Tuesday, April 1, 2003 |
18:48 - The Media & Stupid People
http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030401.asp#6
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Via the comments at LGF:
Garofalo labeled the U.S. attack on Iraq as "not fair" because it is an "unprovoked strike." Talking about those denouncing Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks for saying she was "ashamed" to be from the same state as President Bush, Garofalo suggested the attacks on the Dixie Chicks are a "wonderful way for really stupid people to hook up. They meet...they tell stories about who their favorite Fox anchor is..."
When co-panelist Michael Graham, a radio talk show host, recalled seeing a sign at an anti-war march proclaiming, "We Support Our Troops...When They Shoot Their Officers," Garofalo doubted it ever existed and flew into a rage about how "that's what all you right-wing radio hosts do. You make shit up all the time."
That would be this sign, you bowling-ball-hurling ninny.
Do a little research once in a while. Pay attention to the dang news, not whatever the SAG newsletter tells you to think. Reality is not defined by the effects of whatever controlled substances you sprinkle into your Starbucks backstage.
The worst part of seeing Hollywood in this complete meltdown of common sense and decency is having to cross off, one by one, the names of entertainers for whom I'd had so much respect. Robin Williams. Danny Glover. John Cusack. What has united these people in such blind and dismissive idiocy?
At least we haven't heard from Arnold Schwarzenegger on this issue yet-- nor are we likely to. After all, he's got a very real chance of being California's future governor, if he chooses to run for real... and with a certifiable genius-level IQ and enough money to enable him to pooh-pooh the Kennedys in his family, he's the one name I have left to stake my hopes on. For California and for Hollywood. Excelsior.
We've got nowhere to go but up.
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