so shall it be done.
In that list of presidents which the writer said took us to war, he could have inlcuded Franklin D. Roosevelt for WWII and Woodrow Wilson, WWI, both of whom were DEMOCRATS! Maybe Streep never heard of them, huh?
Then let us hope that the vast majority of others listening also did. The American public is so poorly taught in the scriptures for which it frequently even lacks a belief system much less a true faith.
There is a verse which I apply to this Streep circumstance:
"Jer 48:10 Cursed [be] he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed [be] he that keepeth back his sword from blood." And, yes, Jeremiah and his/our God meant exactly what he said "cursed".
Yet another thing a "Christian" spouting Meryl either does not know or does not believe----that Jesus the Christ is God of whom the author of Hebrews writes:
"Hbr 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever."
Of whom the "man after God's own heart" (a man of blood and of war according to God's own testimony) wrote: "Psa 144:1 [[[A Psalm] of David.]] Blessed [be] the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, [and] my fingers to fight:".........which scripture one can only hope W prays and appropriates for himself daily....and which we should be praying for him.
Meryl seems to have no understanding that "turn the other cheek" applies to one's personal enemies but certainly not to the enemies of God or of one's nation; in the same way that "Thou shalt not murder" applies to one's personal enemies but not the enemy of your nation or the one who attacks to harm your family or the innocent.
To the extent that this was an exhibition of an effort to deceive or to lead astray the reply is "Hsa 8:7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up."
The woman has emphatically left me with no ground on which I can credit her with either perspective or intelligence.
What an awesome line!
Isn't she also one of the band of stars who is trying to get the whole upper half of Maine to be turned over to the Federal Government for a park?
Hollywood imperialists, as long as they GOT THEIRS everyone else can punt.
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