Kathy Bates: I Want Obama 'To Stand Up on His Hind Legs and Fight These Rat Bastards'
Academy Award-winning actress Kathy Bates wants President Obama "to stand up on his hind legs and fight these rat bastards."
When asked by the host of CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight to elaborate, Bates said Friday, "I think he has got to indict these guys from Wall Street. Somebody's got pay for that mess" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
PIERS MORGAN, HOST: What do you make of what's going on now in Washington, President Obama, the whole political shakeup at the moment?
KATHY BATES: Well, you know, I have to kind of go back and say that I -- I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. I grew up in a segregated town. When I went back my first year in college, that spring, I had my first black friend. I wanted to bring her home. And my father said, "Are you crazy? You want to start a race riot?"
And I was like -- I didn't understand it because my parents were from another generation. My dad was born in 1900, my mom in 1907. I came very late in life to them. Long story short, that was the spring that Martin Luther King was slaughtered in my hometown.
Fast forward now to, what is it three -- two years ago, I'm in Paris, I'm on my computer watching these election results, because I've gotten so inspired by this man -- and I'm so apolitical. And for the first time in I don't know how many years, I was just galvanized by this election. It was so emotional to me.
The last two years, I want to go back, something my father said to me -- he always said, "Stand up on your hind legs and fight." And that's what I'd like to say to my president, whom I'm so proud of. But I want him to stand up on his hind legs and fight these rat bastards. And he has got do it.
MORGAN: Who do you mean by the rat bastards?
BATES: Well, I think he's got to indict these guys from Wall Street. Somebody's got pay for that mess. And I don't think it's the American public.
MORGAN: Because you believe that basically that was the catalyst for all the problems that are going on now?
BATES: I think it was the catalyst for many. It certainly was the catalyst for our loss of faith.
MORGAN: It does seem extraordinary not one of them has ever been put in jail. Not one. The biggest financial crisis in history. It came out of pure greed and wanton irresponsibility and nobody has ever carried the can.
BATES: Well, and it's is like Steinbeck said in "Grapes of Wrath," who's the bank? When everybody was losing everything, who is behind all of this? Who's really running the country? Who's really pulling the strings?
And I think we have all lost faith. And we don't know what to do. And there are no jobs. And we are looking at a lineup, in my opinion, of Republicans like --
MORGAN: Do you feel alarmed by what you see?
BATES: I do. I do feel alarmed for the country.
MORGAN: When you see the Tea Party who are very polarizing, but they're increasingly popular. When you see the Tea Party candidates and the views that they espouse, what do you think?
BATES: I don't espouse their views. I'm not that conservative. I do feel -- I guess I'm more of a Democrat at heart, although I've never affiliated myself with a particular party.
Given that Bates called Rush Limbaugh a drug addict on her television program earlier this year, "Democrat at heart" about covers it.
Also of note is how the Left always blames America's current condition on Wall Street without ever acknowledging the Clinton era pieces of legislation that deregulated banks, securities firms, insurance companies, and financial derivatives thereby enabling the housing and credit bubbles that lead to the eventual collapse.
I know that's asking too much.
Forgive me.
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What is he?
Submitted by bkeyser on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 6:18pm.
A kangaroo? (No offense roo)
Furthermore, just why is it that she thinks the Obama Administration hasn't gone after these guys on Wall Street? The crash happened right at the end of '08 so Bush's DoJ and SEC couldn't have begun the investigation -all his guys were leaving. So here comes Obama, swept in office in part with the populist "us vs. them" message, and he refused to go after them. Why, Kathy? Why?
Maybe because he needs their money for his own aspirations? That's inspiring, huh?
Maybe because they looked into it, and a legal procedure would expose a lot of things this White House doesn't want exposed? Hmmm.
Or, maybe they didn't do anything illegal and only acted on the rules put upon them by Obama's party. Maybe the names Dodd and Frank plastered all over the headlines in connection with Wall Street acquittals, might not go over so well before the 2012 election?
I keep hearing this "blame the Wall Street execs" and how they should all be charged, convicted, and imprisoned, but no one ever asks why Mr. Class Warfare would rather commit war against a despot in Libya without Congressional authorization than criminally investigate the real scourge of the planet, evil banksters.
Something doesn't add up Ms. Fried Green Tomatoes. Maybe you should ask why?
You're right, bob....Bates is
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 7:49pm.
You're right, bob....Bates is definitely implying that the president walks around on four legs.
Can you imagine if a non-liberal said that about him?
But of course, Morgan, pathetic as he is, doesn't ask her about that; he asks her about the "rat bastards."
A Long Time Democrat Looks At Obama and Thinks "Coon"
Submitted by Avitar on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 4:50am.
We need to elevate even our insults up above the level of the line-Democrats. Just one hundred years ago they were riding around on horses wearing white sheets. They many have taken over Hollywood in the FDR era but the independent Internet ready nonunion productions are the future of entertainment.
Bates will hang on another ten years getting the occasional paycheck from Broadway, or a money losing movie or theater in a liberal sanctum like San Francisco but she is going.
...but
Submitted by rockyracoon on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 6:20pm.
Kathy it was the "rat bastards" that financed your boy's campaign and got him elected in the first place. How do ya like them apples?
BTW, and off topic, but is there a more meaningless phrase than "Academy Award winner, or "Nobel Peace Prize recipient" in today's vernacular?
Facts are like kryptonite to the liberal.
Actually
Submitted by mandrake on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 6:27pm.
The "rat bastards" financed both sides of the fence. They knew beforehand they would need a bailout and wanted to 'own' whoever won.
They Call It Paying For "Access" But It Is Protection Money
Submitted by Avitar on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 4:08am.
When you are a large going Concern with cash flow sleazy men will come visit you and either you pick a side or you have to pay both sides. Most MBAs in their stupidity try to pick the winning side. For the last hundred years that has not been the side that was good for American business. The absolutely corrupt bay both sides off.
If you refuse to give then you and your employees live in no man's land. Sometimes in the news you hear about a family business "rocked with scandals" Those scandals are just what the Civil Service cooks up to plague anyone who tries neutrality. There are no Switzerlands in America. There haven't been any since the Civil War.
Wow
Submitted by mandrake on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 10:05am.
I may be cynical, but your second paragraph suggests that you are paranoid. The real world isn't run by Carlo Gambino.
Do you really think so,
Submitted by MikeB on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 5:14pm.
Do you really think so, mandrake? Consider that Gibson Guitar did not contribute to Ear Leader, but the other manufacturers did. Consider that the government went after Gibson Guitar for using "illegal" wood from India in their guitar necks that the Indian government said was legal. Consider that the other guitar manufaturers use the same wood from the same source, but that they are not being hassled about it.
It doesn't sound at all paranoid to me. And, remember, "Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they're not out to get you."
You, a cynic? Hardly.
Submitted by Unsane on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 7:12am.
You are utterly ignorant of even basic history knowledge. For a long time, a NB poster had a great quote, which, the more I think about, is very very true. From Will Durant, it states that there is actually very little real difference between a politician and a gangster. (Or words to that effect.)
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
So
Submitted by KornKing on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 6:19pm.
Who is Kathy Bates and why should I care?
She is an Academy Award winner and
Submitted by dr-go on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 1:34pm.
hates rat bastards which is why she is in the news.
They only put her on because
Submitted by rbosque on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 6:27pm.
They only put her on because she's another stupid leftist. She's not a politician, knows nothing of economics, knows nothing of how it was politicians that are the cause of all our problems whether they're social, financial, or foreign policy.
She's just another dumb sock puppet for the left-wing propaganda machine. A useful idiot.
"face time"
Submitted by gfrrman on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 11:14pm.
is what stupid Kathy needs now because she has a show that will be cancelled soon. Gotta get that "face" out there so you will be noticed. Being noticed by being stupid is better than being not noticed at all. Stupid is as stupid does...has ANYONE seen this dolt up until lately? NO. Just another schill.....
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Yes I have Seen Kathy Bates Lately
Submitted by Avitar on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 4:30am.
I think that she plays one of those vicious lady lawyers on a show that the advertisers should be charging the networks for having on. You know the kind where they sue American manufactures assume improbable guilt and then never show the thousands of people losing their jobs or the towns closing down when the companys go under as the result.
Here is an idea for a series make her a lawyer but like Kenny on South Park who comes back from the dead each week. Have her stopped by the forces of good over several story arcs each year. They can try wooden stakes and silver bullets, court decisions but at the character everyone loves to hate nothing would stop her for long.. I would enjoy watching a house fall on Kathy Bates and it might give some lawyers a clue.
With all the media in their pockets
Submitted by katiejane on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 6:27pm.
you'd think the Left would have learned that putting their homely bat-sh*t looney aging women out representing their position doesn't draw a lot of positive attention.
Katie, ...
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 12:21pm.
... "homely bat-sh*t looney aging women" is all they have!
I think that all of the attractive women are conservative. It's only the ugly battle axes who need the world to be forced to accept them and their "bat-sh*t looney" ideas.
"Well, I think he's got to
Submitted by ThePickle on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 6:32pm.
"Well, I think he's got to indict these guys from Wall Street. Somebody's got pay for that mess."
And what exactly would you have them indicted for Ms. Bates?
Perhaps the fact that no one was ever indicted or went to jail was because there exists insufficient evidence to show that they violated any law.
When oh when will these Hollywood "hollow heads" just STFU and act.
They are usually pretty good at that.
But, when it comes to political commentary they appear to be the most uninformed dolts in the history of dolts.
Um, Ms Bates, and that's a stretch, let me ask,
Submitted by UpNorth on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 11:30pm.
is causing a "loss of faith" a felony or misdemeanor? What crime have you uncovered, in your opinion, that would lead to anyone being indicted?
Or, are you just preening because you both stayed at a Holiday Inn Express, and you play a lawyer on Television. That script you read from is make-believe, it is not real life.
At first
Submitted by Prisondog1776 on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 6:32pm.
glance i thought she was talking about fighting the fleabaggers that made the mess. But alas i should have known better.
"Hind legs"? He's a
Submitted by rbosque on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 6:43pm.
"Hind legs"?
He's a dog....?
Why you....
Submitted by GeneralAl on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 6:57pm.
He's a dog....?
Why you doity racist, yo'all!
"Old Soldiers never die, they just fade away"!
Who are you both talking
Submitted by rockyracoon on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 7:02pm.
Who are you both talking about, Bates Motel, or Zippy?....oops my bad you used the pronoun "he," sorry.
Facts are like kryptonite to the liberal.
Mongrel
Submitted by Jerry on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 10:26am.
Well, in the Barrack Plague's own words, he's a "mongrel".
Now there's an insult!
Submitted by jon_torlin on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 7:03pm.
Muslims hate dogs!
-Jon
Yeah, but I've seen rats on
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 11:19pm.
Yeah, but I've seen rats on their hind legs, and Boy Barry is a 'rat bastard' himself............so it appears that this bimbo really insulted our poser-in-chief .............the man who 'really inspired her' while she was in Paris, on her computer, being apolitical.
Jeez..............she's such a lightweight that I'm wasting my own time and energy writing about her!!!
Who is this moron? At least
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 6:50pm.
Who is this moron? At least she admits obama is not a man.
I am so sick of these Hollywood Elitists saying this garbage
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 6:50pm.
These idiots get on camera and say this rediculous stuff all the time. Hey Kathy, until you put your money where your big fat mouth is and give up just about all of your WEALTH to Obama, shut the hell up you f-ing hypocrite!
I love how Piers Morgan leads
Submitted by Smartypants on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 6:58pm.
I love how Piers Morgan leads Bates right into the responses he wants to hear from her in the first place. Notice how the Tea Party is divisive, but the whole OWS crowd is never painted in that light. Do these idiots see how one-sided they are?
Bates
Submitted by NewLife56 on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 7:05pm.
Hind Legs Kathy? Your so fat you couldn'd stand up on your own legs
Crazy Kathy
Submitted by NotFondOfLibs on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 7:15pm.
Ok. Who's the wise guy who took Kathy Bates' medication away? This woman is as looney as Rosie O'Donnell and Rose Ann Barr.
Look-a-likes
Submitted by gfrrman on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 11:08pm.
Must be easy to use all three of these myrmidons as stand ins for each other since they ALL think alike ANNNNND obviously they look alike...the same PIG look.....and all equally as stupid. Do these cretins ever think before they utter?..or in this case udder...lol
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Obama's top Contributors.. 2008
Submitted by USA4freedom on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 7:18pm.
Obama’s top Contributors 2008.
*Goldman Sachs (WALL ST. INVESTMENT BANK)
*Microsoft *Google
*JPMorgan Chase (INVESTMENT BANK)
*Citigroup (ONE OF THE WORLDS LARGEST FINANCIAL FIRMS)
*Time Warner (worlds largest media co. Time, HBO, Turner Broadcasting, CW network, the WB, CNN,
*Sidley Austin LLP (LAW FIRM WITH OVER 1,600 LAWYERS)
*Stanford U
*National Amusements (company that owns 1500 movie screens & **Note** controls CBS and Viacom)
*WilmerHale LLP (law firm with over 1,100 lawyers) *Skadden, Arps (LAW FIRM LOBBYIST)
*Columbia U
*UBS Bank (INVESTMENT BANK)
*IBM
*G.E. (Financial, owes NBC, too much to list, here is a link..)
*Morgan Stanley (INVESTMENT BANK)
*Latham & Watkins. (LAW FIRM WITH OVER 2,000 LAWYERS)
From Open Secrets..
Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.
Insert: your name, 2008, the Republican party.
Obama's top Contributors.. 2008
Submitted by USA4freedom on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 7:20pm.
Obama’s top Contributors 2008.
*Goldman Sachs (WALL ST. INVESTMENT BANK)
*Microsoft *Google
*JPMorgan Chase (INVESTMENT BANK)
*Citigroup (ONE OF THE WORLDS LARGEST FINANCIAL FIRMS)
*Time Warner (worlds largest media co. Time, HBO, Turner Broadcasting, CW network, the WB, CNN,
*Sidley Austin LLP (LAW FIRM WITH OVER 1,600 LAWYERS)
*Stanford U
*National Amusements (company that owns 1500 movie screens & **Note** controls CBS and Viacom)
*WilmerHale LLP (law firm with over 1,100 lawyers) *Skadden, Arps (LAW FIRM LOBBYIST)
*Columbia U
*UBS Bank (INVESTMENT BANK)
*IBM
*G.E. (Financial, owes NBC, too much to list, here is a link..)
*Morgan Stanley (INVESTMENT BANK)
*Latham & Watkins. (LAW FIRM WITH OVER 2,000 LAWYERS)
From Open Secrets..
Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.
Insert: your name, 2008, the Republican party.
I'm sensing a theme on the Piers Morgan's shows...
Submitted by kata on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 7:31pm.
wait... hold on I'll think of it...
Begining to look more like
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 7:46pm.
Begining to look more like Oberdork more each day. By the way we don't ever hear anything about Oberdork on here anymore.
last I heard he was pulling in about 46K viewers a night
Submitted by kata on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 7:49pm.
Not exactly earning his 10M keep at Current. lol.
Last I heard he was doing be
Submitted by ricklail on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 1:50pm.
Last I heard he was doing be better than Gayle King on the Oprah Network. She was knocking down about 33K.
How About
Submitted by KornKing on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 10:03pm.
Taking Stupidity to levels never before known to man
DUH!!!!
Submitted by Jarhead68 on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 7:45pm.
Doesn't this airhead realize that Wall Street donates more to democRats, and Obumble in particular, than anyone other candidates? I like the "hind legs" reference...it goes to prove that it is liberals who are the racists. What did she mean by that? Does she view him as a chimp or a jackal or a donkey or what?
Jackass. They are more
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 7:47pm.
Jackass. They are more stuborn than any animal besides a mule.
Dogs have 2 pair of legs
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 7:47pm.
What are you trying to tell us about the President, Kathy? Do humans have forelegs?
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 7:47pm.
Another genius actor speaks....
I'm proud to say that I don't
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 11:22pm.
I'm proud to say that I don't have a friggin' clue as to who this lard-ass bozo-ette is!!! And I don't care either...............
I Can Add Another Entertainment Name to "The List"
Submitted by Bill W. on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 7:51pm.
Barbra Streisand, Jane Fonda, Alec Baldwin, Jessica Lange, Rob Reiner, Sean Penn, Ed Asner, Harry Belafonte, John Stewart, Eva Longoria, Janeane Garofalo, John Cusak (sigh), et al. Gotta stop. Fingers are getting tired. I boycott these people in every way I can and hats off to Laura Ingraham for "Shut Up and Sing."
Meryl Streep
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 8:03pm.
Every time she is on tv, my brother throws something at the tv set and curses at her. The reason is that he works in the produce business and her speech to congress forced his company to shut down. What a b*tch, but it sure provides great entertainment when I visit his house!!!
Better yet
Submitted by KornKing on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 10:05pm.
Ted Danson 1988-We've only got 10 to 15 years left
Hey............you've got to
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 11:24pm.
Hey............you've got to show a little mercy on Danson - he was married to Whoopsie Goldbrick for a while,if you can imagine that!!! Personally, I don't feel like vomiting!!!
Killa, as far as I am concerned
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 2:01am.
Ted Danson and Whopper Goldsh*t can go straight to hell (in my Maxipad Waters voice)
Yeah, wolf..........I know
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 2:32am.
Yeah, wolf..........I know what you mean............but realistically - as a man - can you IMAGINE Whoopsie Goldbrick??? I mean, SERIOUSLY?????
But, yeah.........Danson is a total idiot........and our Mother Earth has survived his meager career!!!!!
Jeez, Killa!
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 12:28pm.
I was having a perfectly fine Sunday morning, and then read your "can you IMAGINE" comment.
Before i could shoot myself, the image popped into my head, and I almost lost my lunch.
Give me some warning next time, dude.
Been shark chumming lately on your board?
Sorry about that, bubba!!! It
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 2:18pm.
Sorry about that, bubba!!! It is a pretty hideous thought, for sure!!
I know Florida is loaded with sharks, and I hear that the bull sharks are pretty ferocious and aggressive. I've also seen the news articles about the guy stepping on one in Oregon, and the diver in western Australia. Truth be known, I personally know at least 3 people here who are missing body parts because of shark attacks, including Bethany Hamilton, who is the focus of a movie that came out this year. Another young man that is my son's age got hit while he was still a teenager and is missing a lower leg.
Last year, a surfing buddy of mine got flung out of the water when a tiger shark swam up under him and took a big bite out of his board - he actually landed back on the sharks head, straddling it, with his okole against the dorsal fin!!! I wasn't out that afternoon, but a lot of people saw it happen!!! I've seen 'the man in the gray suit' occasionally - it will give you the heebie-jeebies, because we ARE in their turf.
Actually, it's 'pup season' right about this time of year - Bethany was attacked on a Halloween - so it's something to be paid attention to, and I have a penchant for surfing until dark, after work. But it's Sunday morning here now,and the ocean bouy reports,and a couple phone calls, have told me that it is about 6-12' today, on a fresh new northwest swell. I was down there all day yesterday, playing music for the handicapped people, and the ocean was flat as a board...................so as soon as I drink my coffee, I'll be heading down to the bay.
Newsbubba, for the proper
Submitted by MikeB on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 6:20pm.
Newsbubba, for the proper amount I will ship to you a 55 gallon drum of brain bleach. But be forewarned: it is a scarce commodity and you will have to bid against all the other readers of Newsbusters that happened to read Killa's remark. Buwahahahahaha! Ain't capitalism grand?
Hey!!! I'm not gonna take all
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 7:54pm.
Hey!!! I'm not gonna take all the heat for this!!! Don't shoot the messenger!!! I guess we could say that Danson 'got his karma', or something like that...................ya know, I used to watch Cheers once in a while - it was OK.............I just can't imagine what kind of guy would .................ummmmmmmmm..................never mind!!!!
I figure this is the last
Submitted by ricklail on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 1:52pm.
I figure this is the last season for CSI:Vegas since he came on it this season.
I figure this is the last
Submitted by ricklail on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 1:53pm.
I figure this is the last season for CSI:Vegas since he came on it this season.
Another one bites the dust.
Submitted by Seashell on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 8:03pm.
Another one bites the dust. To bad. I used to really like her as an actress. She now resides in the Morgan Freeman, Sean Penn category for me.
The ONLY thing this moonbat
Submitted by gfrrman on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 2:15am.
did well, was portraying a stalker psychopath in the Stephen King book-to-movie, "Misery" as she brutalized James Caan while he was chained to a bed.......sounds about right. Planet to Kathy............................crickets...................
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Piers appear to exude some weird kind of pheromone...
Submitted by SickofLibs on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 8:19pm.
The female moonbats cannot resist it for some reason.
She stars in lefty ideologue
Submitted by HelloDare on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 8:45pm.
She stars in lefty ideologue and didactic moralizer David E. Kelley's new show, "Harry's Law."
Bow-Wow Kathy
Submitted by Dan Diego on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 8:47pm.
Wow, her Father calling her a dog, no wonder she's a mental case.
I wonder if Duh will respond w/ "She talks about me like a dog" for his next Tax-Payer funded campaign speech.
Bates who?
Submitted by Slyrr on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 10:15pm.
Bates.... Bates....
didn't she die in a grease fire in the mid-90s? Oh wait - that was just her career...
I don't watch..
Submitted by greggy on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 10:55pm.
Kathy's new show, Harry's Law. (Is she Harry? Don't answer that, sorry I asked..) But I did see about two minutes of it - and apparently, she was the good, altruistic liberal lawyer, opposing the jerk conservative lawyer - who was of course played by a short, almost bald, red headed unattractive man (get it? he's ugly on the outside, therefore..). She was strutting around, cocky, condescending to the conservative lawyer, while they both took turns bloviating their respective political philosophies (something that happens quite rarely in real courtrooms).
Of course, in Hollywood scripts every legal matter, every case has political ramifications and is always a referendum on the virtue and brilliance and compassion of liberals, vs. the corruption, stupidity, simple-mindedness, bigotry, and hard-heartedness of conservatives.
Ever watch Boston Legal? David Kelley's weekly love letter to liberals? James Spader is the younger, smarter, liberal crusader, always bucking up against some conservative dunce. Denny Crane is the older, fatter, pompous conservative, who is going senile, and only seems to win his cases any more with crass stunts.
Of course, Spader's character, the liberal, loves Denny, the doddery old conservative, in spite of himself. According to the show's storyline, the pompous, full of himself liberal attorney, somehow finds love in his heart for the doddery old conservative, in spite of all his obvious intellectual inferiority (ie; conservatism). Because that's what liberals (even pompous, obnoxious egotists) do, apparently..because they're SO tolerant.
And who is the chief scriptwriter on Kathy Bate's new show?
David Kelley.
I am forever highly amused by the faux outrage and indignation liberals feel toward Rush Limbaugh for having developed a drug addiction. Isn't it overwhelmingly liberals who favor legalizing pot, and harder drugs? Isn't recreational drug use far more accepted amongst liberals than conservatives? Isn't Hollywood notorious for the use of cocaine and other "designer" drugs? Hasn't Hollywood made dozens if not hundreds of films, that made light of illegal drug use or promoted drug legalization (Traffic, anyone?)
So spare me all your (un)righteous indignation over Rush Limbaugh's drug problem.
one question
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 2:04am.
Who is David Kelley? Never heard of her.
If this dolt means
Submitted by gfrrman on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 10:55pm.
INDICT Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Bill Clinton and Janet Reno THEN I would agree. Other than that , this supreme left coast morooon, just needs to SHUT IT!!!
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Name Names, And Such...
Submitted by rammingspeed on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 12:09am.
When is one of these buggers gonna explain what laws were broken, and who on Wall Street did what? Name a name. Describe an illegal act, and who did it. What is the evidence? And on and on. I'm not saying someone shouldn't be indicted. I'm saying put up - or shut up. And Piers Morgan and his ilk should be fired for not pushing the issue with these jag-a-muffins.
fat and fatheaded
Submitted by Kuso Jiji on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 12:42am.
is no way to go through life ms bates. obama owes his presidency to wall street.
Kathy Doesn't Realize That Her Friends Are The Rat Bastards
Submitted by Avitar on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 3:48am.
The couple of prosecutions that Bush did try under the Justice departments' novel theories got the DOJ their heads handed back to them whenever the Wall Street targets stood up on their hind legs and fought back. Wall Street has not been doing much insider trading or money laundering and has tried every bit as hard as the SEC to catch Ponzi schemes. In fact has caught more Ponzi schemes because like the Jewelry store owner who shoots his fifth robber the police don't want it known that private citizens stop more crime than police. That might embarrass Vice President Biden.
Newt Gingrich was right; if anyone should go to jail for the housing bubble crash it should be Barney Frank and Chris Dodd. That mess they brewed up during the Clinton administration was directly at fault and the community reinvestment act from Jimmy Carters years though indirect should get his Presidential pension canceled.
You forgot the other culprit in all this.
Submitted by Don L on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 9:30am.
Yeah, you're so right -Barney and Chris caused much of it - but let's not let George W Bush off the hook for his compassionate -"ownership society" baloney. You first earn it -then you buy it- and after that is when you, own it!
Newt Gingrich is right about
Submitted by PhySciTech on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 11:59am.
Newt Gingrich is right about many things. He would make a great president!
Don L
Submitted by Don L on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 9:26am.
All those neer-do-wells protesting. Well at least we know know who's on the the complete robo-mail lists of both Obama and Soros.
To think that Judeo-Christian Western Civilization would evolve into this. and they claimed we're moving toward perfection with evolution-hah!
Darwin missed a turn in the road.
Submitted by wizardjr on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 12:58pm.
Up until not so very long ago 'survival of the fittest' actually was working. Now that we can keep all sorts of mental and physical 'unfit' people alive and well and let them procreate the gene pool is getting tres weaker rather than stronger.
That which you tax you get less of. That which you subsidize you get more of. Welfare, paid for by taking money by force from successful people. QED.
Cognitive dissonance defined.
Submitted by pgrossjr on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 9:58am.
Cognitive dissonance defined.
Misery actress, a stretch?? Nope that's her personification.
Submitted by upcountrywater on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 10:01am.
Nasty apolitical blob.
Do ahead and invite Herman Cain, home, fat chance.
You Didn't Build That.
Bates needs to stay out of
Submitted by jessieH on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 10:32am.
Bates needs to stay out of politics, which she knows nothing about and stick with acting, which she knows very little about.
So bates thinks obama is an
Submitted by Pinetree3 on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 11:59am.
So bates thinks obama is an animal that walks on 4 legs. Why do I get the hunch that libs will ignore this? Beyond piers morgan, that is, because he didn't call her on it.
suffering from 'Ed Asner disease'
Submitted by wizardjr on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 12:53pm.
Because she once played a lawyer on TV she thinks she is one.
Obama better do what Bates is
Submitted by celator on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 3:09pm.
Obama better do what Bates is demanding or she might break his ankles. That would bring misery to Obama's situation, no?
OK I understand she is an idiot...
Submitted by boscokraft on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 4:50pm.
but Piers Morgan doesnt know that the banks were forced to make subprime loans by the government??? Also the greed of people (us) caused this problem. I know many people who purchased homes they couldnt afford, refinanced after some equity built up, and then purchased an SUV and a Boat...then just walked away when the house of cards came crashing down. I also know people who bought homes they could afford, but when the prices plummetted decided that they no longer wanted to pay for that property (because they could go get a better home for half the price), and ignored their contract, and also walked away. So who is to blame??? Wall Street?? They put a gun to your heads and made you buy a home????
Interesting
Submitted by texasborngranny on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 12:00am.
Sounds like raving liberal Kathy Bates called the POTUS a dog. Or, wss she calling him a bear. Or, did she mean something like an orangutang or chimp, or gorilla or monkey?
Come on, Kathy, make yourself clear. What type of animal were you calling Obama?
Another reason...
Submitted by shooter on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 11:01am.
Another reason not to watch her stupid TV show.
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"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert A. Heinlein
Blame the right people
Submitted by djm159 on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 11:47am.
Instead of "standing on his hind legs" and doing anything, how about we fire the rest of the democrats in the senate, rather than just the house of representatives, who created this mess when they took over the congress in 2007. Obama is right, he inherited this "mess" but he is wrong about from whom he inherited it. That would be the Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid Congress.
Remember prior to 1/3/2007:
Dow Jones was at 12,621.77
GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5%
Unemployment rate was 4.6%
Bush's economic policies set a record of 52 straight months of job creation
Remember 1/3/2007
Barney Frank took over the House Financial Services Committee
Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking Committee
Bush asked congress 17 times to stop Fannie and Freddie starting in 2001 because he considered it financially risky for the US economy, but got voted down each time by guess who?
Who took the highest payoff from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. None other than Senator B. Hussein Obama.
Wonder who is to blame for the mess we are in? The second rate actress, Ms. Bates, is certainly entitled to her opinion, but not her own set of facts. Wall Street to blame? I think not. Democrat party to blame for this situation.