Posted on 12/15/2004 7:07:43 PM PST by Roberts
Even Hollywood liberals were left reeling after Chevy Chase's potty-mouthed Bush-bashing Tuesday night at the Kennedy Center, where the actor hosted an awards ceremony staged by People for the American Way.
The WASHINGTON POST on Thursday claims Chase unleashed a rant against President Bush that stunned the crowd.
He deployed the four-letter word that got Vice President Dick Cheney in hot water, using it as a noun. Chase called the prez a "dumb (expletive)." He also used it as an adjective, assuring the audience, "I'm no (expletive) clown either. ... This guy started a jihad."
Chase also said: "This guy in office is an uneducated, real lying schmuck ... and we still couldn't beat him with a bore like Kerry."
People for the American Way distanced itself Wednesday from the actor's rant.
Founder Norman Lear tells the paper: "I thought it was utterly untoward, obviously unexpected and unscripted and all that stuff. And, uh _ it was Chevy Chase. He'll live with it, I won't."
Developing...
Sen. Tom Daschle, the former minority leader, looked taken aback when he went on directly after Chase. His opening line: "I've had to follow a lot of speakers, but _ " The movie star didn't return for a curtain call or to savor dessert at the reception after the event. We were told he hurt his back and needed to call it a night by 9. Chase's PR rep told us Wednesday she was unable to reach him. Meanwhile, the other host of the evening, the newly blond Cynthia Nixon, told us she had a more gracious message for Bush: "Don't just listen to people who are telling you yes, listen to the people who are telling you no!"
The Three Amigos was good, but I think Steve Martin probably deserves credit for that.
painful i know.. but after it was cancelled i regretted not indulging more often.
Oh - the talk show! You beat me too it. It was pitiful, worst TV I've ever seen.
Vacation, Christmas Vacation, Funny Farm are a few of the funniest movies I've ever seen - must have been good writing/directing because he can't stand on his own.
lol
Chase was funny in the edited version of Christmas Vacation. Really though, when I think about it, it was Randy Quaid who carried Mssr. Chase in that film.
Chevy WHO??
LOL!
Indeed.
With Chevy, as with 'Who Peed'.
Steve Martin is a natural who will always be funny and will always make any role he's in alright.
Artists or performers are often dreamers, and this tends to lend to the buying of the "workers utopia" that the left sells.
I have always enjoyed his movies, oddly enough I think he more often then not plays characters who would vote republican.
An ass with a drug problem can just get away with so little these days. That is my opinion.
Thats right Chevy...Im one of the 63,000,000 schmucks that voted for him.
Don't remember the name, exactly. His family went to "Wally World", but it was closed.
Well, except for the "more easier" maybe. Thanks.
Pretty funny to hear someone who was never near the top of his profession criticizing GW who has made it to the top of his profession the maximum number of times allowed. Chevy, get some ball bearings for your Fetzer valves.
That's the first and the best Vacation movie! One of my all time favorites.
Cousin Eddie (Randy Quaid) stole those movies; he was priceless.
I'd like to sdee a return of some sedition laws applied to
public speaking....people are abusing their rights under the
1st Ammendment.
Actually, I never did find him funny. Steve Martin either. Eddie Murphy, John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd on the other hand were great in their day. Eddie Murphy sure has gone downhill though.
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