A surprising bit of news out of Hollywood. A group of Hollywood names — both on the screen and behind it — got together and took out a full page ad in the Los Angeles Times taking a stand against terrorism. Webloggin has a copy of the ad.
Interestingly, the news about this ad’s existence didn’t show up in the American news at all. Instead, an Australian paper picked up the news because Nicole Kidman spearheaded the effort. As Dennis Prager says, this war helps separate the wheat from the chaff, in that it identifies the decent Left, from the indecent Left. Some of the decents have come out of hiding in Hollywood (as well as many of the better known Hollywood conservatives).
Speaking of the indecent Left, if you have the stomach for it, you may want to read Jimmy Carter’s Der Spiegel interview. Here’s just one revolting part of that interview:
SPIEGEL: You also mentioned the hatred for the United States throughout the Arab world which has ensued as a result of the invasion of Iraq. Given this circumstance, does it come as any surprise that Washington’s call for democracy in the Middle East has been discredited?
Carter: No, as a matter of fact, the concerns I exposed have gotten even worse now with the United States supporting and encouraging Israel in its unjustified attack on Lebanon.
SPIEGEL: But wasn’t Israel the first to get attacked?
Carter: I don’t think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon. What happened is that Israel is holding almost 10,000 prisoners, so when the militants in Lebanon or in Gaza take one or two soldiers, Israel looks upon this as a justification for an attack on the civilian population of Lebanon and Gaza. I do not think that’s justified, no. …
SPIEGEL: Should there be an international peacekeeping force along the Lebanese-Israeli border?
Carter: Yes.
SPIEGEL: And can you imagine Germans soldiers taking part?
Carter: Yes, I can imagine Germans taking part.
SPIEGEL: … even with their history?
Carter: Yes. That would be certainly satisfactory to me personally, and I think most people believe that enough time has passed so that historical facts can be ignored.
It pains me to admit that I voted for this man in 1980 (I’ll bet many of you did too), and I just have to say I’m so incredibly grateful to those Americans who had the wisdom in that year to turn out for Reagan.
Carter is a very, very bad man. Whether because he’s senile (which I doubt) or because he’s become so imbued in the worst of Leftist ideology, he’s abandoned any semblance of a moral compass. And for him to use his bully-ish pulpit as an ex-President to travel abroad to attack is own country and his own successor in office is so appalling I’m left wordless . . . so I’ll stop here.
Where’s the list of names?
What happened is that Israel is holding almost 10,000 prisoners, so when the militants in Lebanon or in Gaza take one or two soldiers,
Again and again they would mention the prisoners. There are benefits to getting rid of people like McVeigh permanently. Do people talk about us holding McVeigh and needing to release him? No, cause he is dead. Did people talk about having to release Tookie? Yes they did. Why? Because Tookie was still alive, when there is life there is hope. Crush the hope of the Jimmy Carters by executing all 10,000 prisoners. Sooner rather than later.
It’s so obvious even I can see it. Israel and Bush acts like they have all the time in the world. They don’t.
It pains me to admit that I voted for this man in 1980 (I’ll bet many of you did too), and I just have to say I’m so incredibly grateful to those Americans who had the wisdom in that year to turn out for Reagan.
Strength through diversity, Bookworm. The true meaning of that is incomplete without Union. It is that Union that brings us the strength that derives from diversity. Without true Union, diversity would shatter us.
We need people like you Bookworm, because it does not matter who you voted for in the past, so long as you are committed to the future of the Union with us, now, in the present. This has allowed us to avoid coup de tats, military juntas and various other unpleasantries as elections have been held, presidents assassinated, and vacuums of power left unattended.
Do we cut off our left arm when that arm fails us? No, we nurture it, we strengthen it with exercise, and we keep it with us, in true Union, for a time in the future when we will need all the power we might bring to bear for survival and destiny.
That pain is a regret of yours, but it also brings strength to us all in America. The lessons learned from one, can be learned by all. It isn’t about diversity through multiculturalism, it isn’t about learning about different people and societies, it is about one pure thing that is very basic to me. It is survival, it is about Strength. We are stronger together than alone. The ties that bind us together are also the ties that combine our power into more than the sum of their individual components.
That Union is threatened when disharmonious elements that attempt to sabotage that which has existed in bliss and practicality for centuries. Those disharmonious elements are not part of the Union, even if they live on the same geographical land as the rest of us. How to tell what contributes to the Union and what does not, is the trick. Sometimes you exclude too much, sometimes you include too much into the Union, and weaken it by absence or presence.
We don’t make that important decision alone however. Just as we require each other for support and strength, we also combine our knowledge and judgement to make better decisions into the future.
America is vulnerable right now not because of terrorism, but because of internal friction and chaos. While a force of a thousand suns could do nothing but blacken the crystal of our integrity, a resonating crack deep within the heart of that crystal can shatter it from within.
Our strength is our Unity but that is also our weakness. For if our enemies should accomplish the ultimate, and shatter that Unity, we would be defenseless against our enemies. Foreign enemies cannot defeat us without the aid of domestic enemies inside our defensive perimeter, inside our very Unity of Purpose.
America is a fortress, almost impregnable. But as we all know, there is no such thing as an impregnable fortress. With enough inside agents and saboteurs, they will open the gates, shattering the integrity of our defenses.
The future cannot be foretold, but in the present all we have to do is ask but one simple question of ourselves.
Will we allow internal disharmony to destroy the construction of two centuries?
Amputation must be considered.
What bothers me is that somehow the PResidency, even for those who no longer hold the office, has become their personal possession. THEIR pulpit.
Gore, Carter, Clinton (a huckster for Bill Gates now)–we would pay little attention to their antics EXCEPT for their previous status; one not earned, but granted by the people.
So.. let’s vote again. And rescind that status.
You do remember the Leftists/Dems after the 2004 election claiming (with a website) ‘Bush doesn’t represent me.’ Or ‘I am so ashamed..’ and other anti American vomit.
Who isn’t ashamed of Carter? (Fidel and Hugo aren’t, for two.)
Should we have a website called “Shut up JIMMY?”
Why can’t we turn and spurn the anti American figures in our midst, especially seditious former public officials?
The Soviets, who knew how to deal with this sort of thing, imprisoned their used leaders in secluded dachas or maybe mental health wards.
WE wouldn’t. Still: ‘Nobel Peace Prize winner who was formally repudidated by his fellow citizens’ would be a great start.
Nicole Kidman speaks out against the Hezbollah…
Something tells me that her ex-hubby Tom Cruise would be less likely to do something as courageous as she’s now doing, exactly why she’s lucky to be divorced from him. Here’s the news from the Boston Herald (Hat tip: Hot Air)…
I’m curious how much time needs to pass before historical facts can be ignored. Sixty or so years for the Germans, according to Carter’s estimation, but I suspect there is a sliding scale for this. I assume there are some awkward historical facts about the Carter Administration that Mr. Carter would prefer to gloss over, such as the fact he won the first post-Watergate election against the only incumbent President in history never elected to that office, that he was humiliated by the Iranians and at one point in negotiations sent Ramsay Clark to Tehran as U.S. envoy, that Carter was enormously unpopular and voted out of office and that his successor was both popular and reelected in a landslide over Carter’s former VP.
Hollywood Supports America?
Too bad they had to pay for an ad though. If they had been rallying in support of hezbollah and burning American or Israeli flags, they’d have gotten wall-to-wall coverage for free. But they can probably afford to break free of a few bucks for the Re…
JImmy Carter is vile. History will judge him harshly.
Why would ANYONE be surprised at anything America’s favourite ex-peanut farmer has to say? He has been a steady voice of anti-Israel and anti-American sentiment ever since Bush 43 came to power–how can anyone forget his receipt and acceptance of a Nobel Peace Prize which he received sspecifically because he was against the Iraq War?
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