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Stay-at-home mom takes on celeb 'pundits'
World Net Daily ^ | December 21, 2002 | Diana Lynne

Posted on 12/21/2002 7:09:21 PM PST by God'sgrrl

The open letter signed by actors Mike Farrell, Martin Sheen and more than 100 of their Tinsel Town pals asking President Bush to back down on Iraq, angered one North Carolina woman so much that she launched an online petition to counter their influence and to let Sheen know that he's not the commander in chief, even though he plays one on TV. more...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: antiamericanism; antiamericanwar; antibush; antiwar; commies; hollywood; iraq; martinsheen; mikefarrel; petition
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To: Let's Roll
Don't feel bad, LR, it took me three tries to find the link.
Here it is: Citizens Against Celebrity "Pundits"
41 posted on 12/21/2002 10:27:40 PM PST by reformed_democrat
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To: God'sgrrl
The substance of the petition is wonderful. Its grammar is not. Do you suppose they might correct the errors?

I also cannot agree with this: "We support President Bush in his efforts to defend our homeland, to defend democracy, and to take any measures to end the threat of terrorism."

I support President Bush but would not support "any measures" to end the threat of terrorism. I do not support the Federal government suspending the Constitution, explicitly or otherwise. That's another topic, of course, but is the main reason I cannot sign this petition despite its splendid purpose.
42 posted on 12/21/2002 10:41:23 PM PST by ChemistCat
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To: ArneFufkin
especially since Mike Farrell played BJ HONEYCUTT, He was quite talented to have played KLINGER as well,(amazing make-upchange) he he he(you know I'm just kidding about KLINGER, right?)
43 posted on 12/21/2002 10:51:26 PM PST by mdmathis6
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To: mdmathis6
I get all of the Hogans Heroes cast members confused!
44 posted on 12/21/2002 10:59:52 PM PST by ArneFufkin
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To: NautiNurse
I'm a big fan. I have all 42 of the "NautiNurse" DVDs in the box set, starting with "CandyStripe *********** Capers" (OK, the word is Cathaterized) through "Dirty Doreen, Wellsley's Nympho Nursing Dean".

Nursing is simple. If a buff tatooed guy patient is in a coma, the tatooed busty nurse can always revive them through a targeted accupuncture massage therapy. If a buff tatooed guy has a minor injury, the tatooed busty nurse will always flat line kill them through a vigorous physical therapy session. The tatooed orderly always meets and greets a busty, tatooed hospital visitor in the bedpan stock room. I think that guy lives. Two nurses cross paths in the hospital employee whirlpool tub. Nobody ever wears blue.

And ... nobody has ever been required to show proof of insurance.

That's the Health Care restructuring I advise Bush to pursue.

45 posted on 12/21/2002 11:39:06 PM PST by ArneFufkin
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To: God'sgrrl
I thought when this broke we at Free Republic could do an ad of our own. But the more I thought instead we should hold a news conference and donate the money to a worthy cause, it is a better use of the money!!
46 posted on 12/22/2002 12:02:29 AM PST by Brimack34
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To: God'sgrrl
How about ... "We the undersigned recognize that you are all horseshit actors, who need work, who desperately pray that this dismal exposure will shake something loose even if it's a voice gig, and who don't really care about Iraq because come February the house in Malibu will be foreclosed, and no thousand towelhead deaths can match that pain.
47 posted on 12/22/2002 12:14:22 AM PST by ArneFufkin
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To: ChemistCat
I do not support the Federal government suspending the Constitution, explicitly or otherwise. That's another topic, of course, but is the main reason I cannot sign this petition despite its splendid purpose.

I need a tissue. It's a bird ... it's a plane ...

Hang on a second .... HEY DIOGENES!!!! OVER HERE!!!!

48 posted on 12/22/2002 12:24:52 AM PST by ArneFufkin
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To: ArneFufkin
I have all 42 of the "NautiNurse" DVDs in the box set

There have only been 21 films produced to date in the series. I believe you are seeing double. Been hitting the Christmas eggnog early?

50 posted on 12/22/2002 5:33:19 AM PST by NautiNurse
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To: TigersEye
Signed, with gratitude to the originator of the Statement. Thanks for letting me know.
51 posted on 12/22/2002 5:48:25 AM PST by .30Carbine
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To: Yehuda
I have emailed ipetitions so many times requesting an upgrade and they have never responded. BTW, I am Lori Bardsley
52 posted on 12/22/2002 6:05:45 AM PST by God'sgrrl
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To: ArneFufkin
The individuals I'm referring to have all been duly reported to the FBI and ATF. Some have already been arrested and the others are still being investigated.
53 posted on 12/22/2002 7:11:42 AM PST by Ajnin
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To: ArneFufkin
Now put yours up, and I'll sign yours. :-)
54 posted on 12/22/2002 7:32:40 AM PST by ChemistCat
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To: God'sgrrl
This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows.
To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30050

Saturday, December 21, 2002



HOLLYWOOD VS. AMERICA
Stay-at-home mom takes on celeb 'pundits'
Starts online petition to counter anti-war push by stars

Posted: December 21, 2002
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Diana Lynne


© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com

The open letter signed by actors Mike Farrell, Martin Sheen and more than 100 of their Tinsel Town pals asking President Bush to back down on Iraq, angered one North Carolina woman so much that she launched an online petition to counter their influence and to let Sheen know that he's not the commander in chief, even though he plays one on TV.

Lori Bardsley, a stay-at-home mother of three, accuses Hollywood celebrity "pundits," as she calls them, of using their celebrity to interfere with the defense of the country.

"Anti-war activism is hip but Sept. 11th was real," said Bardsley. "On Sept. 11th our children were threatened. We expect President Bush to take whatever measures necessary to keep us safe," she added.

Bardsley feels the celebrities don't speak for most Americans. Indeed, one week after she quietly posted her online petition entitled "Citizens Against Celebrity 'Pundits,'" she reports more than a thousand visitors have added their signatures.

"We support President Bush in his efforts to defend our homeland, to defend democracy, and to take any measures to end the threat of terrorism," the petition reads. "We do not claim to know more than anyone, especially President Bush. We elect a President who we can trust to make proper decisions based on facts available to him and not available to the rest of us."


Actor Mike Farrell

Last week, a group called Artists United To Win Without War released a statement asserting war with Iraq would cost $200 billion and send tens of thousands of men and women into danger. Farrell, best known for his role of wise-cracking, martini-drinking MASH surgeon B.J. Hunnicut, co-founded the group. In an interview with Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes, the human rights advocate explained his opposition to any U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

"It is not only unprecedented, and it is not only not democratic it's theological. This determines that we are the chosen people of the world who can determine for themselves who are good, who are bad, who are right, and who are wrong, and smite them when we choose. This seems to be the height of arrogance. And I think it is the kind of thing that rachets up the anger and the frustration in the mind's eye of the people who then turn to terrorism," Farrell said.

"What we have to do is allow the inspection team charged by the United Nations Security Council to do its work to determine if there are any weapons," Farrell continued. "We ought to let them do their job, as the inspections team that was in there from 1991 to 1998 did, which was to dismantle and disarm 95 percent of the weapons that were in existence at that time. If, in fact, there are weapons of mass destruction, which by definition is nuclear weapons, in that region, they need to be dismantled and disarmed."

Actor-director Sean Penn has also added more than his two cents worth to the debate. In October, he paid for a $56,000 ad in The Washington Post that accused Bush of stifling debate on Iraq and "promoting fear through unsubstantiated rhetoric."

As WorldNetDaily reported, Penn flew to Iraq last week determined to gain ''a deeper understanding of the conflict.'' Footage of the Oscar nominee touring a hospital and other sites in Baghad with his camera filled television airwaves during his three-day visit.

"If there's going to be blood on the hands of the United States, whether some people feel it's justified or not, that blood is going to be on my hands, too. And I'm determined that it's not going to be invisible blood," Penn declared.

Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz welcomed Penn and encouraged others to follow.

As WorldNetDaily reported Monday, Penn is not the only Hollywood star traveling to foreign countries and bad-mouthing American foreign policy while away. Last week, actor Danny Glover, known for his "Lethal Weapon" roles with Mel Gibson, and singer Harry Belafonte, were even more critical of U.S. policies in Iraq than Penn while visiting a Cuban film festival. Belafonte accused the Bush administration of using the Sept. 11 terror attacks "to extend its imperialist, economic and political domination all over the planet."

Bardsley thinks stars abuse their status by making their own personal issues known while other citizens would never have the resources to speak out, and even possibly influence U.S. policy. Admitting having grown up heavily under the influence of Hollywood, Bardsley expresses particular concern for teenagers who soak up television 24 hours a day and see the world as she did, through Phil Donahue glasses.

"I remember cheering in front of the television as I watched Gloria Steinem and her Hollywood friends march in D.C. for choice. It would be many years later that I would have three abortions in place of birth control and end up with complicated pregnancies as a result of my choice," she said.

"Hollywood celebrities are beautiful, wealthy, live in extravagant mansions, drive expensive cars and own the admiration of most American youth. They are well aware of their influence and choose to use it to forward their own agenda," she added.

Bardsley has company holding this opinion. In a recent WorldNetDaily poll, 34 percent of the 8,500 respondents said the high-profile entertainers' bad-mouthing of America was because "Their wealthy, hedonistic lifestyles have made them 'out of touch.'" Thirty-one percent chose, "They're socialists and communists at heart" and 13 percent answered, "Many are traitors actively trying to bring down America."

Just two percent felt America was "worthy of being bad-mouthed" and the entertainers were "patriots trying to improve America."

One respondent suggested Hollywood was a tool of the Democratic National Committee.

"If a liberal was in office they would be saying that America is a grand and wonderful country and truly a place that will feed and cloth [sic] the poor people of the entire planet," the writer posted on WND's message board.

On her website, Bardsley also includes a link to WND columnist Michael Medved's arguments to common anti-war themes like "War doesn't solve anything" and "We have no right to attack Saddam because our aid made him powerful."

Bardsley plans to make the results of the petition public, and send them to Farrell and Sheen.

Related article:

Belafonte, Glover trash U.S. in Cuba

Related special offer:

Michael Medved's 'Hollywood vs. America' – autographed!


Diana Lynne is a news editor for WorldNetDaily.com.


55 posted on 12/22/2002 7:37:06 AM PST by SMEDLEYBUTLER
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To: God'sgrrl
Bump.
56 posted on 12/22/2002 7:39:56 AM PST by Rocko
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To: reformed_democrat
Thank you, kind Freeper. Well worded petition - it could have used a couple more paragraphs. Do you know how to find out how many signatures? Thx
57 posted on 12/22/2002 8:21:39 AM PST by Let's Roll
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To: Ajnin
Have you pitched a reality-crime-drama-whodunnit package to any of the major networks?*

*Excluding CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, FOX, CNBC, OXYGEN, DISCOVERY: AN ORGAN TRANSPLANT STORY, MSNBC, CBN, SPICE, HBO, UPN ... BUT including Warner Brothers TV?

You'll need a sassy black princess, a hip old wisdom oracle, and two or three hip hop dance parties. We can arrest Mexicans in Block 7.

58 posted on 12/22/2002 8:47:47 AM PST by ArneFufkin
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To: NautiNurse
I was always smitten by the "films" on video that had English subtitles
59 posted on 12/22/2002 8:49:50 AM PST by ArneFufkin
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To: SMEDLEYBUTLER
Hollywood entertainers create the magical films, Television dating shows and Jennifer Lopez projects that we love to love, and bring, even to Amercians who are stuck far from Hollywood, a brush with the glamor and fabulous stars that make our lives somehow worth living.
60 posted on 12/22/2002 9:06:48 AM PST by ArneFufkin
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