Star Whores

Please welcome Richard Dreyfuss to the Star Whores Hall of Shame. Yesterday, during a speech at the National Press Club, Dreyfuss had the following things to say:

There are causes worth fighting for even if you know that you will lose, unless you are willing to accept torture as part of a normal American political lexicon, unless you are willing to accept that leaving the Geneva Convention is fine and dandy, if you accept the expansion of wiretapping as business as usual, the only way to express this now is to embrace the difficult and perhaps embarrassing process of impeachment. [Impeachment] is a statement that we refuse to endorse bad behavior. If we refuse to debate the appropriateness of the process of impeachment, we endorse that behavior, and we approve the enlargement of executive power, regardless of whoever may occupy the White House in the future.

Photo: Richard Dreyfuss

Now, it is not your job as the press to impeach George Bush. [However, people in the media should] maintain the integrity of that debate by not dismissing the topic out of hand as partisan or unpatriotic.

Lets recapitulate the lies in Mr. Dreyfuss’ statement:

• [The military uses] torture – only legal methods of interrogation are used. This has been verified by members of Congress first-hand. Dreyfuss’ insinuation here is just flat not true.
• The US does not observe the Geneva Conventions – The US does, but the conventions do not apply to terrorists illegally engaging in combat. A blatant lie, Mr. Dreyfuss
• The expansion of wiretapping – Congress approved wiretapping for post-9/11 monitoring of the enemies of the US. Moreover these powers have been in place for previous administrations. Another misguided prevarication.
• [The administration has expanded] executive power – Actually, Congress also approved executive powers in the War on Terror, and maintains the right to oversight. Again Mr. Dreyfuss sounds like he is channeling Howard Dean‘s insane rants.

And here’s a little stroll down memory lane for Richard Dreyfuss:

Between 1978 and 1982, Dreyfuss acted in several films, but none did particularly well at the box office. This led to a growing drug dependency, which ended one night in 1982, when his car hit a tree and he was arrested for possession of cocaine.

So, let me get this straight; the National Press Club, and the media in general are supposed to take this sage advice from a reformed[?] cocaine user? He certainly sounded like he was suffering from the delusional after-effects of drugs and pain-killers during his speech.

And I wonder if Dreyfuss is trying to look like Dick Cheney? This has nothing to do with his induction into the hall, but I still wonder . . .

At any rate, please welcome Dreyfuss to the “Delusional Moonbat” gallery in the Star Whores Hall of Shame.

Today, we are able to induct four new members to our Star Whores Hall of Shame: Alec Baldwin, Meryl Streep, Gary Busey and Billy Zane.

Now these folks are not new to the “dark side” of political opinion. They all have issues and a consistent record of moonbat rhetoric. Some of them even have problems staying on the right side of the law.

Alec Baldwin, actor and abusive husband/father, can’t seem to keep his temper under control (remember his bitter divorce from Kim Basinger? The incident with the photographer?). He recently called the 20 Democrats who voted for cloture in the Samuel Alito confirmation “a number of chickensh*t Democrats.” Baldwin has always been outspoken on political issues, but he uses lies and vitriolic rhetoric in his discourse, seldom with any valid arguments. Welcome to the Hall of Shame, Mr. Baldwin.

Meryl Streep, a very talented actress, falls into the “shut up and act” category of the Hall of Shame. On occasion she will render opinion to the media about political matters (sort of like Tourette’s Syndrome). Her recent remarks about Justice Alito’s confirmation: “I’m so demoralized.” You should check with your doctor, Ms. Streep, and see if you need your change-of-life medication re-prescribed. While you’re at it, you might want to ask about the psychological effects of all those Botox injections. Oh, and welcome to the “Shut up and Sing-or-Dance-or-Act” section of the Hall.

Gary Busey, who has been at the edge of the law for many years now (Remember the DUI? The motorcycle crash?), has steadily accepted the actual lifestyle of the roles he played as a degenerate criminal type (one exception is his role in the “Buddy Holly Story”). Continuing the downward spiral of his career, in the Turkish-made film “Valley of the Wolves – Iraq,” Gary Busey appears as a Jewish-American doctor who carries out organ transplants on unwitting Iraqi casualties, sending the organs off to Israel and the United States. For your role, Mr. Busey, in fabricating the falsehoods about the US for a foreign country’s terrorist interest propaganda, you have been selected for induction into the anti-American Asshole wing of our little Hall of Shame.

Billy Zane always seems to play the on-screen role of a son-of-a-bitch; I think it comes naturally to him. He is co-staring with Busey in the Turkish film, which earns him an induction into the “Son of a Bitch” wing of the Hall. Paraphrasing General Patton: “Welcome aboard from one S.O.B to another”

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