Gone are yesterday's patriotic celebrities. Men like Clarke Gable, who walked from the wealth and safety of stardom to earn the pay of an Army Air Corps photographer during WWII, or Jimmy Stewart, who put his career on hold to fly combat bomber missions where the risk of death was among the highest of the war. And they did this in order that Hollywood's unpleasant children of today can actually have the undisputed right to speak as they please. And speak they do.
Consider Harry Belafonte, whose main claim to fame was being one of the first black persons to sing Calypso on American radio. He seems to think that makes him superior not only to the rest of us, but to the highly educated National Security Advisor, Dr. Condoleezza Rice, and Secretary of State Colin Powell, two individuals who have achieved some of the highest and most demanding positions in black history. Belafonte would rather hobnob with Fidel Castro than be associated with the America that gave him his break. When he visits Cuba, Castro welcomes his rant against America. But does Belafonte seriously expect us to believe that Castro would allow him down there to speak openly against corruption in the Cuban government? Now he's telling us it's U.S. leaders who are, "filled with evil." Should we laugh at this guy or weep?
Then there's Hollywood hunk, George Clooney, who claims “we can't beat anybody anymore.” May we suggest he speak for himself on that one? Especially the next time he visits a public bar without his bodyguards. Fat chance, of course.
And there's West-Wing Martin. You know, Ramon-Estavez Sheen? He's that icon of liberal activism, and the 'real' American President — since George W. Bush is considered an illegitimate heir who's usurped the throne. And he's become the self-appointed spokesperson for the anti-American peace movement of the 21st Century. From the Mid-East to Europe, from South America to Singapore, from the Korean Peninsula to the Philippines, the world is choosing up sides against American inspired liberty and democracy in a way not seen since the late 1930's. And Sheen wants us to become sitting “Duck Soup” pacifists. May we be forgiven if this seems as astonishingly irrational as a woman offering to turn the other 'cheek' (as it were) after the attack of a violent rapist?
Now Sheen's activism is clearly genuine, if not perhaps misguided, so we can charitably assume he sincerely means well. And he did have the chutzpah to publicly call George W. Bush “a moron.” But in his own words, Sheen allowed that he personally doesn't “have the kind of intelligence or the makeup to be a president.”
Which brings us to our point.
Incredibly, in a 2001 BBC interview, Martin Sheen insisted that the only original things of importance that the U.S. has ever exported to the rest of the world were “Alcoholics Anonymous and Jazz Music.”
"I wrote NBC advising that I expected them to keep a pretend president from appearing in photos standing in front of the Presidential Seal. Sheen has not asked the American people to vote for him, has not been elected by voters, does not have the power of the Presidency and, therefore, must not stand in front of the Presidential Seal trying to usurp such power in the minds of dummies.
You will note this is a picture widely used as Sheen rants against the war.
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I say Clancy's idea needs it's own activism thread - energize for truth.
Any takers?
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An Open Letter To The Hollywood Bunch Ok let’s just say for a moment you bunch of pampered, overpaid, Let’s say that you really get your way and we destroy all our nuclear Let’s say that we cut the military budget to just enough to keep the Let’s say that we close down our military bases all over the world and I suppose that in your fantasy world this would create a utopian world After all, they only arm themselves to defend their countries from the Why you bunch of pitiful, hypocritical, idiotic, spoiled mugwumps. Barbra Streisand’s fanatical and hateful rankings about George Bush You people need to get out of Hollywood once in a while and get out into Tell a farmer with a couple of sons in the military that you think the Go down to Baxley, Georgia and hold an anti-war rally and see what the You people are some of the most disgusting examples of a waste of Sean Penn, you’re a traitor to the United States of America. You gave You people protect one of the most evil men on the face of this earth Well I’m going to exercise some freedom of choice of my own. If I see You scoff at our military who’s boots you’re not even worthy to shine. America is in imminent danger. You’re either for her or against her. I think we all know where you stand. What do you think? God Bless America Charlie Daniels |
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