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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I can’t believe one of my fellow West Virginians, the previously sensible Jennifer Garner, chose to marry this borderline retard.
Your tagline made me laugh so hard, it hurt! ;-)
I have heard this guy’s name but haven’t seen any of his work. He looks like some college guy who has big plans and then disappears and is never heard of again.
A little bit of a kind of like a real sort of?
Thanks, Ben, for that penetrating analysis.
"Oh, those celebrities...Is there anything they don't know?"
Hardball!!
LORD, GOD,
IF he is educable, redeemable, please show Him Your truth and Way emphatically.
IF NOT,
remove him from public life. Terminate his public career in disgrace and humiliation. Let none stand who vaunt themselves against The Lord God Almighty and His Truth and Ways,
In Jesus’ Name.
I'm stealing that one.
Dang! Beat me to it. I bet the duck could kick his BUTT!
Why does ANYONE care what these people think?
And I am using the term “think” in the most generous was I can.
Oh, man, that was a good one!
Affleck is so far down the food chain he has plankton bites on his ass.
I repeat, Oh, man, that was a good one!!!!
I guess he’s being referred to as a “Director” because even the media knows that calling him an “Actor” is to absurd and obvious, a lie.
LOL !
Obviously Ben is another pompous ass liberal hell bent on convincing himself that he's smart.
Sorry Ben... I don't agree.
~ Weird Al - Straight Outta Lynwood
Chrissy does!
I just happened to turn on the TV and was going through the cable channels when I saw this. Ben and Chrissy were both sad that everyone keeps trying to remind us of 9/11 - especially Giuliani with his "daddy, protect everybody" approach. These Libs just don't get it. They think we are out of danger - that the Islamists are not a threat to us. They just want it to go away. [sniff!] Well, guess what? It's not going away anytime soon!
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