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07-21-2004 02:21 PM |
You can support your President and Commander-in-Chief without being dubbed or labeled.
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3 Doors Down - filmed a video for "When I'm Gone" with American soldiers stationed overseas. The surge of patriotism they got from the project helped them side in favor of going into Iraq and dismantling part of what Bush called the "Axis of Evil." "Evil is evil, so we're behind our guys and whatever they have to do," singer Brad Arnold said. "People just need to realize that the U.S. is the daddy of the world and all the time daddy can't be the good guy."
Arnold Schwarzenneger - "America is the land of opportunities. There's no two ways about it. It is a place where anyone can make it. Even an Austrian farm boy can come over here and come off the boat. You know. And then educated myself over here. It was a fantastic ride..."
Britney Spears - "I am for the war because if we don't take care of this now it will lead to more terrorism and more deaths. I think war is reasonable and I think its right what we are doing and giving the Iraqi people freedom." (from britneyspears.org)
Bruce Willis - With the prospect of war in the Gulf looming, Bruce Willis proudly phoned President George Bush to tell him he was ready to volunteer for military service. The 47-year-old said: 'I thought about signing up but my friends told me I was too old. I called the White House, called President Bush and asked what I could do.' Apparently, Mr Bush told Willis he was past his prime - the age limit for new recruits is 34 - and to find a more peaceful way to serve his country. 'So I got involved with the national foster care program,' Willis said.
Brian McKnight - "If we do go to war ... I'm going to support whatever President Bush decides to do."
Bo Derek - emerged as a political conservative, when she campaigned successfully for George W. Bush during the 2000 Presidential campaign.
Canibus - Staying true to his word, rapper Canibus joined the U.S. Army. Reps for Canibus stated that he has recently graduated from Kentucky's Fort Knox Military training, and is currently serving as a cavalry scout / reconnaissance specialist. I incidentally in 2001, Canibus released, "Draft Me", from 'C' True Hollywood Stories. In the song, Canibus intensely expresses his position in the military: "Draft me, pass me the M-16/Give me a buzz cut, ask me if I give a f**k/I'm comin' out blastin/Military four fashion/Twelve close castin', for weapons of mass-distraction/Outlastin' all the privates in my company/Fightin' for my family, and the cats that grew up with me/My band of brothers, rarely just smother the enemy/Razor blades cut ya face and leave a scar so you remember me/Lurkin' to leave y'all with bloody red turbans/Screamin' "Jihad!" while y'all pray to a false god."
Charles Barkley - During the later stages of his basketball career, Barkley entered a Republican makeover phase. His worldview began to mature; he became more focused on class and less virulent on race. He also grew close to Rush Limbaugh and Dan Quayle (a frequent golf partner), dined with Clarence Thomas.
Charlie Daniels - to "The Hollywood Bunch": "You people are some of the most disgusting examples of a waste of protoplasm I've ever had the displeasure to hear about.... If I see any of your names on a marquee, I'm going to boycott the movie. I will completely stop going to movies if I have to. In most cases it certainly wouldn't be much of a loss."
David Letterman - : “How many folks saw Colin Powell at the UN? I thought he was pretty persuasive, but a lot of folks are still demanding more evidence, you know, before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France. France wants more evidence, they demand more evidence. And I’m thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence it rolled right through Paris with a German flag.”
David Robinson - The San Antonio Spur's All-Star center, and one of the 50 greatest NBA players of all time, said "I get a little bit upset, the time for debate is really beforehand. Obviously history will speak on whether this was the right thing or the wrong thing, but right now (the soldiers) are out there. Support 'em. There's plenty of time for commentary later." "If it's an embarrassment to them," Robinson added, "maybe they should be in a different country, because this is America and we're supposed to proud of the guys we elected and put in office." (from espn.com)
Denis Leary - "I think we should take Iraq and Iran and combine them into one country and call it Irate. All the pissed off people live in one place and get it over with."
Dennis Miller - praised the president while verbally assaulting Hollywood peaceniks. “If you’re in a peace march and the guy next to you has a sign that says ‘Bush is Hitler,’ forget the peace thing for a second and beat his ass,” Miller also took on liberals for opposing school vouchers when public schools are a disaster and offered this blast at the ACLU's priorities: “The ACLU spent this entire holiday season protesting public displays of the nativity scene. Yeah, that's the problem with America right now: Public displays of Christ's birth, that's the problem. It's unbelievable to me. The ACLU will no longer fight for your right to put up a nativity scene, but they'll fight for the right of the local freak who wants to stumble onto the scene and have sex with one of the sheep.” Last November on the Tonight Show Miller praised Bush’s anti-terrorism efforts, favored attacking Iraq and juxtaposed the “wocka-wocka porno guitar of the Clinton administration” with how Bush “makes me proud to be an American again. He’s just a decent guy.” In a June Tonight Show appearance Miller mocked liberal orthodoxy: “If you put the Guantanamo Bay terrorist prison outside of Kabul it would be their Epcot.” And: “I say we create a new airline, called the ACLA, the American Civil Liberties Airline where you don’t check anybody, you don’t ask any questions, and let those morons fly on that one.”
Dennis Hopper - "We need to support the decision that's been laid down by our government to go after Saddam and try to get him to disarm, which is what the United Nations is talking about, and not to give Saddam a mixed message that maybe he can get out of this."
Fred Thompson - The “Law & Order” actor and former congressman from Tennessee has cut a television commercial where he extols, “Thank goodness we have a president with the courage to protect our country.”
Gary Oldman - openly badmouthed his movie, The Contender, just one day before its release date. Oldman, a Republican, was disgusted with editing cuts made to The Contender, which he alleges were made due to the studio’s Democratic leanings. In Premiere magazine, Oldman and his manager, Douglas Urbanski, accuse DreamWorks honchos Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, and Jeffrey Katzenberg — all Democrats — of turning the political drama upside down to make it mesh with their pro-Al Gore agendas.
Gene Simmons - Born Chaim Witz from Haifa, Israel, Simmons is highly educated and speaks four languages. He has some pithy statements on his Web site that others in the entertainment field might try reading. On U.S. history, Simmons posts, “If you don't have the guts to stand up to injustice, where ever it exists (and that means stopping the Germans, the Japanese and the Italians in WW I and WW II ... or the Albanian Serbs in Bosnia ... or the tragedies that keep on occurring in Africa ... or even the Viet Nam War ... Panama ... North Korea ... the list goes on and on) ... One thing in common with all these events: AMERICA. America didn't stay and ‘conquer’ ANY OF THESE COUNTRIES.” As for fellow libs in the entertainment biz, Simmons says that he’s “ashamed to be surrounded by people calling themselves Liberal who are, in my opinion, spitting on the graves of brave American soldiers who gave their life to fight a war that wasn't theirs ... in a country they've never been to ... simply to liberate the people therein.” The rocker makes an appeal to those who hold fast to an appeasement mentality: “The answer to any doubters lies in watching Iraq's people dancing in the streets.” (from newsmax.com)
Heather Locklear - Heather digs both heavy-metal guys and the flat tax—she’s a registered Republican!
James Earl Jones - the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars films, who used to be the deep-voiced announcer who intoned, “This is CNN,” looks favorably upon finishing the job in Iraq. "All people have to be prepared. If we are going to be the police, we also have to be the guardians. We can no longer play games," actor James Earl Jones told a group of North Carolina college students. "I was not against the war in Bosnia. I was against it taking so long. I was not against the war in Somalia. Again, it took too long, and we didn't finish the job. We should've stayed and finished the job. About this pending war, I just think we should've finished that war the first time," Mr. Jones said, referring to the 1991 Persian Gulf war. The man who provided the voice of Darth Vader in "Star Wars" is also a former Army officer.
James Caan - During an appearance at the Florida Film Festival, someone said they had heard that Caan didn't care much for fellow actors who speak out on political issues. That was when Sonny Corleone's temper was unleashed. "Most of them are idiots," he said, proceeding to call Alec Baldwin, Barbra Streisand and Richard Gere "morons." "I put her head on the scale," he said of Streisand. "The needle didn't move an inch." Apparently, Caan doesn't have a problem with actors speaking out as much as he has a problem with liberal actors speaking. "I hate getting lumped into that liberal Hollywood contingency," he said. (from orlandosentinel.com)
James Woods - “I love George Bush right now and I always have,” Woods told Jay Leno. “I’m the only guy in L.A. who voted for him.” Last October on NBC’s Tonight Show, Woods praised George W. Bush for handling terrorism in a “very deliberate, very careful” manner. Woods fondly recalled the way the U.S. responded to Moammar Gadhafi which ended his terrorist activities by killing “his whole family, blew the crap out of them, never heard from him again.” A few days earlier, on Entertainment Tonight, Woods had urged massive retaliation: “Simple logic tells you that if somebody wants you dead you have one course of action: To get them deader sooner.” He approvingly proposed that “if this had happened to the Russians, about three major cities in the Middle East would have been parking lots in twenty minutes.”
Jay Leno - I don't know why people aren't surprised that France won't help us get Saddam out of Iraq. After all, France wouldn't help us get the Germans out of France!
Jean-Claude Van Damme - the action movie star told Globe magazine, "Americans need to know that there are Hollywood stars who support President George Bush and believe he's doing the right thing by confronting Saddam Hussein. Those protesting (the war) are part of the axis of ignorance."
Jennifer Capriati - At Jennifer Capriati's request, the 1999 Outkast song "Bombs Over Baghdad'' was played on the stadium public-address system before a match at the Nasdaq-100 Open. "I like the song, and I wanted to support the troops,'' Capriati said through a WTA Tour spokesman. (from espn.com)
John Travolta - (Speaking prior to Operation Iraqi Freedom)"We need to do something, and I think we need to go in." (from zap2it.com)
Kathy Ireland - The supermodel was on Hannity & Colmes on September 30 to discuss her pro-life views. She told the talk show hosts: “The bottom line is this: If the unborn is not a human being, have as many abortions as you want, whenever you want. It doesn’t matter. No justification is necessary. If, on the other hand, the unborn is a human being, no justification is adequate unless another human life, that being the mother, is in danger.”
Kelsey Grammar - doesn’t mind going against the tide in Hollywood. He’s one of a small handful of celebrities who has openly supported President Bush. Now he is using his television show as a vehicle to express appreciation to those who serve in the military. The actor has a standing instruction to the staff of “Frasier” that families of military personnel or veterans who attend tapings will be seated where they belong – in the front row. (from newsmax.com)
Kid Rock - while backstage at the Grammy Awards, where it’s a near sin to be anything but anti-Bush and antiwar, actually stuck up for the president. "Why is everybody trying to stop the war? George Bush ain't been saying, 'You all, make s----y records.' Politicians and music don't mix. It's like whisky and wine. [Musicians] ought to stay out of it." Says Kid, "We got to kill that mother-[bleeper] Saddam," he says. "Slit his throat. Kill him and the guy in North Korea."
Matthew McConaughey - McConaughey sees himself as a proud, patriotic American. He is glad the fighting in Iraq is over, is glad America went in there and got rid of Saddam Hussein. The hard, patient work is ahead, and "it's going to take a decade at least to reform, rebuild and stabilize that place. If the hard part's over as far as the fighting goes then this has been, in my mind, extremely efficient, and I believe that our commander-in-chief, George Bush junior, had his heart in the right place. "You know, we have not evolved as a people, as the human race, to have peace without war. We never did before in history and we obviously aren't doing it right now. But the discussions that are going on now about the right way or the wrong way to go about this are more advanced than they've ever been, so that's a sign of evolution there, man.'' (from theage.com)
Matt LeBlanc - "The people that are making those decision are far more informed than I am. I think that they -- [and] this may be perceived by some as blind faith -- are right, and I believe in our system, I believe in our president, and I believe in our government, and I think if there's some f---ing psycho out there arming and getting ready and absolutely flat-out breaking his word he's given to the rest of the world, not just the United States, but the rest of the world, the rest of the world doesn't have the ...b---, well, I'm just an actor. I believe in our country." (from zap2it.com)
Marge Simpson - We can stand here like the French, or we can do something about it.
Mel Gibson - In an interview with CBS' Mark McEwen, McEwen said to Gibson: "You live in Hollywood, work in Hollywood -- liberal town. Some of your views aren't as liberal as that town. You're anti-abortion, pro-capital punishment, do you ever feel like you're howling in a hurricane?" Gibson replied: "Some kind of a dinosaur? No, you know you have to have these opinions about these things. I'm pretty firm on stuff like that. I don't feel like I'm howling in a hurricane. I just try to do my bit the way I think it should be done."
Morgan Freeman - was in Brazil recently and told people that so far, George W. has been a “perfect president.”
Nickelback - "I really love my girlfriend, and I really love my country, and I really love everyone who's in my life," Nickelback singer Chad Kroeger said. "And if there are some f---ing a--holes anywhere with the ability to launch a weapon of mass destruction and hurt any of those things that I love or anybody anywhere, then that's a problem that has to be dealt with. Everybody's sitting around going, 'Oh, don't go to war, don't go to war,' " he continued. "Well, we're going to war for a reason: Saddam Hussein is a madman. If there would have been any nuclear capability on any of the Scud missiles he launched [during the Gulf War], do you think he would have not done it? He would have done it in a heartbeat. That absolutely terrifies me."
Patricia Heaton - “The thing I found in Hollywood was that the Democrats were supposed to be all inclusive, but they weren't inclusive of my opinions." She told Bill O’Reilly that when she wore a Bush/Quayle button back in 1992, “literally people would stop and look at the button and look at me and give me dirty looks” and “say nasty things to me.” O'Reilly soon wondered: "But it all comes down to would you ban it [abortion] if you were a Supreme Court justice. Would you vote to ban it?” Heaton: "Yes." O'Reilly: "You would?" Unequivocally Heaton repeated: "Yes". O'Reilly: "Okay. Now that obviously takes guts in Hollywood, because in Hollywood there's a subtext that if you don't play the game, you know you could lose jobs. Did you ever think of it?" Heaton quipped: "Yeah, I've thought about it. On a personal level as a Christian, it will not be Barbra Streisand I'm standing in front of when I have to make an accounting of my life....She will not be in charge of whether I get my wings or not.”
Queen Latifah - ''I stand by my country; war is not my first choice, but I am not unrealistic about this. I am thrilled to be in the Oscar race, but standing behind whatever our country does takes precedence for me. On the other hand, nobody wants to cry all day. Families would be saying goodbye to loved ones for who knows how long, and maybe the Oscars can be a diversion for them to escape for a few hours.''
R. Lee Ermey - who made his name as the fearsome drill sergeant in the film Full Metal Jacket, told The Telegraph that Barbara Streisand's views were far from representative of Hollywood as a whole. "Once again, Barbra Streisand has opened her alligator-sized mouth wide before her humming-bird brain has had a chance to catch up," said Ermey. "Of course, she has the right to her opinion, but what she does is use the 'bully pulpit', helped by her fame, and people think she's talking for Hollywood." Ermey, an ex-marine and outspoken supporter of President Bush and the war on terror, continued: "We need to do something about the situation before it turns round and bites us in the ass. Democrats are criticizing President Bush for not spotting signs that 9/11 was coming. But they don't want him to act to stop the next disaster. Ms Streisand does not speak for me or many other folks in this business."
Regis Philbin - The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee.
Rob Lowe - Martin Sheen's former co-star on "The West Wing," told Fox News Channel that Americans should support our armed forces, and that the best way to do that was to support our commander-in-chief.
Ron Silver - Silver, who plays liberal campaign strategist “Bruno Gianelli” on NBC's The West Wing, made clear he does not agree with the politics of the show's “President Bartlet,” Martin Sheen. Silver told Beltway Boys co-hosts Fred Barnes and Morton Kondracke that Europeans “criticisms are logically incoherent...they hold inconsistent views that we’re utterly materialistic, and then we’re insufferably religious. We’re boring conformists, and then we’re reckless individualists. We’re racists, but then we’re too politically correct.” When Kondracke suggested it's a problem caused by George W. Bush since Europeans liked Bill Clinton, Silver refused to accept the premise. Asked why Hollywood is so anti-war, Silver suggested: “My opinion is that the entertainment community along with other advocates -- human rights organizations, religious organizations, are always on the front lines to protest repression, but they’re always usually the first ones to oppose any use of force to take care of these horrors that they catalogue repeatedly, and I find that inconsistent as well.”
Shannen Doherty - On Last Call with Carson Daly, Shannen Doherty extolled her love for Donald Rumsfeld, said she's “a big supporter of President Bush” and revealed that on her refrigerator she displays a picture of herself with Ari Fleischer. Doherty, best known as a star of Fox's Beverly Hills, 90210 during the early 1990s, recalled meeting Rumsfeld at a correspondents dinner in Washington, DC. She gushed to Daly on the NBC show “I loved him, I enjoyed meeting him a lot.” Doherty proclaimed: “I'm a Republican...I'm a big supporter of President Bush.” Justifying her support to a less than enthusiastic audience in New York City, Doherty added: “C'mon, our troops are over there, we gotta be supportive.” (from mediaresearch.org)
SheDaisy - "The American Music Awards seem to have a whole new meaning these days and we are proud to be Americans and nominated for this year's Vocal Group of the Year," the busy sister trio SHeDAISY said in 2001. The trio performed for President Bush and the soldiers at Fort Campbell, Kentucky on November 21, 2001 and again in honor of President Bush in Washington, DC on June 10, 2001 during "An American Celebration" at the historic Ford Theatre .
Sylvester Stallone - "I've been on the fence about it," he said. "It's the first time America has gone after someone as a protective move. But I believe we have righteousness on our side." (from nydailynews.com)
Ted Nugent - “With our men and women in the military in harms way defending freedom, we should be thankful that many of our young people have answered the call of patriotism and love of country to serve in our armed forces and defend our way of life,” Nugent wrote at his Web site, tednugent.com. I'm just an old guitar player, but I believe in those self-evident truths that our founding fathers wrote down guaranteeing us certain God-given rights. George W. Bush..., we have come to learn that he listens to "we the people." I believe he cares what his boss wants out of him — his boss being "we the people."
Tiger Woods - I have great respect for the men and women fighting overseas to protect our way of life in Iraq and other parts of the world. As the son of an Army officer, I understand the strength, courage and discipline required to successfully carry out their missions in hostile environments and feel tremendous pride they are representing us. Obviously, no one likes war. Our Congress and President tried hard to avoid the use of force, but ultimately decided it was the best course of action. I like the assertiveness shown by President Bush and think we owe it to our political and military leaders, along with our brave soldiers to be as supportive as possible during these difficult and trying times. I just wanted to take this opportunity to let our forces know that I am thinking about you and wishing you and your families the best. (from tigerwoods.com)
Tim Russert - NBC’s Tom Brokaw told students at Northwestern University he opposes reporters wearing American flag pins or ribbons....Brokaw’s colleague Russert disagrees. “I may be a journalist, but I’m an American first.”
Toby Keith - The country singer accused ABC’s Peter Jennings of booting him from an ABC 4th of July special, to be hosted by Jennings, because Jennings objected to the lyrics of Keith’s song, “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue:”
“This big dog will fight/
“When you rattle his cage/
“And you'll be sorry that you messed with/
“The U.S. of A./
“'Cause we'll put a boot in your ass/
“It's the American way.”
Travis Tritt - The bottom line is ... what's going to happen is going to happen. To be a good American — regardless of which side you're on — you have to get behind President Bush. More important, you have to get behind the troops," Tritt said recently. He also had some stern words for Dixie Chicks leader Natalie Maines, who during a recent concert in London said, "Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas." "I think the comments were made primarily because it was in front of an audience that agreed with them," Tritt told Fox News on Tuesday. "But I think if you make those statements over there versus over here it is sort of cowardly and I think it was a cheap shot." Referring to loud-mouthed celebrities who constantly bad-mouth our president and our military, he said, "The last thing in the world that those people need to hear is every time they turn on the television or every time they turn on the radio is some half-cocked entertainer coming off and making statements against the actions that they're over doing under the direction of our commander-in-chief." (from foxnews.com)
Vince Gill - At the Country Music Awards presentation in Nashville, host Vince Gill, when he introduced Toby Keith, took a shot at Peter Jennings. To audience applause, Gill joked that he asked Jennings, “'you wanna come down and introduce my pal Toby?’ He didn’t show. He didn’t come. He’s afraid he’s gonna get one of them boots up the ass is what happened.”
Vince Vaughn - During a movie shoot in England, Vaughn found himself repeatedly reaching for the same comeback. Three totemic words from the attic of history: the Marshall Plan. ''I'd say one in three conversations wound up the same way, basically that 'America is the devil.' So I'd ask folks to think about the Marshall Plan a bit and get back to me,'' says Vaughn, 32, referring to the Allied blueprint for the reconstruction of Europe after World War II. ''In the end, though, I just had to tell people, 'I'm not having this discussion anymore.' '' ''But the (European) media often stoke the fires,'' he says. ''Their media portray Americans as culturally inferior, ignorant of world politics, arrogant in our interaction with the rest of the world and, worst of all, the bully of the neighborhood.'' During Vaughn's stay in England, he found himself criticized on all those levels. Like a boxer countering each blow, he shot back with the best responses he could. Sometimes the complaints left him speechless, like the time he was told '' 'America had no culture' by a kid wearing a Kobe Bryant T-shirt and listening to rapper DMX.' But one incident really stung. ''Man, it was bad,'' says the Rat Pack-y star of Swingers. ''These girls saw us and were kind of flirting, and they kept asking us if we were American. Finally we said, 'Yes,' and they just took off. ''One girl turns and says, 'We were hoping you were Canadian.' Canadian? Since when was it cooler to be Canadian?''
Wayne Gretzky - "All I can say is the president of the United States is a great leader, I happen to think he's a wonderful man and if he believes what he's doing is right I back him 100 percent, If the president decides to go to war he must know more than we know, or we hear about. He must have good reason to go and we have to back that." Speaking about the views in Canada, as well as the outspoken Hollywood establishment, Gretzky said, "I guess we get it more in the United States because actors and singers -- they all think they know politics. I'm tired of watching people who are not in politics give their opinions. Quite frankly that's what we have governments for and that's why we elect governments."
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