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FNC Notes Donations by Justices & Democratic Double Standard; Thomas Rants About Killing Iraqis; Sawyer "Loves" Anti-Military Spending Poster; NBC's Curry Gently Slams Streisand; Jessica Lange: "I Hate Bush" & Am "Ashamed" of U.S.; Alec Baldwin Mocks FNC; Patricia Heaton: God Will Judge Me, Not Barbra Streisand
In illustrating how the New Jersey Supreme Court justices clearly leaned in favor of ignoring the law, something they did hours later in ruling that Frank Lautenberg could replace Robert Torricelli on the ballot for Senate, FNC reporter Carl Cameron played a clip, from the oral argument session, of one justice who was off camera: "Why should we strictly enforce a statute and penalize the voters, whose right it is to participate in the democratic process and have a real choice between two candidates?" Of course, New Jerseyans would have had plenty of choices since, in addition to the Republican, the November ballot for the Senate seat already included Green Party, Libertarian, Socialist Worker and New Jersey Conservative Party candidates. During the "Grapevine" segment on the same October 2 show,
Brit Hume highlighted the liberal Democratic political donations of two justices: Hume also pointed out an inconsistency by Democrats in wanting Torricelli replaced on the ballot in New Jersey while making sure Patsy Mink, a Democratic Congresswoman in Hawaii who died last week, remains on the ballot. In Hawaii, Democrats want her name to remain on so she can win and then there will have to be a special election to replace her. Hume observed:
Below is the exchange, during the October 2 briefing shown by the cable networks, between Thomas, the long-time UPI White House reporter who is now a columnist for Hearst Newspapers, and Bush Press Secretary Ari Fleischer: Thomas: "Why is a family grudge included in the official paper that states our position on war and peace?" How about some protection from Helen Thomas and her wackiness.
At the end of Wednesday's Good Morning America, Gibson, whose wife runs a private, all-girls school which is very discriminatory in that it excludes boys, boasted: "My wife has a sign on her office wall and it says, 'Won't it be a great day when the Air Force has to hold bake sales to get a new bomber and the schools have all the money they need?'" But as an expensive private school in a tony Manhattan neighborhood, Mrs. Gibson's school is hardly lacking for money. MRC analyst Jessica Anderson caught the endorsement of liberal propaganda uttered in a time-filler minute near the end of the October 2 GMA. Gibson recalled an earlier story: I bet the parents of her students were grateful on 9-11 for some Air Force air cover over Manhattan. And yet, even after the terrorist attacks, such a poster is still up on her wall? Excess union contracts and bureaucratic management may mean that while tons of money is spent on New York City's public schools not enough of it makes it to the classroom, but the school run by Gibson's wife has plenty of money, so I don't understand what she has to complain about. Arlene Joy Gibson is "Head of School" for The Spence School, at 22 East 91st St. It's slogan: "Not for school but for life we learn." Its Web site: http://www.spenceschool.org/index2.cfm [1] Check this recitation of the school's features, as described in a letter from Arlene Joy Gibson: "Walk in any hallway or look in any classroom and you will understand why Spence students are so happy to be here. You might hear a first grader reading her own poem at an assembly. Or catch a seventh grade English class where students, clad in period costumes, are reading scenes from A Midsummer Night's Dream. Or hear eleventh graders debating the moral and legal aspects of DNA research in an Advanced Biology class. Wherever you look, Spence students are fully engaged in the invigorating process of learning and self-discovery." For the whole letter and a picture of Mrs. Gibson: As for the facilities, they sound about as expensive as an Air Force bomber: That's online at:
MRC analyst Geoffrey Dickens noted Curry's quip at the end of an October 2 news update. Curry announced:
The actress best-known for roles in films ten-plus years ago, such as King Kong, Tootsie and Cape Fear, also said she was "ashamed to come from the United States" and, since the "atmosphere in my country is poisonous, intolerable for those of us who are not right-wing," she thanked the festival organizers for "allowing me to get out" of the U.S. for "a few days." Lange's September 25 comments first came to light in the United States via an item in MSNBC.com's "Scoop" gossip column by Jeannette Walls, who appears to have lifted her item from a German publication's account which included some additional obnoxious quotes that Walls left out. An excerpt from Walls' October 1 posting about what Lange said when receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival in Madrid, Spain: ...."I hate Bush. I despise him and his entire administration -- not only because of its international policy, but also the national," Lange told the audience, according to various reports coming from Spain. "It makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States -- it is humiliating." "Bush stole the elections and since then we have all been suffering the consequences," Lange told the enthusiastic crowd.... END of Excerpt For the short MSNBC item in full, with a photo of Lange: http://www.msnbc.com/news/815250.asp?0bl=-0&cp1=1 [4] Doing a search in Nexis, I found only one account of Lange's bombast, a September 26 article in a German publication called Deutsche Presse-Agentur, and it included some quotes not cited by Walls. An excerpt from the September 26 Deutsche Presse-Agentur piece which carried a Madrid dateline but was unbylined: ....The 53-year-old Oscar-winning actress lambasted the U.S. government at a press conference at the San Sebastian film festival, where she received a lifetime achievement award on Wednesday. "What Bush intends to do with Iraq is unconstitutional, immoral and illegal," Lange was quoted as saying. "I hate Bush, I despise him and his entire administration. Not only because of its international policy, but also the national. Today it makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States, it is humiliating." "Bush stole the elections and since then we have all been suffering the consequences. The Iraq plan is absolutely mad, but what I do not understand is that nobody tries to stop it, neither inside nor outside the United States," the actress added. "The atmosphere in my country is poisonous, intolerable for those of us who are not right-wing, so thank you for inviting me to this festival and allowing me to get out for a few days," Lange said on receiving the Donostia Prize, which was presented by Spanish actor Jose Coronado. Lange also said she did not think much of Hollywood and preferred to work in Europe. "How could I be interested in Hollywood? Studios only make movies which will earn them a lot of money. Hollywood is ruled by accountants and not film makers." END of Excerpt Lange hasn't done much recently, but she is known for the 1982 movie Tootsie, 1988's Everybody's All American and 1991's Cape Fear. For her bio and a rundown of all her film roles, check the Internet Movie Database's page on her: http://us.imdb.com/Name?Lange,+Jessica [5] For more examples of celebrities bashing Bush, see the October 1 and 2
CyberAlerts: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2002/cyb20021001.asp [6] [Web Update: The syndicated program Inside Edition aired a story showing soundbites from what the actress said at the San Sebastian International Film Festival in Spain last month where she won a ?lifetime achievement? award; how you can watch a RealPlayer playback of what she uttered; Lange's comments as originally reported in a newspaper in Spain; and how Barbara Walters condemned Lange for her remarks. See October 7 CyberAlert [8].]
Baldwin admitted to the Minneapolis Star Tribune that he "once joked that if Bush senior became President 'it might be a good time to leave the country.'" Actually, I think that was of more recent vintage and so would be Bush junior. Former MRCer Andy Szul alerted me to a New York Post "Page Six" item about how conservatives protested outside of Baldwin's September 28 appearance, which prompted me to track down a more complete accounting by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. An excerpt from the September 29 Star Tribune story by Patricia Lopez: Minnesota politics took an edgy turn Saturday night when Republicans staged an in-your-face protest outside the Fine Line Café in downtown Minneapolis, where Hollywood celebrity Alec Baldwin appeared at a DFL fundraiser for gubernatorial candidate Roger Moe and U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone.... On Saturday, about 16 to 20 Minnesota College Republicans and staff members from Republican U.S. Senate candidate Norm Coleman's campaign stood in the rain in front of the Fine Line, chanting "Deport Baldwin" and waving signs that said "Paul Wellstone, bad for Minnesota farmers".... Inside, Baldwin delivered a fiery speech railing against Republicans and told a packed crowd of several hundred that "you have a senator who is an iconic figure to Democrats across the country." Republicans, he said, are trying to define Americans as only those who support the president, pledge allegiance and salute the flag. "What an American really is -- Paul Wellstone gets it," he said. "He gets that government should do its best for all Americans, that it should do the most for the most it can." He criticized "muscular, conservative" media outlets such as Fox News and the Drudge Report for jumping on the war bandwagon. Had a Democratic administration been in charge on 9/11, he said, "you'd see a banner across the bottom of Fox -- 'Osama at large, Day 30, Day 40.' This administration's answer is, we can't find Osama? Let's go get Saddam." Talking to reporters later, Baldwin said he is dogged by Republican protesters at many stops. Often, he said, they hand out fake airline tickets -- as protesters did Saturday -- claiming that Baldwin once said he'd leave the country if George W. Bush became President. Baldwin said he once joked that if Bush senior became President "it might be a good time to leave the country." Ever since, he said, Republicans have circulated the fake tickets at his appearances.... END of Excerpt For the entirety of the article: http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/3333452.html [9] For the Internet Movie Database's bio of Baldwin: http://us.imdb.com/Name?Baldwin,+Alec [10]
Indeed, she informed O'Reilly, when she wore a Bush/Quayle button back in 1992, "literally people would stop and look at the button and look at me and give me dirty looks" and "say nasty things to me." MRC analyst Patrick Gregory caught the appearance of Heaton on the October 1 O'Reilly Factor. Heaton, who has twice won an Emmy for playing "Debra Barone," Ray's wife on CBS's Monday night sit-com Everybody Loves Raymond, is in the midst of a tour to promote her light-hearted book, Motherhood and Hollywood: How to Get a Job Like Mine. As unusual as not being liberal in Hollywood, Heaton is married with four sons -- and they all live together. Most interviews I've seen with Heaton in the past few days concentrated on how her book recounts the plastic surgery she has had to lift her breasts and flatten her stomach after four Cesarian sections, and O'Reilly got to that, but he started the interview with her politics, asking her up front about the impact of being "pro-life" in "pro-choice town" like Hollywood. Heaton, a native of Cleveland, replied: "You know I'm a chairman of 'Feminists for Life,' and so I think because of that we have an interesting stand that most people don't, haven't heard before, which is being pro-life can be a feminist issue. The early feminists were pro-life. And really abortion is a huge disservice to women and hasn't been presented that way, so there's sort of an in for me because of that take on it." O'Reilly soon wondered: "But it all comes down to would you ban it [abortion] if you were a Supreme Court justice. Would you vote to ban it?" Thank God for that. As the interview wrapped up, Heaton observed: "The thing I found in Hollywood was that the Democrats were supposed to be all inclusive, but they weren't inclusive of my opinions." As recounted in the July 18, 2001 CyberAlert, on the July 16, 2001 Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn on CBS, Heaton admitted she voted for Bush, boasted to her friends about the then-upcoming tax cut and is "pro-life." For all of what she said and a RealPlayer clip, go to: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2001/cyb20010718.asp#10 [11] If that doesn't work, try: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2001/cyb20010718_extra.asp#10 [12] For a picture and bio of her: http://www.cbs.com/primetime/everybody_loves_raymond/bio_pheaton.shtml [13] CBS's page for the show: http://www.cbs.com/primetime/everybody_loves_raymond/ [14] To learn about her book, Motherhood and Hollywood: How to Get a Job Like Mine:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0739302574/qid= Heaton's willingness to stand by her moral and political convictions in the face of hostility in her industry, is just one more reason to watch her very funny show, which is also now in syndication. -- Brent Baker [16]
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If we're a court why should we enforce the law? FNC's Special Report with Brit Hume revealed on Wednesday night the activist reasoning of the New Jersey Supreme Court, pointed out how two of the justices had made donations to Senator Torricelli, with one of them also having contributed to Frank Lautenberg, and how while "Democrats are fighting to get the very much alive Robert Torricelli off the ballot," in Hawaii they want keep their congressional candidate, Patsy Mink, "on the ballot even though she has died."
Another session of incoherent left-wing rantings by Helen Thomas at the White House press briefing on Wednesday. She demanded: "Why is a family grudge included in the official paper that states our position on war and peace?" Then she painted the U.S. as the killer of innocent Iraqis: "Does that justify killing thousands of people in Iraq?" and "Are you going to kill all these people to get democracy?"
ABC's Diane Sawyer "loves" the liberal National Education Association-type of anti-military spending propaganda which Charles Gibson's wife has displayed in a poster on her office wall.
A little shot at Barbra Streisand from Today news reader Ann Curry. Noting how Streisand had quoted Shakespeare to make her case against Bush's Iraq policy, a quote which turned out to be an Internet hoax, NBC's Curry observed: "The Bard did write this assessment about humans in general, 'Lord what fools these mortals be.'"
"I hate Bush," actress Jessica Lange spewed last week when receiving an award at a film festival in Spain. She added: "I despise him and his entire administration" and that "what Bush intends to do with Iraq is unconstitutional, immoral and illegal."
Speaking of celebrities threatening to leave America, at a Minnesota Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party fundraiser in Minnesota over the weekend to raise money for the party's gubernatorial candidate and for far-left U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone, actor Alec Baldwin praised Wellstone while he also denounced and mocked the Fox News Channel.
Not all Hollywood celebrities are Bush-bashing liberals who hate conservatives. Reaffirming her pro-life stand, Everybody Loves Raymond star Patricia Heaton told FNC's Bill O'Reilly on Tuesday night: "As a Christian, it will not be Barbra Streisand I'm standing in front of when I have to make an accounting of my life....She will not be in charge of whether I get my wings or not."
Heaton, who an interview last year on CBS's Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn said she had voted for Bush and was looking forward to her tax cut, related on FNC how she has found Hollywood very intolerant of her views: "The thing I found in Hollywood was that the Democrats were supposed to be all inclusive, but they weren't inclusive of my opinions."