Posted on 01/20/2007 12:25:51 PM PST by lowbridge
Posted by Noel Sheppard on January 20, 2007 - 10:57.
NewsBusters fans are certainly aware that former Partridge Family member Danny Bonaduce is a highly outspoken conservative that doesn’t mince words as reported here and here. On Friday, Bonaduce was John Gibson’s guest on Fox News’s “Your World,” and the pair took issue with the following statements recently made by Robert Redford (video available here courtesy of our friend at Ms Underestimated):
ROBERT REDFORD, ACTOR/DIRECTOR: In light of what's happened in the last six years, political diversity has been attempted to be thwarted, and we have kept it alive here. We have nodded here to any of the snuffing attempts that have come from the administration.
I think anybody with a rational mind, with a sense of decency, is being positioned as a lefty by the behavior of the extreme right.
Gibson was first up to take swings at this piñata:
As I see it, open and shut case, case closed, Hollywood is far left. People have been saying all along that Hollywood is one big left-wing propaganda machine, using their movies to tout their politics. Now Redford is actually admitting it. What took him so long?
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Now, Danny, the deal about this that I think is interesting, is that we have all known that Barbra Streisand and a whole bunch of other Hollywood people are left-wingers, but this guy controls the gate, the door into the movie business for a lot of young people. Didn't he just give them their marching orders? You want to be in Sundance, make sure you do this kind of film?
Bonaduce took the bat, and predictably swung even harder:
Yes, he did. That's a very good point. That's exactly what he did. But what he also did was just so self- serving, when he said these movies are made like -- to make you make this kind of a decision, but we don't do that here.
You know what? At my house, I'm going to go lower my American flag and put up a statue of Robert Redford for reminding me I'm an American. I will tell you what, Robert, you can make any kind of movie you want. And if you have got the nine bucks, you can go see it and make a decision for yourself.
And as much as I admire Robert Redford -- because I love him -- I can make up my own mind.
Gibson then made a salient point that seemed lost in Redford’s remarks: “The thing that's curious to me, Danny, is he says that somebody was trying to squelch political speaking out. I haven't noticed any shortage of it among the liberals who make entertainment.”
Bonaduce agreed:
I have noticed -- I have noticed actually more of it. And first of all, if somebody owes America an apology, it is Robert Redford for "Legal Eagles" with Demi Moore. But let me just tell you right now, these people, the actors drive me insane. Alec Baldwin, who I used to worry about because I think he was a brilliant actor and he was so handsome, I didn't think he would get the credit he deserved. And then he blew up like Brando, and I had to stop worrying.
But didn't he promise to leave this country if President Bush was elected? Well, I have got a Ryder truck outside, and I will pack you myself. I am so sick of everybody making these giant political statements, but nobody does anything. President Bush may not be popular for sending young men off to war, but things need to be done, and movie stars just talk about it.
Gibson then asked a Hollywoodan what causes this delirium in most Hollywoodans:
Well, what is it about the -- about the culture that you live in out there, the air that you breathe out there, that you have got to be left? That being a -- somebody who might support the war, might support the president or might have thought it was a good idea is just a doofus or worse?
Bonaduce responded:
Or worse. You could really, really injure yourself, because especially in a time of war, which is, by the way, the reason I voted for Bush twice, because I didn't think we should unseat a president during a time of war.
If I worried about my business life, you know, I have never been real rich, but I have been real poor, which makes me OK for the rest of my life now and I'm not afraid of these guys. And the fact that if Barbra Streisand thinks she can keep me out of work or Steven Spielberg thinks he can keep me out of work because I believe in America, I would rather be out of work.
Gibson asked another marvelous question: “Is that the punishment for expressing a view that's out of step?”
Bonaduce answered:
Now, that, to be honest with you, I don't know, because I feel very privileged and I feel very lucky, and I say what's on my mind all the time. I never pull punches. When I see these actors go on and say things -- and not just actors. Singers like -- I think like the Dixie Chicks, for example. If they want to say they are embarrassed that Bush comes from Texas in Texas, OK, because that's covered by the First Amendment. But you don't do it on foreign soil. That's this close to treason, as far as I'm concerned.
Though clearly infrequent, isn't it refreshing to hear sanity emanating from this bastion of lunacy?
Loved him in The Partridge Family :-)
However, that doesn't alter the fact that he's smart and understands the world better than most folks in entertainment. Go Danny! Go!
I saw part of this yesterday. What gets to me is that folk like Robert Redford (who hasn't aged very well and looks like a dried up piece of fruit) harangue on the point of suppression of their opinions by "this administration". Would someone tell me, please, where the re-education camps are located, so I can send these poor folk a CARE package? /s
We really do need to speak up when the Libs try to deny jobs to conservatives. We are seeing this happen more often. It happens in Hollywood - It happens at schools. Conservative teachers don't get hired either. Conservative teachers who have tenure get reprimands and are told to be quiet. The Libs discriminate.
We really do need to speak up when the Libs try to deny jobs to conservatives. We are seeing this happen more often. It happens in Hollywood - It happens at schools. Conservative teachers don't get hired either. Conservative teachers who have tenure get reprimands and are told to be quiet. The Libs discriminate.
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You have not seen anything yet, if this country is stupid enough to put a Marxist in the White House with a socialist domianed Congress ---
Bonaduce strikes me as a guy who has stared into the abyss, and the abyss definitely stared back. When you hit rock bottom, no matter what the addiction, it has a way of showing you what is truly important. The rest of the celebs mentioned in this exchange have lived in the echo chamber of Hollywood/NYC. Take away the sychophants and money that their celebrity provides and see watch how their attitudes change.
Redford is another Hollywood Castro lover.
Like Churchill (Winston) said:
If you are not a liberal when you are 20 you have no heart...If you are not a conservative when you are 40 you have no brain.
That's Arrec Barwin to you.
Robert Redford is the male version of looking "rode hard and put away wet".
I saw the interview and I'm loving Danny Bonaduce all over again ;) Ok, I did love David Cassidy but...
The directors/actors people like Redford and Streisand FEAR.
Few things are more comical and pathetic than a Hollywood leftist talking about how 'the administration' or the 'Right' is attempting to silence them. I mean, they never shut up, and they always have a venue for their idiotic ramblings.
That was awesome. Bonaduce is my new God. That guy John Conner by the way is a known paranoid schitzo who is obsessed with the Terminator movies. He beleives the bible and the Terminator movies are related. John Conner isn`t even his real name, he took that name from the movie. Doesn`t mean he shouldn`t be confronted because of his mental illness, but just saying that we may kid around sometimes that liberals are crazy, but there are some TRUE head cases out there, people who are truly mentally deranged. He calls up Sean Hannity all the time and has a website that is pretty sad. I have no doubt the secret service knows all about him.
Here`s his website;
http://www.theresistancemanifesto.com/
A sample of his writings;
"Mechanical hybrid Terminators are being manufactured by the Department of Defense. These hybrid 'living' computers will soon be more intelligent than humans. These systems include armed flying drones."
"The antichrist will soon rise through the political, and technological infrastructure."
"A large number of our political world leaders and corporate global elite are part of an intricate system of Satanic secret societies. They believe Lucifer (Satan) set Man free in the Garden of Eden, and that the God of the Bible is the evil one."
"Dozens of secret Concentration Camps exist in America on Military Bases and in cities ready to accept civilian prisoners. Since WWII."
Danny punk slaps that idiot in classic Bonaduce style. I was waiting for him to deck him. John Connor is an idiot of Biblical proportions.
I'm sorta predjudice when it comes to Bonaduce. I have a brother with red hair named Danny the same age.
But I have always liked him, he seems down to earth and honest, and he has a good sense of humor. Whereas I have always hated Robert Redford. I've always had the impression he's in love with himself. In fact I hate the song The Entertainer because it reminds me of that damn Sting movie and his conceited face.
Go Danny Go, and get on Fox!
Love that line.
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