December 19, 2004

• Hollywood != Stupid

  I keep seeing people bashing Hollywood and entertainers in general for being Democrats. While, it does seem that these whiners do get more airtime than others, I have to admire the moderates in Left Coast, who have more libertarian leanings. I don't consider myself permanently aligned with any particular party, but I have to hand it to some people who have the ability to do some fact-checking before yelling obscenities about the current president.

  
  

  Denzel Washington "I am where I am by the grace of God, but I haven't had to do anything other than just work hard to get where I am. I didn't get here from partying with the right people or doing anything other than working hard." Robert Duvall "I always find that there is a catch with people like her, some form of hypocrisy, Barbra Streisand won't go to Colorado because they passed a law that was a little prejudicial to gays, but I'll bet she'll go to Havana, Cuba, where they quarantine gays." Russell Means "American Indians are caught in the same dilemma as libertarians. We're neither left nor right. We're just for freedom. The left only came around when they needed martyrs. When we wouldn't be martyrs, they abandoned us." Jerry Doyle ". . . I have never owned a gun, I am not terribly fond of them, but I respect them and their power and so should all gun owners. My father taught me this years ago. He was a policeman who took the responsibility of demonstrating to me at a young age the power of a weapon. We went to a shooting range, he showed me what a gun could do and I respected it. There were never any problems. We must instill this in the people of our country, not by introducing thousands of new arcane laws, but by enforcing those good laws already on the books. . . ." Drew Carey "As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything. If you do, you're screwed. . . . That's all the government should be: Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines." "I think a lot of people are afraid of freedom. They want their lives to be controlled, to be put into a box... Why should someone put a limit on how much fun I can have, how much I can accomplish?" -- interview in Reason magazine. John Malkovich "America's left wing wants criminals coddled, and no one wants anyone punished," he says. "I would have no problem pushing the switch while having dinner." "We're all going to die, so it should just be called the early death penalty." James Earl Jones "I was not against the war in Bosnia. I was against it taking so long. I was not against the war in Somalia. Again, it took too long, and we didn't finish the job. We should've stayed and finished the job. About this pending war, I just think we should've finished that war the first time."

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