Posted on 05/16/2015 10:42:21 AM PDT by drewh
Actress and liberal activist Susan Sarandon is still blaming America’s homeless problem on Ronald Reagan. The actress, probably best known for her role in the 1988 baseball hit movie Bull Durham, was invited on the May 13 edition of PBS’s Tavis Smiley to plug her son’s 2014 documentary, Storied Streets, that is now available on AMC’s streaming service.
When Smiley asked Sarandon why the issue of homelessness was no longer on the “radar for discussion” she blamed former President Ronald Reagan, as seen in the following exchange:
TAVIS SMILEY: There was a time that I recall where the issue of homelessness was at least being discussed in our society. There was this moment, I think that the moments kind of ebb and flow, but how did the issue of homelessness fall off of the radar for discussion?
SUSAN SARANDON: I think that the conversation changed around the Reagan era, where everything was your fault. And so you blamed, you were blamed for not trying hard enough, you know, from drinking, for drugs, whatever. Just like in the AIDS epidemic the focus went on your lifestyle as opposed to what was actually happening.
And then I think that as the economy got tougher for so many people it’s understandable. It’s the same thing that happens with immigrants. You know, you are trying to hold on to the house. People - there are so many people in this country that are one paycheck away of being on the street, and if they can’t couch surf long enough, they are homeless.
So when you have so many people working so hard. Two jobs per family, three jobs per family, they don’t want to think that that’s them. You know? And there is also compassion fatigue. So people see it and it doesn’t get solved. And they just don’t want to see it any more. And everyone is fighting so hard. And I think - so it’s been a number of things that have happened, that have made us not want to deal with this issue. But hopefully what Jack’s film does is it humanizes the issue and it puts a face on that.
Dear ms. Sarandon,
I did not pay for a movie ticket with your name on the billboard, to hear your yap, once the movie screen went white.
I have one of your first, more juicy roles on DVD, as a character named ‘Janet’. I’m sure there are many who remember many a midnight showing of that performance, when that film made it’s cult prominence.
(Never mind the rice being tossed about the theater.)
That motherless creep.
So a movie released in 1975 caused Gov. PAT Brown to pass legislation during his term of 1959-1967. Some trick.
Pardon me, the novel. Quite popular prior to it’s portrayal on the silver screen.
she is an old toilet bowl cleaner which needs some refreshing.
Saran Wrap is still around?
All those unemployed used-to-be actors use the same tactic to get work by raging anything to get noticed.
Nothing but pathetic little children.
I’m surprised she’s not running around with a “Make Love, Not War” sign and blaming Lyndon Johnson. That’s about how out of touch that obsolete skank is.
At her best I always thought she looked like a Chihuahua. Apparently she has an I.Q. to match.
JFK created today’s homeless problems when he emptied the mental hospitals.
Homelessness started growing as the lawyers won cases, and new rules and laws were passed clarifying his legislation against institutionalizing, and then Carter created more homelessness and “tent cities”, and of course the drug addicts coming out of this modern, drug infested America, those three events created a permanent, and disturbing version of homelessness, greatly outnumbering the eternal handful of hobos and winos.
Homelessness is one of those news stories that appears and disappears, depending on which party the media is reporting on.
You pretty much summed up what I was thinking, as I think the “de-institutionalized” make up the vast majority of homeless types. There is no rational reason for anyone to want to live that lifestyle on purpose, even the totally worthless lazy bunch eventually find a way to work the system and get obama phones, TV, a place to live, free food, etc.
They had to go back to '88 to find a "hit" she was in. Wonder why they didn't mention "Rocky Horror Picture Show".....
Dammit Janet! Shut your mouth
To me, she’s always looked like a skank and just an ugly woman. No doubt her raging inner hate was manifested in her looks at an early age.
LOL, back when SNL was funny!
Well, her initial rise to skankdom was borne out of “The Rocky Horror Picure Show” which rose to cultdom. She wasn’t bad looking as a very young woman. Unfortunately, her participation in it precipitated any number of ensuing roles to which she did not do justice except be the busty skank that she is.
Unfortunately, her intelligence never improved as did her taste in men. Today, with a rack that ends up at her waist, it seems only money can attract them. Her and Tim’s split has left her with a 37 year old ‘boy toy’ who seems to have an Oedipal complex for rich women and by the looks of him, she’s getting near the bottom of the barrel.
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