Celebrities Denounce "Unjust" War on Terror

MediaReseachCenter ^ | Monday, September 23, 2002 10:28:34 AM | staff

[fight_truth_decay]

new thread

[weegee]

Found these online Arab Americans: Making a Difference by Casey Kasem (PDF)

Someone needs to tell him that associating identity with Helen thomas and Ralph Nadar is not a good thing!

A webpage with another PDF:

Arab Defamation in the Media: Its Consequences and Solutions
Author: Casey Kasem
December - December 1990
Volume 23, Issue 5

Funny how Casey writes about arab stereotypes in the media that then proceeds to slur American youth with his portrayal of "Shaggy" in the Scooby Doo cartoons.

[itsLUCKY2B]

Did anyone else notice, on last nights Emmys, the ONLY American Flag lapel pin was worn by former, NY Mayor Gulliani?

[savedbygrace]

A bunch of left-wing celebrities, including Ed Asner, Ossie Davis, Jane Fonda, Danny Glover, Casey Kasum, Susan Sarandon, Oliver Stone and Marisa Tomei, helped pay for a full page ad in last Thursday's New York Times denouncing President Bush's war on terrorism.

Oh, no! Not Marisa Tomei! This is terrible! This is so traumatic that it's got me using exclamation marks to end each sentence!

I need a Valium!

[MistrX]

When Professor Irwin Corey signs something, I take notice!

[fight_truth_decay]

He is or was a board director of FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)..shifts my eyes!

[weegee]

An article I found in a link from a 9/11 pacifism site:

Casey Kasem: I Want My Son to be Proud (Friday, September 14 2001 @ 08:23 PM GMT)

There is this passage on the founder of MADD:

In 1980, after losing her daughter in a car accident caused by a drunk driver, Lightner founded MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving), lobbying across the nation for tougher laws. Today -- 2000 new laws later -- "drunk driving is no longer socially acceptable," she says.

"The press would never print that I was an Arab-American," she asserts. "So, when I started doing live media, I'd bring it up." When Lightner protested the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, her boyfriend called her "anti-Semitic." The relationship ended. Her non-Arab father knew better. "Honey, you are a Semite," he said. "That's the way I was raised," says Lightner. "We [Arabs and Jews] are all Semites."

So see, Arabs can hate Jews without being "anti-Semetic". And 2,000 new laws? Sounds like 1 good one (or 50 if it needed to be passed on the state level) should have done the trick.

Also, thought that you might want to know: "Casey is a member of the board of directors for FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting). "

I do not know his politics, but I will say that Dick Dale (who is also of Lebanese descent) has played the Israeli folk song Hava Nagila for decades.

[VOA]

Even my 15 year old son boycotts the music, and programs they are associated with.
I don't even have to tell him, he knows. He won't watch anything from ABC.

I salute your son's attitude...wish I'd caught on when I was that age.

BUT, I would suggest a bit of a selective approach to ABC, at least the news division.
The specials that John Stossel has on occassionally, as well as his "give me a break"
segments on "20/20" on Friday evening are pretty much on target with a
rational conservative theme (although I think Stossel claims libertarian status).

Also John Miller, the new anchor on "20/20" with (yuk) Barbara Walters has done
really good investigative reportage on Osama/Al-Quida, as well as co-authoring a book
called "The Cell" on the topic.
I think he was one of the few American journalists to even go all the way to interview
Osama...well before 9-11 and before Osama was on the radar screen of the average American.

There are also good investigative reports on PrimeTime on Thursday night...the show a few weeks
ago that had the interview with Sadaam's former mistress and with youth
in Iran was really good.

Oh...and I do have to give Barbara Walters credit. Her visit to Saudi Arabia to
interview some of the families of the hi-jackers was interesting.
Especially one in which an aged father keeps up a brave front and insists that his
son couldn't have possibly been a hi-jacker, let alone involved with terrorists...
then an elder son tell Barbara (after the father is off-set) that his father
privately knows it's true and cries over the situation constantly.
Despite my general misgivings about Muslims, I did feel for this fellow...it was pretty
good reporting as it was getting at the story behind the story.
OK, there's the probably the last time I'll say something good about
Barbara Walters!

[Hila]

When is a groupie of hollywood unredeemed minds going to ever make sense? I pray they will have a chance to see the light before they leave this planet.

[weegee]

Yes, still holds down the fort.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

The signers equated 9/11 with the terror inflicted by the U.S. military: "We too mourned the thousands of innocent dead and shook our heads at the terrible scenes of carnage -- even as we recalled similar scenes in Baghdad, Panama City, and, a generation ago, Vietnam."

Yeah, I'd rather have Saddam massacring Kuwaitis, Noriega hurting Americans, and Ho Chi Minh taking South Viet Nam with no resistance. Ah, those were the days...

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

HEY, SARANDON, GET A LOAD OF APPYPAPPY'S PICTURE, AIRHEAD!

[justsomedude]

I thought Jane Fonda learned her lesson.

[weegee]

John Walker's Blues (Steve Earle)

Just an American boy
Raised on MTV
And I've seen all them kids in the soda pop ads
None of them look like me
So I started looking around
For a light out of the dim
And the first thing I heard
That made sense was the word
Muhammad peace be upon him

Chorus
Ash hadu alla Ilaaha illallah, there is no God but God

If my daddy could see me now
Chains around my feet
He don't understand sometimes a man
Has got to fight for what he believes
And I believe God is great
All praise to him
And if I should die
I'll rise up in the sky
Just like Jesus peace be upon him

Chorus

We came to fight the jihad
Our hearts were pure and strong
And when death filled the air
We all offered up prayers
Prepared for our martyrdom
But Allah has some other plan
Some secret not revealed
Now they're dragging me back
With my head in a sack
To the land of the infidels

Chorus

[CyberCowboy777]

Thanks for the update...

[LaBradford22]

You know, I just wouldn't know what to think if celebrities didn't tell me. Thank goodness that this group was willing to take the time to tell me what to think!

[dark_lord]

Sadly, a few years back, we knew what actors were like. They were the same social class as thieves, pimps, and prostitutes. As a group they have the lowest intelligence level and the narrowest education.

Why anyone at all pays attention to anything actors have to say is way beyond my comprehension. I guess the bottom of the bell curve (whoops, being nonPC) will believe anything they are told by a pretty face.

[Audit_Jesse]

If you do this, I want in!

[Audit_Jesse]

Celebs don't like it? Fine. Get the %^&* out of MY country!