I just read an article about how some celebrities are planning to wear “peace” pins during the Oscars to protest the war. I will be intensely annoyed if an Oscar winner rails against our troops and President Bush during his/her moment of glory. So annoyed, in fact, that I would probably turn off the television. It occurred to me… We (the general American public) don’t care as much for celebrities as people as we care about them as actors. We like the personas they create for the big screen. So please, Hollywood A-listers, drop the freaking pin and keep your comments related to your work.
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rebecca Mar 21, 2003 5:53 PM
read more about war protests today… it sickens me to hear about protestors’ slogans like “bush is a war criminal.” for goodness sake, do these people know what saddam hussein has been doing to his own people? do they know how terribly the iraqi people have suffered? how pathetic that so many are so MISINFORMED.
bethany Mar 22, 2003 10:57 PM
i agree. i don’t mind the pins, but i will be thoroughly disappointed if people use this recognition of their work as an opportunity to bash our country and president. it isn’t the time or place.
bobby Mar 23, 2003 12:32 PM
There I was, watching FoxNews, the most right-wing, big oil, environment crushing news agency on cable. I quickly switched to CNBC when Fox’s O’Reilly guy started arguing with Rosie again about baby-killing guns or something like that. Why can’t he get his own life and like, start thinking about education and the environment instead of war and guns and stuff.
On the other side, I’d like you all to go to MichaelMoore.com. He is perhaps the most fellaciously-ridden social commentator I have encountered in my 21 years. I encourage you, strongly, to e-mail Mike as soon as possible and voice your concern with his self-defeating, monstrosity of a letter to the President. I also suggest reading as much eye-witness news reporting as possible as there are a number of things going on right now that get little press coverage but have enormous public and political consequences. Another suggestion, as I’ve been reading about the subject of Iraqi history, the Baath Party, and UNSCOM’s inspections during ’91-’98, I have been unnerved to a great degree. By balancing a couple books on my reading list at the time I’ve come to a couple definite conclusions. The first is the most significant and worth pointing out: these things in Iraq, concerning weapons disarmament, national sovereignty, right to destiny, UN inspections, imperialist influence, Middle-East stability, clandestine operations (in, around, and with Iraq) is so wide in scope that to have an opinion on the war that breaks the answer down to a mutually exclusive yea or nay, would be a crime. I have no clue how to support a war that should have been fought a decade ago or more. The US should have occupied Iraq and assassinated him in ’91. They failed. Clinton pursued the weakest policy possible, one of containment. It got him re-elected, since no dirty disarmament war will go on with a non-military scarred President in office. Tomahawk missiles down Saddam and bin Laden’s throats was their executive policy, not boots on the ground. Thank you, valiant President, for saving thousands of American military by not putting an end to bin Laden ’95. Tell that to the civilian casualities in the World Trade Center. Anyhow, it’s complicated. I don’t understand how to put all of the pieces together, however I do know that there is more to the history than we will ever know. Crap.