Newsweek Urges Sarandon to Trash Rush and 'Wacky GOP' After Slapping Heaton for Defending Rush
On March 7, Newsweek assistant culture editor Marlow Stern went after "right-wing actress" Patricia Heaton of ABC's "The Middle" in an article headlined "Patricia Heaton's History of Outbursts:Sandra Fluke No Anomaly." He complained "right-wing actress Patricia Heaton unleashed a Twitter tirade against Fluke. But Heaton, best known for playing the caring, cerebral housewife Debra Barone on the hit CBS television sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, is no stranger to controversial political statements." He didn't interview her. He just "exposed" her.
Nine days later, Stern is lauding hard-left actress Susan Sarandon as "brilliant" and "masterful," and setting her up to make outrageous left-wing attacks on Rush Limbaugh and "the wacky GOP." Despite this, she is not labeled as a liberal: "The seemingly ageless actress is, at 65, also not afraid to speak her mind." Stern didn't so much ask questions as offer please-trash-them softballs:
What are your thoughts on the GOP’s field of presidential hopefuls?
I’m finding them incredibly amusing. They’re so ridiculous that it’s entertainment. I can’t imagine that America would be that insane to put any of these people in [the White House]. I just have to believe that the GOP just wrote off this time and said, ‘We don’t care. Anybody can run!’ ’Cause this can’t be the best they can do.
Limbaugh came up when Stern supportively noted that rumors had Sarandon dating a much younger man after the breakup of her second marriage to hard-left actor Tim Robbins, and they discussed how when men are sexually active they are "players," but women are "sluts":
Yes, it really seemed to rear its ugly head with the Sandra Fluke–Rush Limbaugh “slut” controversy.
What a Barnum & Bailey showman he is! Limbaugh will just say anything to get his ratings up. He doesn’t care who he endangers or what it means. Are the Republicans suggesting that they take care of all the children that are born when you don’t have birth control available to you when you’re a poor woman? Do these guys not understand what it takes to raise a child, financially and timewise? They sound like complete idiots! Does Rush Limbaugh have children? I mean he certainly isn’t against drugs! He’s just somebody who’s trying to get ratings by saying the most outrageous things possible, and unfortunately, there are a lot of nonthinking people who are affected by his theatrical carrying on, and he incites them to very dangerous positions.
And what do you make of the whole birth-control issue?
I don’t understand how you can be so anxious to populate the world with children who can’t afford to get an education or are going hungry. It’s wonderful to have a family, but it takes money. We’re in an election right now where there’s a lot of talk about how the government is not supposed to make it easy for you to get health care, education, food, or any of the things you need to give a child a chance to be a contributing member of society. I don’t understand how that works? If you don’t have control over your reproductive system as a woman, then who steps in to help you? Clearly, abstinence doesn’t work, and we’re living in an age where a lot of gentlemen don’t take responsibility for the children they’re so happy to give to women. So who helps?
Stern also gently suggested: "There’s been a lot of talk from the GOP presidential hopefuls about going to war with Iran, and you were one of the first celebrities to really speak out against the war in Iraq." Sarandon said "I hope we learned from the last one that war isn’t something you just go into simply and eagerly and that it costs an enormous amount. I hope that public opinion isn’t so easily coerced this time."
The interview began with how her new movie casts her as a mother of an "idealistic 30-year-old stoner who lives in mom’s basement," and how she feels about marijuana. (She's for it.)
You have two sons: Jack Henry and Miles Guthrie. Would you kick their asses out of the house if they were living in your basement and taking bong rips at 30?
No, I would not. I don’t think weed is such a horrible thing if you’re doing your job. It’s unfortunate that it’s illegal, but I think it’s one of the least offensive drugs that people use. Drinking can be much worse. Weed is barely a drug. I know a lot of artists and directors that are very high-functioning potheads.
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Susan Sarandon
Submitted by djwolf12 on Wed, 03/21/2012 - 6:38am.
The left is getting very desperate. When they have to trot out this deflated football with eyes to trash Rush one month since the Fluck story came out, you know they are clinging on to this story for dear life.
Not if I was wearing a Free Fluke Pre-Lube!
Submitted by BBallleaper on Wed, 03/21/2012 - 6:56am.
Wow. Some of us just don't age well. My eyes! My eyes! What has been seen can not be unseen! Ouch!
Free Fluke Pre-Lube
Submitted by kilrod on Wed, 03/21/2012 - 7:45am.
"Condoms don’t guarantee safe sex anymore ...
A friend of mine was wearing one when he was
shot by the woman’s husband..." ... h/t MD
(grins) kilrod "the Birther"
If an unborn child cannot trust you, why should I,??
I agree with her.
Submitted by WhoIsJohnGalt on Wed, 03/21/2012 - 7:40am.
"If you don’t have control over your reproductive system as a woman, then who steps in to help you?"
If you're a woman who can't control herself and figure out how not to avoid unwanted children, without demanding that someone else pay for it, then I would be all for Norplant for those women. Isn't that the 5-year contraceptive device? We don't need human sponges like them replicating and passing on their "gimmee" attitude to a new generation.
If I weren't adamantly
Submitted by poseA on Wed, 03/21/2012 - 7:47am.
If I weren't adamantly opposed to eugenics, I might agree with you.
Norplant is time-limited in it's effectiveness.
Submitted by WhoIsJohnGalt on Wed, 03/21/2012 - 8:37am.
Not a permanent change, so it's not in the same vein as eugenics. I don't actually believe in eugenics either, but sometimes we wish...
But my point, although not well explained initially, is that women who are "given a baby" (as if the woman played no part in the process, or was helpless to stop it) as Sarandon puts it, while not intending to get pregnant are not the type of person who will manage the routine of a daily birth control pill well. I'm generalizing here and not referring to every woman who is "given a baby". Those people who are on public assistance long-term do not manage their lives well at all, and are highly likely to skip a pill here and there leading to a false sense of invulnerability to pregnancy. So, if you're on public assistance greater than, for arguments sake, a year, in order to continue receiving public assistance you must get the Norplant implant. If you can't support yourself and you're asking the taxpayer to foot your bills, you have no right to bring a child into the world, increase the public's support of your family and further decreasing your chances of getting off public assistance.
Why norplant?
Submitted by rickbren on Wed, 03/21/2012 - 9:15am.
If you can't afford children, you need to be sterilized. . . Pretty radical, huh??
People do get back on their feet sometimes.
Submitted by WhoIsJohnGalt on Wed, 03/21/2012 - 9:28am.
Norplant addresses the taxpayers concerns while not permanently preventing a woman from having children if and when SHE can afford it.
Circumstances or mistakes sometimes overwhelm good people, which is the generally accepted reason for a social safety net. It's the camping out on the net that most Americans object to, which the leftists don't even see as a problem.
Oh... my... God!
Submitted by poseA on Wed, 03/21/2012 - 7:50am.
"Clearly, abstinence doesn’t work, and we’re living in an age where a lot of gentlemen don’t take responsibility for the children they’re so happy to give to women."
Abstinence is the only form of contraception that is 100% effective. I guess all Communists are either stupid or insane.
Really?
Submitted by Huapakechi on Wed, 03/21/2012 - 9:25am.
You attack the basic precepts of the liberal democrat system with that simple statement. Personal responsibility would eliminate the democrat party within two generations.
Another thing, you take liberties with the honorific "gentleman". To recall an interview I saw recently on TV, one male applying for welfare admitted to having five children with four 'babymama'. That's no 'gentleman'.
Oh c'mon!!!
Submitted by DumbCanuck on Wed, 03/21/2012 - 7:52am.
"Are the Republicans suggesting that they take care of all the children that are born when you don’t have birth control available to you when you’re a poor woman?"
Gee, Sue...Can I call you "Sue"? Well too bad. I'm going to anyway.
If I were to suggest a 'magic bullet' that guarantees 100% effectiveness in preventing unwanted pregnancies, and is affordable (because it costs absolutely nothing), do you think women would go for it?
Well, we already have that magic bullet!
If these 'poor' women can't afford to raise a child, what if they simply stopped having sex?
To radical for ya, Sue? Can't get your mind engaged on the concept? Simply inconcievable is it?
I would suggest the rush (pardon the pun) to birth control is what indirectly got us into this mess in the first place. It increases promiscuity, which naturally increases unwanted pregnancies, because unlike abstanance, contraception isn't 100% effective. Heck, even abortion isn't 100% effective! Only abstinance is the sure way of assuring that there will be no unwanted pregnancies! Imagine that.
Not only is abstinance 100% effective, it's affordable too! IT COSTS NOTHING!
In other words, Sue, You and your ilk are dead wrong, and have been wrong for the last two generations. Contraception isn't the answer. It's a quick fix. A band-aid that gives license for promiscuous behaviour and very poor judgement, and THAT's what leads to the problem of unwanted pregnancies.
"There... Are... Four... Lights!"
Poor women HAVE access to birth control
Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 03/21/2012 - 8:40am.
There is more access than ever before in our country. Planned Parenthood hands it out for free. The schools provided sex education.
Yet, 40% of American births are to unwed mothers -- 70% in the black American community.
So access to birth control isn't the issue when it comes to pregnancies of poor women.
They still have to have enough responsibility and
Submitted by nonncom on Wed, 03/21/2012 - 12:51pm.
right mindedness to take or use the contraceptives to begin with....my friends daughter got pregnant simply because she was too lazy to take the birth control pills provided for her....one thing, I'm all for providing poor women, or any women, with vibrators and dildos, making abstinence that much easier....
Wait a minute!! Back the truck up!!
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 03/21/2012 - 8:04am.
I am so SICK of Hollywood liberals talking out their arses, and the media just accepting their nonsense as fact!
I have to give this a mini-fisking:
Clearly, abstinence doesn’t work, and we’re living in an age where a lot of gentlemen don’t take responsibility for the children they’re so happy to give to women. So who helps?
That has to be the STUPIDEST thing that ever came out of her mouth!
Abstinence doesn't work??? You mean someone can abstain from sex and still get pregnant? Not in the last 2000 years, honey.
Oh, and guys who don't take repsonsibility for the children they "give" to women
(There she was, minding her own business, and this guy just walks up to her and gives her a baby!!)
can be called a lot of things, but "gentlemen" isn't one of them.
Only a liberal would simply grant a pass to low-lifes who beget children and then ignore them. And be so concerned about inuslting them that she carefully calls them "gentlemen."
But the howler of the piece is this: poor women don't have "access to birth control."
Medicaid Expands [that means they already provide it; they're going to provide MORE of it!] Birth Control Access!
While states vary in what specific family-planning services they provide under the waiver, a 2009 survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that the majority paid for birth control. Out of 24 surveyed states that had Medicaid family planning waivers at that time, 22 covered “the full range of prescription contraceptive services and supplies,” while fewer covered condoms, spermicides or emergency contraception, Kaiser reported. Of the 44 states that replied to the Kaiser survey, only four—Kentucky, Oklahoma, Oregon and Texas—did not always cover oral contraceptives as a family planning benefit under Medicaid.
Now shut up, Susan. Just. shut. up.
And don't forget, US Code Title X gives away birth control
Submitted by WhoIsJohnGalt on Wed, 03/21/2012 - 8:41am.
to women anyway. Preferential treatment goes to low-income people.
http://www.hhs.gov/opa/title-x-family-planning/
MB, I do love your
Submitted by NOLAgirl on Wed, 03/21/2012 - 10:07am.
factual, coherent arguments, as well as your sarcasm! My favorite in this post has to be ...
(There she was, minding her own business, and this guy just walks up to her and gives her a baby!!)
That was hilarious. :)
Desparation or Panic
Submitted by John21 on Wed, 03/21/2012 - 8:12am.
The Propaganda media is getting desperate when the drag out this old never was to make statements concerning something that she is incapable of understanding. First they drag out the hag Gloria who probably can’t remember what sex was and not Susan who has to be reminded her own name every 5 minutes.
Almost all of the statements in the story are easily proven wrong by a 2 minute search on Google, but then propaganda does not need truth or facts.
#1 she would allow her 30
Submitted by inquiringmind on Wed, 03/21/2012 - 8:42am.
#1 she would allow her 30 year old children to live in the basement as they continue to " take bong rips". That explains a lot about liberal thinking. Coddle the children and never force them to grow up as you allow them to break the law and be unproductive citizens.
If that isn't the liberal montra I don't know what is.
#2 I know a lot of artists and directors who are high functioning pot heads.
That explains a lot about Hollywood and today's music industry. The crap coming out of both is amazing.
wow! is all i got to say...
Submitted by OuttaMyWay on Wed, 03/21/2012 - 1:33pm.
don't all the parenting/baby raising magazines talk about raising your child to be independent? seems like make them independent of family but dependent on the government.
not the choice i make with my kids.
(only time i read them was from the hospital with our biological child. our adopted children did not come with 3 free magazines, it had 8 hours of adoptive/parenting classes, APIECE... that WE had to pay for!)
but we get back part of our adoption cost through the tax credit.
Looking at it the other way....
Submitted by Huapakechi on Wed, 03/21/2012 - 9:11am.
I know it's not politically correct, but why not go all margret sanger on the welfare class and make birth control mandatory? We don't have to go as far as China, but since we're paying for 'em, we sure don't want to pay for more of 'em.
Did Sarandon stop just short of advocating forced vasectomies?
Submitted by SickofLibs on Wed, 03/21/2012 - 9:13am.
Being that men are the 'weaponized' ones and all...
But of course since there is no such category as 'Men's Health', naturally it wouldn't be covered under Disastrocare.
Liberal logic
Submitted by misterbee241 on Wed, 03/21/2012 - 9:33am.
cracks me up. Abstinence works every time it's tried.
And i thought this hag was going to leave America when Bush was re-elected. Actors - cant depend on them for anything.
Sarandon's Mumia-moment
Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 03/21/2012 - 10:02am.
You (Sarandon) have two sons: Jack Henry and Miles Guthrie . . .
Jack Henry was named after convicted killer John Henry Abbott, who had received a lot of media attention after crackpot author Norman Mailer publicly campaigned for his parole. While serving a sentence for prison for forgery, the violent Abbot had killed another inmate. He subsequently contacted Mailer after Mailer had written a book about killer Gary Gilmore, and Mailer grew quite fond of him, helping him to publish a celebrated book (at least in the liberal media) called In the Belly of the Beast.
Mailer convinced authorities that Abbott was a brilliant but misunderstood author whose talent was wasted behind bars. They let him out on parole.
Six week after being paroled, Abbott stabbed a 22 year-old man to death because the man would not let Abbott use his business establishment's employee-only restroom.
Charged with manslaughter, Abbott stood trial and Susan Sarandan testified on his behalf, and apparently was further moved enough that she and her boyfriend Tim Robbins named their son after the two-time killer.
How many parents name their children about murderers?
Robbins finally did something right...................
Submitted by Tomorama on Wed, 03/21/2012 - 9:52am.
The liberals war against babies continues to this day.
A picture of this trollop above the bed would make for the best birth control and yes Suzie, it is free.
And now, class, in this glass
Submitted by celator on Wed, 03/21/2012 - 10:26am.
And now, class, in this glass booth we have the Marlow Stern specimen, illustrating the effects of consuming too many magic mushrooms too many times. It's a sad case.
Note the excessive drooling and wide open, staring eyes. Mr. Stern''s hallucinatory narrative while trying to describe reality is very interesting, yet disturbing. Many MSM journalists present the same symptoms while they attempt to describe the world around them. Mikey, don't tap on the glass!! It just makes Mr. Stern more angry.
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Actually, I find her answer about her SONS most disturbing
Submitted by gopcongress on Wed, 03/21/2012 - 11:46am.
So let me get this straight: Republicans, in general, are for responsibility. So if her 30 year old sons are living in the basement, smoking bongs, all Sarandon can say is that, "Gaia Bless them, dope should be legal"...??? That, in a nutshell, is the definition of liberalism (socialism/communism) vs. constitutionalism (conservativism/libertarianism).
As offensive as I find her other drivel, I find it horrendous that she would not even give her sons the initiative to work and fend for themselves, irrespective of the drug issue. The fact that they are probably the ones screwing other women without awareness into pregnancy and health issues, not adding anything significant to the economy through work, or helping out with the community, is indicative of the entire problem that liberals faced.
I'm actually surprised that she was asked this question. It was a slider thrown into the mix, but I don't even think it still registered with her, and in extension liberals in general, that it was a bombshell in admitting that the liberal mindset is bankrupt.
(I also find it amusing that she can trash Rush for his drug use, yet all but celebrate her own sons' usage).
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Asking Sarandon To Run Her Pie-Hole...
Submitted by Samaritan01 on Wed, 03/21/2012 - 12:12pm.
...is something like asking a serial arsonist to light up your campfire....with a barrel of gas and a road flare. Bad mouthing a conservative will prove to be a task that is none too difficult for her, then she can fly back to the land of OZ and threaten Dorothy and her little dog Toto.