One Of The Boys -

One Of The Boys - Andy Bizub of the Chicago Boys has this excellent rejoinder to the Celebrity Activist community:

The celebrity activist crowd is shocked, shocked that their feet are being held to the fire, that they are being made to suffer the consequences of taking their overwhelmingly unpopular stands. Welcome to the real world people, a world of personal responsibility where actions can generate reactions. The beautiful ones recoil in horror as individuals and private institutions move to disassociate themselves from anti-war rhetoric. Luckily, that does not shut down the pop icons, they just proceed to reel out more rope with which to hang themselves.

They don't suffer peasants gladly

Regarding Susan Sarandon and her new play (TelegraphUK) : She would not take the play to the Middle East. "I do work for Unicef but I don't know if I want to go to the Middle East. It's so violent and I've got a family." Well shit Suzy, we're all safe here, so let the human meat grinder keep running, after all, they're only Arabs and Zionists, right?

Now, this could be taken many ways - it could be completely out of context.

But if I'm allowed to wax cynical - yes, Susan, all those brown, non-coastal people do have it pretty rough under their current regimes, don't they?

As for her partner, (WNBC) : (Tim) Robbins reportedly threatened Washington Post reporter Lloyd Grove for interviewing Sarandon's mother, saying "if you ever write about my family again, I will (bleeping) find you and I will (bleeping) hurt you." Freedom of the press and speech are wonderful things, unless they are wielded against the extreme left, in which case they prompt threats of physical violence.

Tim! Your and your squeeze are semi-literate poseurs.

You know where to find me.

Posted by Mitch at April 21, 2003 12:13 PM