Posted on 12/16/2004 6:28:51 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
Hollywood has-been Chevy Chase needs a boost for his lagging career, so to get some much-needed publicity he's launching another attack on our president.
"Even certified Hollywood liberals were reeling after Chevy Chase's potty-mouthed Bush-bashing Tuesday night at the Kennedy Center," the Washington Post reported today.
After fellow travelers Alec Baldwin and Susan Sarandon accepted some cheesy little awards from the hate group that calls itself People for the American Way, Chase, PAW's master of ceremonies, "took the stage a final time and unleashed a rant against President Bush that stunned the crowd. He deployed the four-letter word that got Vice President 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,'" the Post revealed.
Chase raged, "This guy in office is an uneducated, real lying schmuck ... and we still couldn't beat him with a bore like Kerry."
PAW's president, Ralph Neas, clucked: "Chevy Chase's improvised remarks caught everyone off guard, and were inappropriate and offensive. It was not what I would have said, and certainly not the language People for the American Way would ever use in discussing any president of the United States."
PAW's founder, Norman Lear, who still hasn't kept the promise he made to the Wall Street Journal to move to New Zealand, said: "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."
P.S.: Democrat soon-to-ex-senator Tom Daschle, the Post tattled, "looked taken aback when he went on directly after Chase."
Daschle's opening line: "I've had to follow a lot of speakers, but ...."
Chevy, please keep up the hateful ranting. Republicans need your help to win more elections.
Well Neas and Lear aren't celebrities - Lear's a businessman and Neas is an attorney, I believe. They're not idiots like Chase.
They may perceive that their association with the Michael Moore wing of the Democratic Party is not helping them too much.
RockinRight rages: "This guy Chevy is a washed-up has-been who ceased to be funny about a year after "Fletch" was released.
Con-men and actors only have their glib tongues.
Man does that sounds good!
Uh... didn't he have one? IIRC it lasted about three weeks.
(I'm series. I think he had a TV show years ago)
[ Then again, I drank a lot 'back then :-) ]
Ya just gotta love it when these idiots show their true party's colors.
Was she in attendance?
"Of course the only thing Chevy had was his vacation movies."
I didn't like the one I saw. His only good movie as far as I am concerned was Caddy Shack.
In case you missed it Chevy. the election was last month.
To have a group such as this called "People for the American Way" is laughable. There is nothing mainstream American about this group. Who do they think they're kidding?
Convicted of drunk driving. [1995]
His short-lived TV talk show was billed as a Cornelius Production, Cornelius being Chevy's real first name.
Was nearly killed (electrocuted) during the filming of "Modern Problems" (1981) when, during the sequence in which he is wearing "landing lights" as he dreams that he is an airplane, the current in the lights short-circuited through his arm, back, and neck muscles. The near-death experience caused him to experience a period of deep depression.
Attended Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
Was valedictorian of his high school class
Has perfect pitch, a musical ability to remember the exact frequency of a note.
Was the drummer for what he called "a bad jazz band". That band became Steely Dan.
Parents divorced when he was four, and his father remarried into Folger coffee family, while mother's third marriage was to Juilliard School professor/composer Lawrence Widdoes.
He and wife Jayni's three daughters are named: Cydney Cathalene, Caley Leigh, Emily Evelyn.
Chevy was actually a childhood nickname, possibly based on the Maryland suburb - bestowed by his grandmother. Chase family was affluent and distinguished and Chevy was listed in Social Register at early age. His paternal grandfather was painter/teacher Frank Swift Chase, his father, Ned Chase, was a prominent Manhattan book editor and magazine writer. Mother was descended from the Crane plumbing-fixture family.
He appeared alongside Paul Simon in the music video "You Can Call Me Al" in which he sings all of Paul Simon's lines
Was a long-time class clown expelled from private schools like NYC's Dalton, but did well at Stockbridge School in Massachusetts. Expelled from Haverford College, after bringing a cow into the third floor of a campus building. Transferred to Bard College where he dated actress Blythe Danner and graduated in 1967.
Used to spend his summer and other vacations at a castle on a beautiful beach in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
His middle name, Crane, refers to Crane Castle, his childhood vacation home in Massachusetts.
Roasted into the New York Friar's Club on September 28, 2002.
Suffers from a fear of snakes
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000331/bio
Fletch was funny. The guy had a few decent movies, but as he advanced in age he becomes more irrelevant and more nuts.
Good luck in the next election cycle, losers. We'll be ready to beat you up again and sent more 'Pubs to the Senate. Fact is, the entire lot of you are NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME!!
"It's not that I feel a need to "boycott" them, it's just that I can't stand to see their faces or hear their voices."
I feel exactly the same way! I can't stomach their presence in my personal space anymore.
Chevy keeps reminding us who he is and who they are. People for the American Way indeed !
Bold added as service for the truth
Oh go ahead and watch his dumb movie! It'll just be a reminder of what he is (or was) - an actor. Actor. Not President, not even any kind of elected representative of anything. Just a "schmuck" who gets paid for saying lines on cue, kinda like a trained monkey that makes you laugh. I'd just use this as an opportunity to teach your kids the concept of "Shut up and Sing" and how to put the yammering of Hollywood and other performers in proper perspective.
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