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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So the US isn't a democracy?
Calling the US a 'republic' merely suggests its parliamentary and executive organisation.
FYI: I reckon most people would consider the US to be both a Republic and a Democracy.
They need to use 'that look' for when she portrays Sheehan, don't you think?
LOL, I swiped that on the forum way back. Someone did some work on her!!
"I saw the buildings go down, my kids were in school, I rounded them up through the smoke"
Wait a minute...she lives in Bedford, way up in Westchester County. Are we to believe that she hauls her kids down to Manhattan to go to school?
She's ready to portray Cindy Sheehan!
Yet she BLAMES who for this act of war?
And the 'play on words'......when she says "BUSH HIJACKED 911".
All one can come away with from her story is that her true belief about that infamous day is that BUSH DID IT SOMEHOW and that there are NO TERRORISTS and no such thing as TERRORISM.
She is a putz and PERFECT for the role of that person who calls herself a mother.
It's all about susan...
Maybe Susan should go to Iraq, I am sure she would be much safer there.
I don't believe her.
There was no death threat.
This is a templated play.
If I had a nickel for everytime a leftist claimed death threat, I'd have at least 2 bucks.
Notice there is never any evidence put forward. No answering machine messages. No emails. Nothing. Ever.
I wish someone would compile a list so we could all have a laugh everytime another one of these morons makes the claim.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
You are right in that in a republic it is acknowledged that we have god given or natural rights. In a democracy there are "rights" granted by the govt. So yes our country does operate under both sets of laws. I suspect Ms Sarandon would prefer the democracy only. Thanks for your post.
Blah blah blah
I'd cry for her, but dang, I just used my last tissue on kitty's hairball.
Good One!
These little names the Left comes up with for their organizations, pet projects and situations - almost always sound like they were invented by sugared-up second graders.
Sometimes the names the Right comes up with are pretty ridiculous, but the left is almost uniformly childish.
I mean really, how does one say "Peace Mom" without a smirk?
How wonderfully British.
Susan, you have not earned the right to take yourself seriously. Get a clue.
Can she produce any evidence of these "threats" against her. Or is she acting?
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