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.
Like your new tagline.
He's done two good movies I can recall: Jurassic Park and Dead Calm.
I've never heard his off-screen stupidity before, though, and really wish I hadn't just now. I liked him a whole lot better before - now I will wince every time I spot him in a movie...
I hate that.
Just as long as you're sure.
No kidding. JP is one of my all time favorite movies, and now it's just ruined.
It the voices were talking to him, he'd say things that made more sense.
Who the hell is Sam Neill?
It sometimes makes me wonder if conservative actors' politics are less well-known not only because of fear of blacklisting, but simply because they have the class to keep it to themselves a bit more? (At least until they leave Hollywood for actual politics, putting their money where their mouths are...)
That makes sense. But then it should given that you have the voices.....
Ho hum. Another useful idiot shilling for the anti-American muslim fanatics and/or leftists.
Or as Shakespear would say, "And all the fools have lighted way to dusty death.... They are blabbering idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." (or something like that. It's been a long time since high school)
It's obvious to me that if you are of conservative ilk and make it known, you won't be known in Hollywood. The "hot" thing to be is anti-Bush VERY vocally. But absolutely NOTHING pi$$es me off more than some slime job like Sean Penn the GED choirboy trotting around the globe like he's fricking Shakespheare writing "stirring" novellas on his experiences in Iraq and shooting off his ignorant, uneducated, booze slurred, violent, illbred, woman beating, vulgar flapping jaws. I'm watching less and less movies, and as the box office money drops, these idiots are running around in circles going "what's wrong, what's wrong". Just SHUT UP and act. If I need some booze soaked whiny nail biting punk high school grad drama queen lover boy to tell me what to think, I'll send him a telegram. </ rant>
Nice rant!
um...can I be gorgeous and compelling too?
That sentence should start, "Has been actor....
I don't see why not, offhand.
And you dare to make your living here? Not anymore has been loser!
I blame Sam Neil for some really crappy movies.
Who's going to reimburse me for the time wasted watching that crap?!!!
Parsing.... Take a look at America now. The rich are certainly richer... yes, because they have money to invest. It's simple math, anything times zero equals zero. ...the economy is in the tank... no, actually it isn't ... a healthy surplus has been converted into a massive deficit... but it had nothing to do with the tax cuts what so ever, and to the surprise of idiots and socialists, the tax cuts are working to REDUCE our deficit faster than planned
...and the U.S. is a place that cannot even afford the basics... ...but we can still afford to pay the $10.75 per ticket to see the latest tripe starring you, Sam ...Like maintaining levees in low-lying Louisiana. Ask the NOLA levee board where they got the money for the Mardi-Gras fountain, the new casino, and the private jet. Ask Bill Clinton why HE cut funds to LA in the 90s ...Might I suggest that tax cuts led indirectly to the flooding of New Orleans? Neill added. You might, and you'd be shown to be an idiot Sam, you might as well go the extra mile and say it was global warming, racism, anti-women's rights, and homophobia that caused the flooding too.
LOL
Thanks CG.
How are you doing?
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