Posted on 04/29/2006 10:56:27 PM PDT by Dallas59
Speaking out against the Iraq war left the Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon and her family facing death threats and a stream of vicious attacks from the public and the media, she reveals today.
Sarandon, who is hoping to play 'Peace Mom' Cindy Sheehan in a film about the mother's protest over her son's death in Iraq, said she feared for her safety because of the 'horrifying' way in which she was targeted by newspapers, radio phone-ins and people in the street.
In an interview on the Jonathan Dimbleby Programme that will be aired on ITV1 today, she said her stance meant she was labelled a 'Bin Laden Lover'. 'The papers attacked my kids,' she said. 'I don't think I ever thought that someone would really kill me... although some said, "I'd like to knock her off," on the radio.' Sarandon said she was a New Yorker who was heavily affected by 11 September 2001 but she attacked George Bush for 'hijacking' it. 'I was here, I saw the buildings go down, my kids were in school, I rounded them up through the smoke. I had friends on that first plane, you know it certainly affected everybody in this city.' But she said that every time anything happened the Republicans would 'try to play that card' and criticised the Democrats for failing to stand up to Bush.
'There was no reason for Hillary Clinton, for instance, to vote (for the war), for John Kerry to vote, they were protecting their reputations. They crumbled under the pressure and it was a very lonely, very scary time to ask a question. That's a horrible condition to exist in a democracy.' Hillary Clinton, added Sarandon, lacked principles. 'I think she's a politician like everyone else.'
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OH PUH-LEEZE. Pray tell, please pray tell, exactly WHICH media attacked her. Aside from Fox News Channel and precious few other major outlets, they're all squarely on her side. Gimme a dadgum break.
MM
I was going to ask the same question.
Susan who?
Dear Suzie,
Your spreading Bovine Scatology. I only hope it makes nice flowers.
I do not believe that anyone has threatened Miss Sarandon. She lies like a Muslim.
So that's the trend now-- for liberals to come out and announce they are receiving death threats so everyone can think the other side are bigots and bullies. Note how Arnold announced that Bustamove and Villaragosa allegedly got death threats about being mexicans or something. Every conservative talk radio personality receives death threats regularly but they aren't on the news trying to get sympathy for it-- besides which, no sympathy would be forthcoming.
Pre-movie, media hype. No one cares about her and now she wants to play a fool in a movie no one will watch, she is trying to drum up some free publicity.
Fewer people will watch her movie on Cindy Sheehan than watched the Sharon Stone mess. A money loser for a forgotten actress. Can you say 'end of the line'?
Tell me she has been photoshopped, she can't be that cross-eyed can she...lol.
Desperately Seeking Sympathy Susan
Dammit Janet!
She hasn't done anything worth mentioning since Rocky Horror.
Just in time to promote her movie. I'm a little curious as to which newspapers attacked her and her children. Since they apparently live in NY, it's hard to believe any newspapers she reads wrote anything like that.
You saw....but you didn't understand.
Death threats? You'd think she had mocked Mohammedism in a comic strip or something to face that kind of rebuke.
"Mr. Moore - I'm ready for my closeup!"
Randi Rhondes made a death threat against the President on Air Ameirca ("someone should take him outside and shoot him").
Her "chill wind" is blowing smoke again...
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