Well,
Posted on 02/22/2007 4:03:26 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Charlize Theron's Cuba
By Humberto Fontova
FrontPageMagazine.com | February 22, 2007
A Hollywood A-lister (Charlize Theron) recently traveled to Cuba and returned without the paeans to its Stalinist regime that habitually issue from her colleagues after such visits. Pigs worldwide started sprouting wings.
During her Cuban visit Ms Theron helped produce a documentary (East of Havana) on Cuban hip-hop artists that cast the Castro regime in a negative light. Pigs worldwide started flapping and taxiing down the runway.
Last week on ABC's Good Morning America, Charlize Theron said : "I think the (Cuban) younger generation is starting to say, 'You know what, it doesn't work. We're not happy. We want to have freedom of speech. We want to be able to travel." By now every pig from Bangkok to Stockholm was galloping madly and flapping furiously while nearing the end of his runway.
During a subsequent interview on CNN, anchor Rick Sanchez started to ask Theron about the lack of freedoms in Cuba. She interrupted the question with the following: "I would argue that there's a lack of freedom in America."
Pigs worldwide promptly cocked their ears and started slowing down both their hoofbeats and wingbeats.
“I seem to recall,” explained the Academy Award winning Best Actress, “some time ago some reporters being fired from their jobs for speaking up on television about how they felt about the war.”
“But do you think the lack of freedoms in Cuba are parallel to the lack of freedoms in the United States?” asked CNN's Sanchez.
“Well, I would,” answered Theron. Pigs worldwide now stopped flapping and cupped their ears in rapt attention. “I would compare those two,” continued Theron. "Yes, definitely.” (italics mine)
Inches from the end of the runway pigs worldwide dug in their heels and jammed their engines into reverse, thus remaining earthbound. "AH!" they squealed. "Now this is MORE LIKE IT!" Their wings retracted and they returned to their wallows, grunting contentedly.
After many nights of scrutiny and meditation, the best my team of analysts can determine is that Charlize Theron equates the policies of a regime that incarcerated political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin's , that machine-guns to death entire families for attempting to travel abroad, that mandates ( under penalty of prison or firing squad) what its subjects, read, say, eat, earn, eat (both substance and amount) , where they live, travel or work—she equates this regime with a government under which a private corporation owned by stockholders terminated some employees for violating company guidelines.
Who in Hollywood could argue with that? By Hollywood standards her logic seems airtight.
Meanwhile back in the studio Rick Sanchez remarked to Theron: “It sounds like you don't have a very high opinion of the United States.” Theron retorted that she actually lives in the U.S., so he was clearly wrong. As Sanchez continued to seek clarification of her comments Theron interrupted with: “I want to make out with you right now.”
Amazingly, this dust-up occurred on CNN "Castro's a hell of a guy!" Ted Turner had gushed to a Harvard audience in 1997. "You'd like him!" Within weeks of Ted's comments at Harvard, CNN had a bureau in Havana, the first ever granted to a U.S. network. Bureau chief Lucia Newman assured viewers, "We will be given total freedom to do what we want and to work without censorship."
Hard-hitting stories immediately followed. To wit: CNN soon featured Fidel's office in its “Cool Digs” segment of CNN's "Newsstand."
"When was the last time you saw a cup full of pencils on the boss's desk?" asked perky CNN anchor Steven Frazier. "And they do get used – look at how worn down the erasers are. ... Years ago, our host worked as an attorney, defending poor people. ... He's Fidel Castro, Cuba's leader since 1959!”
Rick Sanchez was born in Cuba and knows about conditions on the island. But for his background Theron might have sailed though the interview a la Hillary Clinton with Katie Couric. But for Sanchez’ impertinent behavior Theron might have forsaken her riposte, which was obviously both brilliant and germane, dug out Hollywood's thumb-eared script on Castro/Cuba and started reciting the lines. Among the choicest:
"Fidel I love you. We both have the same initials. We are both powerful men. And we both use our power for good. (Francis Ford Coppola)
"Castro is a genius and Cuba is a paradise." (Jack Nicholson)
"Socialism works. I think Cuba might prove that." (Chevy Chase.)
"Castro is very selfless and moral, one of the world's wisest men." (Oliver Stone)
"If you believe in freedom, if you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy, you have no choice but to support Fidel Castro!" (Harry Belafonte)
“It was an experience of a lifetime to sit only a few feet away from him (Castro).” Kevin Costner.
“The eight most important hours of my life,” Stephen Spielberg describing his dinner with Castro.
Okay, so Cuba’s a repressive place -- but no more repressive than the U.S., Charlize Theron made this clear. So let’s give her time. As a political philosopher she’s obviously not shoulder to shoulder with Hollywood’s Best and Brightest just yet. But she’s off to a promising start.
FMCDH(BITS)
I'll start listening to these 'entertainers' when they voluntarily give up their Filty Capitalist Loot to the People and publicly denounce their Running-Dog Capitalist ways.
Well,
I see women that are at least that attractive every day...and they are intelligent also. Why give so much attention to a woman that looks good but is stupid? It is doubtful she is a good lay and frankly that is probably her only redeeming value if she is.
Uh, cause she's drop dead gorgeous?
The video is here.
I'm reminded of mythological Jason who strapped his men to the masts and filled their ears with wax to avoid the siren's call and sure death on the rocks.
At the end of the video the reporter remarks that he missed her saying "I want to make out with you." youngjim admits that if this moonbat had said that to him; he would not have the power to turn her down.
Bold statement. I'll bite. Where is this slice of heaven that you call home?
See new tagline . . . .
These people are all on drugs.
“I seem to recall... some time ago some reporters being fired from their jobs for speaking up on television about how they felt about the war.”
I've read this quote from her several times, but I have no idea who the fired reporters are. Can anyone help me out?"
I have no idea... maybe she was thinking of Dan Rather.
It must be tough going through life with a brain the size of a pea. Well, the dinosaurs did it. Maybe she'll get hit with a meteor.
Huh...I thought that was Ulysses.
She is drop dead gorgeous and I might think about the many things I would enjoy in her company, but her peabrained ideas on the fate of the world would not be one of them.
FMCDH(BITS)
She's obviously been hitting the apple bong recently.
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From Human Rights Watch: "Cuba's repressive human rights practices were undergirded by the country's legal and institutional structure. The rights to freedom of expression, association, assembly, movement, and of the press remained restricted under Cuban law. By criminalizing enemy propaganda, the spreading of "unauthorized news," and the insulting of patriotic symbols, the government effectively denied freedom of speech under the guise of protecting state security. The authorities also imprisoned or ordered the surveillance of individuals who had committed no illegal act, relying upon laws penalizing "dangerousness" (estado peligroso) and allowing for "official warning" (advertencia oficial). The government-controlled courts undermined the right to a fair trial by restricting the right to a defense, and frequently failed to observe the few due process rights available to defendants under the law."
Apparently intellect is not directly proportional to beauty. |
You are correct sir, while Jason and his Argonauts did encounter the sirens, it was Ulysses/Odysseus who came up with the wax idea.
Seriously, I suspect that her comment "I want to make out with you" was indeed an attempt to push Sanchez off his game (as he himself comments in the video), and displays not a little intellectual dishonesty on her part. When I've had the chance to question her personally, I'll call her bluff and counsel her.
Until then, I will move Austin TX, USA to the top of line in my "places I gotta visit" file.
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