We pay them to entertain us? Why????
My favorite "Stupidisms" Are noted in red, my comments to some are in blue. Steve
Altman, Robert - "If George W. Bush is elected president, I'm leaving for France."
Aniston, Jennifer - "Bush is a f**king idiot."
Asner, Ed - "We didn't have a free election in 2002."
Baldwin, Alec - "Bush wasn't elected, he was selected — selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines."
Behar, Joy - "What I think we should do is draw up a petition, everybody sign in crayon, and then he'll [Bush] understand."
Belafonte, Harry - "I don't think that [U.S. President] George Bush...is a man of honor."
Bernhard, Sandra - "The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs."
Carlin, George - "I especially like those terrorist fellows in the Middle East who run around blowing themselves up along with other people; they strike me as interesting guys.
Cher - "I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy."
Clennon, David - "I'm not comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler - because George Bush, for one thing, is not as smart as Adolf Hitler. And secondly George Bush has much more power than Adolf Hitler ever had."
Clooney, George -"The problem is we elected a manager, and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim." "We can't beat anyone anymore."
Cusack, John - "... I'm not saying I loved Gore, but I'm saying I don't want that mother-f*cking Bush in the White House."
DiFranco, Ani - From her song Self Evident: "and we hold these truths to be self evident:
#1 george w. bush is not president
#2 america is not a true democracy
#3 the media is not fooling me"
Dixie Chicks - "Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas."
Duncan, Sandy -"I don't have all the facts, and who knows what's really the truth, but I don't really respect his (Bush's) way of dealing with this situation. It would have been great to have someone really, really smart in that office, and someone who is globally aware."
Farrell, Mike - On the Clinton war with Kosovo:
"...the bottom line is that I think it's appropriate for the international community in situations like this to intervene. I am in favor of an intervention. ...On some level you have to say that at least somebody is doing something."
On the Bush war with Iraq:
"It is inappropriate for the administration to trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war."
Fonda, Jane - "I would think that if you understood what Communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees, that we would someday become communists." -- Michigan State University, 1970
"I don't know if a country where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world."
Garofalo, Janeane - "This [Iraq war] is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area.
"There is no evidence of weapons of mass destruction. You never even get that idea floated in the mainstream media. If you bring it up, they hate the messenger. You've ruined everyone's good time."
Gere, Richard - "Why is it when we have 10 million people in this country who say 'no,' we still have a president who says 'yes.' In a democracy, something's wrong here." (geez stupid what about the other 290 million! Steve)
"Bush's plans for war are a bizarre bad dream. There doesn't appear to be any sort of basis for any this. I have a feeling something hidden is at work here that will someday see the light of day."
Glover, Danny - "It's basically this rabid nationalism that has its own kind of potential of being maniacal. As we march down and wave the flags, we must be sure of what we're waving them for. "Something is happening now that is very dark and very sinister in this country, and for us to not admit it is happening is, in some ways, for us to be blind."
Goldberg, Whoopi - "I don't agree, you see, I don't really view communism as a bad thing."
Hagman, Larry - "[Bush is a] sad figure: not too well educated, who doesn't get out of America much. He's leading the country towards fascism."
"It's all the same to me, he wouldn't understand the word fascism anyway."
Harrelson, Woody - "This is a racist and imperialist war. The warmongers who stole the White House (you call them 'hawks', but I would never disparage such a fine bird) have hijacked a nation's grief and turned it into a perpetual war on any non-white country they choose to describe as terrorist."
Harris, Ed - "I haven't even been drinking, but, at all, but, you know, being a man, I've got to say that we've got this guy in the White House who thinks he is a man, you know, who projects himself as a man because he has a certain masculinity, and he's a good old boy, and he used to drink, and he knows how to shoot a gun and how to drive a pickup truck, etcetera like that. That's not the definition of a man, God Dammit!"
But this is being a man:
"She [my wife] has educated me over the 20 years we have been together to the point where she's got me in her hip pocket."
Hoffman, Dustin - "For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible."
Hynde, Chrissie - "Have we gone to war yet? We (expletive) deserve to get bombed. Bring it on."
"Let's get rid of all the economic (expletive) this country represents! Bring it on, I hope the Muslims win!" (what a foolish woman......I guess she's a masochist)
Lange, Jessica - "The atmosphere in my country is poisonous, intolerable for those of us who are not right-wing"
Lee, Spike - "They are trying to sell the world something that isn't true. When Donald Rumsfeld makes statements like,'If you don't support our war you are supporting terrorism,' I feel disgusted. They have shown no evidence of a link. This has nothing to do with disarmament. It's about oil. We all know Iraq is a country with a great reserve of natural resources. I find it difficult to buy what Bush is telling us about this being a moral war."
Madonna - "If I were President, Howard Stern would get kicked out of the country -- and Roman Polanski would be allowed back in!"
So how does "President Madonna" justify ejecting Citizen Stern for exercising his constitutional right to free speech -- but welcoming a foreigner who was 44 when convicted of raping a 13-year-old American child he plied with drugs and booze? She says it's "because artists are allowed to make mistakes and have unconventional ideas . . . !" (they need to get her into rehab!)
Matthews, Dave - "I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge."
Moore, Michael(aka fat, ugly, and stupid) - Speaking about 9/11, "Many families have been devastated tonight. This just is not right. They did not deserve to die. If someone did this to get back at Bush, then they did so by killing thousands of people who DID NOT VOTE for him! Boston, New York, DC, and the planes' destination of California --these were places that voted AGAINST Bush!""... You know he's [Bush] there illegally. You know he was not elected either by the popular vote or the vote in Florida."... we know all those facts about Florida and what Katherine Harris did, and the private firm that took African-Americans off the voting rolls and prohibited them from voting. But I've been surprised in this first week how many average Americans were not aware of all of the trickery and deceit that took place in the year before the election to fix it for George W. Bush."
Mortensen, Viggo - "And now just because we focused on Iraq for many reasons, not the least of which is oil... and some kind of vendetta maybe that our President's father has... Who knows what the reasons are? It doesn't really matter"
Norton, Edward - "As an actor I know in my mind, watching him [Bush], what a low-quality mind he has. Because I've been doing this since I was 5 years old, I know when a person is saying words that aren't their own -- and it's apparent as it could possibly be to me that he's a mouthpiece, and not even a good mouthpiece. [Ronald] Reagan was a B-movie actor, but at least he had the ability to touch certain emotional notes. Bush is just utterly incapable of it."(this from a man who's just admitted he's never done a real days waork in his life.)
Pearl Jam - "With three Supreme Court positions opening in the next administration, I'm frightened to think of a Republican in office, especially one raised by a father who was in the CIA. I'm moving to a different country if little Damien II gets elected."
Penn, Sean - "I don't know if people value the thought of revolution any more. I think it would be an enormously patriotic movement to invest in the possibility of revolution." (sounds like advocating sedition here. Isn't that illegal?)
Robbins, Tim - The non-violent Robbins said to the journalist who interviewed Sarandon's Republican mother, "If you ever write about my family again, I will [bleeping] find you and I will [bleeping] hurt you."
"I'm against this whole 'Let's bomb a new country because things aren't going our way.' It's, let's change the subject from Cheney and Halliburton and the crumbling confidence in the stock market. Talk about cynical! Because it's the cost of human lives that I resent... to put American soldiers in harm's way and to do everything to change the subject so that Republicans can keep control of the House."
Roberts, Eric - "Bush is a "fascist" and a co-conspirator (with Osama bin Laden) in deliberately "wrecking the American economy."
Roberts, Julia - "Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant... I looked up Democrat. It's of the people, by the people, for the people." "He's embarrassing. He's not my president. He will never be my president." (and Julia Roberts needs to look up the word stupid, she'll find her name there)
Sarandon, Susan - "I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions." (poor baby....)
"In the name of fear and fighting terror we are giving the reigns of power to oil men looking for distraction from their disastrous economic performance."
Scorsese, Martin - "There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut."
Sheen, Martin - "George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression." (no I don't pardon the expression you moron!) Sheen declared of President Clinton: "I think he was probably the brightest President of the 20th century."
Q: When has it become criminal to express yourself in this country?
Sheen: Right now.
Q: Assess the Bush Administration.
Sheen: In order to understand this Administration it is helpful to have a background in [Alcoholics Anonymous's] Twelve Step, because it is real clear to those of us who understand the Twelve Step program that these are very dysfunctional times. We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration. The proven way for this Administration to keep power is to keep us all in fear. As long as we are afraid of the unknown and afraid of each other, he, or anyone like him, can rule. It's like they will take responsibility for protecting us. It's when we take back the responsibility for protecting ourselves that they get scared. I am amazed by the level of arrogance within the Administration.
Stone, Oliver - "They [corporations] control culture. They control ideas. And I think the revolt of September 11th was about 'F-- you! F-- your order!'"
"We should look to (Castro) as one of the Earth's wisest people, one of the people we should consult."
Streisand, Barbra - "We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress."
"We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities."
Vidal, Gore - "I don't see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims."
"As dumb as this administration is, they don't look ahead. They don't know where any countries are. They don't know how to make deals. They don't really know much about anything. There is no plan."
"Whatever Saddam has that might be atrocious - mustard gas, pox, viruses - we will ensure that he uses it."
"Now you have people [in Washington] who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil."
"The media [have] never been more disgusting in my lifetime. Every lie out of Washington - they're out there doing war dances."
Williams, Robin - "We're here tonight because of the Shrub, you know who I'm talking about. George W. Bush, Jr. The W stands for 'where the Hell is it?' You know, you look at George W. and you realize some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some get it as a graduation gift. So sad. I just want to ask the Secret Service, is it true that his Secret Service code name is Gilligan?"
"We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself."
