Here's some tales from the left coast I got from an E-Mail from newsmax.com. I actually have the book this guy wrote (Tales from the Left Coast) on my amazon.com wishlist, because it looks funny...and I despise most of the Hollywood idiots politics and nonsense. Here are a few tales from the Hollywood pinheads.
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With the historic capture of Saddam Hussein, I thought I’d do my part to nudge the celebrity left into rhetoric rehab. Here are some words they can start eating.
1. Sean Penn’s Advertising Antics
Some Mexican officials in Nuevo Laredo aren't exactly nostalgic about the syrupy sounds of Air Supply.
In July 2003, actor and political bellyacher Sean Penn spent over $125,000 placing a full-page ad in the New York Times.
While Penn grumbled about the difficulty of getting his message out, the Times enabled him to do so in spades. He called America “a dictatorship.”
As to the question of whether the Iraqi people were better off without Saddam, Penn replied, “Who the [expletive] are we to say whether they’re better off?”
The Left Coast Report says if you don’t know whether the Iraqi people are better off without Hussein, you probably belong in one of those spider holes.
2. Michael Moore’s Off-the-Mark Message
In March 2003, king-size collector of corporate dollars Michael Moore drafted one of his mindless missives to the president.
Moore wrote: “As Bill Maher said last week, how bad do you have to suck to lose a popularity contest with Saddam Hussein? The whole world is against you, Mr. Bush. Count your fellow Americans among them.”
Lead stupid white man added, “How bad does it have to get before you realize that you are an army of one on this war?”
The Left Coast Report points out that history has now corrected Moore, and Saddam Hussein is an army of none.
3. Janeane Garofalo’s Peace Perversion
Appearing on MSNBC in July 2003, Janeane Garofalo demonstrated that she’s unwilling to step out of the partisan box for even a moment.
Mike Barnicle asked Garofalo, “Who do you regard as a bigger threat to world peace: George Bush or Saddam Hussein?”
Garofalo responded, “I say at this point, for different reasons, they are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive.”
The Left Coast Report recommends that we treat Janeane’s ideas on geopolitics just as we do Jessica Simpson’s ideas on tuna.
4. Babs’ Blather
Hollywood's hypocrisy is showing again.
In November 2003, Barbra Streisand posted this little ditty on her Web site: “It’s ironic that the larger fabrication is not this fictional movie with actors, but the real-life distortion of the truth told by this current president and members of his administration.”
Streisand advised readers not to believe “the implication that Saddam Hussein was involved in September 11th” or “the charge that Iraq was aiding al Qaeda terrorists.”
We now know that Saddam was involved with the organization that planned Sept. 11 and that 9/11 techniques were taught to terrorists-in-training on a downed jetliner south of Baghdad.
The Dem diva also told readers not to believe “that Iraq held weapons of mass destruction that could be activated within 45 minutes.” But an Iraqi officer recently verified the info.
The Left Coast Report wonders if next Babs will blog that the guy in the hole was actually Bad Santa.
5. Breakfast With Saddam
Are the morning shows planning to serve up some crow omelet soon?
In February 2003, ABC’s “Good Morning America” showed Diane Sawyer walking the streets of Baghdad and stumbling upon some Iraqi kids who called the U.S. “bad.”
In a possible premonition of the kind of hole the Iraqi ruler would end up in, Sawyer then engaged in a joint performance of “Itsy Bitsy Spider.”
After finishing the arachnid rhyme, Sawyer said she “got a song back. It is a song about Saddam Hussein, his strength and their desire to protect him.”
In March, Sawyer chimed about Saddam, “I read this morning that he’s also said the love that the Iraqis have for him is so much greater than anything Americans feel for their president because he’s been loved for 35 years.”
In April, Lara Logan of CBS’s “The Early Show” twittered, “And people here have been buoyed by the sight of Saddam Hussein on Iraqi television last night … greeting people in a residential area of Baghdad.”
In November, “The Early Show” featured Harry Smith hyperventilating about the president wanting to defeat “terrorists in Iraq so we don’t have to face them in our own country.”
Smith’s comment was “There’s no connection between Iraq and 9/11. Why does the president persist in tying those two together?”
The Left Coast Report cautions that if you indulge in this kind of breakfast fare, remember to keep the Pepto handy.
6. The Other Gore
Certain folks deserve two scoops of crow. Gore Vidal is one of them.
In a February 2003 discharge, the America-hating author declared, “Whatever Saddam has that might be atrocious – mustard gas, pox, viruses – we will ensure that he uses it.”
Gore’s people now claim that Saddam didn’t have and hide weapons “that might be atrocious – mustard gas, pox, viruses.”
In a separate spouting, Gore said, “Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.”
The Left Coast Report believes Gore and Saddam may actually have this bit of style in common.
7. Al Franken’s Freaky Fantasy
Back in 1999, prior to his lying liar book, Franken wrote “Why Not Me?”
In November of the same year, Franken appeared on the “Today” show with Matt Lauer to hawk his book. Unlike his fellow lefties, Franken had the right idea of what ought to be done with Saddam Hussein.
Lauer asked Franken, “You also, I think – you had threatened to assassinate Saddam Hussein?”
Franken shot back: “Well, I actually – this is in a high – in a manic high, I come up with a plot where I personally am going to assassinate Saddam Hussein by presenting him with a plaque as the world’s greatest granddad and hitting him over the head. And also during a high, I decide to have myself cloned.”
Franken developed the plot further, saying, “And, in fact, I am, and my embryo is placed in Anne Heche’s uterus, and my clone – Anne Heche, be generous – is the only human clone and becomes later the curator of the Franken Presidential Library.”
Too bad Franken didn’t stick with his head-bopping line of thinking. Instead he went off on a lying expedition of his own.
When Franken attended the White House Correspondents Dinner in April 2003, attendees got to hear him shout to Assistant Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, “Clinton’s military did pretty well in Iraq, huh?”
And in November, the Arab news wires broadcast an audiotape purportedly of Saddam Hussein. Evidently, Saddam referred to President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair as “liars.”
The Left Coast Report speculates that the references to Bush and Blair meant that Franken had a fan in a hole in Tikrit.
taken from newsmax.com E-Mail newsletter
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