{"id":328,"date":"2006-02-18T11:20:48","date_gmt":"2006-02-18T19:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=328"},"modified":"2006-02-18T11:25:52","modified_gmt":"2006-02-18T19:25:52","slug":"richard-dreyfuss-star-whore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/02\/18\/richard-dreyfuss-star-whore\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Dreyfuss &#8211; Star Whore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please welcome Richard Dreyfuss to the <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?page_id=243\">Star Whores Hall of Shame<\/a>. Yesterday, during a speech at the National Press Club, Dreyfuss had the following things to say: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/0602\/dreyfuss.jpg\" class=\"left\" \/>There are causes worth fighting for even if you know that you will lose, unless you are willing to accept <em>torture <\/em>as part of a normal American political lexicon, unless you are willing to accept that <em>leaving the Geneva Convention<\/em> is fine and dandy, if you accept the <em>expansion of wiretapping<\/em> 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 <em>enlargement of executive power<\/em>, regardless of whoever may occupy the White House in the future.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Richard Dreyfuss<\/em><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lets recapitulate the <em>lies <\/em>in Mr. Dreyfuss&#8217; statement:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>[The military uses] torture<\/em> &#8211; only legal methods of interrogation are used.    This has been verified by members of Congress first-hand. Dreyfuss&#8217; insinuation here is just flat not true.\n\t<\/li>\n<li><em>The US does not observe the Geneva Conventions<\/em> &#8211; The US <em>does<\/em>, but the conventions do not apply to terrorists illegally engaging in combat. A blatant lie, Mr. Dreyfuss<\/li>\n<li><em>The expansion of wiretapping<\/em> &#8211; 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.<\/li>\n<li><em>[The administration has expanded] executive power<\/em> &#8211; 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 <strong>Howard Dean<\/strong>&#8216;s insane rants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a little stroll down memory lane for Richard Dreyfuss:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBetween 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.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?page_id=243\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/starwhores.jpg\" class=\"right\" \/><\/a>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.<\/p>\n<p>And I wonder if Dreyfuss is trying to look like <strong>Dick Cheney<\/strong>? This has nothing to do with his induction into the hall, but I still wonder . . .<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, please welcome Dreyfuss to the &#8220;Delusional Moonbat&#8221; gallery in the <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?page_id=243\">Star Whores Hall of Shame<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please welcome Richard Dreyfuss to the Star Whores Hall of Shame. 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