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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez shakes hands with director Oliver Stone as they arrive for the screening of the film 'South of the Border' at the 66th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Sept. 7, 2009.
As thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets of Caracas to mourn President Hugo Chavez after learning of his death Tuesday, tributes began pouring in from supporters around the world — including several Hollywood heavyweights who stood by the socialist firebrand during his reign.
Actor Sean Penn, one of the Latin American leader's most vocal supporters (he once joined Chavez on the campaign trail and attended a candlelight vigil for him in Bolivia last year) said the United States had "lost a friend it never knew it had."
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and actor-director Sean Penn listen to an explanation from a doctor during a visit to a hospital Aug. 3, 2007 in San Cristobal, Venezuela.
"And poor people around the world lost a champion," Penn said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. "I lost a friend I was blessed to have. My thoughts are with the family of President Chavez and the people of Venezuela."
Related: Sean Penn on Hugo Chavez's death: 'I lost a friend'
Filmmaker Oliver Stone, who first met Chavez in December 2007 and credited him for many of the social changes taking place in South America, said the former leader would live forever in history.
''I mourn a great hero to the majority of his people and those who struggle throughout the world for a place," Stone said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. "Hated by the entrenched classes, Hugo Chavez will live forever in history."
"My friend, rest finally in a peace long earned," Stone added.
Actor Danny Glover, who had visited Chavez in Venezuela several times, echoed the same sentiment.
Timothy A. Clary / AFP - Getty Images
File picture dated Sept. 21, 2006 shows Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and actor/activist Danny Glover hugging each other while attending The CITGO-Venezuela Heating Oil Program inauguration ceremony at the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church in Harlem, New York.
"In sadness and in tribute to my friend, Hugo Chavez, I join with millions of Venezuelans, Latin Americans, Caribbeans, fellow U.S. citizens and millions of freedom-loving people around the world, in hope for a rewarding future for the democratic and social development charter of the Bolivarian Revolution,” Glover told theGrio.
“We all embraced Hugo Chavez as a social-champion of democracy, material development, and spiritual well-being.”
Others, including Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona, paid their respects via Twitter. "So long comandante @chavezcandanga, we will miss you forever #ChavezVive," Maradona posted Wednesday.
"Ruling Classes hated Hugo Chavez. RIP," tweeted comedian Roseanne Barr.
"You won't hear much nice about him in the US media in the next few days. So, I thought I'd say a couple things to provide some balance," tweeted filmmaker Michael Moore Tuesday.
"54 countries around the world allowed the US to detain(& torture) suspects. Latin America, thanks 2 Chavez, was the only place that said no," he added.
"We spoke for over an hour," Moore said of an encounter with Chavez in 2009. "He said he was happy 2 finally meet someone Bush hated more than him."
Ricardo Mazalan / AP
Supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez across the Americas mourn his death.
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Looks like most of his US supporters were losers...........
ARE losers!
lol LOVE LEFT-WING morons living in opulence advocating slavery for others
God bless Hugo Chavez for helping the poor in his country. I'm sure this is something Jesus would approve of.
And all of these people LOVE Obama. Do you need anything else to make you see the light about both of them??
chavez is on his way to hell
Jesus wouldnt approve of a tin horn dictator who oppressed his opponents and supported narco-traffickers
oh how soon we forget...bush was great friends with bin laden's and that was okay for our oil interests ...but not Chavez...because Chavez wouldn't bow to the USA oil interest.
Quit reading all the propagada from the right wing! This man did more for his people than bush/cheney.......we in the USA got raped by cheney/bush/halliburton and the other cowardly neocons!
How is Chavez a "tin horn dictator" when he was democratically elected three times with over 55% of the vote? Just asking..
bush wasnt friends with bin laden dope; why do left-wing losers lie to themselves?
but chavez WAS good buddies with Ahmadenijad of iran idiot
because he dismantled his country's Constitution to do it idiot; that's how he's a tin horn dictator
geesh get a clue
@marlen101917
The only poor he helped was himself, to the tune of a couple of billion dollars!
Hitler was "democratically elected" too!
left-wing nutjob; bet you dont know any actual Venezuelans
things were WAY BETTER under Bush and Cheney than they are under obama
Traders!
Liberalism is a mental disorder. This article proves it. Savage was right!
I doubt many of these people would've been such fervent supporters if they had to try to make (and keep) their money under his administration.
pssssssssst... Adam, I think you meant traitors. Although that really wouldn't make sense either.
Oddly enough I know more Liberals who hated the man than loved him. But you Neofarts go on circle-jerking. After the last election that's about all you got left. :)
They're lucking to have had a computer on in their vicinity let alone know how to use a spell checker. ;)
How
LiberalsProgressives argue:Just like in America today....
...... hollywood sucks anyways.
Just because Chavez stood up against the USA, did not make him an enemy of the American people. Pretty much everyone agrees these days that GW Bush was a terrible president with terrible ideas and even worse plans. Because one Latin American president saw what was going on at the time, and was vocal about it, he was hated by the right wing. But that was then, when you all thought "W" was God. Now that you have had time to think about it and have come to realize that "W" was a joke of a president, one would think that you might change your opinion slightly towards Chavez. Who am I kidding, I am sure faux news has spun it tonight and you sheeple bought it hook, line and sinker - just like you always do.
"Hollywood mourns Hugo Chavez"
LMAO..most of Hollywood never heard of the jerk!
A bunch of Hollywood turds.
They don't hire them in Hollywood because they are Rhodes scholars, they hire them because they are pretty and can cry on command. That's why I'm not surprised when they make dumb public statements or endorse idiots.
They're lucking to have had a computer on in their vicinity let alone know how to use a spell checker. ;)
This is what happens when you put all your faith in spell checker. Pot meet kettle.
And people wonder why McCarthy black listed most of Hollywood as subversives. Seems the same tired socialists and communists are alive and well in Holly weird. You have to wonder about their motives when the likes of Dennis Rodman is all buddy-buddy with North Korea's baby Kim. What's next?
Nicodemus1946: And people wonder why McCarthy black listed most of Hollywood as subversives.
Right wingers are now idolizing McCarthy? I guess I underestimated your stupidity. Seriously?
The Right hates it when other won't kiss their Azz, and worst countries that they can't ROB ..... We need to be like them and Nationalize the Oil taken from US soil. Yea, spread the wealth Lets hear all the cry babies whine ..... LOL
And yet so many of the unwashed masses pay good money to see these miscreants in the movies.
Most of these "socialites" are about as informed as a rock. Every so often they pop up for some prearranged photo-op to advocate their irrational ideology that their agent briefed them on in the limo on the way to the "rally".
As illiteracy consumes so many more Americans these phonies prosper on their ignorance. Of course these millionaires and billionaires are OK in the Liberal/Progressive cabal because they support Barrack Husseins social and economic justice nonsense.
Hypocrisy, meet Liberalism.
Someone said that Hugo Chavez won 55% of the vote. How did he do that you might ask. The same way Obama did: Obama cell phone users, voters that needed spanish ballots and NO proof of ID, felons, multiple votes by one person.
Fraud, fraud, fraud and the liberal media slanting it all to the left. Now we are stuck with this dangerous dumb arse.
Chavez won by 55% of the vote? That's pretty sad considering what he did was share a percentage of the nations oil wealth with it's people. Sounds pretty much like Alaska.
Has anyone asked our Socialist pig what he thinks of Hugo Chavez? Is there any Obama remarks in print that we can save, and throw in the face of the Marxist bums here, at a later date?
Seriously...Jeff Spicoli supported him an that was an endorsement? Oh yeah, brownies for that...
Those people appreciated Chavez. Hell, at 10CENTS p/G of gas and a Venezuelan National Universal healthCare System amongst many other items. Chavez did Not Bow Down to OUR Oil Company Tyrants and NATIONALIZED His, which is why They pay 10CENTS and WE PAY $4.50p/g. And so many of We Americans are BRAINWASHED about the "S" Word, Socialism, like it is syphylis or aids or tb. Hey!! Who do you think had the schools brainwash you as a child then?? The Same B@$T@RD$ who are FU CKING You Royally with "healthcare" insurance as well as gas costs And Many, Many, Many Other Staples. Our SANE Allys have National healthcare systems. IT IS A NATIONAL DISGRACE That America Doesn't. And Prez O??? PB does NOT Know as yet what to say about him, Let Alone What To Do About his Reign. This drone thing Whacking People here, Intentionally squeezing off ammunition supply for gun owners while he buys 2BILLION Bullets for "homeland security" and "Patriot Act" THUGS, turning his head WHILE nodding to insurance companies for health insurance Ripping Off Americans. Frankly It is SHOCKING. Prez O IS THE OPPOSITE of what he said he stood for and was going to do in 2008......
Jane Fonda got a bunch of American POW's killed in Vietnam.
any actors,socialites and supporters who go to his funeral should get there US passports/visas yanked ! as well as never get another "film permit" back in the states
hollywood is all in favour of helping the poor so long as they dont actually have to spend any of their own money
Patriot(?) Fact check please. More deportations. Reality check, the hispanics do not like Obama.
Dav1bg Why don't we fight the Korean war again. Ah the stories of the returning Vietnam soldiers most based in myth. Don't even think about coming after me on this I lost too many friends in this ignorant war. The Vietnam war is over and has been for a long time. Let it go.
Don't watch their movies...don't give them any of our money. They hate America. To hell with each and everyone of Hollywoods leftist loonies.
With you there Mark! These morons only seek attention by these actions...keeps them in the spotlight when their acting capabilities cannot.
Hollywood Celebrites are Kooks--they live in an insulated world--loyalty to a Communist Leader who danced around with Fidel Castro, Ahdinemajad, and the crazy Sean Penn--where was Dennis Rodman to complete the list of kooks re: Hugo Chavez? What have they done that is positive for their own Country?---NADA.
So insulated, they think they are the "Brain Trust of the Highest Intelligence in the US" Are they all Rhodes Scholars, or are they Graduates of Oxford University, Ivy League Universities?---smarter than any peon they look down upon in the US.
Screw them---they know absolutely nothing, but making tons of money for their silly little memories and possible acting ability. Most of them are Bi- Polar. That means the upper is the Polar Farce, they put on as Intellects.
You don't need a brain to either work in Hollywood or for Wall Street.
What exactly is the surprise here? Dumb people liked Chavez?
Got it.
Why does our idiot press give credence to a bunch of hollywood types (Most of whom dropped out of school to go play make believe in Hollyweird).
Looks like all the GOP Bin Laden supporters came out in rows..... Feel free to join him in his sea burial and don't worry we will keep on killing as many of your religious fanatic GOP friends as fast and swift as we can. Courtesy of the real red white and blue.
Chavez never shared anything with "THE PEOPLE" of Venezuela, let alone the oil riches. He was like Obama, fighting against whatever straw dog he concocted, yet his policies and harm are never connected to him, he was always fighting some faceless entity or corporation who just stood in "the people's way" of the great revolution; A revolution that is never finished till everyone is miserable unless in upper government. The people of Venezuela are like Cubans, living in squalor and thirsting for some for of freedom. As for Hollyweird they believe they will be above the fray anyways and the policies of socialism won't affect them....guess when you have that much money (like Chavez) you get that kind of an attitude.
Ding-dong-the witch is dead!
BOYCOTT HOLLYWOOD, MOVIES, VIDEOS, TELEVISION, CABLE, SATELITE TV.
Let's show those "elite" people how it's like to struggle in America.
Why should all their fortunes from Americans help cater to socialism?
What and who gives them the right?
Most actors are crazy to begin with, wouldn't you say?
Oh did I upset the Neofart babies? :( Go figure. :D
and yet NOT ONE of them wanted to pack up and move there... Hollywood hypocrisy at its finest.
It's easy to be a socialist when you're a frickin' millionaire. If Roseann Barr, Oliver Stone, etc. are so concerned about poverty and injustice, why don't they use their resources to do something about it? They can put their money where their mouths are.
Otherwise, why do we care what they think?
kaybee: Actually, this idiots aren't socialists, they are pathological liars. It's their marketing ploy. They understand that there is a lot of money to be made in the capitalist system by playing to dumb and dumber. After all, Obama has won two elections, so there must be a lot of dumb people in this country. Those voters will fall for any claim that someone is "standing up for them" against the evil capitalists. The fact that the celebrities make more money in that capitalist, free-market, evil system, than 99.9% of the evil corporation people seems to not register with the dumb and dumber crowd.
Not one of them would be anything more than a regular factory worker if they actually lived in the places where they are promoting the great socialism. And, of course, they would never dream of "spreading" their wealth.
"To discover the truth, shut off the volume and watch what they do!"
Phantom, you must be smoking the weed early today.... Most of your comments are so far from fact, they are actually amusing. O squeezing supply of bullets??? That would be because every wingnut gun owner started loading up the minute any gun control was mentioned. O bowed down to insurance companies? Please look at the history of O care... That would be the REPS who forced changes to O's plan that basically gave the golden egg to the insurance companies. As for those who laud HC for giving back to the people and the low cost of gas there??? Omg.. you don't read do you. The govt subsidizes gas to the tune of 23 BILLION a year. His govt is full of cronyism and corruption. He dismantled their own constitution to do as he pleased and stay in office longer. He BOUGHT votes anytime an election came around... please guys.. do your homework.
BTW, please don't lump a few idiot dems in Hollywood with all other Dems. That would like me saying all of you are like Sara Palin... God forbid...
opps! Should have read "these idiots".
You're wrong about that part, witchrunner. The dumb people are the ones who voted for Dubbya twice. Some of them still believe his lies about WMDs in Iraq.
Obama is a very smart man. Too bad he has to deal with obstructionist idiots like McCain, McConnell and Graham. We'd be in far better shape now if those power-mongers would do their jobs.
kaybee: Of course, you do realize that Bush did tell the truth, don't you? The problems libs have on the WMD issue is that the dem leadership has purposely lied about what Bush said. So, if you don't take the effort to find out what he said, then there isn't much that can be done to educate you. But, please proceed to prove me wrong and point out exactly what you think Bush said that was a lie.
As for the people who voted for Bush, well, you are right that they weren't too smart. They thought they were getting a conservative and they ended up with someone who gave the dems pretty much everything they wanted. But, it was still better than Kerry or Gore. It's just that I wish they'd have selected someone different in the primaries.
What makes Obama so smart? What has he done that has helped this country and the economy? And please say why it was even designed to help the country or the economy. I only ask because I've yet to find one who can come up with a logical answer. So, go ahead and make my day and be the first!
Right back at you. :0
At least there better than dennis rodman.
So why don't the Hollywood elitist put their money where their big mouths are? Give up their millions to the poor and needy. Oh wait, they want everyone ELSE to give their money to the poor and needy.
kaybee: Glad you admitted that Bush told the truth! You're the one that made the assertion that Bush lied, and now, when asked what he lied about, you can't point to anything. Such is the philosophy of Allinsky and his minions. You do realize how dumb the "back at you" statement is, don't you? It's easy to say that someone lied. But, when asked what they lied about, if they don't want to tell you, it means that they know that they made a blatant lie in their assertion.
Yes, I've dealt with people like you before. And I know that when someone won't answer a simple question and tries to divert attention, then that is a blatant admission that they are lying. Personally, I don't care who anyone is talking about, if they assert someone is a liar, they'd better be able to prove it. If they can't, then they are telling me that they are too stupid to know what they are talking about and have no basis to support their beliefs. I can only assume that you listen to a blow hard like Chris Mathews and believe everything he, or someone like him says.
OK, let's make it easy for you. Bush pointed out that intelligence indicated that Saddam had WMDs and was seeking enriched uranium. And, yes, they found some old chemical stuff that could be used to kill thousands of people at a time. It was reported, but the line goes "Bush said there were WMDs and none were found, so he lied." To a lefty who is only interested in vilifying the opponent, the distinction makes no difference. On the other hand, if Bush were a dem, it'd make all the difference in the world. Just a fact of life.
Damn shame they couldn't have all went to hell together!
what a bunch of crap. if sean penn likes these people so much why doesn't he live there. i give him 3 mos and his whinning butt would be out of there. can one imagine him living in cuba. he would be muzzled in a new york minute. what a phony...
Bob:
In fact Penn went thru Chavez to broker the release of the 3 American College Students who were picked up by the Iranians on the Iraqi / Iranian Border a couple of years? back.
@ Bob, yes, because Chavez and his Iranian buddy wanted to get points.
Bob:
Sean Penn is a "dope". Now we have a second one, with Dennis the Menace Rodman, who has declared he is best friends with the other Hitler, from North Korea---maybe they can play basketball together--what an "Odd Couple"!
Rodman must be a Sadist, liking the fact that North Korea has a starving nation, with thousands of people in concentration Death Camps---Sean Penn, too is a Sadist---why don't they move to these wonderful, giving, and high earning Countries? Talk is cheap! They'd both be broke, and in living in poverty as nobody's.
These folks would be great ex-pats. Hope they go for it. Relocate asap.
Actually, Sean Penn has spent a great deal of time living in Haiti, where his charity organization has been working to try to help people recover from the horrible earthquake they had a few years back. He basically lived in a tent in what amounted to a refugee camp for months at a stretch.
Penn may be looney, but he's genuine. He puts his money -and- his body where his mouth is. I may disagree with most of what he says, but I can't say he's ignorant of the conditions "on the ground" in the nations he visits.
Speaking of which, how many times have some of the folks here discussing how "bad" Venezuelans have it been to Venezuela and spent time discussing the matter with folks that actually live there? I'd wager that most of them have absolutely no idea what the average Venezuelan thinks or feels about Chavez and his reforms.
Jmaq:
I was close enough to Venezuela, vacationing in Aruba. We wanted to visit Caracas, but was warned it is too dangerous to go there--17 miles away!!! You can see Venezuela beyond the Ocean.
Crime, drugs, murders and Communist torture, do not allow anyone to enter Venezuela. (at their own risk). It has more severe violence than equaling that of the bad Communist Countries, of which no one is allowed to enter.
So get your facts straight. This is a Country worse than Cuba, where no other person is allowed to travel. Poverty is everywhere---Chavez receiving billions upon billions from their oil rich Country---did any go to the "slaves" there?--Nothing.
I was close enough to Texas, vacationing in China. We wanted to visit Houston, but were warned it is too dangerous to go there--0.17 miles away and You still can't see Texas beyond the pollution.
Crime, H2S, murders and evangelical torture, do not allow anyone to enter Texas. (at their own risk)(lol). It has more severe violence than equaling that of the bad Capitalist States, of which no one is allowed to enter(?).
So get your facts straight. This is a State worse than Cuba, where no other person is allowed to travel. Poverty is everywhere---Bush and Perry receiving billions upon billions from their oil rich puppet masters---did any go to the "slaves" there?--Nothing but the min amount they can get away with that is paid to their undocumented workers....
hypnoticfreedom, Bush again,huh? Excuse me,"YYAAAAWNN", oh yes Bush again. It seems that George W Bush was so powerful it will take Barack Obama 3 terms to undo it. Right d^^khead?
Only one word for the Hollywood elitist..... MOVE
This country made these whinny little libs wealthy(Capitalism) and they repay their allegiance by trashing the USA ever chance they get. I am so sick of the BS coming out of their mouths.
I think what many need to understand is capitalism and socialism are not black and white. There is a balance to be had. That balance should be that people profit from their work but there also have to be social programs to help keep children and the ill from poverty. There also has to be protection for the workers from companies that will exploit them like any other resource the rich and powerful will abuse. People say it is not Government that should maintain the balance but here in the U.S.A. we designed our government to be of and for the people. We need to stop blaming teachers, firefighters, postal workers, etc. and start looking at the Senate. I say drop the U.S. Senate all together and have Governor's be the liason between their State Senate and the President.
Slow Clap for Hypnotic Freedom.
So far it seems to be little on this board apart from knee-jerk right-wing @!$%#s who have yet to actually state why they hate Chavez. Talk with actual Venezuelans. Ask them their opinion. Look up the stats on Venezuela since Chavez started. Don't only believe what you hear from American propaganda.
And please shut the hell up with "deport/yank passports/traitors!/hollywood loonies/boycott hollywood" bullsh!t. It makes you sounds so incredibly idiotic you have know idea how sad it makes the rest of us to be American.
To Hypnoticfreedom: Are you drinking or something? I read your post and I have no idea what you are talking about. Please clarify, maybe tomorrow.
Read the post immediately preceding his, and then read his. It's pretty genius.
Well we got capitalist firebrands and Chavez was a socialist firebrand! Where do we go from there? He helped the downtrodeen of his country - to the chagrin of the oligarchs. Let's not forget he was reelected, notwithstanding the efforts of the U.S. to prevent it. For me his most important action was to stand up to Goliath as it causes mayhem around the world! We will miss you, Hugo!
Chavez was despised by most of his country but the ignorant. and he was in the process of dismantling his country's Constitution and democracy
you will miss him because you're an idiot
Chavez was despised by most of his country but the ignorant. and he was in the process of dismantling his country's Constitution and democracy
you will miss him because you're an idiot; pure and simple
Irwin...
He changed the countries constitution so that he could stay in power. He loved the power and control, but not his people.
Irwin, he helped himself to stay in power by buying votes with the wealth he confiscated from Venezuela's landowners and natural resources. The country is a shambles because of his policies.
Chavez was loved by the poor, because he gave them $5 a week instead of $1 a week. They loved that. However, he took from the successful to give it to them. Sound familiar?
You all can say what you want, but the fact remains Hugo Chavez donated thousands of gallons of heating oil for the poor and needy in New England through Joe Kennedys' charity , this charity asked for donations from all the major oil companies in and out of our country, none except Citgo responded with anything but lip service(like most of you), Citgo acted at the behest of Hugo Chavez, like I said say what you want, actions speak louder than words.
@ Irwin, it is obvious that you are well read, however, I trust you have never lived inside a communist country. I on the contrary have. You see, I am Cuban and saw the downfall of my country into the hand of Castro, Chavez's buddy.
Yes, Chavez was on his way to turning Venezuela into another Cuba, and us, the ones who know communism well are only delighted that he was cut short.
Communism does not "help" the poor, it disables everyone. You cannot express yourself, you have no paternity over your children because they are the "property" of the "state". When the kids turn 14, the militia knocks at your door, and takes them into the mountains to teach literacy to the campesinos. Girls come back raped and sometimes pregnant.
Education is free, but you can't do anything with it, because there are no jobs available. You become an engineer, but can't build a thing because there are no materials.
Yes, health care is also free, because there is none. If you go to the hospital in Cuba, you must take along your sheets and towels, medicine too, if you happen to have any. If you need stitches, they may have some, but lack anesthetics, or vice versa.
If one is a Cuban living in Cuba, one cannot visit the tourist sites, unless one is a prostitute and in the company of a tourist John.
I really have a problem with people who are totally ignorant speaking out.
As for Sean Penn, he's had a little too much acid in that brain of his. Before he sets out to rescue the world, perhaps he can contemplate rescuing himself.
Gracias por permitirme expresar mi opinion, si viviera en Cuba, u otro pais comunista no pudiera hacerlo. Eduquense por favor antes de opinar.
you are as clueless as the people that elected him
I was in Cuba on a mission trip two years ago. A woman approached me on the street and asked me to go into a store to purchase milk for her. Her alotment from the state did not amount to enough to feed her children for an entire month. But tourists are not restricted from anything. I could buy milk and pour it into the streets and no one would say a word. This woman could not even enter the store. Think about that...not selling her body, just trying to get milk for her baby. Now that tells me all I need to know about communism. Thanks DrMonica. God bless all who have to live under those conditions.
Did you....?
JRM - Sounds like there must be more religious freedom in Cuba than in Utah.
Why did you ask her if she was selling her body? That really creeps me out.
Um Charlie... Where exactly did JRM ask the women if she was selling her body??
Perhaps you should read JRM's post again.
This story makes me sick. I guess it is nice to know who your enemies are.
Absolutely right treesbad. We know who our enemies are. Among them are Sean Penn, Danny Glover, Harry Belafonte, Michael Moore, Roseanne Barr, and Oliver Stone. Nearly all of these Hollywood people, in my opinion, are commies.
However let's not forget about the role that the so called "mainstream
media" plays in this attempt by the international left to deliberately
"disinform" the American public. People like Chris Mathews, Keith
Olbermann, Wolf Blitzer, Christiane Amanpour, Anderson Cooper, Charlie Rose, and Katie Couric are either all useful idiots for the international left, which I think doubtful, or they're complicit in the attempt to deliberately misinform us.
Don't forget that when Joseph McCarthy tried to warn the American people of
the threat that these people posed to the US, they destroy him. So it’s not just
Hollywood. It's the international leftist's that are out to corrupt our society. They're out to destroy our Constitution, our churches, and our
Christian faith. Destroy the foundation upon which our country rests, and the
whole thing crumbles. I think that it was John Adams who said "Our
Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly
inadequate for any other.” I hate to sound like a religious fanatic, because
I'm not religious at all, but facts are a stubborn thing.
Remember, they all make their money off the backs of hard-working Americans... would be an awesome thing to see the American people revolt against Hollywood, pro sports, television, etc..... turn it OFF, refuse to watch, stop attending.... wouldn't be 90 days, before they'd be begging to have us back paying their bills..........
Lost their friend..boohoo...cry me a river. Here is an idea...why don't all you rich lefties (Barr, Glover, Moore, Penn etc) put your money together and take care of the poor. You have an incredible standard of living and plenty of $$$$$$$ but you don't put your money where your mouth is. How about you set yourself and your family up where you have an average life style and use the rest for the poor. That will never happen..all talk..no walk.
Idaho
Glad you said what I was thinking. Now I can move on out of here. The left wingnuts are so self righteous it is laughable.
Look I am with you on this, but I believe Penn is helping the people of Haiti with his own money. Now, if you meant the poor of the US then I totally agree.
How about these Socalite fools just pack it up and move their sorry arses on down there so we don't have to listen to their dribble!
It's nice to know that someone as nice and benevolent as yourself gives so much to others as well as your kind comments.
Dude, I'm with you, but the word you're looking for is drivel, not dribble.
Babies dribble. Drivel is nonsense or claptrap.
How do you know what they do with their money? Maybe they do give most of it away through charitable donations. I haven't had the opportunity to check out their tax returns. Have you?
The rich lefties want to help the poor they just dont want to spend any of their own money to do it, they want to spend our taxes to do it.
underemployed, most actors and actress do not donate their money. They donate their name. This was a controversy a couple of years ago about whether they should be responsible for advertising for non profit organizations and not donating their money. Also this is were they get in trouble with the IRS. They think they can write off their name and time as a donation on their tax returns, which they can not.
Also it is amazing that actors complain about business not paying taxes and about oil subsidies, but actors are worst tax cheats (just above democrat government elected officials) and the entertainment industry gets more government subsidies and tax breaks then oil companies do.
I can't speak to Moore or Stone, but Sean Penn has donated a ton of his own money to various causes, most notably towards helping folks in Haiti (the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere).
The Oblama backers are out.
Rosanne Barr is the loverly person who started construction on a mansion in Eldon, Iowa 20 years ago or so About halfway through the project she and then husband Tom Arnold abandoned the project stiffing many local small contractors. She is not a particularly nice person and it is not surprising to read her comments regarding the death of this person.
Because they want to put "our" money where their mouth is. Chavez, BIH. Pity you couldn't take some of your leftie friends with you.
I wish the commie libs in Hollywood would leave the millions they made in the United States and move to a country that practices what they preach.
@ Moonshine1966
I agree. I am Cuban, and know what living in a communist country feels like. It is great for those tourist that go, and only see and hear what the populace is allowed to share, they cannot venture into the real country. They control everything.
People really need to get a grip on reality, and stop believing just on what they read.
Communism rarely works well in the long term, but for millions of people in third world countries, it can be a vast improvement over the dictatorship of a military junta that "disappears" thousands of people on a regular basis. Poverty in these countries is unbelievable, the death rates from hunger and disease are horrific. Education is only for the wealthy and medical care is a fantasy. So communism can look like a big improvement to them. The same thing happened in Cuba. While the affluent Cubans hate Castro, many of the truly poor saw their lives improved dramatically. They now have access to education and medical care, which is way more than they had under Batista. Of course, once they're educated, they start yearning for more than basic survival and then the corruption begins to set in and things start to go wrong. The fact that communism always seems to result in a dictatorship of one doesn't help much either. Once abject poverty has been resolved, people start wanting a little freedom.
Underemployed have you ever traveled to these countries that speak so higly of? Or did you just take a college course and drooled at feet of your professor. I am assuming that no one ever disappeared unde communista.
John Q Public: Have -you- traveled to these countries? If not, you really have no leg to stand on in the argument, either.
Underemployed pointed out several truths about communism, but he's not really endorsing it. In theory, it's a great system. It just never works in the long run because it ignores basic human nature. There's never been a successful communist government that actually and completely followed the principles of communism.
People want to scream "don't believe everything you read" and yet want us to unquestioningly believe what we read if it supports their preconceived notions.
I agree with underemployed from the statement that Socialism or Communism is, for many poor or destitute people, a step up at least temporariliy. When you attempt to instill Democracy to a group of under nourished and impoverished people, they don't care about the future, only about their immediate needs. It isn't until the basic needs are satisfied that they can look beyond their current needs to survive. That is why so many people become dependent on their government to provide for them and why they become controlled by the same leadership. After they are under a dictatorship and have lost most of their rights or freedoms it is difficult to escape that control. Do you see a similar situation with the entitlement programs in the US or is it just my imagination? I'm not talking about Social Security or Medicare either - us working class folks have paid for and earned that.
You are so right marlen101917.
funny how everyone who supported Hugo also voted for Obama...two peas in a pod
isaacc86...I can't agree or disagree with your "two peas in a pot" analogy. But I'm sure you know exactly what your talking about and it's the God's truth.
Yea Hoo! The PIG is Dead! Castro you are next!
what a f ucking joke and we made these people rich and this is how they thank the us by wanting to suck a dictators d ick but i guess thats why there all for obama another dictator
Hollywood liberal phonies. Most are actors for a reason, they live in a fanacy land and are pathetic human beings.
Typical hollywood idiots living in their fantasy land
I always enjoyed Stone, Glover, and Penn's big screen efforts. But, there is no way else to describe it, they are traitors in their support of such a maniacal,vicious "leader" of his people. I'll never watch their films again, ever.
I stopped watching Penn movies after Fast Times At Ridgemont High, and I have always shunned Olie Stone movies. The rest of em are all dirt bags in my opinion!
CHAVEZ will always be my HERO.He didn't become a puppet for the USA and big business!!
No, he just censored the media in his country and murdered or jailed his political opponents. Human Rights Watch spoke about his abuses of power on a regular basis, but I guess that doesn't matter to you or any of Chavez's Hollywood libtard fluffers (and if you don't know what that means, it's a person who sucks a male porn talent's d*ck to keep it hard during breaks in a shoot). They's rather complain about Bush and call him a dictator when their beloved Dear Leader Obama is the one who won't say that drone strikes on US soil are unconstitutional.
He left an estate worth over two billion, that's two thousand million, how did a soldier that rose to the Presidency acquire two billion, off of the backs of the poor that he helped so much, and the poor that are still poor. Spare me!
And the president of Eygpt has 70 billion in his bank account when he was overthrown...All USA Taxpayer money....3 Billion a year for 23 year of collecting USA Welfare...
yea so why the hell did obama give them 250 million more of our tax dollars when we are supposedly close to going in default ourselves? Makes a lot of sense doesn't it? Chavez was nothing next to obama. This idiot is putting us in the poor house.
Materoffact: There will never be a President that impacted the America people as George W Bush has. And we're still suffering from his egotistical behavior.
Dnon, How long has it been since you were declared insane.
Dnon,
Even the most stupid conspiracy nutjobs don't come close to your rantings and ravings. Maybe Stone or Moore can use your wacky ideas for one of their propaganda movies.
Everyone, logic4u is a troll.
and remember
You can't have a rational discussion with a troll.
I wonder if any of his friends can explain his 2 billion dollar estate, I didn't know military officer / presidents made that kind of money or if they can explain the 30 billion that cannot be accounted for from the state run petroleum business.
Maybe some of that 30 billion is in some actors account somewhere. Loyalty is bought all the time. But then again thats giving them the benefit of the doubt. These actors are just naturally stupid.
Materoffact: That's an interesting question. Almost as interesting as the one asked Mitt Romney for months. How much money do you have in off shore accounts?
There are plenty of US financial institutions that would love to "store" his riches for him. Why would he need to send them to another country? Oh! Taxes, of course. Why didn't I think of that.
What's good for the goose is just as good for the gander. You tea bags don't want Obama...he's this and that, and all bad. But you would have put Mitt Romney in charge of this country and God only knows where we would have been in 4 years.
And talk about stupid...that poor man was a joke. And his 47% remark was the cherry on top of the cake. Take care of the wealthy...screw the rest.
I truly believe that if I were a pompous azz teabagger (oh Lord deliver me) I would have had to sit this last election out. How anyone with a rational thought could vote for that poor man is a wonder. But we all know that he would be only a figurehead...Wall Street, Big Corps and banks, along with the crimes bosses would really rule this country.
If you know, will you tell me who rules Barrack Obama?
Guys, dnon must be a troll because I don't think anyone can be that wacky.
Everyone, logic4u is a troll.
and remember
You can't have a rational discussion with a troll.
If you know, will you tell me who rules Barrack Obama?
to your question dnon. . . George Sorros, Buffet, Oprah, Bloomberg, Hollywood and all the other ultra rich liberals with a cause and in need of a puppet.
Er...dnon...ahhhh....as far as I recollect it was Sept 11, 2001. Not 2000. Anything else you'd like to add? Yikes.
why dont they tell how this dictator was running drugs
Can the people in Hollywood get any lower and more useless, maybe not
Ha ! Gotta love the liberal leftist elites !! Only they would praise a dictaotor who turned his country into a socialist dictatorship filled with poverty for the masses.... hey you folks that miss Chavez so much, you can have Osama-Obama for your dictator, he'll do just fine...... you morons
The poverty didn't just appear when Chavez rose to power. Abject poverty was there for centuries, and Chavez actually made things better for the poor. He was a long way from being a good guy, but so are many world leaders. What most of you really resent about him is that he called out the US for some of the wrong things that we did. It doesn't make him right. It just means that we really aren't perfect, and he had as much right to criticize as anyone else.
Hugo ran like a little girl whne GWB got pissed. he was afraid of GWB was gonna haul his tumor filled arse off to Gitmo. he was like so many a mega manic about adoration by the masses. he was not loved by anyone that has a income above poverty. he gave out freebies to the lowest part of his country and for what adoration. I hope he is in hades right now as there was a lot of reasons for him to go south.
Hugo Chavez was just a motormouth tin horn douschbag. However, "Rev." Pat Robertson (of 700 Club) stated that he wanted Hugo dead. Now that Hugo is dead did Pat cream his jeans? Maybe he thinks he can expand his ripoff business interests into Venezuela, escaping U.S. taxes of course! Big Money got no soul.
What you claim to hate one man for you profess to love another for the same, how is that so? oh that's right you're a hypocritical right winger....
all because you get nothing in return from chavez's compassion for those suffering in poverty and their adoration of him because of it, but you do believe you will get something out of loving the other man that cared for the poor over those with an "income above poverty", jesus...
Actors and Hugo. Turds of a feather flock together
I'm sorry for anyone that loses the battle to cancer. With that said, the comments from Penn, Stone, Glover, Barr and Moore make me want to vomit. Where's their grief for all those that are stricken by cancer and lose that fight. They could roll up those five in a ball and drop it in the ocean. The only result would be pollution.
I am not a rightwing nut but Chavez was a fraud. Caracas is one of the most dangerous crime ridden cities on the planet. He did nothing for the poor. He only enriched his cronies. Yes, he stook haciendas from the wealthy but instead of turning them over to the poor, he turned them over to his cronies. I can only say one thing for Chavez, he was no worse than the other criminals who have always run Venezuela. Also, the rich of Venezuela have only themselves to blame for Chavez. They had the power and the means to transform Venezuela into a modern and prosperous country. Instead they were having ice sent by aircraft to Venezuela for their drinks.
Hey Harry...I really, truly thought this when I started reading your comment. What you wrote could easily describe so many of the fat-cat teabags.
Romney and GWB are frauds. (and liars)
They do nothing for the poor, they enrich themselves and their cronies.
They hide their riches in off shore accounts, which I thought is illegal. Perhaps it just depends on who you are and how much you can line the insiders pockets with.
Really dnon46,
Every politician in the last 30 years has done nothing for the poor. The president that you must have so much respect for has made things even worse. I was his middle class but I can barely pay bills, eat and keep my kids in college.
He's done absolutely nothing but make my family worse off. Let me ask , are you of the million people collecting unemployment for the 2nd or 3rd year now? Honestly get off the Bush - Romney thing. Neither are president. If you are a Michael Moore , Hugo Chavez , Sean Penn, Roseann Barr, or Oliver Stone supporter you are the IDIOT.
Obama is such a freaking phoney. All the left see is a GOD. I happen to believe he is not and I will go as far as to say he should have never been a US president. He has no clue what he is doing.
Diane,
You can't have a rational discussion with a troll.
logic4u and diane,
You can't have a rational discussion when you resort to calling people names.....
Chavez is a HERO. HE ran his own country!
"HE ran his own country!"....
Right into the ground. And made billions doing it.
Kind of makes you wonder how much money Chavez put into Hollywood so he'd get movie star endorsements. If you're a politician, you've got to be backed up by the movie stars, since they know one thing, that you can get paid for reading a script.
Proof the left is completely off their rockers. Mourning in Chavez? are you for real? NBC why don't you pack up and move to one of these countries you ignorant leftist a holes
These scum bags don't wish to live there they just want to make that kinda life here. Sometimes sure wish that LA would fall off the edge.