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Tom Hanks Will Decide Who’s Un-American
breitbart.com ^ | 1/16/09 | Don Surber

Posted on 01/16/2009 9:33:55 PM PST by melt

It was two degrees this morning when I left Poca, West Virginia, for work at six. But that was not as cold as I felt after reading this at noon on the Fox News site: “Tom Hanks Says Mormon Supporters of Proposition 8 ‘Un-American’.”

Now I am willing to sacrifice my life, if necessary, to defend his right to spew whatever vile, hateful, ignorant, demented, loathsome, ugly and foolish remarks he may make.

But I also reserve my right to call his remarks vile, hateful, ignorant, demented, loathsome, ugly and foolish.

Readers can decide for themselves whether what he said is vile, hateful, ignorant, demented, loathsome, ugly and foolish.

In promoting a news series on HBO, Hanks said:

“The truth is this [his series] takes place in Utah, the truth is these people are some bizarre offshoot of the Mormon Church, and the truth is a lot of Mormons gave a lot of money to the church to make Prop 8 happen. There are a lot of people who feel that is un-American and I am one of them. I do not like to see any discrimination codified on any piece of paper, any of the 50 states in America, but here’s what happens now. A little bit of light can be shed and people can see who’s responsible and that can motivate the next go around of our self correcting constitution and hopefully we can move forward instead of backwards. So let’s have faith in not only the American, but Californian constitutional process.”

Excuse me, who died and put Tom Hanks in charge of deciding who is American and who is un-American?

Is he like a one-man Ellis Island who determines who can stay in this country?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bighollywood; gump; hanks; unamerican
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Forrest G"umpire" of American patriotism has spoken...

1 posted on 01/16/2009 9:33:55 PM PST by melt
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To: melt

Who needs his movies anyways.


2 posted on 01/16/2009 9:36:17 PM PST by bergmeid (I refuse to be united. Obama can stuff it.)
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To: melt
‘Celebrities, is there anything they don't’ know?’ Homer Simpson

Tom Hanks is NOT the arbiter of what's patriotic and what isn't patriotic. I find celebrities really arrogant. Hanks included.

3 posted on 01/16/2009 9:37:05 PM PST by originalbuckeye
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To: melt

The supposed actor will be at the Obamatization parties.


4 posted on 01/16/2009 9:38:17 PM PST by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: melt
Proud to say I've never liked this lightweight actor.

Hanks doesn't seem to think all Americans have the right to decide what we as a society decide is marriage.

And please, spare us the "discrimination" crap. It's the new hip cliche of the left and has as little to do with the actual issue as saying abortion is about "choice".

5 posted on 01/16/2009 9:38:52 PM PST by Darkwolf377
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To: melt

This crap from the “I hate America; don’t you dare question my patriotism!” crowd?


6 posted on 01/16/2009 9:39:17 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. -C.S. Lewis)
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To: originalbuckeye

He’s an arrogant has-been. Seems to me most of the ones actively working really don’t have that much time to get into politics.


7 posted on 01/16/2009 9:39:55 PM PST by Freedom56v2
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To: melt

So Mormons are unpatriotic for supporting Prop 8. That’s fine in a vacuum. It’s his opinion and he’s entitled to it.

It’s just strange though, given that, though he travels in Hollywood circles and has done so for several decades, that Mormons supporting Prop 8 is the only thing that has come under his purview that he saw fit to brand ‘unpatriotic.’


8 posted on 01/16/2009 9:40:14 PM PST by exist
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To: melt
"Un-American" Hmmm
I seem to recall that phrase being decried as an epithet used by Joe McCarthy and his ilk.
9 posted on 01/16/2009 9:40:57 PM PST by StarfireIV (Dissent, everyone's birthright and now a target for the throwers of innuendo, expletives, and shoes)
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To: originalbuckeye
Notice how he calls Mormons un-American for being against gay marriage--- but he never mentions Muslims.

Guess he values the head on his shoulders...

10 posted on 01/16/2009 9:41:08 PM PST by melt (Someday they'll wish their Jihad... Jihadn't.)
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To: melt

Tom Hanks will eat the corn from out of my $#*+! And like it!


11 posted on 01/16/2009 9:41:59 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("Don't confuse what you got a right to do with what's right to do." Bill Bennett)
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To: bergmeid
Who needs his movies anyways.

S'cuse me


12 posted on 01/16/2009 9:43:35 PM PST by wastedyears (In Canada, Santa says "Ho Ho, eh?")
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To: melt
Iconic Celebrities. How do you argue with such sources of outstanding logic and wisdom?

Answer - By using common sense, having a moral compass and being able to think for yourself instead of thinking with the Liberal Herd of cud chewing bovine.

13 posted on 01/16/2009 9:45:25 PM PST by jongaltsr (Hope to See ya in Galt's Gulch.)
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To: melt
Notice how he calls Mormons un-American for being against gay marriage--- but he never mentions Muslims.

Or blacks for that matter, who voted in very high percentages for Prop 8. Chances that the wuss Hanks calls blacks "un-American" for their overwhelming support of traditional marriage: Zero.

14 posted on 01/16/2009 9:47:44 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: melt

15 posted on 01/16/2009 9:48:05 PM PST by OCC
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To: melt

Hanks, Speilberg, etc., they have all gone insane..


16 posted on 01/16/2009 9:49:53 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Mr. Mojo
You're right. Marriage is a heterosexual thing.

Period.

17 posted on 01/16/2009 9:53:35 PM PST by melt (Someday they'll wish their Jihad... Jihadn't.)
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To: melt

“The truth is this [his series] takes place in Utah, the truth is these people are some bizarre offshoot of the Mormon Church, and the truth is a lot of Mormons gave a lot of money to the church to make Prop 8 happen. There are a lot of people who feel that is un-American and I am one of them. I do not like to see any discrimination codified on any piece of paper, any of the 50 states in America, but here’s what happens now. A little bit of light can be shed and people can see who’s responsible and that can motivate the next go around of our self correcting constitution and hopefully we can move forward instead of backwards. So let’s have faith in not only the American, but Californian constitutional process.”

...he just likes to see discrimination against minority groups like the Mormons in his movies. :D


18 posted on 01/16/2009 9:55:09 PM PST by Tzimisce (http://groups.myspace.com/nailthemessiah)
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To: melt

Prop 8 no more discriminates against homosexuals than women’s tennis discriminate against Bjorn Borg.


19 posted on 01/16/2009 9:55:30 PM PST by Hacksaw
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To: melt

The Road to Perdition ends in his driveway.


20 posted on 01/16/2009 9:57:59 PM PST by o_zarkman44 (Since when is paying more, but getting less, considered Patriotic?)
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