Posted on 09/16/2005 1:40:52 PM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon
Posted on Fri, Sep. 16, 2005
Sam Neill blames Bush for disaster
Actor Sam Neill has blamed President Bush's economic policies for contributing to the disaster that engulfed Louisiana when Hurricane Katrina hit, reports The Associated Press.
In a speech Wednesday night attacking New Zealand opposition leader Don Brash ahead of the country's general elections on Saturday, Neill, a supporter of the ruling Labour Party, compared tax cuts proposed by Brash to Bush's election pledges in 2000.
'Perhaps we should look at somewhere else where they recently used the time-old bribe of tax cuts, and see how it worked. In 2000 George Bush, under the reasonable sounding `compassionate conservatism,' offered huge tax cuts. And he delivered,'' Neill told an audience in Oamaru, 200 miles east of his home and vineyard on New Zealand's South Island.
''Take a look at America now. The rich are certainly richer, but the economy is in the tank, a healthy surplus has been converted into a massive deficit, and the U.S. is a place that cannot even afford the basics. Like maintaining levees in low-lying Louisiana. Might I suggest that tax cuts led indirectly to the flooding of New Orleans?'' Neill added.
In related news, Emeril LeGasse has offered some critique of current neurosurgical techniques and Asian monetary policy as it affects papermaking in Belgium.
You you may. But then again I might suggest crawfish led indirectly to the flooding of New Orleans and be more accurate than you.
I always thought he was Australian. I guess it's New Zealand though.
He was pretty Igood in a movie called "Dead Calm" with Nicole Kidman. It plays many times on late night tv. They were a couple on a boat that gets hijacked by a loon.
If you put Sam's brain in a bird, it would fly backwards and crap all over itself!! He's a dip, and I hope they pull his visa and he stays in New Zealand! (N.Z. does not like the USA, and I say, to hell with them too!)
Damien Omen III. Economy in the tank! Maybe for actors because the public thinks they should keep their mouth shut. For every one that opens their mouth, thats one less movie I go to see.
I really liked him in "Hunt for Red October". Too bad he's such an idiot!
Well, he's played the anti-christ and a scientist. Yep, he's qualified.
---- Sam Neill
He was in that sailboat movie with Billy Zane and Nicole Kidman. And "The Dish".
Are you telling me . . . they bred raptors?
and who cares what he thinks?????
Another day, another actor flaps its demonrat jaws.
"New Orleans is not some species that was obliterated by deforestation, or the building of a dam. New Orleans, uh, HAD their shot, and nature SELECTED them for extinction!"
(Not Sam Neill, but still.)
In the future, someone might consider a list of celebrities who do NOT blame Bush for certain things and the thing that they don't blame him for.
What does Carrot-Top think?
Great point. I always wondered how these Hollywood types would react if GWB did movie and theatre reviews.
Can you imagine the outrage?
This guy has no clue. His mouth is just spewing garbage.
Sam Neill has removed all doubt that he is an ill informed fool. That last sliver is now gone.
EXACTLY....HEY SAM.....GO FIND A ROLLING DONUT
AND STRADDLE IT....Jake
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