GERE TAKES ON BILL (Richard Gere says Bush has done more for Aids than Clinton!)

NY Daily News ^ | 2/5/03

[areafiftyone]

Gere takes on Bill

Richard Gere stunned fellow liberals Monday by suggesting that President Bush is doing a better job of fighting AIDS than President Bill Clinton did.

Introduced by Sharon Stone at a fund-raiser at Cipriani 42nd Street for the American Foundation for AIDS Research, the "Chicago" star hailed Bush for his State of the Union proposal to contribute $15 billion toward the AIDS battle in Africa and the Caribbean. Gere then addressed the track record of Bush's predecessor in the White House.

"I'm sorry, Sen. [Hillary] Clinton, but your husband did nothing about AIDS for eight years," Gere said.

By that point, Sen. Clinton, who joined Mayor Bloomberg and honorees Anna Wintour and Lorne Michaels at the event, had left the restaurant. But a spokeswoman for the senator said yesterday that Gere's claim was "simply not true. The Clinton administration increased funding for AIDS research, prevention and treatment by over 400% and tripled funding for international AIDS programs."

Meanwhile, veteran Clinton-basher Christopher Hitchens is suggesting that the former President was a CIA informant at Oxford University, where the two were students in the late 1960s.

"I think he was a double," the author of "No One Left to Lie To" claims in the latest issue of the conservative quarterly Doublethink. "Somebody was giving information to [the CIA] about the antiwar draft resisters, and I think it was probably him."

Clinton's spokesman Jim Kennedy declined to comment on Hitchens' spy story.

[finnman69]

Now that should be a NY Post headline!

[Guenevere]

#15..don't worry, you're not alone....:))

[chilepepper]

Richard Gere is one of the very few Hollywood liberals (come to think of it, the ONLY Hollywood liberal) I have any respect for. Criticizing Red China over Tibet shows some gumption on his part, that which is sorely lacking amongst the usual Leftist elite hypocrites...

[Constitution Day]

Outstanding!

[Wil H]

Hey Chris, I generally like your reporting, but...imagining Beelzebubba a CIA informant is like imagining Der Fueher as a member of B'nai B'rith. Beelzebubba was more likely an informant for KGB or GDR!

Don't get confused with idealism here, it just depended on who paid the most.

[Vigilantcitizen]

Shocking news from the Axis of Gerbils™!!

[Alberta's Child]

There's something a little different about Gere when it comes to some of these political positions. I saw an interview with him back when Clinton was visiting China in the late 1990s, and he seemed surprisingly well-informed and very reasonable about his expectations for improvements in China's human rights record.

[BADROTOFINGER]

I was on a website for an upcoming superhero computer game called City of Heroes, and there was a thread called 'Superhero movies you would like to see'. Someone posted that they thought that Richard Gere would make a good Dr. Strange (Marvel Comic's Sorcerer Supreme), and someone responded with: 'Hey Spider-Man! Watch me make this gerbil disappear!!!'. I just laughed my butt off, then the mods pulled it...JFK

[Paul Atreides]

I am wondering if the tide is beginning to turn on Bubba. Are the lefties beginning to see him as a drag on the party? I saw an article in which someone in the DNC claimed to have told Hillary to divorce Bubba. It is clear that his endorsement means nothing. More criticism is being voiced as to his post-Presidential attacks on the current president. I would love to see these people turn on him.

[Alberta's Child]

Oops -- you beat me to it! See #27.

[DoughtyOne]

Any guy that can stand on a podium directly after 09/11 and damn the US for it's plans to rectify the situation, is so far out there they don't have a zip-code for his location. In fact, they don't have a quadrant name for that sector of the universe. This man gets booed by the left he's so friggin far out there, and I'm not talking about when he expresses what seem to be conservative views. Gere is brain damaged. Think with the big head...

[Paul Atreides]

If he only knew when to shut up. I swear, he may be a nice guy, but he wears out his welcome with his blathering.

[God luvs America]

"I'm sorry, Sen. [Hillary] Clinton, but your husband did nothing about AIDS for eight years," He almost had it right; the correct statement would've been:
"I'm sorry, Sen. [Hillary] Clinton, but your husband did nothing for eight years,"
Still, we'll give him partial credit as a liberal finally emraces the truth.

[Paul Atreides]

Well, now we know who Sharon Stone WON'T be starring in a movie with.

[FeliciaCat]

"Richard Gere is one of the very few Hollywood liberals (come to think of it, the ONLY Hollywood liberal) I have any respect for. Criticizing Red China over Tibet shows some gumption on his part, that which is sorely lacking amongst the usual Leftist elite hypocrites..."

yep.

[lawgirl]

Meanwhile, veteran Clinton-basher Christopher Hitchens is suggesting that the former President was a CIA informant at Oxford University, where the two were students in the late 1960s.

"I think he was a double," the author of "No One Left to Lie To" claims in the latest issue of the conservative quarterly Doublethink. "Somebody was giving information to [the CIA] about the antiwar draft resisters, and I think it was probably him."

PING!!!!! ROFL!!!!!

[Puddleglum]

No kidding - strange days indeed!

[Alberta's Child]

I saw an article in which someone in the DNC claimed to have told Hillary to divorce Bubba.

A major Democratic supporter in New York once told me the opposite. The Democratic Party had to keep her from dumping Bill back in the late 1990s -- in exchange for "standing by her man" she demanded an uncontested spot on the Democratic ticker for a seat in the U.S. Senate.

And get this -- after they did extensive polling throughout the country, they determined that New York was the only state she could possibly win.

[putupon]

Expertise on STDs

No way Dubya knows more than Bubba.

[danneskjold]

and saw it was raining Frogs....

Wise Up...

:)