GERE TAKES ON BILL (Richard Gere says Bush has done more for Aids than Clinton!)

NY Daily News ^ | 2/5/03

[areafiftyone]

Gere takes on Bill

Richard Gere stunned fellow liberals Monday by suggesting that President Bush is doing a better job of fighting AIDS than President Bill Clinton did.

Introduced by Sharon Stone at a fund-raiser at Cipriani 42nd Street for the American Foundation for AIDS Research, the "Chicago" star hailed Bush for his State of the Union proposal to contribute $15 billion toward the AIDS battle in Africa and the Caribbean. Gere then addressed the track record of Bush's predecessor in the White House.

"I'm sorry, Sen. [Hillary] Clinton, but your husband did nothing about AIDS for eight years," Gere said.

By that point, Sen. Clinton, who joined Mayor Bloomberg and honorees Anna Wintour and Lorne Michaels at the event, had left the restaurant. But a spokeswoman for the senator said yesterday that Gere's claim was "simply not true. The Clinton administration increased funding for AIDS research, prevention and treatment by over 400% and tripled funding for international AIDS programs."

Meanwhile, veteran Clinton-basher Christopher Hitchens is suggesting that the former President was a CIA informant at Oxford University, where the two were students in the late 1960s.

"I think he was a double," the author of "No One Left to Lie To" claims in the latest issue of the conservative quarterly Doublethink. "Somebody was giving information to [the CIA] about the antiwar draft resisters, and I think it was probably him."

Clinton's spokesman Jim Kennedy declined to comment on Hitchens' spy story.

[sheik yerbouty]

You're OK unless the hail catches fire...

[LandofLincoln]

HE HAD POLITICAL ASPIRATIONS BACK THEN. HE HAD SENATOR FULBRIGHT (THE MAN WHO SECURED HIS RHODES APPOINTMENT) GUIDING HIM. HE DID WHAT FULBRIGHT TOLD HIM TO DO. GO STUDY FULBRIGHT, AND YOU'LL CHANGE YOUR MIND.

[sheik yerbouty]

There is the beginnings of a war in Hollywierd...James Woods trashed David Clennon on Hannity the other day..

[JoeSixPack1]

By that point, Sen. Clinton, who joined Mayor Bloomberg and honorees Anna Wintour and Lorne Michaels at the event, had left the restaurant.

Point #1, Bloomy is a pubbie? ROFL!!!

Point #2. Prepare for an invasion of flying ashtrays, Billyboy!!!!! The Hitlery is PI$$ED!!!!!

ROFLMAO, LOL, Giggle, Chuckle, etc.,... :-)

[metalboy]

Richard Geres new career.

[ambrose]

Ain't this swell. Hollywood Libs are now praising W. because he likes to waste more money on lost causes than Clinton did.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"I'm sorry, Sen. [Hillary] Clinton, but your husband did nothing about AIDS for eight years," Gere said.

Holy crap. What stones. I'm sure Hitlery's response was, "You'll never work in this town again."

[DoughtyOne]

Gere is simply one more person who thinks you and I owe the world our entire paycheck. Oh, but I think he's a swell guy. LMAO

[swarthyguy]

Clinton as a CIA asset has the ring of truth to it, IMO.

Wonder if Hillary even knew all these years, LOL!

[FeliciaCat]

Thank you for the post. All valid points.

[DoughtyOne]

I should have acknowledged that Gere is not alone in that opinion, as evidenced by this issue. ;) Sorry to have not acknowledged the emphasis of your post.

[NeoCaveman]

Shocking news from the Axis of Gerbils™!!

Miller now Gere not to mention Hitchens.

This strange uncomfortable feeling, must be what winning feels like :-)

[RooRoobird14]

"I'm sorry, Sen. [Hillary] Clinton, but your husband did nothing about AIDS for eight years," Gere said.

LOLOLOL!!! The B*tch in the crusty pant suit will be throwing ashtrays today!!

Of course, all of this will be hushed up by the lamestream media, otherwise known as The SinkEmporer KneePad Club.

[StarFan]

What a colorful commentary, LOL. Thanks.

[areafiftyone]

ROFLMAO - That was cold!! But true! I give him credit for what he did. I know he has his issues about Tibet and I believe he feels them deeply - but he chose the wrong forum to give his speech last time. The NYPD and FDNY we not in the mood for politics about another third world country when they just got hit by a third world country! I still think that when it comes down to it - he can turn whichever way the wind blows - like most of them.

[bandleader]

Imagine that,one of The HollyWeird Left has FINALLY seen through "BeelzeBubba" and come to the realization that all he ever did was TALK,TALK,and Bite his LIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ilgipper]

"I'm sorry, Sen. [Hillary] Clinton, but your husband did nothing about AIDS for eight years," Gere said.,/I>

Actually, the quote should read "I'm sorry, Sen. [Hillary] Clinton, but your husband did nothing for eight years"

[Celtjew Libertarian]

I have great respect for the POTUS and his wartime leadership and I believe he has one central component that most others in that office never had and that is HONOR.

However, I don't neccessarily think that because Gere praises GW for aids research and Dennis Miller likes his school voucher program, or even that Hitchens DISDAIN of the Clintons means we are winning new conservatives to our side. What it means is that GW is moving LEFT.

Your first paragraph answers your second. It's not that Gere or Hitchens or even Miller are going conservative; but it's not that GW is moving left either. It's that Bush is a man of honor. And those, who are also people of honor, even if with other political views, are responding to that with respect and thoughtfulness.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks. I appreciate your response. That's what I think of the guy, for what it's worth. You take care. D1

[DoughtyOne]

:) Heh heh heh... yes it was.