Posted on 03/05/2002 10:19:43 AM PST by frmrda
The article first discusses a benefit film that was shot two weeks after the 9/11 attacks. Some of the money was going to Arab American charities to help them against "Anti-Arab" violence. The article mentions some of the celebrities who appeared and then got to the relevant part about Joan Rivers.
Joan, you see, was supposed to be one of the celebs to participate in the taping. But on the day before the taping she pulled out, claiming in the New York Post's Page Six that the charities who would benefit from We Are Family were not the ones she was promised.
As it turned out, Rodgers had decided that some of the proceeds would go to teaching about racial discrimination, particularly anti-Arab sentiments. Right after the World Trade Center attacks, several hate crimes were committed against Arab-Americans across the country and Rodgers wanted to do something about that.
Rivers objected, saying she wasn't interested in that problem at that moment. "I'm just in shock. It's a bait and switch, and no one knows it," Rivers told Page Six. "I'm not intolerant toward Arabs or Muslims," Rivers said. "But now is not the time for that. I'm boycotting."
In the movie, though, Rodgers and other celebrities discuss Rivers' decision to pull out of the project. Rivers is cited telling them, "[Expletive] world peace." In so many words.
Rivers, of course, is fuming. She told me last night after attending a cocktail party for Liz Smith's Literacy Partners: "I never said that. I said '[Expletive] the Muslims. [Expletive] terrorism.' I'm furious, and I will contact my attorneys. I will call in [powerhouse entertainment lawyer] Bert Fields if I have to."
Or putting words in other peoples's mouths, the second most popular activity of degenerates.
Now that I would like to see! What a team they'd make!
A friend brought me a t-shirt with that gem on it - I still have it! I wore it to a going away party for a former boss who thought I was "quiet and shy."
I still believe Joan Rivers is a big liberal.
No. Joan Rivers is a Bush backer, though she would have greatly preferred Forbes.
I'm no 'professional' journalist, but; who is Rodgers?
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Okay, I'll take your word for it.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Charlton Heston
Tom Sellek
Who else among the Hollywood crowd is a proud Republican?
The Democrat candidates for president and vice president in 1984 were Walter Mondale Geraldine Ferraro. Mondale was known to his friends by the nickname of Fritz.
Thus the Democratic ticket in 1984 was Fritz Mondale and a wowman as VP candidate...
If you voted for the Democrats you got "Fritz and tits"
Joan is very witty and pulls no punches!
No, if that was the case she would change her name to Joanaldo Rivera, grow a mustache and start lying.
This would be a far more fascinating list to compile, if we instead looked at ideas instead of ideology.
Obviously, Charlton Heston figures here. I don't know that much about Arnold Schwarzenegger or Tom Selleck, though I would suspect they'd be somewhere around Heston's vicinity.
Speaking of Heston, I've heard that John Milius (who directed Schwarzenegger in "Conan the Barbarian") wants to be president of the NRA if/when Heston retires. Milius is a HUGE believer/advocate of the Second Amendment!
Mel Gibson ranks here, absolutely.
And for some reason, Joan Rivers here reminds me of Eartha Kitt and the big fight that happened between her and Ladybird Johnson at the White House in 1968. Kitt must be a conservative: she was a guest on Rush's tv show some years ago, openly criticized Clinton's shenanigans with Lewinsky, and she's an advocate of homeless people getting off government's dole and growing their own food. Sounds pretty principled to me.
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