Anti-war activist Tim Robbins says his freedom violated by baseball snub

AFP ^ | Apr 11, 2003 | AFP

[NJJ]

Go see a baseball game instead of a movie. It's money better spent.

[F16Fighter]

"The unintended consequence of the BHOF snub has been to make martyrs of Sarandon and Robbins..."

I disagree.

It's only confirmed the fact that the average American has finally had enough of no-nothing, whining, self-absorbed, pretentious, prima-donna Hollywood @ss-holes.

Robbins becomes a bigger joke every day.

[Lady Eileen]

This is NOT the face of sanity.

.......he also has that rebellious hairstyle so commonly sported by the left .

[fabriclady]

Let him spew his venom.
Let's NEVER FORGET!
Never, ever want to see timmy and susan again.

[ConservativeConvert]

These pathetic hollyweirdos need to hire new publicists. Their PR people aren't doing a very good job...

[Reaganwuzthebest]

I said it first

Hey what can I say, we're on the same wavelength lol.

[Terry Mross]

"WE FIGHT FOR"? Hey, Kevin, got a mouse in your pocket? Costner better come to their defense. The only way he'll ever work again is if they finance a movie for him. I put him and Robbins in the same category of talent...none.

[i_dont_chat]

Tim just doesn't get it.

He has the right to speak his opinion.

Because of his outspokenness, he will be received either popularly or unpopularly.

Tim isn't popular anymore! Suck it up, Tim.

[G-Bob]

Robbins is coming on CSPAN right now.

[jonascord]

What Timmah does not realize, perhaps ever, is that he is a salesman. He is moderately good at selling himself as a 'face' in photoplays. In the last 15 years, he has built a modest reputation. I have gone to see some of his products, but I'm going to treat him like any other salesman who pees on my shoes and calls me stupid, and stop buying his wares.

Ask Hanoi Jane about what happens to people who say the United States is a bad idea. She took a photo-op thirty years ago, five minutes, and has lived in fear ever since. You don't see her at too many Veteran reunions. After she is dead, I will stomp on her grave...

[Lady Eileen]

thanks........I am watching him now.......what country is he living in?

[pooh fan]

Roger that!!!

[Lady Eileen]

This man has so much hatred for this country......sad:(

[Lady Eileen]

.......keep talking Tim.....his savior is the liberal media.

[goodnesswins]

WANKERI'm in a really pissy mood about these idiots this week....just read about x42 too

[Lady Eileen]

If you hate this country so much Tim.......move to France.

[Kay Soze]

Don’t be fooled

Tim Robbins does not believe he is being silenced or he would not have bothered to shave, shower and drive to the press club! He is much less concerned about being criticized or silenced for his political views than he is about media recording that he came down on the wrong side of history.

He is trying to shift attention from his support of a dictator. A dictator so ruthless that he once arrested, tortured, killed and then left the dismembered remains of his political rival on the doorstep of her parents.

His rants complaining about the three week horrors of name calling he has endured ring hollow given his love for his self generated political limelight.

For 8 long years I lived with the label; mindless right wing extremist wacko.

So unthinking was I that no less than the White House called me inhuman and nothing more than part of a machine, a vast right wing machine.

Tim Robbins is not concerned about the loss of his first amendment rights but rather he is concerned with attempting to restrict mine.

He and his ilk have and continue to come down on the wrong side of history, they registered their support with the Stalin and Idi Amin side of history.

[pfflier]

Kevin Costner came to the couple's defence saying that freedom of speech was one of the key democratic rights that America battled to ensure.

The Hollyweenies don't get it.

The 1st amendment protects us from the government infringing on free speech.

It does no prevent any private citizen or activity from taking any action they choose as a result of a comment they don't like.

[Lockbox]

I would hate to be the agent for the Osbournes, defending Sharon’s spitting in the restaurant the other day must have been the worst day on the job. What a way to make a living.

[Zon]

The actor... had been invited to attend the 15th anniversary screening of their 1988 baseball movie "Bull Durham" at the New York-based Hall of Fame later this month.

"It is using what power it has to infringe upon my rights of free speech with the hope to intimidate millions of others who disagree with our president," Robbins said in a stinging riposte.

The unmitigated gall of Tim Robbins. He gets an invitation to the Hall of Fame. An invitation. When that invitation is withdrawn he has a sorely misplaced tantrum about his right to free speech.

He can say whatever he wants. But that doesn't mean that a person or organization must invite him into their home or organization. He was going to be a guest speaker and with his most recent tantrum he is validating the wise decision of the Hall of Fame to rescind the invitation .

I think every American understands that free speech means a person can say what they want. Even protest the government. But they don't equate free speech with being given a stage to speak from.

Nothing quite like getting on stage in front of the American people and having a misguided tantrum about on your right to free speech that hasn't been violated and then proceed to expose yourself as a fool.

Mark Twain wrote: "It is better to sit in silence and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."

I've said it on several posts over the last week or so: They just can't seem to get out of their own way fast enough. They're their own worst enemies.

It's similar to how the UN security council has rendered itself irrelevant, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins and an array of other celebrities did it to themselves as have certain Democrats, President Chirac, the French government and to a lesser degree the Russian and German governments. Not to mention an assortment of special interest do-gooder groups.

They're dropping over like flies. It's like shooting fish in a barrel. It seems to have been set im motion by a new-era response to 9-11. People seem to be on an increasing drive to root out dishonesty and deception.

I may have missed some earlier instances but it appears to have picked up pace last October when Robert Torcerelli was forced to resign from the Senate. Then in the mid-term elections, despite historical reference that the party that holds the White House loses seats in the Senate, Republicans gained seats in the Senate. People voted for the lesser of evils. The low hanging fruit gets picked off first.

Since the elections the pace has picked up even more, especially since the week before the war in Iraq. There's no reason to think that the pace with which parasitical elites and their celebrity stooges rendering themselves less and less relevant will slow down -- most likely it will continue to increase. At this point in time the light at the end of the tunnel is almost imperceptible, but the accelerating momentum will bring it on strong and relentlesly.