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No one will ever confuse non-PC comic Dennis Miller
with the likes of Janeane 'Garrulous' Garofalo. In
fact, during a recent appearance on 'The Tonight Show',
the comic sounded (whisper it to Sarandon, Penn, et
al) very conservative and realistic about the upcoming,
and brief, war in Iraq... revealing himself to be
a 'Bush fan'.
'I know you say that in this town and everyone like
goes crazy, but how long do we wait with these morons?
. . . I don't need to see any smoking guns except
the one that just killed Saddam Hussein quite frankly'.
Not to imply that there is any shortage of actors
dusting off the well-worn scripts of the 1970s.
Only
this week, Dustin Hoffman was apparently well oiled
when he launched into the Trotskyist A.N.S.W.E.R.
organized Stop The War crib sheet at the Empire Awards
in London. (That's Empire the film mag, not the former
British colonies collectively known as the British
Empire.)
While
former Madonna husband Sean 'Poison' Penn reprised
Jane Fonda's visit to Hanoi recently with his own
fact-finding mission to Baghdad, where he was apparently
unable to locate any weapons of mass destruction despite
extensive enquiries. So what's the problem then Bush?
George Clooney, meanwhile, likened the president to
Tony Soprano. Clooney, you might recall makes his
living pretending to be lovable rogues who shoot and
rob people for a living in such fare as 'Out Of Sight',
and 'Oceans 11.
Apparently he does not see any connection between
his deep thoughts and the message he pumps out with
his 'art'. He is also. of course, such a caring individual
that he's proud to declare couldn't give a rats ass
about Charlton Heston suffering from Alzheimer's Disease.
Heston. unlike the brave Clooney was a personal friend
of Dr. Martin Luther King, and marched with his during
the Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s. He also
served in the armed forces.
And at the American Music Awards, singer and foreign-affairs
specialist Sheryl Crowe chose to use her T-shirt to
spell out her policy--'war is not the answer'--in
black sequins. Which just goes to show a crow will
never be a hawk.
On it goes, with almost regular bleatings from Susan
Sarandon, Martin Sheen or Dustin Hoffman about how
scary or stupid or both the occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania
Avenue is supposed to be.
That's not news. What is news is that Mr. Miller has
more company than you might think. Tom Cruise started
it off by saying that Saddam was a 'bad guy' and that
President Bush had better intelligence about the weapons
Iraq possesses than he did. Ron Silver that dependable
character actor (Timecops and so many more) angrily
challenged the president of the European parliament
at Davos after the latter took a swipe at so-called
American imperialism.
And on Tuesday, when David Clennon from CBS's 'The
Agency' called in to Sean Hannity's radio show to
say that he found the 'moral climate' in today's America
equal to that of Nazi Germany, actor James Woods read
him the riot act.
And it's not just the war. With Chris Matthews on
'Hardball', Dennis Miller disclosed that he supported
school vouchers and wondered aloud about an American
Civil Liberties Union that spent its time going after
towns displaying nativity crèches.
Then there is Patricia Heaton, the 'Everybody Loves
Raymond' star who walked out on the Osbourne-hosted
American Music Awards when it degenerated into a foul-fest.
And what about Jane Russell (yes, that Jane Russell
who's not only alive, she's really kicking at 80+)
who this week told a cheering crowd at the annual
Conservative Political Action Conference that she
'can't stand these people who are trying to take the
Ten Commandments off the wall, take prayer out of
the school . . . and take prayer out of the football
games'?
So it seems that there are at least some celebrities
who recognize that Colin Powell just might have a
better take on Saddam Hussein than Sean Penn.
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