Posted on 07/27/2004 3:56:43 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
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."
LOL!!!
Since Jesus was almost killed by the abortionist Herod. I think he would vote for the pro-life candidate President Bush.
The Hollyweird idiocy continues, unabated.
ROFL!
If I were a talent agent, I would be very busy right now, putting out portfolios of 'new stars' of the future with no baggage attached...there are way too many of these nutjobs that have reached critical mass, and the public just doesn't want to see, hear or enable these people any more.
Hilarious!
She's become such an embarrassment.....
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In "The River Wild", Streep played a character who killed those threatening her family.
In Holocaust, she played a girl who hid her Jewish husband out and later went to a concentration camp with him.
In "A Cry in the Dark" she played a woman convicted unjustly of killing her child because the anti Christian press labled her a crazed cultist for believing in the bible.
I guess Meryl didn't pay attention to the lessons of her screen characters...
God is not just a loving God, he is also a just God. God did not turn the other cheek on sin, He sacrificed His Son to redeem mankind. This is an important aspect of Christian theology lost on Ms. Streep.
A legitimate study of the Word of God would reveal that God frequently used force, wrath, violence, anger and yes, even war, to exercise His will.
The devil used God's Word to tempt Jesus. Jesus knew better. Ms. Streep's argument is trite and uncompelling. It is a convenient lie.
One would think that after her embarassing Alar mess, Streep would be more circumspect. I love her acting but she is getting a little silly.
First Bush gets bashed for BEING Christain. Now he is not a GOOD ENOUGH Christian. Where do these people get off? How can Streep claim to be a better Christain? How can they claim to know what is in Bush's heart? Bill Clinton breaks every commandment while in the oval office and we never saw Streep questioning him or his commitment to Christ. Perhaps we should question Ms. Streep on what she has done to earn her place in heaven?
This page has the donations listed of almost everyone in Hollyweird, sports, music, and business worlds.
"I haad a faam in Aafricaa."
Enough said about the "greatest actress" of our time.
Streep is just the latest washed up hollywood has been trying to pull a lame political publicity stunt attemting to get back into the spotlight, nothing more nothing less, when will they learn?, I expect to see a few more of these lame ducks fly ofer the blind in the near future.
It's probably an exciting time to be in that 'talent pool', right now, but only a) because the big stars are too expensive and only a few bring guaranteed box office, b) because the film can be hurt if people see a famous star - acting, c) I would agree for b) that the unknown is favored by film-makers because people can identify with the character they play, not the actor who portrays it. But of course, let's remember d) - you don't have to pay them much.
I could drop a penny on the street, and THAT would be about the same percentage of MY total worth!
She OBVIOUSLY does not 'love' the Dem's enough to part with HER money!
(Probably feels that they STEAL enough of her hard earned cash through all of there social programs run by the government.)
If I were Streep,coming from Hollywood,I wouldn't get too much into this 'turn the other cheek' business,after all,look what Jesus' Father did to Sodom and Gomorrah.
>> Since Jesus was almost killed by the abortionist Herod. I think he would vote for the pro-life candidate President Bush.
Bttt
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