Whoopi Goldberg: obscenities, Chevy Chase, Hollywood and moral stupidity
Gerard Jackson
The pathological behaviour of Hollywood celebrities, particularly Whoopi Goldberg and Chevy Chase, at a Hollywood sponsored Bush-bashing fund raiser at Radio City Music Hall reminded me of a hate session from Orwell's 1984, with President George Bush in the role of the detested Emmanuel Goldstein.
That Whoopi Goldberg acted as a cheerleader for this Hollywood anti-Bush hate team is not at all surprising. After all, this is the same Whoopi Goldberg who praised the vicious East German communist regime. "What a country!" she exclaimed. A barbed wire enclosed prison state that murdered those who tried to escape its clutches. What a country indeed.
When she was asked about communism, a doctrine that killed more than 100,000,000 people, this profound Hollywood political thinker responded with this inanity: "I don't really view communism as a bad thing." The victims, for obvious reasons, were not available for comment.
Whoopi Goldberg is not alone, to put it charitably, in her misconceptions about communism There are plenty of other celluloid intellectuals who share her infantile views about this murderous doctrine.
On Earth Day 22 April 2000, which is also Lenin's birthday, Chevy Chase chose to inform the little folk that "sometimes socialism works", suggesting that the tyrannical Castro's Cuba was an example. Mr Chase is clearly as oblivious to political and economic reality as is Whoopi Goldberg.
At the time that Chevy Chase was making a public fool of himself the World Factbook showed that Cuba's GDP per capita income was $1,560, some private analysts put it much lower, compared with $31,500 in the US. In 1959, just before Castro came along to show Cubans how "socialism works", the country had the second highest per capita in Latin America, one that even exceeded Spain and Ireland's. Now Cuba is nothing but a Marxist-Leninist dung heap.
I guess this is what the charming SUV-collecting Chevy Chase means by having to "keep people at least stabilized at a certain level."
The situation is so desperate that since the inception of Castro's totalitarian state
Cubans have been literally dying, some 83,000 or so, to get into the US while no Americans, except murderers, are frantically trying to emigrate to Cuba. Incidentally, while Chevy Chase was praising Castro's prison island his own family were enjoying a recently acquired $2.75 million Westchester County home.
Once again, it's one law for the leftist elite and one for the little people, with the hapless Cubans being the little people in this particular case.
In case any readers think that the moronic Whoopi Goldberg and Chevy Chase are Hollywood exceptions the following Castro-loving celebrities should disabuse them of that notion.
Jack Nicholson, Oliver Stone, Ed Asner, Harvey Weinstein, Mike Farrell, Robert Greenwald, Danny Glover, Harry Belafonte, Martin Sheen, Peter Weller, Francis Ford Coppola, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, Steven Spielberg, Joel Coen, Actor Kevin, Ted Turner, Andy Spahn, Spike Lee, Shirley MacLaine, Leonardo DiCaprio, Woody Harrelson, Sydney Pollack, Leslie Moonves, Tom Freston, Bill Roedy, Brian Grazer, Jim Wiatt, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Michael Moore, etc.
These are the same Bush-hating lefties that worship at the bloodstained feet of the child-killing Fidel Castro. This helps explain why the drunken Whoopie Goldberg felt free to unleash an avalanche of obscenities at President Bush to the vast amusement of an audience consisting of Hollywood celebrities and Democratic bigwigs.
It explains why the shameless Chevy Chase, Jessica Lange and Paul Newman could follow Goldberg's foul performance by launching their own vindictive insults against Bush. However, despite their pathetic attempts at humour and politics, the only thing these moral cretins achieved was to unconsciously reveal their fetid totalitarian mindset.
If nothing else, the performance of this putrid gaggle of moral morons should be used as a constant reminder that to this self-important crowd of political bigots and intellectual buffoons no Republican administration is legitimate. Now if that is not totalitarian thinking, I'll be damned if I know what is.
Gerard Jackson is Brookes' economics editor
BrookesNews.Com
Monday 12 July 2004