"Because we're afraid to speak. Even though we have the freest society, supposedly, I think many of us are afraid to speak up.",  Streep speaks, with no sense of irony, on national television. Damn, she's breathtakingly stupid - and absurd. 

Im sure that they will be taken to Gitmo really soon for their blather, well perhaps they should be taken there.

Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.

Tom Screws----"Wars never solved anything".. How freakin profound--most of these lefty jerks are long on money,m but short on brains. OK, OK let's undo the Civil War, WWI, WW2 etc. what the hell--

Redford added: "If you're against us, you're not patriotic."

Yep - that's pretty much how I see it, especially if you're from Hollywood.

CRUISE: Wars never solved anything

It settled Germany and Japan's hash.

"Even though we have the freest society, supposedly, I think many of us are afraid to speak up". That's because we have a society that will challange your false claims; demand to see proof of your accusations; and demands to see the whole picture rather than your slanted, narrow view of world.

It's like when Kerry, Gore, Clinton, Albright, and all the rest of the loons told us how dangerous Sadam was, and then when Bush was elected, how they never said those things. When you say that, Redford, you should be afraid of the backlash from people who have memories.

Or when all objective analysis, including from liberal newspaper outlets, have said that Bush actually had the most votes in Florida -- when Steep or anyone else says "Bush stole the election", yeah -- you should be afraid of us being able to cite the analysis.

So, don't tell us you're afraid to speak up. You're actually afraid of the overwhelming counter-evidence we are able to produce to show you and the world exactly how wrong you are.

Point. Set. Match.

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If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it is in English, thank a Soldier. - My barber

Considering that no one in the Media is EVER going to ask them a tough question, unless it's asking Tom Cruise about Post-Partum despression and Scientology, these people realize they can create any fantasy they want.

They know that the truly courageous people are the Christians willing to risk death in Muslim Countries, India and China to spread the gospel; or Conservatives who dare to voice their opens in the open market-place of ideas.

They also know that the media in general is a daily in-kind contribution to Democrats and their canidates.

However, in order to confuse those who don't follow this stuff as closely as we do - after-all the base of the Democrat party is the least intelligent, least productive part of socienty - Liberals must continually insiste there is Corporate Control of Media in order to justify the claim of Conservative Media bias.

Here we have the left insisting that THEY are ones in danger, knowing they if they repeat it often enough and without anyone daring to question them or push back on the premise, people will be fooled.

STREEP: I think ..., but every time I go on a press junket to Europe or Japan or China even, people ask questions that presume you have a feeling as a citizen about the events in your country and beyond.   

'Reporter' - Your saying that you don't have feelings about the great nation where you live and get paid (can't say earn)?  You only act like you do, presume you have feelings in your words?

REDFORD: In America, though, we're usually asked, "What's it like working with Tom? What's it like working with Meryl?"

'Reporter' - If you proved you could handle tough questions without sounding like a hyper-active 16 year old on huffpo then maybe you would be asked real questions.  Remember the news media not the Hollywood media are the ones with the 'brains'.

STREEP: Because we're afraid to speak. Even though we have the freest society, supposedly, I think many of us are afraid to speak up....

'Reporter' - If you are so afraid then why is it always so easy to get most "actors" in front of camera pretending they have an intelligent statement to make.

CRUISE: Wars never solved anything-....

'Reporter' - Any one with any real knowledge of history knows that in the case of the United States that war has been the failure of diplomacy to reason with those who are against the best intrest of the US and generally the well being of the citizens of the world.  War is an unfortunate part of negotiations to get stubborn and ruthless people to the negotiating table with an mind open to the ideas of doing what is right to improve the living conditions for each and every person on Earth.  But you wouldn't know that because you live in a fantasy world where money is plentiful and therefore has little value and people kiss you butt to the point you have no clue.

Thanks for the interview.

Streep:  "Americans have been anesthetized by good fortune."

I couldn't agree more with this sentence, but there is an critical and powerful difference in how Streep/Redford/Cruise and I define the issue.  Streep et al believe people are comfortably numb and/or afraid to speak out against war since they are not "forced" to put themselves in harm's way (ie the absence of a military draft).  My position is that people of the West have forgotten or have never experienced and therefore do not know what it is like to struggle to survive against the environment, pests, wildlife and fellow human beings that want what you have.  The West's complacency is from being too comfortable in our illusionary secure though, well-fed and consumer good bloated society.  We have sublimated the reality that there are bad people out there that want to do bad things to us.  It amazes me that Streep and her ilk ignore the fact that the bad people will not discrimate her type from my type.  She is fodder as well.

To both of us, the populace's inertia is the cause for war.  Streep laments that if people protested or refused assisting in war, or elected other leaders, then the current war(s) would not have occurred.  Her view appears to be that war would not have been an option if only the people had demanded "peace" and negotiation.  In my view, the war may not have been necessary if previous leaders had done the difficult but required actions to stop the then nascent terrorist thugs before their ability to strike deeper and harder into the West formed.  Oh, well.  Armchair quarterbacking is easy.

And Streep's current view probably is that the US can disengage from the war on Islamofascists, utilizing (Chamberlain-like) diplomacy while prostrating ourselves beneath the aggreived Brotherhood of Muslims fascists in full-on appeasement mode. 

Obviously not a student of history, Streep forgets the historical effectiveness of diplomacy with tyrants throughout the Earth's history.  Carrots and sticks work up to a point.  North Korea may be a diplomatic success story currently (no thanks to the diplomacy of Jimmy Carter), though only because of the participation of their major benefactor China.  Unfortunately these successful diplomatic events are few on the international stage.  Does Streep think the massive killing in Africa will go away diplomatically?  This stain on humankind will only stop when the tyrants have no one else to kill, they die naturally, die at the hands of the oppressed or a subordinate dictator wannabe, or the West stops them. 

Talk is cheap.  Streep, Redford and Cruise prove the adage.  What examples of the hubris of the Left. 

Killing them with kindness isn't working.  Time to get scrappy with the Donkeys.