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Between now and the 2012 presidential election, Hollywood filmmakers will be put under even more scrutiny for every political statement they make. The latest twist is whether the movie moguls think politically outspoken actors shouldn’t be cast because 50% of the country who disagree with their views won’t turn out at the box office to see their pics. The latest case study is Morgan Freeman who on Friday went on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight and denied he’d provided narration for a Tea Party-supported Republican candidate’s attack ad last November. Then the Oscar winner blasted the Tea Party, calling their aggressive ambitions “racist” for their opposition to President Barack Obama. ”Their stated policy, publicly stated, is to do whatever it takes to see to it that Obama only serves one term,” Freeman said. “What underlines that? ‘Screw the country. We’re going to whatever we can to get this black man outta here.’” Freeman claimed the Tea Party agenda ”just shows the weak, dark, underside of America” and added, “We’re supposed to be better than that.” The timing couldn’t have been worse for Alcon Entertainment and Warner Bros and their Dolphin Tale starring Freeman. Immediately, the Internet filled with media chatter that Freeman’s statements would hurt Dolphin Tale at the box office this weekend because it featured him prominently in the movie trailer and TV ads aimed at the American heartland. So this morning I asked Alcon Entertainment co-founder Andrew Kosove whether he thought the Freeman ruckus had hurt the pic this weekend. (Kosove had expected it to win the box office derby but it finished No. 3 with a solid $20.2M):
We are of course delighted (and humbled) as it was a very unusual movie to greenlight in this day and age….a live action family drama. It was a “throwback” to a different time in Hollywood when family films had a very different composition from today. As far as Morgan, I don’t need to be “off the record”. (I am not really an “off the record” kind of guy). I do not believe it affected Dolphin Tale‘s gross by even one dollar! I do not share Morgan’s view and do not believe this kind of harsh partianship by either end of politcal spectrum is helpful in these very difficult times. That said, as a person who has some libertarian viewpoints myself, I STRONGLY believe in Morgan’s right to express whatever beliefs he has on any topic. We are a free country….thank god!
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The only way that someone would know if it’s hurt the film’s bottom line is if they knew someone was going to go see the film and decided not to, or if people walked out of the film.
Morgan Freeman seems to be sacrosanct in the business, but unfortunately his racism just reared its ugly head for the world to see. It’s really too bad. While we have the freedom of speech in this country, it does not give us the license to spew hatred.
Actually, I think it does. The First Amendment protects people’s license to spew hatred, love, or any other view they wish to express. That’s the point.
Yeah, of course it does. And it gives everyone else who doesn’t like what he said the right to react as they see fit, whether it’s with words or by not spending their money on a film he’s in.
It’s really too bad to hear utter nonsense from such a brilliant and talented actor. I’m amazed that someone with his “smarts” would tow the liberal line and fall into the fallacious idea that Tea Party members and the party want the nation to fail, or for that matter, the president to fail. I would venture to say that Freeman has never associated with, nor would want to be associated with, any Tea Party member in his life. He would be surprised to learn that there are many Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, etc. in the party. No of us want to see the president fail or see the nation go down the drain. I know that Freeman has the right to state his opinion, even though there are no facts to back his statements up. Nonetheless, he has this right, just as I will exercise my right not to pay money to see a movie I was expectantly wanting to see. That’s America.
The only way these comments would have hurt the weekend box-office of DOLPHIN TALE is if they were uttered by the dolphin. It’s a movie for kids…
False charges of racism should be a hate crime? Did somebody post that. If you cant see the blatant racism targeted at Obama- ei. his “backyard hip-hop BBQ” covered by FOX — you’re f-ing blind and dumb. But what do you expect from selfish LA hollywood d-bags?
That’s really too bad. Morgan Freeman speaks out about the hateful Teaparty, and he’s being called the racist. There are millions of people in this country who feel the same as Mr. Freeman regarding the Teaparty. They’re an opportunistic body of people who seized the moment, capitalized on the hateful message of right-wing radio, and Fox News directed at a Black man running for president. It wasn’t happening in a vacuum. America and the world was watching as the Teaparty crowds began carrying signs depicting Barack Obama as a monkey, as well as Adolph Hitler. There’s bigotry and hatred through out the Teaparty. To call Morgan Freeman a racist because he gave his opinion is outrageous.
Hey foul mouth grow up. Hollywood has killed its self by shooting off its own mouth. Opposed to what you did inserting your foot in yours. I know, OJ didn’t do it but where is he now. Morgan your career is over! TOO bad great actor. Here is a fact actions have consequences.
What hatred did he spew?
The hatred? False charges of racism should be considered a hate crime. Attributing non existent quotes (we’re gonna do whatever we can to get this black man outta here) to the tea party. That’s the hatred, the political left uses this hate routinely.
Your idea that Morgan calling out the Tea Party for its racist behavior is a hate crime is ludicrous. First it is not a crime and second it is the truth.
I have attended over a dozen rallies of the Tea Party and not once have I seen or heard any racism and I am confident if I had the majority of the crowd would have been revolted and thrown the bum out. The Tea Party stands for Taxed Enough Already and everyone can identify with that except the 50% of wage earners who pay nothing. IF you disagree with the Tea Party premise on taxation then do so but the straw man of racism is pure bullshit and totally uninformed knee jerk.
I like how some people think posting claims that the Tea Party isn’t racist will somehow magically make the Tea Party’s racist behavior vanish; yeah, people will forget Tea Baggers spitting at and heckling black congress members. I will hand it to the teabaggers for suckering more people than David Duke did. Too bad cars don’t run on hate, we’d be the richest country in the world.
What Morgan Freeman said was 100% true. The Republicans/Tea Party to this day can not accept the fact they lost to a black man, and are doing everything they can at the expense of this country to make sure he loses. Of course, they deny it, because in their mind they are never wrong.
Your comment is ridiculous.
What I have trouble accepting is not that the nation elected a black man as president, but rather the nation elected an amateur with little practical experience and no media vetting who associated with admitted terrorist (Bill Ayers), sat in a church pew for 20 years listening to Rev Wright’s reverse racism (and then claimed, in spite of his vast intellectual resources, that he never heard anything of the sort prior to it being reported), and seems to be a walking gaffe machine when not prompted on what to say by his teleprompter (a al “all 57 states,” “president of Canada,” “Austrian langauge”, “Corpseman” and now ” If asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a Jew, uh, as a janitor..”
This guy is in over his head. He had his ticket punched and that’s it.
Saying racism is to blame for Obama’s troubles is weak. The guy is a presidential failure on his own merits, not his skin color.
Racism? What did he say that was racist? He may have called someone, or some group, racist but that doesn’t actually make him a racist.
He suggested that it’s racist to want Obama out of office, as if that’s the only reason one would want him to be a one-term president. (The increasingly poorer economy and his blatant refusal to accept an iota of responsibility for it has absolutely no effect on his decreasing support…sure.) Frankly I found his comments to be more racist than anything the Tea Party has said, and certainly much more partisan. But of course, he does have a right to express his intolerant views.
Well, you must be a Tea Party member then, because you can’t see the truth. The reason things have not improved economically is because the Republican/Tea Party Congress blocks everything. Boehner said that THEY were going to create jobs and a few months later said oh well, if we lose 75,000 jobs so be it. LIES, LIES and MORE LIES. Accept some responsibility.
The democrats controlled both houses of congress for 2 years.The ruled as a one party oligarchy where dissent was not tolerated,bills were voted on without being read or understood.Remember they promised to post bills for 3 days before voting(except went they didn’t want you to know what was in them).
Well we found out that most of the job stimulus was sucked up to keep state employee jobs funded,in states whose budgets were out of control.I won’t even mention the money given to friends businesses. and the result was 9% unemployment. Now that the people had begun giving power to the republicans is it any wonder you feel they are blocking the democratic agenda. The idea of only spending the money you have is a foreign concept to you,but the 53% of americans who pay taxes for the other 47% are believing it is a idea whose time has come. Mr Freeman believes that is racist if you are a tea party member but when 80-90% of african Americans vote for man who happens to be african american,I wonder if their only consideration was his color,not his policies. There is not one group of people in the world who would vote at this percentage if they where considering all the issues in an election.maybe their only consideration was his color and maybe that’s racists by identification.
As for Mr Freeman this is one person who will no longer spend money for his films.
Actually, it does make him racist. He made a comment based on his prejudices about one race of people with certain political views (never mind that a black man won a straw poll for that political party in Florida this weekend). He is a hateful, disgusting person.
It’s obvious that you don’t even know the definition of the word “racism.” Wherein did Freeman make a statement about a specific “race”? Nowhere! He commented on an organization, a political party.
He made no comment about “one race.” He ascribed no motivation, etc. to a race. He criticized a political party. Given the many documented instances of racist signs at Tea Party rallies and multitude of racist attacks against Obama (like the ludicrous birth certificate debacle), why shouldn’t people consider the Tea Party a friendly place for racists?
Anyway, congratulations on playing the victim. You should get your victim card laminated to pull out whenever someone says something with which you disagree.
Yes, and the GOP and the Tea Party is embracing Herman Cain with open arms… not. They’re desperately looking for their next messiah and wouldn’t entertain the thought of Cain seriously for one second. All that straw poll means is his supporters, and there are few, bought far more fundraising dinners than the other nominees. It was more about a repudiation of Perry than support for Cain.
I’m impressed with your ability to draw sweeping generalizations about the motivations of vast segments of your fellow citizens.
It’s fabulous you have this skill. Perhaps you can direct your talent to the stock market and make some money instead of posting on this blog.
A hateful disgusting person for speaking the truth? The GOP and the Tea Party wanted to tank his presidency from DAY 1. That is the truth. THEY SAID SO AND CONTINUE TO SAY SO.
his racism? what a joke.
You’ve decided to reinterpret the Constitution, it seems. As vile as I think the Westboro Church fools are, their right to spew hatred has been upheld by the Supreme Court.
I’m sorry, Geoff, but you don’t get to choose what someone else gets to say just because you don’t like it and neither do I. That’s the ENTIRE point of having Freedom of Speech, which you seem to have missed out on.
It doesn’t just protect YOUR right to say things OTHERS find objectionable. It protects THEIR right to say things YOU find abhorrent too. Deal with it.
His hatred and racism? Are you serious? If you listened to what the man said it was right on the money.And he stated it quite eloquently. He is a very intelligent man. It is completely obvious that the Rep party does not want Obama in the White House longer than one term. His administration has already done something huge that Bush was unable to do in his 8 year run…. Captured and disposed of Bin Laden. The Reps want him out of the picture before he has a chance to really turn this country around for the better. Especially economically. Stupid thing is that it didn’t take overnight to get us into this mess and it certainly is not going to take just a short amount of time to get us out. Everyone knows he will need at least two terms. They don’t want to give him the chance and will do anything to prevent that from happening. Country be damned. Rush Limbaugh (a Republican demi- God that continues to speak for them) has already stated he hopes “Obama fails”. That is the mindset of the Rep party. If Obama proves he can do it, the Reps will have a hard time getting their party to recover.And that scares the crap out of them. It will show that their thinking no longer works. Freeman was right in his comments. Freedom of speech is when I disagree with what you are saying but still will fight to the end for your right to say it. Reps have some people believing that if you don’t follow their realm of thinking you are Un-American. Ridiculous!
Of course the Republicans want Obama out. Not because he’s black, but because he’s not a Republican! That’s a no-brainer. If it had been Hillary, they’d want her out. Not because she’s a woman, but because she’s not a Republican.
If Herman Cain is elected President, will Democrats want him out because he’s black? If Sarah Palin were elected would they want her out because she’s a woman?
I’m not saying there aren’t racists in the Republican party, heck, there are racists in the Democrat party as well. I’m just saying you can’t paint over the entire party (Tea Party or Republican) with such a broad brush. This was Morgan Freeman’s mistake, and even though he is much more successful than I will ever be, it just proves that success doesn’t insure common sense.
When has any other President been called a “liar” by a congressman while speaking before Congress. The whole birther thing was spread by the TEa Party. Have they treated him differently because he is black? You betcha.
check your facts:
In 2004, Democrats delivered a “Chorus Of Boos” during Bush’s Bush’s State Of The Union when he called for renewal of the In 2005, Dems howled, hissed and shouted “No!” when Bush pushed for Social Security reform in the SOU: “Foreshadowing the contentiousness of the coming debate, Democrats broke decorum and booed twice,” according to the National Journal.
At the time, CNN’s Bill Schneider remarked, “It was unusual. I had never heard it at least at that level before. The Democrats clearly were booing, heckling, saying no when the president talked about the crisis in Social Security.”
Reid called Bush a liar, a traiter and a loser. Not very respectful was it?
The reason the country is goign to crap is the radicalism of the Tea Party and its ilk. Calling Morgan Freeman racist is so laughable. Look in the mirror Geoff. That’s the face of racism right there.
Morgan Freeman got every break because of racism. A Black man was put into the role. An average and boring, barely passable actor —– Morgan Freeman!
Morgan Freeman assumes conservatives want Obama out of the WH because he is half black – not true, and it is projection on his part. They have a different value system than wealth re-distribution, Frank-Dodd corrupt regulations, Fannie and Freddie corruption, not to mention the overreach by federal agencies. Before Obama further sinks America towards central planning, conservatives want him out. To think it is because he is half black is laughable but simple minds think one dimensionally – they can’t see the whole picture (or will not).
A good bit of the birther crap came from the tea party, so yes I would agee it has a racist element.
I agree with these comments-firstly-now I will not see Dolphin Tale,and secondly, I am sooo disappointed by Mr.Freemans remarks-I so thought he was better than that.
He needs to remember it was the white people in this country that elected Obama-not the blacks.
Morgan Freeman speaks the truth about the AstroTurf teabaggers; not much diversity there, at their rallies, or at GOP debates. When they’re not cheering for a hypothetical medical patient to die because he doesn’t have health insurance, they boo our military protecting our country and theirs because one of them is gay. The teabaggers are as borderline treasonous and anti-American as it gets. The downgraded national credit rating was a teabagger production. They represent a yearning for the good ol’ days of States Rights, Jim Crow, voting tests, etc. Their congressional lackeys are willing to hold FEMA funding hostage. They are domestic terrorists.
Exactly.
You are so full of it. How is it ‘treasonous’ to peacefully organize and then criticize the sitting administration? Groups, mostly on the left, have done it for decades – but I guess they are a-okay since you agree with them, right?
No wonder Americans are leaving liberalism in droves. Even one word of disagreement with Obama and you are called names, demonized and attacked. It is pathetic.
When “peaceful” organizing and “criticism” involves questioning whether the President was actually born in this country or whether he’s not really the President, spitting on black congress members, stomping on a woman outside a Rand Paul rally, sending waves of people to scream and threaten congresspeople at health care town hall meetings, and constantly talking about a new civil war if their demands aren’t met, then I think the label is justified.
Please don’t claim what we’re seeing is “one word of disagreement” when we have Glenn Beck on air postulating the existence of FEMA “concentration camps” and former governors of Alaska claiming the president plans to convene “death panels” to decide whether your grandmother lives or dies and Rush Limbaugh stating he hopes Obama “fails”. Every other word out of tea party/libetarian mouths is “unconstitutional” – in essence, accusing the president of subverting the highest principles of this country.
The Left is criticizing Obama but they’re not attacking him on a personal level or engaging in “exterminism”, in which every disagreement is elevated to treason against the country which must be stopped by destroying/eliminating the offender.
Joseph, why are you trying to bring logic into a shouting match?
The left not making personal attacks? They perfected the politics of personal destruction and nearly everything you write is rife with falsehoods. No one spit on black congress people – prove it – show me the tape. It was a lie. Yet a black conservative was beaten by leftists thugs and it was caught on tape. Republicans aren’t holding FEMA (another corrupt agency wasting money) hostage — the Dems won’t pass the bill to increase funding.
One can’t question the eligibility of a person to be president? Funny, the Dems did it to McCain and asked for a ruling on whether being born on a military base made him ineligible. But that’s okay right?
Yes people should have protested obamacare, a huge program filled with people who will tell you whether you get a certain service or not – and it has already been shown that if you are in your 70′s they may deny you cancer treatment – it is in the bill – and now they are using the FDA to say certain life saving drugs are too expensive and are banning them – and now of course the EPA wanting to ban asthma inhalers. It was just a huge program to give useless people desk jobs and control over your life.
But of course it is okay when unions and leftists send waves of people to protest anything, just if you are conservative you are not allowed to….I pray for the day we return to the Constitution and limit the federal gov’t.
Herman Cain called. He said he’s doing fine without you, thanks.
Very sick comparison. If you ever went to one Tea Party Event you would find yourself dead wrong. I’m really ashamed to be part of the human race people like you make those types of statements.
the “tea part debate” was a “tea party event.” people applauded the idea of an uninsured young man dying and yelled “let him die!” there’s the door, geoff.
Yeah and a bunch of Code Pinkers stood outside Walter Reed screaming at wounded soldiers “I hope it was f*cking worth it, you murderers!!” I don’t see anyone blaming the democrats for them, though.
Maybe you should change your middle name from “effing” to “Hypocrite.”
Lets see, Barack Obama attends a church run by a rabid anti-American and anti-semite, but the left remains silent. Much of the African American Community refuses to call out Louis Farrakhan, another rabid anti-semite. I don’t recall one black politician or celebrity speaking out about the recent racially motivated mob attacks by blacks upon whites at various locations throughout the country(the most recent at Denver’s 16th Street Mall). The hypocrisy on the left is so f**king unbelievable it makes my head spin. People like Lawrence O’Donnell have no qualms about attacking Christians and Mormons but won’t attack Muslims because they are scared shit of them. You can check the following exchange between radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt and Mr. O’Donnell for accuracy:
HH: Would you say the same things about Mohammed as you just said about Joseph Smith?
LO’D: Oh, well, I’m afraid of what the…that’s where I’m really afraid. I would like to criticize Islam much more than I do publicly, but I’m afraid for my life if I do.
HH: Well, that’s candid.
LO’D: Mormons are the nicest people in the world. They’re not going to ever…
HH: So you can be bigoted towards Mormons, because they’ll just send you a strudel.
LO’D: They’ll never take a shot at me. Those other people, I’m not going to say a word about them.
HH: They’ll send you a strudel. The Mormons will bake you a cake and be nice to you.
LO’D: I agree.
HH: Lawrence O’Donnell, I appreciate your candor.
I don’t despise Barack Obama because he is black I despise him and the rest of you liberal-socialist-progressives for what you are doing to the country.
Oh, by the way, the Tea Party Favorite who is largely ignored by the media, Herman Cain, won the Florida Straw Poll yesterday.
The left is scared of the Tea Party’s rising influence and is pulling out all the stops to try and derail it. It won’t work. The more people learn the less they trust the media. Because it is all a pack of lies. For the record, I am gay, jewish and staunchly conservative.
Besides all of the molehills to mountains exterminism you demonstrated (hint: people disagree with you; they’re not “destroying the country”), you do realize that the majority of the Tea Party you endorse wish to prevent you from being married, right? 16% support gay marriage… 40% oppose any marriage rights for gays. Good luck to you if the Tea Party takes over. Maybe you need to stop being “staunchly” any ideology and more reality-based.
By the way, the left doesn’t love muslims. It’s the Tea Party who are positively obsessed with them. How are we both godless heathens and muslims at the same time?
Oh, and there are no waves of black people engaging in organized violence against white people. You REALLY do need to embrace reality-based politics.
No, sorry, you really DO need to do some reading. Just because you didn’t read about the black on white violence doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. No, I’m afraid it’s you who needs to get a cold hard dose of reality.
My sexuality does not define me. I am a conservative and agree with 90% of what the Republican Party stands for and maybe 10% of what today’s Democrats believe…I’m not gonna allow the pandering to my sexual orientation by the Democrats to make me surrender the rest of my liberties and belief system. I don’t need government to sanction the legal and emotional bond I have with my partner.
You have stockholm syndrome, my friend, you really do. You are a second class citizen to the majority of your GOP brethren, and as for their precious Tea Party, they see you as an abomination. But hey, enjoy your tax cuts!
I”m sorry, wasn’t it Dems who invented lynching? Wasn’t it Dems who opposed Freeing slaves? How do you know someone is a liberal? They won’t or can’t hold a decent conversation with you, only block your view with hatred. I have never met a liberal who was not filled with hate and rage, or could stage violent protests in the name of their cause, which is the only one that matters. It’s great to live in a free society where all views can be present. Only liberals want a world where only THEIR views exist. Sound like other country’s you know? My civil war ancestor’s were Black, don’t judge me a racist, because I do not like the views of a Man who happens to be Black. I don’t like them because their liberal. This clearly shows Freeman’s ignorance and His racist problems.
First of all, I am an African-American, blue-collar member of the Tea Party in a southern state I am also one of its organizers. The rhetoric and lies that continue about the Tea Party is a pathetic attempt by democrats and some of their followers to mislead because their policies have continued to fail. I was one of the people that the Democrats lied to in the 2008 elections. There were many of us, we know it, and we’re not happy about it. Black, white, asian, hispanic, native american, republican, democratic, independent. We’re not happy about it. The difference is we now see that we were lied to. You will not succeed for a very simple reason: You can fool all of the people SOME of the time. And SOME of the people all of the time. But you can’t fool ALL of the people ALL of the time. Many democrats in congress are now distancing themselves from Obama. He will be a one-term President, not because of racism, 2008 proved that is not the case, he will be a one-term President because he never had the experience or leadership let alone ideas to make a good President. The policies of those that have created the Obama administration have failed. And I’m confident you know that. Which makes your comments more fuel to fire to cause Americans to unite to elect a new president.
Sorry, but the videos and the rallies do not support what you’re saying here. The sky isn’t red. The sun isn’t green. It doesn’t matter how much nonsense you spew. The Tea Party is in no way a multi-cultural movement. It is primarily filled with white, ignorant people who think dressing up in period garb from the revolutionary days and obstructing progress on behalf of their corporate masters is being patriotic. America sees through this which is why the latest polls put the Tea Party squarely in the same place as all the other political parties, which is the majority of Americans don’t care for your stinky brand.
If Morgan is in the film, from now on, they won’t be seeing my dollar in the coffer. And as for PRHJR above, he just proves the point that the racists and bigots aren’t in the Tea Party.
Amen! It’s the liberals and the progressives who are the hate mongers and the racists. All you have to do is look at the SEIU’s and other rallies and listen to what they actually say. The fights and brawls and hate-filled words for anyone who doesn’t agree completely with what they believe. Look at Maxine Waters and some of the others from the far left – they say “the tea party people can go to hell” “I think all Republicans should just die”; “they want us all hanging from a noose” etc. And the vile term “teabagger” proves the point, even Obama used that phrase… it’s the character of the man that counts not the skin color and they’ve proven they each have a disgusting character. For those saying it’s the color of the skin conservatives have an issue with… really? What about Herman Cain? Allen West, Condi Rice, etc… conservatives LOVE them… because we don’t care about the color of their skin, we care about the content of their character, exactly as Martin Luther King taught. And isn’t it funny that Alveda King and the King family refused to back Obama? It’s because he completely lacks character, he is simply another slimy Chicago politician who will do and say whatever he needs to do to fulfill his agenda. So now the blacks call Alveda King a traitor! Yeah, nice going… she KNOWS what her Uncle was for and has the true Love inside her…
“…The fights and brawls and hate-filled words for anyone who doesn’t agree completely with what they believe.”
Are you really so blind as to believe that only one end of the political spectrum is guilty of this?
SO… when the Tea Party suggests the black man in the white house isn’t legally the president or even a “real” American and goes on snipe hunts for his birth certificate, spits on black congressmen, attempts to keep minorities from the polls by engaging in various measures that make it harder to vote, obsess over immigrants, have racist signs at Tea Party rallies, call Obama a “secret Muslim” and complain that “their country” is gone, when Bill O’Reilly complains that the left wants to “eliminate the white male power structure”, when Limbaugh calls Obama a “halfrican American”, when tea party polls show “52 percent think that the problems of people of color get too much attention”, when right-wing commentators attacked the victims of Hurricane Katrina as being lazy good-for-nothings who sat around waiting for someone to rescue them and didn’t want to leave their drug dealers, when a former chairman wrote a blog posted that called an NAACP officer “Tom’s nephew and NAACP head colored person” when the Tea Party Express forwarded members an article stated the Tea Party needed to stop “the queering of America”… that’s all because they love all people so much, right?
So the racists are calling the guy who CALLS OUT the racists a racist. Is this your logic?
Orwellian double-speak and circular thinking at its finest. Great job, RPF. Your GOP and Fox News masters have taught you well.
“So the racists are calling the guy who CALLS OUT the racists a racist. Is this your logic?”
That’s been their logic for a long, long time. It doesn’t make sense but they truly believe it.
To call a group ‘racist’ when you havent been around the group, to paint with that sweeping brush is exactly what a racist would do – stereotype everyone in a group because of your feelings not because of what they are. There are three tea party organizations in my county. Most of them are women. At least a third of them are people of color – hispanics, blacks and asians. Many of them are seniors on social security. There are also union members both public and private.
When Andrew Breitbart offered 10,000 to anyone who could show proof of racist comments at a tea party gathering after racism was alleged the accusers shut up and Breitbart still has his money.
As for the movie – Freeman can say anything he wants. And i can spend my money wherever i want and for any reason. Hes a Free Man and I am a Free Woman.
no, you are the koch brothers’ zombie slave.
Yeah, I’m sure you in line for the next Tyler Perry movie, too.
Seriously, who cares what you think? You’re a racist Tea Partier who hates America.
If I were Morgan Freeman, I wouldn’t want any of your money in my pocket anyway.
The downgraded national credit was a “teabagger production?” I think not. It was a result of Obama’s inability to create more jobs and stifling of big and small business by continuing to threaten them with unfair tax legislation. It’s no secret most American corporations are sitting on trillions of dollars that they’ll not be spending until Obama treats them with fairness and respect.
Get your facts straight PRHJR – or go post on a website where teens and frat boys will better appreciate your elementary level opinion. “Teabaggers,” really?
What does the debt ceiling have to do with the money the corporations are sitting on? Was it the Democrats that held up on raising the ceiling?
Since when is it the president’s responsibility to create jobs? American corporations do whatever they can to make profits by sending jobs overseas. GE paid no income tax last year. Steve Jobs makes extraordinary profits by manufacturing overseas although Apple could still be profitable manufacturing in the United States. There is NO innovation in Detroit, just rehashes of nostalgia. The racial bias against Obama has been well documented. The Teabaggers are a bunch of selfish, white racists. Mr. Freeman barely scratched the surface.
Ari, post of the year.
Ari, dude, the chairman of GE is head of the president’s jobs advisory group. He just sent several thousand medical jobs having to do with imaging over to China. GE hasn’t paid any income tax in the U.S. for at least two years. He’s one of the president’s closest buds, as is Steve Jobs. WTF are you getting at?
Ari –
Jeffrey Immelt (CEO of General Electric, in case you didn’t know) was FRONT AND CENTER during Obama’s speech on jobs two weeks ago… pay attention you moron.
The tea party isn’t racist. People are racist. And America is the least racist country in the world. Go travel.
-RnsW
So Morgan Freeman calls out a bunch of racist yahoos for being a bunch of racist yahoos, and that gets decried as “harsh partisanship” that’s equivalent to everything the Tea Party has said and done. What offensive nonsense.
Really. Name one racist act that the tea party has performed. Ever go to a Tea Party Event? No, because then you have to take your hatred back. Maybe you need to take a good hard look at Obama who is going after the “minority” vote in the next election. The race card cuts both ways, Rob. Own it and your own personal bigotry.
Just for starters, calling Obama: 1) boy, 2) Osama, 3) Muslim, 4) Monkey.
Don’t get me started. I have attended a Tea Party rally and the only thing missing are the black hoods. But the confederate flag was front and center.
Tea Party = Racist … yes, that’s a known fact.
See all of my examples above. Your comment is like a Catholic saying “name one child that was ever abused by a priest – just one!” Do you seriously not follow any political news at all?
Here you go Mike:
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/07/14/107722/tea-party-racism/
There was no call for Morgan, who I admire and whose work I love, to interject remarks such as these IMO. Audiences don’t want Actors’ politics to play a role in Movies they want to see. Turning off any segment of the audience can only hurt audience turnout. Did it cost the film money? Can’t really tell, but I’d guess they may have lost 15% of the expected B.O.
It’s just not very smart business.
He didn’t “interject.” P. Morgan asked M. Freeman about Obama, and he responded. Freeman’s too old to care at this point about offending any segment of his audience, anyway (how these statements could be deemed “racist” is beyond me).
You don’t want an actor’s “politics” to play a role in what movies you see? Then don’t pay attention to their opinions on such matters. It’s pretty easy for me to ignore… Certain people seem to have lost their ability to let themselves go at the movies anymore (and yes, that includes anyone who turns on a cell phone during a theater screening).
I always find it interesting when people say things like this because they are rarely said about Conservative actors who often utter equally partisan remarks.
That said, I doubt the average American gives a crap what an actor’s political or personal views are. I know I don’t or I wouldn’t watch Patricia Heaton on The Middle, or Kesley Grammer, or Bruce Willis, or any number of other actors who range from moderate to strongly Conservative. If a movie is good people will see it. End of story. Besides, Dolphin Tale is not the kind of movie that would attract a huge audience.
And by 15 percent, you mean “the number I just pulled out of thin air.”
Yikes, 15% of the B.O.? Do you realize how many tickets that translates into?
Of the amount of people who went to see Dolphin Tale this weekend, FAR less than 15% were even aware of what Freeman said. I PROMISE you.
Like those teabagger ghouls had any interest in seeing a heartwarming story about a dolphin’s keen insight for using sabremetrics to turn the small-market Oakland A’s into contenders (that is what it’s about, right? At least, that’s what I gathered from the previews).
Maybe those ogres would be interested in a dolphin-themed movie if it were about a tuna fishery (and it’s heroic job-creating executive) using sonar technology to track down and torpedo pods of dolphins so the corporation will no longer have to endure the burdensome and costly regulation of using special nets for catching their quarry.
win.
Except for the fact that Cain just won a tea party dominated straw poll- you moron!
The only reason you TBagger bigots are giving Cain the time of day is because he parrots your hatred against gays, Muslims & everyone else you feel threatened by. As soon as he outlasts his usefulness you’ll forget he ever existed & nominate your racist standard. Romney or Perry or whoever isn’t black.
Do you really think the rest of America is so stupid not to see through you?
And if millions hadn’t already admitted to only voting for Barack because he was black, you might have a point. Instead, you’ve got nothing but a hate filled, weak willed sorry excuse for an existence. Good luck with that.
yes, it’s true, Cain’s supporters bought more fundraising dinners than the others. Why do you republicans love your silly straw polls so much? Cain wasn’t considered the front runner due to this for even 2 seconds. The GOP is feverishly looking for their new, shiny candidate as we speak. Cain has no chance at all.
I wasn’t going to see “A Dolphin’s Tale” because it’s out of my demographic group, but now I will just to piss off the Tea Party. And as far as I’m concerned, Andrew Kosove is the film’s star.
Aside to Morgan Freeman: see Bette Midler v. Ford Motor Company, 849 F.2d 460 (9th Cir., 1988)
You know the difference between you and the Tea Party? The Tea Party doesn’t give a damn what you say or do. Enjoy your Sunday.
Dear Cash: you’re absolutely right. I mean it. That’s why they will win and America will lose.
This company makes the worst films in the history of cinema. But talent in this town is not needed if you have financing like these guys do. Economic majors should not be making films. But Hollywood only cares about the $$$’s. Unfortunate!
I think if you ask the majority of the audience that has seen some of the more popular movies by this company, they would disagree. The movies may not be the most artful or best-written films around, but they often feature fine acting, genuinely inspiring stories, and genuinely family-friendly entertainment that many people clamor for. I’m glad that some people strive to please audiences while others strive to make a more beautiful, or shocking, or artful or mind-opening films, because I like both kinds of film experiences. In any case, these are so, so, so far from being near the “worst films” in even the decade, much less the history of cinema.
I hope Morgan realizes he’s done Obama’s chances of re-election more harm than good in making such remarks. He’s an intelligent actor, but that was a silly thing to say.
Ugh. the fact that this stuff matters to people sickens and depresses me.
It’s never going to NOT be all politics all the time in this country ever again, is it?
I couldn’t agree with you more. I hate that I’m called a racist because I don’t support Obama. I has nothing to do with the color of his skin. I don’t support the “teabaggers” either, as everyone is calling them. I’m pretty middle of the road politically. I just think that actors need to keep their political opinions to themselves because it stirs up too much anger among the general public. It’s a harsh enough world out here without them adding to it.
So are black people who oppose Obama racist too?
Are we not told to judge one another on the content of character and not the color of skin.
Interesting how ANY little opposition to Obama and the race card is immediately brought to bare. I thought it was supposed to be cool to “question authority” or is that only in practice when a Republican is in office??
Stop. Just stop. It’s not “every little opposition”. No one’s complaining about Michael Moore, Bill Maher or Paul Krugman’s feuds with the President. When people show up at tea party events in blackface, THAT’S the kind of thing we’re talking about.
Just spend a few seconds googling “tea party racist signs” or just go to youtube and query “tea party racist” and you’ll see how when people stick cameras in front of these people’s faces at tea party events, the racism just spews out even though they know they’re on camera. THAT is what Morgan Freeman is talking about.
Signs like “Obama’s Plan: White Slavery”, “The American Taxpayers Are the Jews For Obama’s Ovens”, a picture of Obama slitting the throat of Uncle Sam are what we’re talking about. Calling him “Communist”, “Socialist”, “destroying the country” for NO DISCERNABLE REASON other than he’s a black man in a white house. That’s what we’re talking about. The last president lied us into a war, raised the debt, and his top people leaked the identity of a CIA agent for political reasons – the tea party didn’t exist. A black man gets into office and doesn’t do much of anything except try to make health care more affordable and suddenly he’s “destroying the country”. People are carrying signs saying “Keep government out of my medicare”(!!!) and otherwise have no clue what they’re talking about (one woman complaining on camera about people taking her hard-earned money turned out to have received $100K in farm subsidies over the last decade) but they’re angry. Terribly ANGRY. Yet they can’t give one objective, verifiable reason for their anger. What are we left to conclude, especially when many of their members give voice to overt racism at rallies?
THAT is what the rest of us are talking about, and trying to make it out like people are being villified for disagreeing on the tax rates is not fooling any of us and it’s insulting.
Pretty well stated, joe.
Actually, not a single example of the rally signs that you described are racist. Anti-Socialist, yes, but that’s what Obama is, a Socialist. Ooooooohhh, am I a racist now?
Name one socialist bill Obama has enacted.
Thank you Joseph, your comments seem to be towards getting to the truth and stating actual facts rather than a lot of generalizations and name-calling. And it has always bothered me that more American Parents of young soldiers who have died or been maimed in a war that was built on a foundation of lies for the sake of oil, is disturbing at best.
Bush and Cheney should have been brought up on war crimes.
It was a noble gesture for Morgan Freeman to come to Obama’s defense. But black or white, tea party or ACLU… it’s all a cruel perverted illusion.
Obama is every bit as bad and corrupt as Bush, if not more so. The “wars” have increased, torture has increased, 9/11 still covered up, banksters even richer -and the poor, well it’s going back to the Victorian era. All hope for salvation, prosperity and justice died with JFK.
A lot of people believed in Obama, but black, white or yellow… only corrupt people who take orders and do what they’re told get to be president or any other position of high office. If you don’t believe that you’ve really gone HOLLYWOOD!
>Obama is every bit as bad and corrupt as Bush, if not more so.
When an Obama staffer gets indicted for leaking the identity of a CIA agent then you can talk. Otherwise… you’ve got to be kidding.
> The “wars” have increased,
Um… no. The war is Iraq is extremely wound down and we should be out of there soon. The real war against Al Qaeda has seen remarkable progress – we got Osama! The intervention in Libya was at the bequest of the people and we saved them from being slaughtered and helped bring about a free Libya. I can’t recall Obama lying us into wars… can you?
>torture has increased,
Complete nonsense. There’s no torture going on, no waterboarding, and you can’t cite any allegations from any news source anywhere to say that there is. He can’t close Guantanamo yet thanks to Congress, but he IS beginning to try the people there.
>9/11 still covered up,
No, I think we all know that it happened. And no, a plane really did hit the Pentagon and the towers were not brought down by bombs planted in them by Dick Cheney.
>banksters even richer -
Legitimate complaint, but under Bush it would be even worse. Obama’s supporting a millionaire’s tax now.
>and the poor, well it’s going back to the Victorian era.
Can’t a lot of that blame be placed on a Republican Congress trying to make the country even worse off just so they can win the 2012 election?
>All hope for salvation, prosperity and justice died with JFK.
Hey, he wasn’t the bee’s knees at all… remember his skirmishes with Cuba?
>A lot of people believed in Obama, but black, white or yellow… only
>corrupt people who take orders and do what they’re told get to be
>president or any other position of high office. If you don’t believe that >you’ve really gone HOLLYWOOD!
Obama’s not a leader or fighter at all, that’s his problem. He’s not “corrupt” and “taking orders”.
Could it be the movie wasn’t that great, or maybe people were confused and thought it was another “Free Willy” movie, or family’s would rather see Disney’s The Lion King instead, I mean what would you rather see a cute Disney tale, or a movie about a dolphin?
Disney rules. It has nothing to do with the Tea Party.
Hmmn, I guess that’s why was number 1 at the box office this weekend. Outdistancing the Lion King and Moneyball, the Brad Pitt’ vehicle. But then Brad and Angelina, both liberals who would rather take action rather than spew the mouths off about the blatant lack of compassion for the poor and people of color.
I sincerely hope that the Republicans and Tea party members get back in control of the country. I’m curious to see how deep they stick it to us this time.
Due to the previous administration’s blatant regards for regulations. “Hey, I know what will stimulate the economy, why not take the handcuffs off and unlock the henhouse and let the fox run rampart, believe me, he will only take what he can eat.
can you say “Trickle down economics “? again … sure, don’t tax the big corporations or hold the greedy CEO’s accountable. It’s all our fault that they outsourced customer support services and move their production arm to China, India and other countries.
damn the american middle class!
and when u “gluttonese” for punishment give then control of the country in 2012, They will smile and say”
” the middle-class in America are such easy prey… Even after we stole their homes, their jobs, their pensions and their young sons and daughters.
They forgive us and are ready to give us another crack at it, after only one term – They must really hate the SOB in office now!
(We end up with the biggest oil spill in the history of U.S … the katrina debacle, The near total collapse of the financial sector, IRAQ, etc. etc. etc.
I know what will stimulate
Good for Freeman, he should now call that McCain/Palin supporter “Clint Eastwood”, and tell him that he’s never going to do another one of his films because Eastwood is a Republican.
Normaly, I’m a political but these Teabaggers are such cortex-challenged people who will ruin the USA. I HATE them even more and will GO SEE Dolphin’s Tale just to piss them OFF and will even campaign against their nimrod candidates next year.
Myles, get help. Seriously. I have my Bachelor’s Degree in Education. And I am proud to be part of the Tea Party because unlike Obama and his enablers like Morgan Freeman who toss their racism around like candy, we’re trying to get the country to live within its means, instead of bankrupting the country like Obama’s policies. If w’ere not careful and continue on their paths nobody is going to afford to bankroll and see movies and the money that the A-listers have accumulated isn’t going to mean squat.
Freeman is a gifted actor, but his racism and your ugly statements have no place in the national dialogue, and if all you have is racism and nasty rhetoric, you’ve got nothing.
For you to call out Freeman as a racist and not acknowledge it where it is rampant, in your own backyard, takes a lot of nerve; that or a great deal of delusion.
It’s funny that you see a common denominator with actual “hatred.” And I really don’t think going to see this movie is going to “stick it” to anybody, it’s not a support rally, just a movie staring someone with an opinion.
If I skipped every movie simply because one of the actors was an ignorant, holier than thou liberal who foolhardily plays the race card and thinks their opinion matters simply cause they’re famous, I wouldnt see any movies. Obama should only serve one term because he has royally screwed up the country and not kept his campaign promises.
Thank you — your first sentence, I mean. Guess what folks? Not every actor in every movie you’ve ever seen politically agrees with you.
That’s funny because I saw him speak back in 2008 while he was campaigning. He said he would champion healthcare reform, that he would pull troops out of Iraq and shift them to Afghanistan so that we can capture Bin Laden, and he said that taxes wouldn’t be raised on anyone making under 250k per year. Can you please tell me which of those promises he hasn’t kept?
I am NOT sympathetic with the Tea Party nor share most of their views. The irony of Morgan Freeman’s statement is he said this over the weekend when the Tea Party in Florida voted for African American Herman Cain in a Presidential Straw poll. They focus on the role and scope of government and race doesn’t really much matter to them. If Hillary was President, they would all be labeled sexist. The right HATED white Southern boy Bill Clinton. I cannot believe I’m kind of defending the Tea Party.
These extremists are so quick to claim victory when a movie fails and it happens to star someone whose political views they don’t agree with. But here’s the thing, many, many americans could care less. They’re apolitical. They’re not like the hardcore political ideologues on either side of the political spectrum who spend their time posting about politics. 50% of the country cares so little they don’t even vote. They sure don’t view every choice they make, every business they frequent, every movie they see as a political statement in some bullshit culture war.
And also, the movie did quite well.
So teabaggers are now going to boycott a movie just because someone in the cast dared to exercise one’s constitutional rights and speak out freely? Am I only the one seeing irony in teabaggers calling Obama a communist and dictator (they obviously have no clue what either word means and are not familiar with concept of looking up meaning & facts in dictionary and history).
Obviously, Morgan Freeman is spot on.
I don’t think 2 people on a message board that weren’t going to see the movie anyways qualifies as a boycott….
And I guess you don’t remember people drawing Hitler mustaches on pictures of bush, or were you not old enough?
You are quick to jump to conclusions, and you are dead wrong on both counts.
Do I need to remind you of what they say about assume? You are welcome.
Im a proud Tea Party ticket voter and I have canceled plans to take my wife and 2 daughters to see A Dolphons Tale this weekend due to Freeman’s statements. Face it, Hollywood is full of liberal left wing attack dogs. I only support members of the Hollyweird community that are also Tea Party supporters – Patty heaton and Jay Leno. All the rest of you left wing liberal nuts can go straight to hell, starting with Freeman and ending with Ricky Martin & Alan Alda.
I’d like to fry that dolphin and serve him for lunch to Tea Party members.
Lucky you, you can go see Vince Vaughn movies, too!
“Face it, Hollywood is full of liberal left wing attack dogs.”
You are 100% correct. So I guess you won’t be going to see any more movies ever, eh?
Hope you’re not too excited about going to the theater, since P. Heaton and J. Leno are not really THAT active in the movies these days
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‘Alan Alda?”
Don’t you mean you’re no longer taking your wife and GRAND DAUGHTERS to see “Dolphin’s Tale”?
I am boycotting the film and anything Morgan Freeman appears in until he makes a public apology and I strongly ask like-minded conservatives to start looking at where they spend their hard earned money. Fight with your wallets! Freeman may be a great actor but that doesn’t mean he isn’t an absolute jackass.
Freeman’s right, and those defending the Tea Party or who fail to see the truth in Freeman’s statements are simply brainwashed. All you need to do is lookin at the Tea Party constituency or examine their policies to see the clear racial & economic lines they’re drawing. If you can’t see what’s clearly in front of your face, you have problems and should probably take a moment to look at Freeman’s views more carefully.
No matter what Obama does the Tea Party doesn’t give home credit (killing Osama, an event in which Tea Partiers kept “confusing” their names & gave Bush credit). But he gets blame for the budget, which was way out of control before he got in office – an aside, within Obama’s first 6 months the deficit was blamed on him, Tea Partiers conveniently forgot Bush handed out the first 700 billion).
Politics as usual? Then why is Obama’s very Americanism constantly questioned when he’s already provided proof? No other president has been scrutinized in such a way. Why? He released his birth cert., & they resounding cry from the far right )Tea Partiers) was a grand conspiracy/fake document conspiracy.
And let’s not forget the Tea Party started at McCain/Palin rallies, where Obama was consistently referred to by his middle name – Hussien. Why, other than out of fear of someone different, someone of COLOR? Think about it, Tea People.
You obviously haven’t heard about Herman Cain’s success this week which throws your charges of racism out the window along with the rest of your tired rhetoric.
Please. Cain is a house negro whose sole purpose is to assuage your white American Tea Party racism and give the illusion of GOP inclusiveness. As soon as the real, white GOP nominee is known, Cain’ll be in the “Where Are They Now?” column along with J.C. Watts, Michael Steele, and other misguided, disappeared blacks who thought they had a place at the GOP table.
And don’t look now, but the GOP women won’t fare much better. Conservative eye candy, will win a few straw polls, generate some wacked-out headlines, a few fembot comments on Fox News, but won’t make it to the finish line.
I included the white women (Bachmann, Palin) to show I’m not racist. HAHA.
So he’s just the “house negro”? Now who’s the racist?
The modus operandi of today’s Democrats: Label people who disagree with you as racist in order to marginalize their opinions and gain a political advantage. We’re sick of it and that’s why independents are running away from the Democrats in droves. I am gay and jewish and I will never vote for a Democrat again. I can’t even be in the same room with one any longer.
Morgan Freeman isn’t right. He’s just a left winger. They don’t want their socialist ideology threatened. Those who attack the Tea Party are doing so out of fear. They have never even attended a Tea Party rally. They get their information from a liberal community of journalism that is doing its best to kill the Tea Party movement. Make no mistake, they are freaking out because their power to effect the public’s attitudes is shrinking.
I have never witnessed anything remotely racist or homophobic at a Tea Party rally. It’s ironic that the left hold up many violent political radicals as their “heroes” and yet seek to attack those who are gathering peacefully and using the political process as outlined by the founders—unlike leftist gatherings where many acts of violence and looting occur. The Tea Party is largely composed of hard-working, middle class families who have simply had enough and are exercising their rights as guaranteed in the constitution. One only needs to attend to realize the media has an agenda and it is laced with blatant lies.
And BRAINWASHED MY ASS! If anyone has been brainwashed its the libs. The left has largely dominated the public school system, Universities and broadcast media for decades. As the African-American, Tea Party favorite and Florida Straw Poll Winner, Herman Cain states, the liberal, socialist, progressive movement in this country operates with the “SIN” principle:
S idestep the issue
I gnore the Facts
N ame call your opponent
This president came in to office with unprecedented goodwill and squandered it along with trillions of taxpayer dollars in little more than two years into his presidency.
WHY IS NBC, CBS and ABC largely ignoring the Solyndra and Mexican gunrunning scandals? Solyndra, declared bankruptcy and laid off 1100 workers this month just two years after receiving a $535 million stimulus. Its former executives remained silent in congressional hearings and the media continues to shield the Obama administration.
WHO IS BEING BRAINWASHED!?!
If it makes you feel better, we’re happier with you out of the room, too.
And the deficit was already here when the President took office. Though he may not be be ‘fixing’ this economic mess fast enough for your liking, it’d be great if you encouraged your credit rating destroying congressmen to actually playing a part in governing, rather than committing to destroying the current President. THAT might make a difference in your tragically unhappy life.
“Socialist Ideology?” Well, now you’ve swallowed those media lies wholeheartedly. Though you do have a point about the President squandering all that goodwill.
‘I have never witnessed anything remotely racist or homophobic at a Tea Party rally.’ Either you’re lying, or you’ve never actually attended a Tea Party rally. See Ledbury’s above: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/07/14/107722/tea-party-racism
Solyndra is a failed company. Sad, and a waste of money.
Is it worth Congressional hearings when we have so much more significant issues facing us? Or is it worth having hearings because you can make an anti-Obama issue from it?
I know you’re angry, but is there anything more useless an angry, complaining gay Jew racist who’s greatest contribution is posting DH? Over a movie he wouldn’t pay to see in the first place?
Just look at the placards in the Tea Party rallies.
You are really defending racists when they complain ‘we’re losing our country.” What they’re really saying is “We’re losing our white country”. No? Then why are so many of you dying to see a birth certificate? You just don’t believe our President is legit. And it is because of his heritage. That sounds like racism to the rest of us.
The go-to defense of the left for Obama these days … racism! You can not honestly defend a damn thing he has done. Kind of explains why his numbers are in the tank, many who voted for him now wish they had voted for Hillary Clinton, and that a non-specific Republican could beat him if the election were held today. Yep, everybody must be freakin’ racist. Honestly, come up with something more original. Oh, I’m sorry, you can’t, can you?
I’m sick and tired of the liberals using the race card, the gender card, etc. I don’t like Obama. I don’t care what color he is. I don’t even care if he is straight, gay, male, or female. I don’t like the politician’s politics.