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Tim Robbins - Beyond The Pale at National Press Club Today - Hollywood-Hero Responds
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| 04-15-03
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Posted on 04/15/2003 3:21:27 PM PDT by lisaann8
04-15-03- I was going to write an Op-ed today to go with our weekly Hall of Fame and Hall of Shame awards.
Then Tim Robbins spoke to the National Press Club today. I've recorded it for your listening disgust. To say it's beyond the pale is an understatement.
He has declared war on the 77% of the people in this country who support our president, this country and our troops.
Here is the audio.
Hollywood-Hero needs to say, one more time for the record, free speech does not mean free of consequences.
Freedom to choose what we watch, rent or buy does not equal a blacklist. It's called capitalism.
Actors are free to speak their mind, oppose the war, malign our president.
We, who disagree with their blanket dismissal of what most of America believes, are free to dissent.
We are free to decide NOT to watch a film, buy a CD, or rent a video.
That's where our power is and that's what they are really afraid of. The buying power of the American public, the ones who allow them the lifestyles they enjoy.
There is no Hollywood Blacklist as they infer by bringing back this new form of McCarthyism in the guise of a Republican Administration.
This isn't even a boycott, it's about our country, our freedom to choose who we give our largess to in the form of our buying choices.
If Hollywood can't take the heat of their own convictions, perhaps they should find another line of work that would better suit them.
(Excerpt) Read more at hollywood-hero.us ...
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To: lisaann8
He has declared war on the 77% of the people in this country who support our president, this country and our troops. Hey, wait a minute...is this allowed without a UN resolution?!
To: lisaann8
And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save [thee].
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posted on
04/15/2003 3:56:33 PM PDT
by
SwinneySwitch
(Liberate Syria; Support the Troops!)
To: ErnBatavia
You posted his picture and I still have no idea who he is.
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posted on
04/15/2003 4:01:01 PM PDT
by
Samwise
(All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.)
To: Timesink
a couple of people posted that he got barely a smattering of applauseNo wonder! He said that Ari Fleischer should only call on the reporters in the back of the room (the ones put in the back because they are the only ones who question the Bush Administration) and said that the press was basically a shill for President Bush.
To: lisaann8
Bump for later.
To: truthkeeper
thats too bad - I enjoyed Shawshank - nevermore
To: Samwise
Robbins is just another carney folk who the mullet head hate America first crowd adore for some reason...
To: Samwise
Now do you recognize him?
To: lisaann8
BTTT
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posted on
04/15/2003 4:12:03 PM PDT
by
hattend
To: lisaann8
Linka No works...
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posted on
04/15/2003 4:13:39 PM PDT
by
GRRRRR
(If the GOP could just send in the Marines against the Demokrats now....)
To: lisaann8
I wish he weren't so darn good looking! Sheeeeesh. Those dimples!
To: lisaann8
My DVD copy of "The Shawshank Redemption" (was my favorite flick) is going on sale on Ebay this week because of Robbins' continued hate-filled dogma towards our President. My boycott has begun. Enough is enough!
To: lisaann8
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posted on
04/15/2003 4:17:44 PM PDT
by
TLBSHOW
(The gift is to see the truth.....)
To: lisaann8
The Hollywood airheads don't understand the difference between a right of free speech and a right to approval.
The idea behind free speech and a free press is that in the debate in the "marketplace of ideas" the good ideas will gain acceptance and bad ideas will be discredited.
The airheads' real problem is that the marketplace of ideas is working just fine.
To: lisaann8
Shawshank Redemption and the Player are great movies. I wish Tim would have the class to get another hobby besides politics.
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posted on
04/15/2003 4:23:49 PM PDT
by
spodefly
(This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
To: lisaann8
I thank my G-d every day for the internet where the light of day is made to shine on these idiots.
We can now disiminate information instantly to millions about these creeps and it drives them to distraction when they are found out and exposed for what they are.
Uhrah, uhrah for the truth.
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posted on
04/15/2003 4:25:54 PM PDT
by
Ursus arctos horribilis
("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
To: lisaann8
How is that Mr. Robbins got to speak at the National Press Club today and every reporter in the world drooled over him and his story?
I thought we, the unwashed masses who disagree with him, had taken away his right to free speech.
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posted on
04/15/2003 4:29:50 PM PDT
by
fightinJAG
(A liberal mind already is terribly wasted.)
To: fightinJAG
DC chapter was going to do a stealth freep today at the Press Club, anyone heard what happened?
To: Dolphy
He has every right to speak, he has NO right to my entertainment dollar!
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posted on
04/15/2003 4:39:59 PM PDT
by
mdcen
(Pondering!)
To: lisaann8
He has declared war on the 77% of the people in this country who support our president, this country and our troops.When did he do that?
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posted on
04/15/2003 4:41:15 PM PDT
by
xm177e2
(Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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