Jim in Anchorage Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 I found some of the posts on the HW threads highly entertaining. "How dare he mock the president". "Just a entertainer-shut up about politics". Most of the caustic remarks, here and elsewhere, came from the left. A bad golf joke? The left set the gold standard for disrespectful entertainers many years ago. But thats OK. Using high profile to protest. So? Just socially conscious! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buftex Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 I found some of the posts on the HW threads highly entertaining. "How dare he mock the president". "Just a entertainer-shut up about politics". Most of the caustic remarks, here and elsewhere, came from the left. A bad golf joke? The left set the gold standard for disrespectful entertainers many years ago. But thats OK. Using high profile to protest. So? Just socially conscious! ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Anchorage Posted October 5, 2011 Author Share Posted October 5, 2011 ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..................... Glad to see your insight is sharp as ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdnlng Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 Glad to see your insight is sharp as ever. Hey, it's been a long time since he has had a comment as insightful as that. Give him a break. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Anchorage Posted October 5, 2011 Author Share Posted October 5, 2011 Hey, it's been a long time since he has had a comment as insightful as that. Give him a break. Maybe he thinks the story is to old. Entertainers leaving US if Bush elected Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 I found some of the posts on the HW threads highly entertaining. "How dare he mock the president". "Just a entertainer-shut up about politics". Most of the caustic remarks, here and elsewhere, came from the left. A bad golf joke? The left set the gold standard for disrespectful entertainers many years ago. But thats OK. Using high profile to protest. So? Just socially conscious! If that also applies to Matt Damon, Sean Penn and George Cloney, consider me on the bandwagon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffsimon Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 Who cares if he's from the left or the right? Can't we all just agree that likening our president, or anyone who hasn't committed mass murder to Hitler is over the top? It's more an insult to the millions who died at Hitler's hands, than it is to Obama. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 Who cares if he's from the left or the right? Can't we all just agree that likening our president, or anyone who hasn't committed mass murder to Hitler is over the top? It's more an insult to the millions who died at Hitler's hands, than it is to Obama. I think people are just wondering where all the outrage was between 2001 - 2008. http://semiskimmed.net/bushhitler.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drinkTHEkoolaid Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 Where were these kids from 2002-2008 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffsimon Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 I think people are just wondering where all the outrage was between 2001 - 2008. http://semiskimmed.net/bushhitler.html The outrage was here: http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/14/dixie.chicks.reut/ Just because people were a$$holes in '02-08 doesn't mean we should keep being a$$holes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 Just because people were a$$holes in '02-08 doesn't mean we should keep being a$$holes. True...but GG's point is more that people are hypocrites. Or maybe that liberals are hypocrites like Heinrich Himmler was... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GG Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 True...but GG's point is more that people are hypocrites. Or maybe that liberals are hypocrites like Heinrich Himmler was... Huh, what? How did I get dragged into this? Anyhoo, no one answered my question of why people automatically assumed that HW was comparing Obama to Hitler and not Boehner, since Boehner is the one with German roots? If HW used a Hatfields/McCoys, cats & dogs, Bills/Dolphins, Dave in Elma/Dave in Norfolk analogies would that pass the smell test? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erynthered Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 True...but GG's point is more that people are hypocrites. Or maybe that liberals are hypocrites like Heinrich Himmler was... OH, and you're an idiot........tm Fixed it for you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 Huh, what? How did I get dragged into this? Sorry, meant KD. Thought it was you, for some reason. Anyhoo, no one answered my question of why people automatically assumed that HW was comparing Obama to Hitler and not Boehner, since Boehner is the one with German roots? Because he followed his Hitler golfing analogy with "Because Obama and Biden are the enemy!" Which makes it somewhat less ambiguous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCinBuffalo Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 Where were these kids from 2002-2008 ? Elementary school? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 The outrage was here: http://www.cnn.com/2...ie.chicks.reut/ I recall there was just as big an outrage over the backlash/boycott as there was over the original comments. The Dixie Chicks garnered all sorts of sympathy from numerous public figures and media outlets over their right to speak their minds (including Bush if memory serves). Just because people were a$$holes in '02-08 doesn't mean we should keep being a$$holes. No they shouldn't, but that doesn't excuse the hypocrisy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SageAgainstTheMachine Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 (edited) Why shouldn't we tolerate celebrities expressing their political views? Despite all the caustic rhetoric on this board, I never see anything along the lines of "Well you're just a *insert profession*. Stick to that and don't tell me your politics.". The difference, of course, is that the public is grotesquely infatuated with their favorite actor's or favorite musician's opinions but that can hardly be blamed on the celebrity. Edited October 5, 2011 by SageAgainstTheMachine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveinElma Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 So the left can say whatever they want about George Bush (and his family) but once a conservative uses a metaphor he needs to be publicly humiliated and forced into thousands of apologies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 So the left can say whatever they want about George Bush (and his family) but once a conservative uses a metaphor he needs to be publicly humiliated and forced into thousands of apologies. Yes. And I support it unconditionally if it pisses you off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Hindsight Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 I'm 23. I wasn't shocked. I just don't care. Most of the time when something like this is said its all just noise. Is Hank Williams really going to make me think Obama is Hitler? No I'm an educated adult and I make up my own mind. If someone is really influenced by that rash of a statement then IMO they are not thinking for themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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