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Jessica Lange bashes Iraq war in graduation speech
2008-05-25
Oscar-winner Jessica Lange bashed the Bush administration and denounced the war in Iraq during a commencement address at Sarah Lawrence College.

The star of "Tootsie" and "Blue Sky" was applauded by students Friday at the small liberal arts college after comparing the conflict with the Vietnam War. She said the graduates have "a heavy burden" to chart a new path for the country.

"We are living in an America that, in the last seven and a half years, has waged an unnecessary war, established prison camps, condoned torture, employed corporate armies, eliminated the right of habeas corpus, practiced extraordinary rendition, and believe me, this is only a partial list," Lange said.

Lange asked the graduates, including her 22-year-old daughter Hannah Shepard, to commit themselves to the "pursuit of peace."

Posted by:Fred

#14  I'm afraid I already know what Jessica would do on 9/11. The same thing Jimmy Carter would do and the same thing Obama would do.

Basically to give Osama and the Terrorists everything they ask for - total Dhimmitude. We'd all be required, by law, to pray to the moon god 5 times a day - lest we offend our betters.

Only after everything has been surrendered will Jessica and her leftist friends discover the other use the Islamics have for cranes and hemp as their gay and drug-addled friends are hoisted up by a hemp necktie.

Yes, I do think she's foolish enough to think 'they' will escape the islamic noose.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2008-05-25 18:37  

#13  So Jessica...how would you have handled 9/11?
I'm serious. I'd be interested to know.
Posted by: tu3031   2008-05-25 17:37  

#12  I saw the account of her commencement speech in our local paper this a.m. You wonder why institutions of higher learning invite the people they invite as commencement speakers.

I prefer P.J. O'Rourke's recent commencement speech that can be found at:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-orourke4-2008may04,0,6539887.story

Jessica Lange ought to get over her phony self-righteous indignation and get a life and take a hard, critical look at the world. She might then realize that what she thinks or says makes her sound like a blithering idiot and doesn't stand for much.

A fairly lengthy excerpt from O'Rourke:

Don't chain yourself to a redwood tree. Instead, be a corporate lawyer and make $500,000 a year. No matter how much you cheat the IRS, you'll still end up paying $100,000 in property, sales and excise taxes. That's $100,000 to schools, sewers, roads, firefighters and police. You'll be doing good for society. Does chaining yourself to a redwood tree do society $100,000 worth of good?

Idealists are also bullies. The idealist says, "I care more about the redwood trees than you do. I care so much I can't eat. I can't sleep. It broke up my marriage. And because I care more than you do, I'm a better person. And because I'm the better person, I have the right to boss you around."

Get a pair of bolt cutters and liberate that tree.

Who does more for the redwoods and society anyway -- the guy chained to a tree or the guy who founds the "Green Travel Redwood Tree-Hug Tour Company" and makes a million by turning redwoods into a tourist destination, a valuable resource that people will pay just to go look at?

So make your contribution by getting rich. Don't be an idealist.
Posted by: JohnQC   2008-05-25 17:10  

#11  Lets see, Jessica, you credentials are...? Hmm, none. Your experience in the ME are...? Hmm None. Your combat experience and toeuring and facts on Iraq are based on personal experience, and up to date unbiased observation? Hmm, no.

In other words who asked you?

You opinion has less value than a plumber - and in the case of my plumber, a ton less since he actually served a combat tour over there with his National Guard unit.

Stupid bitch.

Posted by: OldSpook   2008-05-25 16:08  

#10  She graduated did she? Good on her.
Posted by: George Smiley   2008-05-25 14:54  

#9  the "pursuit of peace."

Jessica still has the MILF thing going on, but I'd have more respect for her opinions if she made that speech in front of the corpses from Saddam's mass graves, nerve-gassed Kurdish villages, the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the friends and enemies he put through industrial shredders, rape rooms, acid baths and Abu Graib prison when he owned it.

And yes, the conflict in Iraq is just like Vietnam, but only if you are ignorant of everything that has happened in the world for the last 50 years.
Posted by: SteveS   2008-05-25 13:15  

#8  she was good in Rob Roy. As a political thinker? ....she was good in Rob Roy
Posted by: Frank G   2008-05-25 11:57  

#7  Moose, most of the 'unemployed' are the one's with graduation papers label with some sort of 'studies' department title on their diploma. Which is tough with all that debt accumulated over the years attending all those classes that prepared them for real life outside.

..comparing the conflict with the Vietnam War

You mean the one where hundreds of thousand went to 'reeducation camps' or the hundreds of thousands who didn't make it in the boats or the million and a half butchered in the third Holocaust of the 20th Century, aided and abetted by the likes of people you swim with?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2008-05-25 10:02  

#6  When she was young and HOT she looked great in a LANGE SKI WEAR AD. We would all drool over her bod. I don't think any of us said "I wonder if her mind is something to drool over.". Even King Kong drooled over her.
So as the years run on ... one wonders how the hot bods - now old hags become commencement speakers...
Posted by: 3dc   2008-05-25 10:00  

#5  Why give that speech there? All the military bound Enlistees "victims" (trademark applied for)are over there in the unemployment line.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2008-05-25 09:22  

#4  What are these people going to do after Bush leaves office? They are going to collapse in a pile of quivering goo with no where to direct their hate.
Posted by: DarthVader   2008-05-25 08:01  

#3  Lange asked the graduates, including her 22-year-old daughter Hannah Shepard, to commit themselves to the "pursuit of peace."

Please don't confuse the pursuit of peace with delaying confrontation.

Would you like fries with that?
Posted by: gorb   2008-05-25 03:01  

#2  Ya left out Katrina and Global Warming, ya stupid bitch. KNOW...YOUR...TALKING...POINTS! I can't stress that enough...
Posted by: tu3031   2008-05-25 01:23  

#1  Again, these jerks refuse to discuss the legal status of irregular combatants who are captured in failed states.
Posted by: McZoid   2008-05-25 01:02  

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