Despite helping to create one of the most frightening characters of all time, Robert Englund, aka Freddie Krueger in the hit horror series "Nightmare on Elm Street," is actually afraid of "tea-baggers."
So wrote Englund in an article published at the Huffington Post Friday.
Though Halloween might be over, the following nonsense is likely to scare the Dickens out of many people afraid of the country's increasingly leftward shift (h/t Big Hollywood):
Normally, I embrace fear. I traffic in fear. Fear has been good to yours truly.
But if there's anything scaring me these days, it's the blatant misuse of fear in regards to health care reform. I am appalled at the brazen lies being propagated by opponents of reform specifically to scare the elderly and other vulnerable segments of our society. Pushing untruths about "death panels" and "pulling the plug on Grandma" are not helping the debate.
If we're going to achieve effective health care in this country, we need an honest public discussion based on facts: how do we pay for reform, how will it work, who will be covered?
These are important issues than cannot be solved while lobbyists, pundits and "tea-baggers" are muddying the waters by marketing fear. The only people who should be scared by health care reform are those who make a profit off of other people's suffering and illness.
So, if you remove lobbyists, pundits, "tea-baggers," and "those who make a profit off of other people's suffering and illness," who does that leave in the "honest public discussion" you seek, Robert?
Shouldn't such "an honest public discussion" include all those with an interest in the subject matter?
Or is that idea too -- ahem -- frightening for you?
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Who cares
November 2, 2009 - 11:41 ET by Apodicticwhat this bed-wetter has to say?
Ever heard of the...
November 2, 2009 - 18:14 ET by The_Pumpcrop"Robert Englund Syndrom"? It's where actors BECOME the character that made them famous in interviews and other movies. Englund is always trying to be Freddy. Anthony Hopkins tries to always be Hanible. Denzel is always Malcom X. And so on. Exactly. Who cares what these out-of-touch make-believe play actors think?
Apparently the Dems do....
I always knew that movie
November 2, 2009 - 11:42 ET by notonmywatchI always knew that movie series was just one part of a huge subversive leftist media business, designed to subvert America. Originally orchestrated from Moscow, I have absolutely no doubt.
Thanks Freddie Leftist, for confirming to people what they already knew.
Come back Senator McCarthy, you were 100% right! All is forgiven!
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McCarthy
November 2, 2009 - 11:55 ET by iveseenitallGlad you mentioned McCarthy, Notonmywatch. He was right, as proved in the Verona papers and many other Soviet admissions in the 1990's. Sadly, in today's world of ignorant "jounalism" and celebrity b.s., history and truth are ignored. Of course, it is to our detriment and is leading us further down the abyss. Our media as well as our "educational" and political systems are based on lies, "hopes" and "changes" which are destroying our families and ruining the future for all Americans. Sad.
P.S. Every American should read Witness by Whittaker Chambers.
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"
McCarthy and Venona etc.
November 6, 2009 - 11:00 ET by ernie1241Iveseenitall: Your comments regarding McCarthy are not accurate.
One of our nation’s foremost scholarsabout the McCarthy period (John Earl Haynes) has written several articles whichcompare McCarthy’s assertions to newly available data including, for example, the Venona papers and material in KGB archives. See for example:
(1) Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Lists and Venona
http://www.johnearlhaynes.org/page62.html
(2) Exchange with Arthur Herman and Venona book talk
http://www.johnearlhaynes.org/page58.html
With respect to Joe McCarthy:
Whittaker Chambers summed it up pretty well in his 1/14/54 letter about McCarthy to conservative book publisher HenryRegnery, when Chambers observed that....
"All of us, to one degree or another, have slowly come to question his judgment and to fear acutely that his flair for the sensational, his inaccuracies and distortions, his tendency to sacrifice the greater objective for the momentary effect, will lead him and us into trouble. In fact, it is no exaggeration to say that we live in terror that Senator McCarthy will one day make some irreparable blunder which will play directly into the hands of our common enemy and discredit the whole anti-Communist effort for a long while to come."
FBI security informant Herbert Philbrick told a Boston newspaper reporter that:
"He [McCarthy] harmed the cause of anti-communism more than anybody I know."
And in 1952, Philbrick observed:
"According to the Communist leaders, McCarthy has helped them a great deal. McCarthy's kind of attacks add greatly to the confusion, putting up a smokescreen for the Party and making it more difficult than ever for people to discern who is a communist and who is not."
FBI Supervisor, Robert J. Lamphere, supervised the investigations of some of the biggest espionage cases of the cold war, including those of the Rosenbergs, Klaus Fuchs and Kim Philby plus he was intimately involved, in conjunction with Meredith Knox Gardner of the Army Security Agency, in using deciphered Soviet cables to build espionage cases.
Lamphere wrote in his personal memoir that:
"McCarthy's approach and tactics hurt the anti-Communist cause and turned many liberals against legitimate efforts to curtail Communist activities in the United States, particularly in regard to government employment of known Communists."
Lamphere also observed that:
"McCarthy's star chamber proceedings, his lies and overstatements hurt our counterintelligence efforts."
Senator Joe was right. So
November 2, 2009 - 18:03 ET by MikeBSenator Joe was right. So was the John Birch Society when they tried to tell this country that Fidel Castro was a communist. The State Department and the news media pooh-poohed the Birchers as right wing extremists. Isn't it amazing that when the truth finally comes out, the so-called right wing extremists were right each and every time?
"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan
Birch Society
November 6, 2009 - 11:05 ET by ernie1241Mike:
The Birch Society is sometimes accurate in its statements or analyses but, overall, it has been gravely mistaken and it has done considerable damage to civil discourse in our country.
That is why even so hard-line an anti-communist conservative as J. Edgar Hoover (and senior FBI officials) concluded in FBI memos that the JBS was "extremist", "irrational", "irresponsible". That is also why giants within the conservative and anti-communist communities rejected the JBS as inept and harmful to legitimate anti-communist endeavors.
For details, see:
FBI FILES ON BIRCH SOCIETY:
http://ernie1241.goo...
lol
November 2, 2009 - 11:43 ET by Patriot III knew "liberals" were "ugly", but this is ridiculous! ;)
Freddie misses the point
November 2, 2009 - 11:46 ET by legacyrepublicanFreddie misses the point.
He says "The only people who should be scared by health care reform are those
who make a profit off of other people's suffering and illness."
If the government takes over health care, then the elected officials will profit from health care reform at the expense of the people's sufferings and sickness.
From from muddying the waters, the Tea-Baggers are bringing a clarity and honesty to the debate that the elites just don't want to get.
Robert Englund always seemed
November 2, 2009 - 11:52 ET by kefkaRobert Englund always seemed like a decent guy to me, in interviews and such. It sounds here like he hasn't the faintest clue as to what he is talking about. I imagine most people who don't follow the issue and get 100% of their news from the State Media think that the conservative backlash is a problem, when they deign think about it at all.
Here we go again...
November 2, 2009 - 12:04 ET by ConservativeClarkWhy is it that every 5 minutes, some liberal Hollywood actor type has to trot out onto the political scene and bless us with their "opinion"? Me personally, I couldnt give a sh!t what Robert Englund thinks about heath care reform, or any other high profile political issue. His views, while valid because he is entitled to them, bear no weight on this issue. Im sure he has great health care coverage since he made lots of money being an actor and still does to this day. The people i want to hear from are everyday, hardworking Americans who live paycheck to paycheck and who want good health coverage but not at the expense of their personal freedom by giving the bureaucrats the reigns. I also want to hear from the elected officials that will be deciding this bill's fate. Someone please tell Englund to go back wherever he was and keep being inconsequential.
Where does the Left always
November 2, 2009 - 12:06 ET by Chris NormanWhere does the Left always get off accusing the right of "scare tactics" - in this case, healthcare "reform"? We have seen far too many man-made disasters in government programs to have our predictions dismissed as "scare tactics".
The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.
no kidding
November 2, 2009 - 12:11 ET by sarainitalyhaven't obama and his goons been telling us for months that without healthcare reform we are all GOING TO DIE!!!!!!!!!
we have to pass the stimulus or we are going to all LOSE OUR JOBS!!!!!!!!!!
blah blah...they have been scaring the bejeesus out of people.
afraid of teabaggers?
November 2, 2009 - 12:09 ET by sarainitalyperhaps he was the first one to pass out at a party once, and he had an unfortunate teabagging experience.
That said - why do people have such a hard time thinking that faced with budget cuts and governement run healthcare *death panels* are far fetched?
Do they forget the governements roll with cigarettes?
ah the tea-baggers
November 2, 2009 - 12:14 ET by michiganruththe naughty, evil tea-baggers. have you noticed that the only people talking about "pulling the plug on Granny" are the libs? I believe Obeyme was actually the first to use that exact phrase.
they do it for a reason, of course: the more they can make the opposition sound ridiculous, the more average non-political people will think the opposition is bad and stupid.
but why are we paying attention to what Freddie Krueger thinks about healthcare anyway? reminds me of my favorite quote from last week, when one of the lib "journalists" asked why the president wasn't "listening to Woody Harrelson about Afghanistan." I mean, what can you say to that?
Every time a lib uses that
November 2, 2009 - 12:29 ET by pwozEvery time a lib uses that awful slang, I just call them a D-Bagger until they STFU.
i prefer
November 2, 2009 - 12:44 ET by sarainitalyto respond to them with c*ck sucker.
Re I prefer
November 2, 2009 - 15:15 ET by slickwillie2001Appropriate since it's one of those that popularized the 'teabagger' term.
Pedophile
November 2, 2009 - 12:44 ET by tbbaxterRobert Englund made a career portraying a disfigured child molester who invades the dreams of children. He must be very proud of the legacy he has created for his posterity. A heinous and unthinkable abomination to us, Freddie Krueger is someone to be admired and held up as a role model to all liberals and a poster child to the ACLU, ACORN, NOW, SEIU and the motion picture community. This is the America we are leaving our children. How sad.
It's
November 2, 2009 - 13:10 ET by jessieHIt's easy to solve. Have a nationwide vote on it, instead of the corrupt government forcing it on the people that elected them. Get it out of the govt's. control.
Tea-bagers vs. Tea Partiers
November 2, 2009 - 13:38 ET by AvitarWhat is a Tea-baggers? I know what the Tea Partiers are and admire them but NBC and entertainment personnel started talking about tea-baggers. What little I have been able to glean there is a Homosexual S&M practice that is so gross that nobody would try it who was not deranged. Is this what NBC is threatening? Since Tea-bagging requires a lack of moral character is the accusation actionable?
here ya go
November 2, 2009 - 15:04 ET by sarainitalyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teabagging
Thought he was dead?
November 2, 2009 - 14:17 ET by RpeggioCelebs are so full of themselves it's clinical....why do we care what a washed-up one trick pony actor thinks? Geez....go away already.
Everyone is entitled to
November 2, 2009 - 14:25 ET by Kat Outta the BagEveryone is entitled to their opinion and this guy is no different. I'm also entitled to my opinion that he's a one-trick pony who has been shamlessly squeezing everything he can out of this Freddie Krueger character for 25 years because he has no other talent to speak of.
Hey Robert... I'm glad
November 2, 2009 - 14:32 ET by bigtimerHey Robert...
I'm glad you fear the Tea Partiers.
Stay that way...others would do well to take heed.
So there! ;-)
'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart
Just when I thought that I
November 2, 2009 - 15:55 ET by rwesleyJust when I thought that I had seen the most pointless political opinion ever, put out by Sting, someone even more pointless pops up and places the bar that much lower.
At this point, I'm sure that one of the Solid Gold dancers will get some face time on HuffPo with their political musings.
Of course, we should all
November 2, 2009 - 17:59 ET by MikeBOf course, we should all heed Freddie's opinion on this, after all, he is an actor. To give Mr. Englund his due, he, unlike Sean Penn, managed to finish high school. He attended UCLA for 3 years and the Academy of Dramatic Art. So, he dropped out of UCLA after his junior year. If he got a degree it is in drama, which as you know, if he slept at a Holiday Inn Express last night, makes him eminently qualified to lecture us about Obamacare. Bob, if there were no "death panels" in the bill being considered at the time, why did the Democrat Senators say that those provisions had been removed? When Sarah Palin talked about them, they were a part of the bill being considered. They might not have been called by that name, but they had that function. Go back to acting. You are good at that (if one happens to like the genre of movie for which you are best known).
"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan
I'd be afraid of teabaggers too...
November 2, 2009 - 20:04 ET by wizardjrIf I lived in Hollywierd. Who knows what you're likely to wake up with in your mouth if you do a little too much party in that sodomy-some-more-a town of perverts and mental midgets.
I Wouldn't Have Known That Listening To Him On "Dennis Miller"
November 6, 2009 - 23:41 ET by The7SticksI was actually under the impression that he may be a conservative, if not maybe, a closet conservative, when I was listening to his conversation with Dennis Miller on Miller's show. Oh well, I tend to hold TEA party participants in the same kind of contempt as G-20 summit rioters, so the feeling is somewhat mutual. I wouldn't lose any sleep over them, though, as Mr. Englund has indicated.