The hand that rocks the cradle
My Sally Field column provoked a flood of e-mail, including incoming waves from readers at Yahoo! News. If you’re coming to the blog for the first time: Welcome. Make yourselves at home. Also check out my group videoblog, Hot Air. You can watch my Fox and Friends interview about the Silly Sally column here.
Dr. Helen Smith at Pajamas Media takes another look at Sally’s Emmy Awards night comments:
Sally Field and her ilk don’t really mean they want just any mom or woman to run the world, what she really meant when she talked about moms taking over is that leftist women should run the world. Notice that the women who are always talking about how great and different things would be if women were in charge never mention real women leaders like Condi Rice or Margaret Thatcher because they are conservatives. Unlike some leftist women who think that their sex puts them beyond the human traits of aggressiveness and violence, Rice and Thatcher understand that the realities of national security mean that negotiation and “making nice” with the schoolyard bully does not always work.
And are these leftist women really the great humanitarians they imagine themselves to be?
Not by a long shot.
Here’s another good read. Gary Bauer introduces Sally to Miriam Farahat and other jihad mothers:
To many, Field’s comment seemed charmingly idealistic — reminiscent perhaps of Sheryl Crow’s proclamation in 2003 that “the best way to solve problems is not to have enemies.” But politically astute observers should recognize Field’s remark as desperately inaccurate. For in the fight against radical Islam, it is too often the mothers who are the problem.
Consider Miriam Farahat, a Palestinian mother who has raised three sons to be homicide bombers for Hamas. Known throughout Gaza as Um Nidal, or “the mother of the struggle,” Farahat is featured in a Hamas recruitment video telling one 17-year-old son to attack Israelis and telling him not to return. And Farahat — who is now an elected member of the Hamas parliament — says she is willing to sacrifice all her 10 sons to the war against Israel because “Israelis are not civilians and there are no prohibitions on killing them.”
Consider also Fatima Zak. The pregnant mother of eight children was arrested along with her niece, a mother of four, in May by Israeli intelligence for planning a double homicide bombing.
And how would Field explain last summer’s foiled British terror bombing plot, where one husband and wife team allegedly planned to hide a liquid bomb in their baby’s bottle to bring down an airliner en route from London?
Field’s naiveté is perhaps understandable. After all, what sort of mother exploits her own children as tools of terror? The answer lies in understanding a culture that embraces death in the cause of global Jihad.
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This is the Trophy they should have handed out.
“New Hollywierd Emmy”
I was hoping that someone would enlighten Ms. Fields about this issue.
Thansk Michelle.
AJ,
You’re too much. LOL!!!
My mom speaks for her self well enough Sally.
Get the hell back on the short bus you just got off of.
“You spanked me, you really, really spanked me!”
Naivety and emotional wrecks are they. Mental health clinics are abundant in L.A. Time to check in the A,B,C list of Hollywoods purists.
There is not much to add to that, except these other names:
Queen Boudica
Catherine II, or the Great
Queen Elizabeth I
There are plenty more war-mongering women throughout history, and a quick Google search brought back this site,
http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/rulers.html
with more names:
As for that Assyrian Queen, her territory consisted of the Euphrates and Tigris river valleys, modern Iraq for those of you in Rio Linda.
AlohaGuy, you win my award for the Best. Quote. Of. The. Day.
I wouldn’t spank that if she freaking paid me…
Englishqueen01, yet another take-no-prisoners non-peacenik woman.
Add her to the list.
I guess she flew a little too high as a nun and got into that oxygen depleted atmosphere which starved some of her brain cells.
…and to war and ummm errr to war er uhhhhh to war and oh ummm to war…
Priceless! Is she calling all mothers to war?
Oh gosh, how did I forget the most recent warmonger woman?
Madeline Albright
Of course, she had snifters of bubbly and a dance with the pot-bellied Kim Jong Mentally-Ill, and left him a gift in the form of assistance for his nuclear “power” plant.
Nothing changes my impressions that:
1. Fields was possibly if not likely intoxicated at the time; and
2. That she said what she did not because she really thought about it, but because saying it made her feel good about herself.
It’s already been established well enough on this thread and others that women have no monopoly on pacifism, as men have no monopoly on violence.
But none of that matters to someone like Fields, who babbles self-therapeutic emotionalisms and self-satisfying wishful thinking, and who perceives logic and the historical record like a spoon perceives the taste of food.
To her, all that is important is showing the rest of us how “superior” she is, and that she feels good about herself. Everything else is irrelevant except to the extent that it touches on these two matters of primal urgency.
It’s an added bonus, of course, if we recognize her superiority – but that’s the frosting. The cake is simply feeling good about herself.
Don’t forget the autographed basketball she gave him.
If I had have the guts of Joan of Arc, I’d be a happy woman.
But thank you!
Does anybody really, really care what Gidget The Idjut thinks about anything?
No. I just get annoyed when I see her in Smokey and the Bandit reruns now.
Never saw ‘em, not much on road chase movies.
Hollywood deals with illusion so much it is easy for these people to delude themselves that it matters what they think or that anyone but themselves cares. I have not been impressed with the intelligence or the amount of education of these actors who think they are superior to the masses. I don’t watch many of them anymore and certainly don’t support their ignorance with my hard earned money.
I have only gone to the theatre 3 times in the last 5 years. And the movies were so wonderful that I forgot what they were?
Silly Sally says it all. I liked her better as the Flying Nun. She was more believeable and creditable in that role rather than her “acceptance” speech on TV the other night.
At least one someone thinks she ought to loose her Boniva deal, no more Sally Field commericials? Calling for a boycott.
http://thecablegame.blogspot.com/2007/09/sally-field-newsbusted-but-also.html
When I see all the names of past great women (great leaders all), I shudder when I think of the possibility of Mrs. Clinton attempting to eclipse them.
If anything, she’d have the distinct chance of overseeing the complete distruction of the greatest nation that ever existed. Liberals only want to feminize and render their populations dependent. They only crush all signs of manhood throughout society.
Where would England or Russia be today if Elizabeth or Catherine had been feminists? They would have faded from human existence like the Hittites and Vandals. Today, feminized social ideals are destroying both nations, and idiot American liberals want for us to follow them down the same path.
There was some priceless footage of Jennifer Garner acting just as superior as Gidget today on FNC.
It was a real Miss South Carolina moment, too.
That’s ELIZABETH I.
Not one, not two, but three blog posts here, with over 100 comments and counting; multiple track-backs; at least one widely syndicated column; waves of new readers from Yahoo! News…
Despite what common sense might tell you, the answer to your question is apparently an emphatic YES. Either that or it’s been a remarkably slow week for real news.
yohannbiimu (#22) asked:
Both Elizabeth I and Catherine were great feminists. Both fought for their right to rule, which few women had been able to do. Both raised eyebrows with their unorthodox sexual behavior (Elizabeth in not marrying,
Catherine, well, …). As for modern feminists being softies, maybe you should go to San Fransisco and talk to the Dykes on Bikes.
How about Karen McCann from the movie Eye for an Eye? (which is, IMHO, a terrific movie)
Does anyone know if Silly Sally has kids?Just curious.
Thank you Englishqueen.
And Brian 72, maybe we can add Janet Reno to that list.
It’s cheaper to fill the News Hour with silly quotes from silly people than to pay a qualified staff to research stories and present them in a meaningful way. The big 3 will drop news entirely I think.
Post the email I sent to you if possible.Tkanks..Jess
Think you for making my point for me. Modern feminists want to destroy manhood. They want to crush it. For whatever sexual proclivities Elizabeth and Catherine had, they had the common sense to let men be themselves, because otherwise they would have been overrun by Spaniards and Ottomen.
Fact: Liberals want men AND women to be dependent upon them. Being a ward of the state is not the desire of a true man. Being reduced to sucking at the tit of a bloated socialized government is what modern feminism brings to American masculinity.
I was with three different combat units in Vietnam. I was a Marine, still am because as we say, “Once a Marine, Always a Marine”. I love Sally, but she spoke as a fool who has not felt the pain of being looked down on because you did what your heart told you to do. I fought for my country then had my country turn it’s back on me because I did it’s bidding. I does not matter because I would do it all over again, even tho I would be the scapegoat. It was right then, it is right now. 58,000 brothers on the wall were right! God bless America, even tho it did not want to bless me and my brothers. Semper Fi.
Leave it to a liberal to make a point about someone’s sexual behavior, but then when it comes to Bill Clinton–it doesn’t matter what he did in the privacy of the Oval Office…
But that was their choice and so far as the history books tell me, neither Elizabeth nor Catherine shoved their proclivities down the gullet of the people, so to speak.
Which modern feminism does.
And feminists are harshest with those they claim to “support” – namely, stay-at-home mothers and women who have more than 1-2 children.
Some of the most vile feminist rhetoric has been directed at those two groups because they don’t toe the feminist line. After Michelle Duggar had her 16th child, women I a message board I used to frequent called her a ‘dog’ and voted to have her ’spayed’. It was disgusting and when I defended Mrs. Duggar’s right to have children (that she can care for – based on the documentaries I’ve seen), I was told *I* needed to be sterilized because I was so ‘close-minded’.
Feminism is no longer about “choice”, it’s about doing what the feminists tell you or facing their rancor.
Behavior such as this makes me think liberals like Sally Field and feminists have no true grasp of what it’s like to be a mother and to live with the knowledge that you would do anything – to the point of throwing yourself over a grenade – to protect your child and fight tooth-and-nail to keep him/her safe. I believe they are so wrapped up in their own selfish pursuit of moral relitivity that they can’t possibly extend beyond their own personal plane of reality.
Sally’s still doing the penance set by her liberal Hollywood brethren for starring in Not Without My Daughter.
OK…I’m going to say it again..why are we wasting time on this silly little cow!? Except that it’s fun to point out how ridiculous she really is. Remember the old..”you love me, you really love me!”….now THAT was silly too…so Sally hasn’t changed in 20 years…just because you age doesn’t make you wise…if you were stupid as a young adult, you will most likely be a stupid old person…Sally fits that bill…come on…it was another awards show put on by the awardees….can these over indulgent pampered over paid actors go for more then a month without giving each other awards?…what a joke…
IMO, feminism never was about choice, it has always been about towing their line of BS or the name calling begins. I’ve been married for 35 years and when I raised my kids, I chose to stay at home until they were in school which made me stupid, boring and dimwitted according to the women who everyone was hearing roar. It was my choice and I wouldn’t trade those years as a stay-at-home Mom for anything.
I am for women’s rights, but I will NEVER be a feminist. In my book, it’s a dirty word.
If Sally wants Mothers to rule the world she would do well to remember who gave us Hitler, Idi Amin and countless other terrible scourge’s.
She needs to remember that human monsters didn’t appear out of thin air.
For most of them, their Mothers had a great deal to do with who they were and are.
It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Flying Nun!!.No! It’s a MoonBat in the making!
Good point. That was one of the most eye-opening films into the Iranian regime of the Ayatollah…
Bet if it got made today, there’d be riots.
Sally lacks “perspective”. She is obviously in pain. And maybe even has spent too much time under hot movie set lights for too long. It’s cooked her frontal lobes.
I think Mrs Gump’s box of chocolates had nothing left in it but a liberal helping of “nuts” …
As for the Boniva deal … someone should notify the FDA we have discovered that there is an undocumented side effect …
As Sister Betrille she was ok … but Sandra Dee was a better Gidget … I think the only really good movie she made was Norma Rae …
IMHO of course …
Sally Field and her ilk more fit the “hand that cradles the rock.” They are willing to throw rocks at the people who help protect them from the islamofacists of the world.
Like most celebrities they are clueless about the world outside of their privileged world and their entourage. They are however more than willing to throw rocks at others. Hence the “hand that cradles the rock!”
I love Sally in a lot of her movies. However, this performance just demonstrates that being a movie star does not grant you the gift of “a brain”.