Hollyweird alert: Kevin Spacey hearts Hugo Chavez; Update: Reports - Chavez won’t come to U.N.
Update 10:20am Eastern. Fox has been reporting the last 20 minutes that Hugo will be sitting out the U.N. meetings this week. Maybe all that sulfur he complained about last year is keeping him away.
Or maybe he’s run out of Chomsky books to pimp. Remember?
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The celebrity love affair with Venezuela’s thug-in-chief continues. Sean Penn. Danny Glover.
Now, Kevin Spacey:
Actor Kevin Spacey met privately Monday with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, one of Washington’s most outspoken critics in Latin America.
Neither Spacey — who has won Academy Awards for roles in “The Usual Suspects” and “American Beauty” — nor Chavez spoke to the press after the nearly three-hour encounter in the presidential palace in Caracas. They shook hands warmly on the red carpet as Spacey left after a dinner with Chavez.
Nearly three hours?
Somehow, I doubt this came up. Or this. Or this.
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All I can say is that I lost interest long ago for the Hollyweirdos. And every time someone new comes along to open up their hearts and minds to ‘dictators’, I lose all interest in that person and all he/she has done in the past. I liked Kevin Spacey, however, will now throw away any and all works he has done because he like all the others have not impressed me.
Spacey & Penn are excellent actors.
But shapers of modern political thought? Not in the slightest.
They probably had a big confab about Noam Chomsky.
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I don’t see anything about Chavez that the American Democrat party disagrees with. Democrats have long championed public indoctrination for every child in a government-controlled, tax-funded school. Many Democrats insist that conservative media needs to be shut down. Nationalized corporations? Does anyone believe that the 3 leading Dem candiates for Pres don’t get giddy at the prospect of the seizure of corporate assets by the State?
Chavez has just been able to accomplish the Democrat Party’s goals for America. Why would any American liberal fail to embrace Chavez? He should be their hero. Tyranny shmyrrany!
Why don’t Spacey, Glover and Penn move to Venezuela? They are obviously so enamored with this dictator thug that they are blind to the destruction he will bring about on his own people - oppression of speech, the economy, and freedom.
This is the kind of stuff they want imposed here - oppression of thought if it doesn’t gel with the liberal party line, oppression of religion because they despise it, oppression of speech if they don’t like what they hear.
Hell, communism/socialism has only killed what - 100 million people - let’s keep trying until we really cull the herd!
The left’s love of dictators is just mind boggling! It has no boundaries. Thank GOD I am a “far.right.wing.radical.Christian” (which, I guess, makes me a bigot as purported by someone on this sight – thanks!). I want to make sure I cannot be mistaken with these – uh – people(?).
Well…
I’ll be burning my copy of The Negotiator, and any other movie I have with Spacey in it with more than 3 lines…
Disgusting…
Tit.for.tat - LOL
For the life of me I can’t figure out why certain “stars” completely go nuts over these dictators. Do they just not believe that nutjobs like Chavez don’t suppress free speech in their countries? Or is it “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” at work here?
Verbal Kint/Keyser Soze needs to get a clue.
What the heck does this mean? If only Bush wasn’t President the “outspokesn critic” would have nothing to say?
Kevin ” I love Chavez ” Spacey now joins Hanoi Jane on my list. No more Kevin movies for me.
Does anyone know the e mail for Kevin’s manager/agent/handler? I would like for Kevin to know the foolishness of his acts.
Another loon from Hollyweird. I don’t understand either Ryan why these loons continue to go to places with these dictators who have suppressed free speech, destroyed their enemies and live lavish lives while their people suffer. I wasn’t such a big fan of Kevin Spacey anyway but I will refrain from paying any cash to see his garbage at the cineplex.
These movie stars have lavish lives, have people fall all over themselves to get close to them, and get many things you and I would pay for comp’d.
K-PAX SUX!
Wake up Spacey. Pop the bubble your living and dreaming in.
Yes, because on this site NOBODY expresses the desire to slap Islam!
Yes, like people protesting yesterday when Iran’s president came to town to speak…
You know, you really have to wonder, with all the money that these celebs have….if they think things are SOOOOO great …why don’t they ever go MOVE there?
I would have a little more respect for one of these charachters if they actually put their money where their mouth is….
Protesting a speech is also permissible under the first amendment. At least The Miniature Hostage Taker got to have his say. That’s more courtesy than Jim Gilchrist or Walid Shoebat got at Columbia U..
There’s a guy over at the Libertas blog who keeps saying Hollywood admires these dictators because it craves that sort of power for itself. I wasn’t so sure if I agreed with that before, but now I gotta say that guy is right.
Hollywood: just like the pre-revolution French aristocracy, only more useless.
I strongly urge Americans to support the Venezuelan effort to stop “American imperialism” of cinema. That way, our precious American actors/actresses will no longer be needed as much.
Then they’ll realize the folly of their ways. Careful what you wish for Spacey. Hugo wants a cut of the Hollywood pie and it will only take away from you.
Hey Sausage –
How many people in America are arrested and murdered because they belong to a religion not approved by the government? (No, Waco doesn’t count–it was Hillary’s friend that approved it)
How many churches have been shut down because they dared speak ill of “El Presidente” Bush?
How many newspapers have been closed because they dared write ill of “El Presidente” Bush?
How many TV or radio stations have been shuttered because they dared speak ill of “El Presidente” Bush?
How many idiots have been told off today in a manner more gentle than they deserve? Finally, a counting finger goes up — guess which one and who it’s pointed at!
Sausage, you are a true moral relativist. It us too bad you don’t get it.
Let me explain: Oppression of religion is bad. Challenging a religion that is used by head chopping terrorists is good.
Oppression of free speech is bad.
Oppressing a radical tyrant and preventing him from using your countries sacred ground for propaganda is good.
You all should add Jodie foster to that list as well.
Maybe one of the reasons that Hollywood Morons seem so infatuated with third-world dictators is because they’ve lived lives of unreality to such a degree that it’s no longer possible for them to relate to what’s real for the rest of us.
These are people whose very profession relies on their ability to fake emotions, fake beliefs, fake behaviors - indeed, fake reality itself.
In return, they get paid enormous sums of money that defy most ordinary folks’ sense of reality, and perhaps even their own sense of that concept.
Live that way long enough, and I wonder if the entire concept of what’s real and what’s make-believe becomes rather hazy, if not abstract.
That, and it’s a lot easier and more tempting to dabble in pernicious notions like socialism, communism and cult-of-personality autocracy when one feels “safe” from their effects: when one is willfully and blissfully ignorant of the catastrophic consequences those systems have for people lacking the millions of dollars to insulate themselves from the poverty, misery, oppression, hopelessness and mass murder that always ensue wherever and whenever they’re implemented.
It’s easy to hob-nob with Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro when you know that you can always hop on your private jet and fly away if he turns out to be a monster. That’s how unearned riches can bend reality until it breaks.
I agree, oppression of any religion is bad. Thankfully this country has separation of church and state to prevent that.
But let’s be honest, there are PLENTY of comments on this site that tar the entire religion of Islam with the same extremist brush….
But that’s free speech on your terms
Back to Hugo - nobody really cares about his people (who voted him in) - they are more worried that he’s starting to become a too powerful force in this part of the world…
Is it better to continue to vilify him or engage him in talks?
Hey sausage, you are aware that there is a difference between protesting the speech of a tyrant who stifles dissent at the end of a noose and stifling dissent at the end of a noose, right? Because you seemed to have those things confused in your mind.
As to slapping Islam? Silly comment, but allright. Noone here suggests that adherants of Islam should be made outlaws by statute, and that those who continue to practice that religion should be hung or publicly beheaded. Some here have criticised the content of the Islamic religion and the actions of those who practice it, but I don’t think anyone has called for it to be repressed by state-sanctioned violence.
Common sausage you must understand what the word oppression means, and the difference between oppression and protestation.
Of course that would be “come on” if it weren’t so early in the Pacific…
Please… I’m so hyped about the copy of Halo 3 waiting for me at home, I’m impressed I know my name today…
Sausage knows the score, he’s just pushing your buttons.
Spacey is a fool.
The US could be in serious peril with this ruthless dictator teaming up with the likes of Lex Luthor….Chilling!
Of course none of “this” stuff came up. The hollyweird group is okay with it, when one of their own hero’s does it. Yesterday, Columbia applauded their madman guest. Even though his government stones women, and kills homosexuals. You see they’re all about freedom of speech, and equal treatment over here, however when it comes to their hero’s like Chavez, and Castro it’s acceptable to have collateral damage. It’s a start for their revolution for America.
“If the Russian Revolution becomes a signal for a proletarian revolution in the west, so that both complement each other, the present Russian common ownership of land may serve as the starting point for a communist development.”
(Marx and Engles, Preface to the Russian edition of the Communist Manifesto)
Really? Nobody?
Thank GOD fools do not speak for me.
It seems the liberal actors do not care about the people. A photo op with a dictator though…
I have friends that are missionaries there that care for the people nobody cares for. Some have been arrested for spying. Almost all have been forced to leave. Are you going to take care of the people they were taking care of?
Do you ever read what you write? Talk about painting with a broad brush.
I suppose it is easier to condemn the world for not caring about the people from your Lazy Boy.