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2008-05-25 Home Front: Culture Wars

Jessica Lange bashes Iraq war in graduation speech

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Posted by Fred 2008-05-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#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|| 2008-05-25 01:02|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-05-25 01:23|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-05-25 03:01|| Front Page Top

#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">DarthVader 2008-05-25 08:01|| 2008-05-25 08:01|| Front Page Top

#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">AlmostAnonymous5839 2008-05-25 09:22|| 2008-05-25 09:22|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-05-25 10:00|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-05-25 10:02|| Front Page Top

#8 she was good in Rob Roy. As a political thinker? ....she was good in Rob Roy

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-05-25 11:57|| 2008-05-25 11:57|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-05-25 13:15|| Front Page Top

#10 She graduated did she? Good on her.

Posted by George Smiley 2008-05-25 14:54|| 2008-05-25 14:54|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-05-25 16:08|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-05-25 17:10|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-05-25 17:37|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-05-25 18:37|| Front Page Top

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