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War in Afghanistan leaves Britney speechless
Star Tribune ^ | Nov 7, 2001

Posted on 11/07/2001 9:17:02 AM PST by John Jorsett

Edited on 04/13/2004 3:36:00 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Either Britney Spears isn't aware that a war is going on, or that's what she would like you to think.

At a news conference in Toronto before a concert Monday, the 19-year-old pop icon was at a loss for words when asked whether she supported the U.S.-led military strikes against Afghanistan.


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To: TheBigB
Yeah, isn't that funny.
21 posted on 11/07/2001 9:31:00 AM PST by Scarlet Pimpernel
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To: John Jorsett
War in Afghanistan leaves Britney speechless

That's the way Ah like mah wimmin! Wimmin wuz ment to be seen 'n not hurd. Thank GAWD fer Britney showing the uppity wimmin of this great land how they shud bee-have.

Shalom.

22 posted on 11/07/2001 9:31:05 AM PST by ArGee
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To: John Jorsett
That's right, make a record-keep your memories, someday soon enough there is going to be an accounting and when you make your charges be sure to have the empirical data.
23 posted on 11/07/2001 9:31:39 AM PST by RWG
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To: John Jorsett
How cruel! Asking a beautiful blonde singer a question that requires thought.
24 posted on 11/07/2001 9:31:49 AM PST by Destructor
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To: JoeSchem
"She's entitled to keep her opinions about politics to herself."

You're implication that this bimbo actually has the intellectual capacity to form an opinion about politics is absolutely priceless, man!!

25 posted on 11/07/2001 9:31:56 AM PST by mo'shea
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To: John Jorsett
"Someone screwed up in not anticipating a question about the subject and having a proper response ready."

And God forbid, she ever have to think for herself. What an airhead she is!

26 posted on 11/07/2001 9:32:02 AM PST by Don Myers
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To: John Jorsett
You grow as an artist and as a person

So many punch lines, so little time....

27 posted on 11/07/2001 9:32:11 AM PST by steve-b
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To: John Jorsett
What kind of buffoon would ask Britney Spears her opinion on foreign affairs? That's like the interviewer who prompted that moron Marge Schott for her opinions about Hitler's influence on the German economy.
28 posted on 11/07/2001 9:32:36 AM PST by Sloth
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To: John Jorsett
She's got about three minutes of her fifteen left.
29 posted on 11/07/2001 9:33:21 AM PST by geaux
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To: Don Myers
Freepers are always talking about how celebrities should keep their mouths shut about political issues . . . maybe this time, one did.
30 posted on 11/07/2001 9:33:59 AM PST by chriservative
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To: ZOOKER
Not surprising. Like most Hollywood types, she doesn't know or care about anything that doesn't revolve around her exclusively.

I think the clinical term is narcissism. It's a common malady among stars, but most do a better job of concealing it.

It's also a common trait among teenagers, a group to which she also belongs.

31 posted on 11/07/2001 9:35:17 AM PST by danneskjold
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To: Redcloak
Everyone knows that her specialty is semiconductor physics.

How unkind of you to suggest that her career involves the use of silicon.

32 posted on 11/07/2001 9:35:32 AM PST by steve-b
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To: chriservative
I don't think, in this instance, that she has an opinion.
33 posted on 11/07/2001 9:35:53 AM PST by Don Myers
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To: wideawake
"Did Matt Damon comment directly on our military actions?"

Don't know about that, but he's a flaming lib and has made statements about other issues most of us here would find objectionable and/or stupid. I believe he was the one who made the movie that was supposedly about the secret society thing that Bush is supposed to belong to -- sull and bones or something like that. After making the movie he said that anyone who voted for W would have to be an idiot. Hey, Matt, it was a movie, make believe. Get it.

34 posted on 11/07/2001 9:36:48 AM PST by Lee'sGhost
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To: Lee'sGhost
Now wait a dog gone minute. She may be a millionaire, but she is only 19.

In the middle of the Clinton soap opera, I told my dad that what Bill did was especially distasteful because Monica was just a kid of 19. He gave me that look and said, "At 19, I was a lieutenant in combat in WWII."

Nineteen year olds are as old as we ask them to be. We may be asking more from them real soon now.

35 posted on 11/07/2001 9:37:06 AM PST by Ratatoskr
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To: hobbes1
Yikes! I'm speechless.
36 posted on 11/07/2001 9:37:24 AM PST by b4its2late
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To: Scarlet Pimpernel
It's bomb the sh!t out of 'em until we win. That's not hard to understand.
37 posted on 11/07/2001 9:37:50 AM PST by Lee'sGhost
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To: Hatteras
RE post 17: That's hitting the nail on the head.
38 posted on 11/07/2001 9:38:58 AM PST by Lee'sGhost
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To: John Jorsett
It's easy for reporters to catch someone off guard by throwing in cute questions that have no bearing on the matter at hand, or on which the person being interviewed has never claimed any expertise. I am sure she was expecting pertinent questions about her new album or other teenage stuff. Why on earth would a reporter even pose such a question?
39 posted on 11/07/2001 9:40:40 AM PST by Goetz_von_Berlichingen
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To: steve-b
Silicon, gallium, germanium, indium, arsenic, phosphorous... I'm sure that she's quite familiar with the properties of them all!
40 posted on 11/07/2001 9:41:47 AM PST by Redcloak
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