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March 16, 2006
HuffPost: One Stop Shopping For Fake, But Accurate Blog Posts
OK, I lied. Bwa-ha-ha-ha!!!
I'm glad we got that over with. Sadly for us, we're told Clooney's faux post has been airbrushed from the HuffPo. Whatever happened to the blogging convention of leaving up one's mistakes, annotated with the appropriate mea culpa or correction, we snarkily wonder?
"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.
Glad we cleared that up. But thanks to the vaguaries of syndication and the heroic efforts of VC's snarky and underpaid labor force of itinerant Eskimo typists (the Caribou apparently not being in season this time of year), you can read it here, at least for now:
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 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 been 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 bullsh*t. Which is why it drives me crazy to hear all these Democrats saying, "We were misled." It makes me want to shout, "F*ck 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.
From your lips to Gaia's ear, sir. Sadly Mr. Clooney is now encarcerated without right of habeus corpus in some dank airless cell in Gitmo while female servicemembers rub their large American breasts all over him while reading subversive literature from Federalist Society meetings, all to the accompaniment of scratchy Mel Torme CDs.
But freedom isn't free, is it? Even in Amerikka.
Posted by Cassandra at March 16, 2006 08:13 AM
Comments
> Even in Amerikka
That's Amerikkka, you heretic!
(:oP
Posted by: OBloodyHell ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.villainouscompany.com/vcblog/nav-commenters.gif)
at March 16, 2006 03:23 PM
> I am a liberal. Fire away.
Always nice to say in a venue where replies aren't possible or practicable or, better yet, not visible even if possible. Anyone else notice that?
Liberal bravery in action.
Posted by: OBloodyHell at March 16, 2006 03:51 PM
Fire away?
May we burn him?
Posted by: Masked Menace© at March 16, 2006 04:15 PM
Good question.. is he a witch?
Posted by: Cassandra at March 16, 2006 04:25 PM
You know, I don't ever think I've seen Clooney and a duck together in the same room.
Posted by: Masked Menace© at March 16, 2006 05:00 PM
Well, if he didn't write it, he did say it, so it depends on what your definition of a liberal is, is.
George Clooney doesn't apologize for being a liberal, but he whines in the third person about
writing versus making statements. I think he is schizo and his evil Al Qaeda twin is doing it.
Posted by: Crckt at March 17, 2006 11:28 AM
The heroism of the Left Coast never ceases to amaze me. What courage does it take to say that you are a liberal if everybody around you is one, also? Play enough bright heroic types, and I guess you begin to actually believe you are a bright heroic type. Hollywood really is a land of illusion, or, more precisely, delusion.
Posted by: RIslander at March 17, 2006 07:55 PM
Well hello there :)
How wonderful to see your name. I was just thinking about you the other day.
Posted by: Cassandra at March 17, 2006 07:58 PM
Great minds do think alike, Cassandra. I spend a great deal of time thinking about me, too.
Posted by: RIslander at March 17, 2006 08:15 PM
Punk :)
Posted by: Cassandra at March 17, 2006 08:53 PM