Donald Sutherland Attacks Bush Administration
Filed under: Celebrities and Controversy, Politics
Donald Sutherland, who will be seen onscreen later this year in the new Pride and Prejudice, gave an emotional interview to the BBC recently, in which he slammed the Bush Administration's foreign policy and response to Hurricane Katrina. Said to have been "choking back tears", Sutherland labelled the federal government's post-Hurricane efforts as "inept" and "inadequate to the task". The media also incurred the star's wrath: as for NBC's decision to edit Kanye West's "Bush doesn't care about Black people" bit out of the West Coast feed of their Katrina telecast, Sutherland proclaims, "We're back to burning books in Germany." Sutherland then apparently burst into tears and cried, "We've stolen our children's future...It's shameful." Oh, by the way - Donnie has a new series on ABC called Commander in Chief, in which he plays a borderline-evil Speaker of the House – the kind of guy that would probably make fun of a movie star brought to tears by political frustration.
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10-03-2005 @ 1:00PM
cel said...
sounds like donald could use a session or two with good dr. tyrone c. berger . . .
cel
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10-03-2005 @ 1:30PM
Hawthorne said...
What's next? Matthew Fox complaining about airline safety? James Spader commenting on tort reform? Mariska Hargitay making statements on the constitutional implications of revising the Miranda warning?
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10-03-2005 @ 2:19PM
The Jeremy said...
Criticism coming from the guy whose ideas wrecked the theatrical "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" motion picture. Does he really think he could do a better job than the President with that track record? Somehow, I think the real Sutherland was kidnapped back in the 70s and the current version is the Pod Person last saw in that Body Snatchers remake he was in. I can just see him now raising his finger at the tv screen showing Bush on it and doing that high pitched alien scream.
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10-03-2005 @ 2:20PM
The Jeremy said...
Seen. Last seen. Curse my Engrish.
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10-03-2005 @ 2:38PM
Nix said...
And they say all Hollywood Liberals are feel-good high school drop outs wholly dependent on their emotions for "rational" thought. Naaaaah.
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10-03-2005 @ 4:51PM
Meryl said...
Who are you people?
You are not engaging in a discussion, but rather personal attacks that do not address some very serious issues. Is there a doubt that the national debt has become unmanageable, that the rate of poverty continues to climb, that the cost of fuel (which cannot help but lead to serious inflation) has tripled and will go higher since Bush has taken over. That the 3 branches of government are dominated by one party yet people continue to put blinders on and refuse to hold them accountable.
Your comfort zone in settling for lies and mismanagement frightens me. Watching this great country sink into the mire is something to cry about. If you were to seriously study history, you'd be crying too.
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10-03-2005 @ 3:57PM
Jay Gameg said...
By gosh, Hawthorne is right.
If this keeps up, people will start expressing opinions on all kinds of political matters.
Mark my word: before you know it, we'll have free speech back!
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10-03-2005 @ 5:27PM
karina said...
Donald Sutherland "wrecked" the Buffy movie? Dear God...
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10-04-2005 @ 5:44AM
Finished.Law.School said...
What makes celebrities political genuises who have the answer to everything? Is it the same thing that makes Tom Cruise an expert on Psychology and postpartum depression? Is it the same thing that makes Cindy Sheehan say that we need to get our troops out of occupied New Orleans?
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