Posted on 08/28/2012 4:51:38 AM PDT by IbJensen
August 27, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In the aftermath of the Family Research Council shooting, prominent voices on the Left have not tapped down their violent rhetoric against their opponents. Two Baby Boomer celebrities have taken to Twitter to hope pro-life, pro-family individuals and U.S. Congressman Todd Akin suffer a drowning or a same-sex rape, respectively.
Ellen Barkin, 58, played the temptress in 1989's "Sea of Love."
On Sunday, Ellen Barkin expressed her hope that Tropical Storm Isaac would smash up the Republican National Convention in Tampa and drown all its delegates.
She retweeted the message of one of her followers that read: “C’mon #Isaac! Wash every pro-life, anti-education, anti-woman, xenophobic, gay-bashing, racist SOB right into the ocean! #RNC ” Barkin did not express any disagreement in her retweet.
The storm is expected to grow into a Category 1 hurricane before slamming into the Gulf Coast on Wednesday, the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
After a number of followers asked if it wasn’t extreme to wish death upon one’s political opponents, Barkin instead blamed the website Twitchy, which is owned by Michelle Malkin, for reporting the tweet. However, as Twitchy pointed out in response, it hadn’t yet reported the event.
Strong language on abortion – that of Senate candidate Todd Akin – also inspired Sixties warbler and mother of transgender “son” Chaz Bono Cher to call for the congressman to be raped by an AIDS victim. Cher tweeted that it would be an act of “kama” - presumably karma - if Missouri Congressman would “get raped by man with HIV/AIDS. Nothing will happen, right? Body shuts down as defense mechanism.”
The opening of the Republican convention has been postponed until Tuesday because of Isaac. Today’s theme, “We Can Do Better,” and keynote speakers such as Sen. Rand Paul and former Democratic Congressman Arthur Davis, will be plugged into an abbreviated, three-day convention.
Barkin, who describes herself as a “Bronx girl” on her Twitter page, has posted a number of vitriolic tweets in the past.
Despite the coverage tweets such as this week’s have earned her, social media outreach may not be her prowess. After the controversy, someone alerted her to an internet hoax on “FB.”
The 58-year-old Barkin, who began her acting career with an uncredited role in Cheech and Chong’s 1978 movie Up in Smoke, replied by asking, “What is FB?”
Cher is about to marry a Hell’s Angel, 24 years her junior.
Yeah, these people advocate tolerance, but they sure as Hell don’t practice what they preach.
Is Barkin even an American? I thought she was from the UK.
Most atheists don’t realize that they benefit greatly from living in the religious societies they claim to disdain.
I know a few atheists that do realize it, and have said to me, they do fear what would happen if we did abandon religious traditions. They realize a world completely run by atheists would be an ugly place.
You are absolutely right.
“I tend to trust everyone and think everyone has loving and caring thoughts and actions”
I always thought this was one of the things that sunk Bush. He was a Christian and really thought “the good will out”, turning the other cheek, etc.
By the time it really sunk in that the media and Dems really didn’t want to work with him, his legacy had been established by a hateful media. Remember him inviting Kennedy over to the WH to talk about education first thing? He got eaten for breakfast on that bill and then they never worked with him again, except to call him every mean name in the book.
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