I’d like to say
I’m disapointed in Morgan Freeman, I’d like to say I’m disapointed in Jeanine Garofolo.
Both are good actors- I loved Garofolo in “Mystery men”. I loved Freeman in “Bucket list”. Morgan has had an impressive career.
I can see where Garofolo, like a lot of other hollywood types, could be a barking moonbat. I had higher hopes for Freeman.
I’d like to take him to a gathering and introduce him to some Tea Party people. I’d like to let him see how they’re just regular people, who want the country to return to it’s first principles. I’d like to show him how the tea partiers are the very antithesis of racism, of sexism, of anything-ism, that they value freedom for everyone above all.
But it’d be like trying to tell a stranger about rock and roll.
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I wish he’d take Ali Akbar up on his open invitation to join him at a Tea Party. Nobody’s going to explain to anyone what the Tea Party is about. You have to see it for yourself.
Edited to add link to Spectator article about Ali. Thanks, Dave! I didn’t know about mr Akbar. -ed
I would rather have Freeman as president than Obama. I thought he did a good job acting presidential in Deep Impact. If he were president, I might even watch a State of the union address.
Garofolo is a barking moonbat, no could be about it.
There are some actors that I really do enjoy. I enjoy their performances. I appreciate their ability to bring a character to life.
They do this by doing a great job of lying. They are professional deceivers. Their self-worth is fueled on their ability to convince people that they are not what they really are.
They work on cardboard sets of artificially constructed reality, their movements carefully paced by the choreography of a director, their exact words chosen for them by writers. They wear clothes picked out for them and have someone else put on their make up. If they emote incorrectly they have to pretend better a second time.
The lives and deaths that they deal with are fake. The relationships they have are chosen for them. Their days scripted out – they know the future in black and white. The consequences of their actions are sorted out by stagehands and assistants to assistants.
They are children at play.
No wonder they are liberals.
Oh, so being an actor = being fake, being a liar, being a child?
Like say, for instance, that well known fake, liar, and all around infant terrible, Ronald Reagan.
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Jenny
Sometimes, people change. Reagan was an asshole, earlier in his life. it is certainly safe to say that today, being an actor = being fake, being a liar, being a child. very damned few of them are worth the powder it takes to blow them to hell. Some were always like that, but the most recent crop, it’s the rule, and there are so few exceptions it’s not funny.
“like trying to teach a stranger about rock n roll.” Freeman no doubt DOES “believe in magic.”
The problem with that is even if Freeman takes up Mr Akbar on his offer, he’ll think that it was all staged for his benefit. He doesn’t want to believe anything outside of his ideology. Same with Garofolo. To believe (or even to say) that folks advocating for Herman Cain is just a cover to hide racism, shows both her level of racism, because she can’t believe that anyone would put ideas and ideology above skin color and her own insecurities about her ideology because it won’t stand up to outside ideas or thoughts.
I find that the people pointing fingers and yelling ‘racist’ can’t, as MWC eloquently states, “believe that anyone would put ideas and ideology above skin color” are struggling with their own racism – they are the stinky cheese that they project on to others and likely they loathe themselves.
Meh… All I know is that two busloads of blacks from Georgia came to DC for the Tea Party Rally up here a couple of years ago… Guess ‘they’ don’t count for Mr. Freeman. Garofolo? She’s truly a barking moonbat!
Reagan was an actor before the Method became all the rage. So was John Wayne. Jimmy Stewart. Et myriad alia.
Actors are part of a small ghettoized tribe of self-selected others. They are not Us, even if they fake it well.
And, I feel bound to point out, if you listen with a writer’s ear for dialog to most modern actors reading their lines, they don’t even act very well.
M