Posted on 06/08/2007 7:56:31 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
As NewsBuster Geoffrey Dickens has noted, Ben Affleck appeared on yesterday evening's edition of Hardball. And while it's true that the actor/director/Dem activist offered a generally innocuous analysis, he did manage to engage in a bit of religious bigotry.
Affleck's foul foray arose in the course of his discussion of the way the various Republican candidates have dealt with the issue of evolution and creationism. Talk turned to the former governor of Arkansas.
BEN AFFLECK: I think Huckabee actually framed his position in a much less dramatic way than had been made out. Which was he said it could be six days, or it could be six epochs, which I thought was much more along the kind of intelligent design lines than his position had been cast. In other words, he had been made out to a little bit of a kind of like a real sort of Neanderthal about it, a literalist.
View video here.
For the record, "Neanderthal," used as a slang term as by Affleck, is defined to mean "crude, boorish, or slow-witted."
I wonder if Affleck realizes how many millions of his fans he's insulting as "Neanderthals"? According to a 2004 study reported here, "61 percent of Americans believe the account of creation in the Bible's book of Genesis is literally true rather than a story meant as a lesson." Did Affleck intentionally add insult to injury by using what evolutionists see as one of homo sapiens' evolutionary ancestors to describe believers in creationism?
By the way: what are the odds Affleck would ever use such a disparaging term in describing Muslims who take the Koran literally?
ASIDE: Someone tell Ben to lay off the self-deprecating, aw-shucks routine. Repeatedly during the interview he downplayed the worth of his opinions, saying, for example that he was speaking "from my point of view, not an expert but just a kind of everyday fellow." If Affleck doesn't feel he has worthwhile opinions to offer, why accept an invitation to offer them?
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Somebody tell this idiot that he is an idiot.
That smug look on his mug says it all........
Oh, yeah... And I would never buy GEICO...
Men are the new women!
I wonder what Affleck’s FR screen name is. After all, this isn’t much different than what some of the pro-evos have called Creationists on this board over the years.
Why would anyone care what some singer thinks?
Waste of time. An idiot wouldn’t understand the concept to begin with.
Benjamin Geza Affleck was born on August 15, 1972 in Berkeley, California…(explains a lot)
At 8 years old Ben was given his first steady acting job on the PBS mini-series…(where Barney was a bigger star).
Dropped out of the University of Vermont after 1 semester.
Dropped out of Occidental College after 1 year, where he had studied Middle Eastern studies.
Bush has an MBA from Harvard.
Charlie Sheen drove him to Promises Rehabilitation Center in August, 2001
In 1999, he was nominated for the Razzie Award, Worst Screen Couple in the movie _Armageddon (1998)_ with actress Liv Tyler. In 2004, he was again nominated for, and subsequently "won", the Worst Screen Couple Award with co-star Jennifer Lopez in the movie Gigli (2003). One year later (2005), he was nominated, once again, for Worst Screen Couple, this time with both of the actresses (Jennifer Lopez or Liv Tyler) in the film Jersey Girl (2004).
Speaks French...(actually, Ben can surrender in five languages).
Has a fear of flying.
Personal Quotes
"I feel like fame is wasted on me." “Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs.” “God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you'll know I've lost all my money.”“I've finally learnt how to say: 'No comment'.”
“I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.”
Cavemen? Yet another attack by the Hollywood elite on the faith-based beliefs of religious Americans.
No we don’t, Ben.....one day he will believe.
Benjamin Geza Affleck was born on August 15, 1972 in Berkeley, California…(explains a lot)
At 8 years old Ben was given his first steady acting job on the PBS mini-series…(where Barney was a bigger star).
Dropped out of the University of Vermont after 1 semester.
Dropped out of Occidental College after 1 year, where he had studied Middle Eastern studies.
Bush has an MBA from Harvard.
Charlie Sheen drove him to Promises Rehabilitation Center in August, 2001
In 1999, he was nominated for the Razzie Award, Worst Screen Couple in the movie _Armageddon (1998)_ with actress Liv Tyler. In 2004, he was again nominated for, and subsequently "won", the Worst Screen Couple Award with co-star Jennifer Lopez in the movie Gigli (2003). One year later (2005), he was nominated, once again, for Worst Screen Couple, this time with both of the actresses (Jennifer Lopez or Liv Tyler) in the film Jersey Girl (2004).
Speaks French...(actually, Ben can surrender in five languages).
Has a fear of flying.
Personal Quotes
"I feel like fame is wasted on me."“Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs.”
“God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you'll know I've lost all my money.”
“I've finally learnt how to say: 'No comment'.”
“I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.”
So, in addition to be a poor actor, he’s also and idiot and a bigot?
Tells me his wife is even dumber than she appears in interviews.
Ben Affleck is an intellectually challenged individual. Apparently, he has a serious problem with bad breath and perhaps this outburst was related to that?
It says very little for Jennifer Garner, the Texan-born West Virginia native, that she married a chump like this.
I guess he’s a director because he washed up as an actor.
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