In defense of Liberals-Clooney speaks

by **snowlion2** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 8:15 pm

I'm certainly not one to be enthralled with what someone says simply because of his/noteriety in an unrelated field or because of his/her celebrity status. And I know that much of the current "politics as usual" leaves much to be desired. But I gotta tell ya, it's getting to the point where something like this really resonates with me, if only for its outspoken-ness. George Clooney, from his post on yesterday's <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-clooney/i-am-a-liberal-there-i-_b_17119.html">Huffingtonpost</a> <blockquote>Quote:<hr>I am a liberal. And I make no apologies for it. Hell, I'm proud of it. Too many people run away from the label. They whisper it like you'd whisper "I'm a Nazi." Like it's a dirty word. But turn away from saying "I'm a liberal" and it's like you're turning away from saying that blacks should be allowed to sit in the front of the bus, that women should be able to vote and get paid the same as a man, that McCarthy was wrong, that Vietnam was a mistake. And that Saddam Hussein had no ties to al-Qaeda and had nothing to do with 9/11. This is an incredibly polarized time (wonder how that happened?). But I find that, more and more, people are trying to find things we can agree on. And, for me, one of the things we absolutely need to agree on is the idea that we're all allowed to question authority. We have to agree that it's not unpatriotic to hold our leaders accountable and to speak out. That's one of the things that drew me to making a film about Murrow. When you hear Murrow say, "We mustn't confuse dissent with disloyalty" and "We can't defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home," it's like he's commenting on today's headlines. The fear of being criticized can be paralyzing. Just look at the way so many Democrats caved in the run up to the war. In 2003, a lot of us were saying, where is the link between Saddam and bin Laden? What does Iraq have to do with 9/11? We knew it was bullshit. Which is why it drives me crazy to hear all these Democrats saying, "We were misled." It makes me want to shout, "Fuck you, you weren't misled. You were afraid of being called unpatriotic." Bottom line: it's not merely our right to question our government, it's our duty. Whatever the consequences. We can't demand freedom of speech then turn around and say, But please don't say bad things about us. You gotta be a grown up and take your hits. I am a liberal. Fire away.<hr></blockquote>

by **slimmouse** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 8:20 pm

Clooney knows the score, make no mistake. And not only that, he starred in "O brother where art thou", and "intolerable cruelty" He'll do for me <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/smile.gif ALT=":)">

by **Gouda** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:29 pm

<a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/16/clooney.huffington.ap/index.html">edition.cnn.com/2006/SHOW...index.html</a> <blockquote>Quote:<hr>Clooney: I didn't write blog entry - Item on Huffington Post was compilation of statements LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- It's George Clooney versus Arianna Huffington in a standoff worthy of "Good Night, and Good Luck." The newly minted Oscar winner says he did not write a blog posted Monday on commentator Huffington's Web site, though he gave her permission to use a compilation of his critiques of the Iraq war from interviews with Larry King and London's The Guardian. "Miss Huffington's blog is purposefully misleading and I have asked her to clarify the facts," Clooney, 44, said in a statement issued Wednesday. "I stand by my statements but I did not write this blog." In Monday's profanity-filled posting, Democrats are faulted for muting their views and criticism of the Bush administration in the months before the start of the Iraq war. Huffington has denied any wrongdoing. A rebuttal on her Web siteexternal link claims she and her staff initially compiled a "sample blog" for Clooney from his interview answers because he wasn't sure how a blog worked. Huffington said that after she sent Clooney the sample, a film publicist e-mailed her and three days later approved it, without any changes. "This was an honest misunderstanding," she wrote. "But any misunderstanding that occurred, occurred between Clooney and the publicist. We based our decision to post on the unambiguous approval we received in writing." Clooney's publicist Stan Rosenfield disagreed. "It's not a misunderstanding, it's misrepresentation," he said. "She knows what she was doing. She was saying to people that she had George Clooney's blog and was printing it. George Clooney does not make statements. He answers questions." Rosenfield said Clooney had requested an addendum of clarification to the posting. Clooney, who won a best supporting actor Oscar for the political thriller "Syriana," also garnered attention for 2005's "Good Night, and Good Luck," a film about CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow that Clooney directed and appeared in. Both films have been interpreted as criticisms of America's foreign and domestic policies.<hr></blockquote>

by **CyberChrist** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 3:19 pm

Post has been pulled from Huffington's site now apparently. -- CyberChrist http://www.hackerjournal.org My brain is hung like a horse.

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