COLUMN: Hollywood stars have heads in the clouds
Leave it to Hollywood to make a point – especially in wartime, when the cosmetic cronies feel something must be done to show they care about more than dressing up and playing house.
Should it amaze anybody the way Hollywood’s elite are using their fame to oppose this country’s quest for abolishing terrorism? Hardly.
Open up a newspaper last week, and you would’ve seen actor Martin “I’m not a real president. I just play one on TV” Sheen at a peace rally with his mouth covered by a strip of duct tape with the word “peace” on it. Or you might have watched the Oscars two weeks ago as director Michael Moore, accepting an award for his movie “Bowling for Columbine,” declared President Bush to be a “fictitious” president leading a “fictitious” war.
Think before you speak, Mike. There is nothing fictitious or funny about a miscreant like Saddam Hussein using weapons so unimaginably tortuous on his own people simply because they wanted to live as free and luxurious as you are able to.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported Monday funny man Robin Williams has now criticized Bush. He said “we have a president for whom English is a second language. He’s like ‘We have to get rid of dictators,’ but he’s pretty much one himself.”
Since when does a dictator care about the well-being of another nation’s people? Williams may be a joke maker, but that doesn’t make him a thinker. This can be followed up with the ultimate statement for peace – the one that really makes you sit and ponder.
The Drudge Report reported last Friday actress and singer Madonna has created a music video to complement her song, “American Life.” At the conclusion of this piece she apparently throws a grenade into a Bush look-alike’s lap.
Are you kidding me? That is not only un-American, but also unhuman. Madonna’s reasoning for such a bold statement? She said it is her “kind of wish for peace and my desire to sort of turn a weapon of destruction, which is a grenade, into something that is completely innocuous.
“It’s not me being anti-Bush,” she added. “It’s me being ironic and tongue-in-cheek.”
Forgive me for not seeing the irony. That’s not being tongue-in-cheek. That’s a mouthful of tobacco spit tossed in the face of every one of the 200,000-plus soldiers risking their lives for us. The list of Hollywood’s elite against the war in Iraq stretches out further than Joan Rivers’ fountain-of-youth face.
These people spend so much time being somebody else, they don’t know who they are anymore. Just imagine how our troops feel when they see these images and hear these stories coming from their homeland. What a way to boost morale among young men and women who have death giving them a coarse stare every day.
These Hollywood anti-war lords forget the 1991 Persian Gulf War was stopped, not ended, on the assumption Saddam Hussein would disarm. Twelve years later, he still hasn’t. And so, here we are.
French President Jacques Chirac said giving in to war is failure. I agree. Nobody wants war. But to have no war, evil must not exist, and healthy relationships must be maintained. If all nations thought this way, we wouldn’t be at war now.
Sammy Hislop is a freshman majoring in journalism. Comments can be sent to him at samhis@cc.usu.edu.