NBC "Today" show co-host and weatherman Al Roker invited on Susan Sarandon to promote her latest movie, Mr. Woodcock, but couldn’t get through the full interview without praising her liberal activism, as he called her a "good role model," and celebrated her "great job" of combining acting and protesting. For her part, Sarandon actually took a dig at NBC News on its own airwaves, on the Monday edition of "Today", as she wistfully recalled the good old days when "news programs" showed "what was going on, not like now."
The following is the relevant out-take from the Sarandon interview as it took place on the September 10, "Today" show:
Al Roker: "Well you know, you've had this great career, you do these great films and yet you also, you're able to combine that with, with, with activism. Is that just as important to you as, as a good script?"
Susan Sarandon: "You know, in my job, it's all about imagination, imagination leads to empathy and empathy leads to activism. So I mean, I was, I came of age at that time when, you know, I was in D.C. growing up and you know if you had half-a-brain in your head and half-a-heart you were active, so it's nothing that started recently. It's just that people now, either hate me for it or like me for it, but it's because now people notice me, specifically. But it's something, I think, you know my generation, I'm so much older than you."
Roker: "Oh hardly."
Sarandon: "But in the late '60s, early '70s, you know, you felt you could change things. You stopped a war that, you know, there was segregation in the South. I mean, you had news programs, that you actually saw what was going on, not like now where you don't see things that are happening and, so you know, it made perfect sense that you thought you could change things and you had a responsibility to do that and I hope my kids feel the same way. You know I'm just doing what Americans are supposed to do, just being a human being, that's all."
Al Roker: "Well they've got a good role model."
Sarandon: "Thanks."
Roker: "And you've done a great job of combining the two."
Sarandon: "Thanks."
Roker: "Susan Sarandon, thanks so much."
—Geoffrey Dickens is the senior news analyst at the Media Research Center.




















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Al Roker
September 10, 2007 - 15:12 ET by Cool ArrowI'm waiting to hear what Krusty the Clown says about her before I buy it.
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Nuts!
September 11, 2007 - 08:22 ET by heldmywYa beat me! I was gonna say "Pauly Shore". His gravitas and all...
Entertainer/ActivistSinge
September 10, 2007 - 15:18 ET by drillanwrEntertainer/Activist
Singer/Activist
Comedian/Activist
Actor/Activist
Actress/Activist
Carries about as much weight with me as Hooker/Activist ...
Activist = "I either don't have a real job, or don't work near enough in the one I have ... "
Yeah, drill
September 10, 2007 - 17:24 ET by BlondeBut at least the hooker works for a living.
David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive
Blonde
September 10, 2007 - 17:51 ET by drillanwrYeah. I suppose I should have said political hooker.
Al Roker: "Well you know,
September 10, 2007 - 15:17 ET by MidAmericaAl Roker: "Well you know, you've had this great career, you do these great films and yet you also, you're able to combine that with, with, with activism. Is that just as important to you as, as a good script?"
Great career? Her new movie is "Mr. Woodcock"?! The title alone tells you what a great piece of 'art' this is. It's aimed squarely at the junior high set.
Sarandon's in a movie now
September 11, 2007 - 19:14 ET by celatorSaradon thinks all these cameras around her must mean she's in a movie right now. Must seem like a very long movie.
This lady is a seriously dumb human being who walks around in a trance, wondering who stole her script.
You are aware that she's
September 11, 2007 - 19:16 ET by balboaYou are aware that she's made other movies, right?
Sounds like Roker had part
September 10, 2007 - 15:17 ET by rbosqueSounds like Roker had part of his brain sucked out along with that fat.
Runaround Sue
September 10, 2007 - 15:20 ET by Mica the MagnificentOh, Susan. If you grew up in Washington and as you claim had half a brain and half a heart (I agree with you about you having half a brain) you would have run for a seat in congress instead of getting 'active.'.
But you knew you were too stupid even to be a democrat.
Role model?
I have chunks of you liberal role models in my stool (Paraphrasing Joe Piscopo as Frank Sinatra)
I have chunks of you
September 10, 2007 - 15:24 ET by drillanwrI have chunks of you liberal role models in my stool (Paraphrasing Joe Piscopo as Frank Sinatra)
Hence the title of one of Suzie's last flicks The Banger Sisters
No, NO, NOOOOO!!!!!
September 10, 2007 - 20:58 ET by Scout FinchThat was the late, great beloved and missed Phil Hartman's impression of Frank Sinatra!
(Telling guest star Sting [portraying Billy Idol] "I got chunks of guys like you in my stool!")
See my link here to view
September 11, 2007 - 01:18 ET by stratmanSee my link here to view the skit in all its glory.
That was funny!
Killing them with kindness isn't working. Time to get scrappy with the Donkeys.
"Good Role Model", Al?
September 10, 2007 - 15:26 ET by Del DolemonteMs. Sarandon starred in a movie in 1978 about child prostitution called "Pretty Baby", which featured nude scenes of a 12 year old Brooke Shields. Supposedly Ms. Sarandon provided Brooke with one of her own G-strings so technically Shields wouldn't be "nude".
Definitions
September 10, 2007 - 15:42 ET by mattmI think "role model" must be Liberal code for example of what not to emulate...
I assume that everyone
September 10, 2007 - 16:00 ET by balboaI assume that everyone disapproves of Sarandon being called a role model because a conservative actor would never be called the same, right?
Because I don't see anything wrong with Roker giving her that tag.
She's on the far
September 10, 2007 - 16:06 ET by TruthMongerShe's on the far left...
Now if Roker were interviewing Ann Coulter - would she be called a good role model - I just don't know...hmmm...
}}---> Me neither, Bal
September 10, 2007 - 16:08 ET by Cool ArrowRoker can make his own decisions as to whom he sells the content of his character.
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Well
September 10, 2007 - 16:35 ET by well99Extremist dont make good role models.If someone is going to point out a good role model (To me)it would be a first responder or someone that actually helps people.Celebs be they hollyweird type or jocks on a whole dont cut it.I dont listen to someone on tv making recommendations.
Good role model? How does he
September 10, 2007 - 16:00 ET by msh1973Good role model? How does he figure that....oh, I forgot she is a typical liberal; pro-abortion, pro-gay rights (whatever that means), she isn't married to the father of her children, and anti-war protestor, that just about wraps it up for Roker.
she's a good role model -
September 10, 2007 - 16:06 ET by TruthMongershe's a good role model - but for what? not something very good i don't think...
I'll give Sarandon (Robbins) one thing..
September 10, 2007 - 16:14 ET by Gary HallI'll give Susan Sarandon (and Tim Robbins) one thing. During the Clinton years, they were also quite outspoken in opposing the US role (the lead role - Clinton's, role for the record) in Kosovo. They are anti-war activists. They get some sort of consistency award.
Now. Back in 2003, Robbins said (and I'd bet that Sarandon agrees), "I talked about this in the press at the time. And curiously, no one accused me of being unpatriotic for criticizing Clinton."
Oh sure. CBS Evening News. "Dan Rather here. Up first tonight, Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon team up with President Carter, Michael Moore and Nelson Mandela in calling President Clinton a murderer." Yup, I remember that. Sure I do.
This point is aobut the media (and Tim's ignorance). Tim. Show me the dozens of times that the media took your point of view and pounded President Clinton, and his administration with that view, day after day, demanding answers to why they were bombing and killing people. Jimmy Carter and Nelson Mandela condemned Clinton actions in Kosovo also, but did we see, Larry King, Wolf Blitzer, Tim Russert, Dan Rather, and the NY Times fighting for interviews so that voters in the US knew.
Tim, the MSM did not wish for the voters to hear your anti-war protest with a Democrat in the White House.
So here's the question (sound's like Jack Cafferty). "Did Al Roker or anyone at NBC news ever invite Sarandon or Robbins on, and listen to their view that Clinton was just being another war monger, and then call them "good role models?"
This explains the curent liberals
September 10, 2007 - 16:46 ET by SportPoliticsI get it. The libs of yesteryear "stopped the war" and they "stopped segregation". So after they did all their activism, they went back to their art studio apartment and humped whatever crawled in, happily.
Nowadays, they haven't stopped the war, and haven't stopped the worldwide USA racism scourge, so they are so frustrated and bottled up and raging, it's a real bad scene, BDS plus.
I noticed something else, she mentions her liberalism is based not on real experience or personal pain and suffering, but on her "imagination". Did you catch that ? She "imagines" what it's like, then gets all active opposing the imaginary horror she has dreamed up. First clue that she is a "limousine liberal", and needs all her imagination to "create empathy" so she can "get behind causes" with her milion dollar travel allowances, and show up and be the "star" and the "savior".
I once "insulted" one of these old time hippy libs - after he braggingly claimed in elite snoot tone he and his kook chickens stopped the war - merely by pointing out the war in Vietman was winding down, the Presidency had changed to Nixon, and it was ending anyway, that he didn't stop it and neither did the Kent protesters. He went into a never been seen before or after insane ragefest - his core was shaken - he was livid and barking and quacking and on and on he cried - and I realized then, it was his entire political life, his entire self percieved persona - the reason he even lives - his claim to fame, his entire worth was based upon it. He felt he was utterly justified for anything and everything - he had spoken truth to power, and power lost, so he said.
LOL- It was amazing. I hadn't realized these insane snooty activists were still living off the past, the "glory days" - their reason to live, it wasn't about anything today - it was all about Vietnam - when their revolution "crushed" the evil power of the USA.
Now I understand why John Kerry and dimmocrats did what they did in the '04 run - Vietnam is their reason to exist, it is their sirens call, the time they "changed the world" and "broke the back" of the govenment overlords. ( in their MINDS of course) And that is exactly why the millions of dead in the killing fields doesn't matter one iota to them. They aren't saving lives, or making the world better - "they are moving in their revolutionary vanguard".
I have only have a few
September 10, 2007 - 16:43 ET by Dan The Man 2I have only have a few things to say, Damit Janet.
It's just a jump to the left
And then a step to the right
With your hands on your hips
You bring your knees in tight
But it's the pelvic thrust that really drives you insane,
Let's do the Time Warp again!
Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.
sounds horrific there rocky
September 10, 2007 - 16:46 ET by TruthMongersounds horrific there rocky
one thing leads to another
September 10, 2007 - 17:08 ET by CatherwoodThat interview with that liberal woman reminded me of a rather disorienting event which happened to me today. I was surfing Drudge and was assaulted by a picture of Brittany Spears. When I first glanced at it I thought it was Hillary Clinton in bra and panites. The world turned upside down. I quickly exited my office and headed outside for some fresh air and a cigarette. Then, I remembered I quit smoking in the summer of 1969. I asked an employee on break if it was Monday, was it September and was in Florida. He assured me all was in order. Now I only have to deal with the coming nightmares. I guess in the world where that picture would have been Hillary is the same world in which Susan Sarandon would be a role model.
Susan who?
September 10, 2007 - 17:12 ET by general companySusan Sarandon: "You know, in my job, it's all about imagination, imagination leads to empathy and empathy leads to activism.
Ussally this statement would declare one to be full of themselves. But this is gma, so they are role models instead. By their standards all of the kommies and dummies are role models,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Ok, maybe not the best
September 10, 2007 - 18:46 ET by BlazerOk, maybe not the best role model, but I hear by night she's one helluva lover.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyB_1wjbc_s
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Well I guess
September 11, 2007 - 07:06 ET by SportPoliticsthat clip shames just about 99% of the trash that comes out of the mouths of the msm, the dems, the libs, and their supposed entertainment culture nowadays.
The reason is the left and the dems and their hip hop and pimp pop crap can't even tell a story nowadays. If they had to rhyme an entire song, they would repeat themselves 50 times.
I definitely understand why that was a hit and is still a cult movie now. It was before the left went completely off the deep end and into utterly depraved ADD ADHD stupidity, and the less than innocent couple was still "innocent in their eyes". Today Brad and Janet are the people the left absolutely hates.
They'd never say that to
September 11, 2007 - 15:49 ET by greenfairieThey'd never say that to Patricia Heaton.