Posted on 11/24/2004 5:28:06 PM PST by Living Free in NH
LOS ANGELES - For relatives and friends of U.S. troops serving in Iraq, "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" was the place to be. Studio audience members, all with a military connection, were surprised with the gift of a free cruise at a taping Tuesday. The episode of the syndicated talk show, with guest Tom Hanks, aired Wednesday.
A total of 250 seven-day cruises for four, along with taxes and fees, were given in appreciation of troops deployed from three California bases: Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Camp Pendleton and Fort Irwin.
Celebrity Cruises is providing the vacations, available at any time to allow for troops overseas to take part on their return, according to a spokeswoman for the show.
DeGeneres also joined with the USO to send more than 5,000 care packages to the audience's relatives and friends in Iraq. The episode will be repeated on Thanksgiving on the Armed Forces Network.
Good to hear that!
Yeah, I'm gonna have to get a prescription reading monocle because of you. :D
And so does your ignorance.
well I am getting old and can't see as well as I used too ...
I have to browse now with the screen at 800x600 because I can't read normal size type at 1024x768. Your font would look like a squiggly line to me at that resolution :-)
Guen, please read our posts again. We are not trying to hurt you. It is your attitude toward the world that causes harm. We are trying to help you. You will reap much if it is love that you sow. You will reap much sowing unloving condemnation, too, but you will not like the fruits. I encourage you to read the words of Jesus Christ on this and to calm your heart. Doing that will benefit you far, far more than it will Ellen or anyone else you hold these feelings about! Blessings, Rambler
Miss M, I agree with your post wholeheartedly. This is the very essence of "Love the sinner, hate the sin." Here, a person has done something which we can call good in the world. That act should be praised. Her being gay is beside the point now. That act can be seen differently. But to condemn her for thoughtful behavior because she also happens to be gay is to put the horse before the cart. (Or something like that.) Clearly that is hating the sinner. Blessings, Rambler
Another sensible post on this matter. Blessings, Rambler
I'm sure you are.
How do we survive this planet with people like Ellen Degeneres!!
She actively encourages pet adoption and has adopted several from shelters. ( oh no, so do people from Free Republic)
She supports and donates to companion animals for the blind, deaf and eldery. ( hideous, just horrible)
She supports the USO ( oh no, so do people from Free Republic)
She has a brother who is a Marine. ( oh no, so do people from Free Republic)
She has given military families the opportunity to have a free vacation on a cruise. ( this has just gone too far! The families don't even have to pay the taxes for the cruise!!)
She supports Wheels for Humanity, which provides wheelchairs for disabled children in poor families. ( What is she thinking?)
She donated $6,100 to the Fresno Chaffee Zoo. ( there is that animal lover again. Terrible)
She donates all procedes from front row tickets from her concerts to local charities ( evil, pure evil)
She donates to high school music programs ( those nasty kids, wanting to play music of all things)
She gives all of her income when she appeares on " Hollywood Squares to Breast Cancer Charities ( Let those cancer women die).
There is more, I just don't have the time to research and list them all.
So Ellen is a very giving person, not for the glory, but because she's a good person. She is also funny and entertaining. She puts on a clean show and has won an emmy for her new talk show.
But according to some ignorant morons on Free Republic, Ellen Degeneres is garbage because she's gay.
I wonder how many people who damn her for being gay do one tenth of the charity work as Ellen. And Ellen doesn't do it for herself, she does it for others.
I have to find that new bible that states " Hate the sin, but hate the sinner more".
Please re-read my post. I never called anyone a scumbag or any other name. For you to compare Ellen using one hour of her show to "give" cruises donated by Celebrity to Bob Hope is ridiculous. Bob hope and those who toured with him gave up holidays with their families for weeks every year.
One hour of a show that she was doing anyway does not even deserve to be mentioned in the same breath. I did not say what Ellen did was bad. I only pointed out that what she gave away was paid for by someone else and she benefited greatly for their generosity.
I thought her name was Ellen Degenerate.
You are incorrect, her name is Ellen Degeneres.
While your claim that Freepers have called Ellen DeGeneres "garbage" is pure baloney and weak on substance, your name-calling ("ignorant morons") of others who aren't exactly convinced of the woman's bonafides and "generosity" is uncalled for...
IOW, pot meet kettle.
Hillary. Don't you see? She's trying to trick the animals, children, the elderly,and disabled. She's trying to trick them into liking her. Because she wants to push her "lifestyle" in their faces. It's an elaborate plan on her part, all the more reason to hate her for it. I, for one, say we look for something nasty to say about her. I'm going to dedicate a lot of time and energy to it, too.
Too bad the 'kettles' are suspicious of someone who has a very long history of charity and is the family member of a Marine, all because she's of the same persuasion as family members of honorable and respected people in our current administration.
She's also a big John Kerry supporter which means she supports murdering little babies. Yes, she's garbage for lots of reasons.
No necessary relevance regarding ALL your points:
1) Very long history of charity
2) Being the family member of a Marine
3)The implication that because Cheney's daughter is "gay," it has ANY bearing on the ideological bonifides of DeGeneres.
I know many liberals who donate to animals and medical charities; I have a very good friend whose wife is a hard-core lib, yet her brother is Spec-Ops.
Considering the woman's past, her motives and ideology is certainly suspect at the least, and warrants further cynicism until SOME kind of track record can be deduced. Providing ANY series of quotes supporting our troops might help your case.
Btw, were you at all "suspicicious" of Hitlery's Thanksgiving visit to the troops last year? Or did you coo, and say "Aaaw, she cares. She really cares..."
Anyway, Its great that she is willing to go out and offer her support and aid for our fighters.That is more than some are willing to do. on the Left Or Right.
You have been here long enough to know that I do not respect Hillary and that her trip to visit the troops last year was nothing but a political farce.
I do not respect Hillary and that her trip to visit the troops last year was nothing but a political farce
Looks like you found that bible pretty quick.
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