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George Clooney named U.N. messenger of peace
Reuters ^
| Fri Jan 18, 2008 3:25pm EST
| Patrick Worsnip
Posted on 01/18/2008 12:34:51 PM PST by ECM
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon named actor George Clooney, who has campaigned for refugees in Darfur, as a U.N. "messenger of peace" on Friday to promote the world body's peacekeeping efforts.
Clooney is the ninth U.N. messenger -- people chosen from the fields of art, music, literature and sports who have agreed to help focus attention on the United Nations' work.
U.N. spokeswoman Michele Montas said Clooney would have a special emphasis on peacekeeping. She said he had been "recognized for focusing public attention on crucial international political and social issues."
Clooney, who is currently in Sudan, will receive his designation on January 31 at U.N. headquarters.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: barf; clooney; cloony; darfur; farce; filmactorsguild; hollywood; hollywoodreds; peace; un; unfailures
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To: PBRSTREETGANG
Check out his picture on Drudge—his hair looks life a bad hair piece! he’s such a doofus hipster!
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posted on
01/18/2008 12:42:11 PM PST
by
LYSandra
To: ECM
Sometimes comedy just writes itself. I am still laughing at this joke.
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posted on
01/18/2008 12:42:17 PM PST
by
monkeycard
(There is no such thing as too much ammo.)
To: LYSandra
OMG....you are right! ...
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posted on
01/18/2008 12:44:12 PM PST
by
tioga
To: ECM
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posted on
01/18/2008 12:44:44 PM PST
by
LottieDah
(Democrats and liberals, they never fail to disappoint.)
To: ECM
A totally useless organization creates a totally useless position and names a totally useless person to fill it.
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posted on
01/18/2008 12:45:09 PM PST
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys: Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat; but they know what's best for us)
To: ECM
My screen! And I’m outta Windex.
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posted on
01/18/2008 12:46:06 PM PST
by
mtbopfuyn
(I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
To: ECM
I am throwing up now.
Please don’t tell me another “It’s all about me” celebrity is appointed to a job he has no business being involved in.
To: ECM
This should qualify him as a Nobel Peace Prize candidate, too!
ROFL
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posted on
01/18/2008 12:47:07 PM PST
by
traditional1
(Thompson/Hunter '08)
To: ECM
“Messenger for a piece” is more like it.
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posted on
01/18/2008 12:49:23 PM PST
by
CaptainK
(...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
To: tioga; All
HIs Clueness should have been named the Batman of the UN
FAILED AS BATMAN IN BATMAN AND ROBIN
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posted on
01/18/2008 12:50:28 PM PST
by
eleni121
(+ En Touto Nika! By this sign conquer! + Constantine the Great)
To: rockabyebaby
Which part of the title does NOT telegraph BARF ALERT?
“George Clooney”
named
“U.N.”messenger of peace”
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posted on
01/18/2008 12:51:00 PM PST
by
weegee
(Those who surrender personal liberty to lower global temperatures will receive neither.)
To: eleni121
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posted on
01/18/2008 12:51:29 PM PST
by
weegee
(Those who surrender personal liberty to lower global temperatures will receive neither.)
To: ECM
Right, it was a toss up between George and Pee Wee Herman.
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posted on
01/18/2008 12:51:36 PM PST
by
SMARTY
(Public opinion has the power of the lie/creating it is the work of radical politicians in a democra)
To: LYSandra
Yeah, why does his hairline look so weird and straight? I always thought he had his own hair, not that considering Clooney’s hair should take up more than, uh, 1/2 second in a person’s entire life....
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posted on
01/18/2008 12:52:06 PM PST
by
GnuHere
To: ECM
Looney Clooney! LOL! What a moron!
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posted on
01/18/2008 12:52:33 PM PST
by
Islander7
("Show me an honest politician and I will show you a case of mistaken identity.")
To: tioga
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posted on
01/18/2008 12:53:40 PM PST
by
weegee
(Those who surrender personal liberty to lower global temperatures will receive neither.)
To: tioga
“If somebody Photoshops me without the rug, they are robbing me of a repeat Sexiest Man Alive title and I will sue!”
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posted on
01/18/2008 12:56:22 PM PST
by
GnuHere
To: GnuHere
Look at his publicity pics...the hairline is very strangely straight and off color from the sides...he’s done extensive work there.
Somebody should tell Cluey to dye ths sides or paint the top...
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posted on
01/18/2008 12:56:43 PM PST
by
eleni121
(+ En Touto Nika! By this sign conquer! + Constantine the Great)
To: ECM
U.N. "messenger of peace"I take it that Clooney won't ever star in a violent movie again?
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posted on
01/18/2008 12:59:00 PM PST
by
John123
("What good fortune for the governments that the people do not think" -- Adolf Hitler)
To: SMARTY
Pee Wee Herman has some foreign relations experience. You have to see his Journey to Bananaland video.
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posted on
01/18/2008 1:02:32 PM PST
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
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