Celebutard of the Week: Cher
by Andrea Peyser
My new book, “Celebutards: The Hollywood Hacks, Limousine Liberals and Pandering Politicians Who Are Destroying America” can’t possibly keep pace with the full-mouth, feeble-brained rants that emanate regularly from the celebutard mouth.
So I’m offering a Celebutard of the Week.
The inaugural ‘tard is none other than Cher – the one time pop singer, actress and infomercial queen who’s turned into a full-time ninny. Cher recently said:
I just don’t understand how anyone would want to be a Republican. I just can’t figure it. I don’t understand. If you’re poor, if you’re any kind of minority – gay, black, Latino, anything. If you’re not a rich – I don’t know. If you’re not a rich born-again-Christian, I don’t get it.
Understand this, Cher – there are decent Republicans. There are amoral Democrats. Some Republicans even are black, Latino and gay. Some are all three. Some were even your former husbands. Maybe that explains why Cher is so openly hostile to the right.
In Hollywood, where, frankly, Cher has not been seen much lately, at least not in daylight, Cher is preaching to the narrow-minded choir. So keep spouting, baby. If you make eyes roll, at least they’re looking at you!
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Evidently, Cher hasn’t looked at the real “winners” in her own party, who can’t keep their pants on, can’t keep campaign promises and can’t pay their own taxes.
Thanks for the update Andrea…I didn’t realize Cher was still alive.
And liberals are supposed to be the ones who are so much better than we are at understanding what it’s like to be someone else, to walk a mile in their shoes.
I’m not convinced it’s gospel, but the idea of the five moral intuitions seems like it explains a lot of these sorts of things. (The moral intuitions are not to do harm, fairness, order, authority, and purity… or something like that.)
Conservatives value all five, *including* the two that liberals emphasize, because they recognize that order, deferring to the group and community standards, and what-all, do a lot to take care of the first two items… to keep us from harm and to keep things fair.
OMG !! Is that a publicity photo of Cher? Looks like she fell out of the clown car at the local circus.
You forgot that she also mentioned that Republicans almost killed her in that same conversation. That was a gem.
NCO77: That is debatable.
Er, Cher has a Republican to thank for her career.
And poor Cher. She must live with the shame of a loathsome Republican being the father of her Chastity. Poor Chastity.
Poor Sonny.
Well I just don’t understand how anyone would have married Sonny Bono or Greg Allman. I just can’t figure it. Nor can I understand how anyone would voluntarily submit themselves to one excruciatingly awful plastic surgery procedure after another. If you’re poor, if you’re rich, if you have even half a brain – I don’t know. If you’re not a rich, atheistic, completely self-absobed total imbecile, I don’t get it.
I don’t know why Big Hollywood has me so enthralled. I don’t watch much television and I rarely go to the movies. (The last one I saw at the cinema was “The Dark Knight.”) I think this Celebutard of the Week is a great idea! Still, I won’t know most of the people who may enter the contest weekly, but it will still be interesting, I hope. I remember Sonny and Cher from years ago, and she was beautiful then, but I think the face lifts and other surgeries may give her a plastic appearance.
Not that Cher isn’t mock-worthy but she’s never really gone away–she’s consistently had some of the highest grossing tours in recent years and she’s currently headlining in Vegas at Caesar’s Palace. Not a bad gig for someone who only charts once a decade or so. I can’t hate her, and there’s a few of her oldies on my iTunes when only 70’s cheese will do. She herself referenced humorously that someone wrote that after the nuclear apocalypse there’d be only cockroaches…and Cher.
Love the new column. Great idea.
Great first pick too…lol.
Celebrity Math!
Joy Behar(Barbra Streisand – Celine Dion) = Cher
Cher says: “I just don’t understand how anyone would want to be a Republican”.
Right back atcha honey…I don’t know how dummycrats sleep at night with a clear conscience!!! You all deserve each other!!
How does Cher explain that the cities
of this country, where the majority
of the groups she mentions actually
live, have been run in to the
ground almost exclusively by Democrats
( LA, Detroit, Philly etc, etc).
Oh nevermind, trying to explain facts
to a demagogue like Cher is futile I’m sure.
This from a woman who is a high school drop out, life time slut, had one rib removed to reduce her waist line, and has her face pinned and stretched up behind her ears.
Certainly, anything coming from her should be heeded, right? Or, at least disinfected for safety purposes.
The quixotic Michael Savage used to have a segment called “The Hollywood Idiot of the Day.” Too bad he wasn’t smart enough to understand how powerful, effective and interesting it was.
Thanks Andrea. I always knew Cher was arrogant and an idiot and it’s great that people like you remind us so it’s not happening in a vacuum. Who knows, it may prevent the entertainment business from totally imploding.
Andrea, it would be an interesting Book Idea to write about the sewage the British have been pumping over here for a Decade. How they have reduced Backstabbing, Lying, Cheating and Stealing to the status of a Game with Reality and Talent Shows.
beat,
you’re why cher’s progeny is that way
Who was that last uneducated fool?
Well, I’m 52 as well, Beat, and I’m not even close to having millions, primarily because I’ve chosen to waste my life being a public school teacher. Not a valuable occupation compared to Cher, I realize, but hey…someone’s got to do it.
Gosh, what an idiot you are.
fat, ‘tard. ’cause it’s all about the benjamins, not true love.
Disappointed in Cher. Always thought she could think for herself. If she can’t figure out this simple question, I guess the old age, lack of hormones brain has set in for her.
That picture makes her look retarded. Or she’s retarded and the picture is accurate. Most likely the latter.
This column IS a great idea. How better to prove that the right has better ideas than to have someone whose claim to fame is a leering book about a famous crime make fun of entertainers who say things she disapproves of! And if she can find entertainers with bad plastic surgery, hey, that guarantees a permanent Republican majority. Between this and the fanboy drooling over Red Dawn, you guys are surely going to take this country back. At this rate it will probably take six or seven hundred years, but keep plugging. You’ve got your hand on the pulse of America!
“…fanboy drooling…”
hey, isn’t that how uhhbamuhh got elected
I’m not a *fan* but I like Cher. She’s been sort of a fixture in my life, always there, someplace. She seemed to be pretty classy about Sonny after they broke up, which is something we almost never see in celebs.
For the rest… I’d just rather not know. I really would rather not know. I’d like to think that the quotes are out there because someone stuck a microphone in her face and asked her and not because she’s on a crusade to do good in the world.
I often think that the reason so many celebrities become repulsive scolds is because they disrespect their own profession and have decided that in order to be a good person they have to do something that matters.
I’m with everyone who says, “Shut up and sing.”
If I could turn back time, if I could find a way, I would put all these Hollywood liberals on a film set with John Ford and John Wayne. Teach ‘em a lesson on how to be a talented actor AND love your country.
Isn’t it against the law to post recent Cher images without a clear warning?
I always liked Cher, but she really needs to look up the term “aging gracefully”.
Her politics is equally disquieting.
I’m sorry, she’s rich isn’t she? I can’t understand how Democrats still get to be in the party of the poor if they are rich. Aren’t you supposed to be a Republican if you are rich??? Really, I don’t get it….
Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it.
We’ve heard the expression “Cougar” to describe an older woman. I guess the proper title for Cher would have to be “Saber-Toothed Tiger!” She’s a relic from the sixties.
Of course, the plastic in her face is probably only a few years old.
I think Cher looks much better than Golda Mier ever did. I have a picture of Golda I scare the pants off children with it.
==…Cher looks much better than Golda Mier ever did. ==
And, yet, Golda Meir was much more attractive than Cher. Go figure.
The wrong half of Sonny & Cher skied into a tree. Babe.
Great idea, Andrea! The only problem will be how to winnow down the myriad choices. I mean, this week we had Chris Brown, Joaquin Phoenix and Cher. Decisions, decisions! Can we call a 3-way tie?
I get as much enjoyment from the comments as I do the original blog post.
There are probably many things that poor Cher does not understand.
THE BEAT GOES ON has got a beating going on itself. If Cher is so “rich” then maybe we need a congressional hearing on her making too much money. Like most of Hollywood. Liberals are so Hypocritical!
Sonny Bono is said to have said that Cher is so dumb, she thinks Mt. Rushmore is a natural phenomenon. He was being metaphorical, of course (at least one hopes so), but you get the point.
Is Cher and the cat woman (the one that has all the surgery to look like a cat) seem to be related or just have the same surgeon. The botox has gone to her brain too.
Andrea, this is a great start to this feature. Talk about having a subject that will never exhaust itself!
Meg, I’ve heard that the single most predominate correlation to financial well-being is not having gotten divorced.
I’ve often thought that God meeting the needs of the faithful has less to do with being supernaturally rewarded and far more to do with the practical results of a disciplined life. The financial discipline necessary to set aside a tithe influences all areas of financial discipline. Not getting divorced. Not wasting money on alcohol. Simple stuff like that.
(Similarly, I don’t think that God punishes people either… but, for example, following a Christian moral code makes it sort of hard to end up with a number of diseases that are transmitted by sex or needles, and sort of hard to end up pregnant, or in jail for dealing, or stealing, or…)
Cher reminds me of Gypsy Rose Lee in the 50s & 60’s when she appeared on game shows. We were kids and way too young to know who she was. She just seemed like an old, daft, fun-loving lady.
Is it me, or does she look like an unpassable crossdresser?
@Synova
Now, what you said makes perfect sense to me. Why could Cher *get* that? It’s amazing how common sense seems beyond some people.
Cher proves that age doesn’t equate wisdom. Yes, Cher, everyone should be a Hollywood liberal like you because you’re so happy and evolved as a person. That’s why you’ve mutilated yourself to the point you look like a side-show freak. You lived the enlightened Hollywood liberal life but now you’re in your 60s without a man or acting career. Having a nice bank account and a plastic surgeon on speed dial must make being put out to pasture by your own industry tolerable. Guess you’re the ultimate poster child for liberal Hollywood’s brand of feminism, eh?
Who’s Cher?
Oh come on. Cher? Who could possibly care what she says? And where is Sonny anyway? (Oops he’s dead). Wasn’t he a Republican?
Cher who? Now, my pick would have been Ashley Judd. At least she is not yet a crone.
Cher is another moron! Look up the party more responsible for knocking down barriers – Racial, Gender, Religious….it goes on and on – It's the Republicans. Like the true Party of Lincoln – not like the party that was responsible for starting the KKK to terrorise Southern Slaves and the Union Businessmen that went to the South after the war. The question is how can any minority be a Democrat?
If Republicans are all rich, then that means they need rich people to stay in power i.e. I need to become rich to be a Republican.
Alternatively if the Democrats are for the poor they need poor people to stay in power…….I'll pass.
Hope and Change (verp)
My dearest Cher;
When you left home and found Sonny, you made a record. We bought it and we loved you.
When you got your own show, we paid for tickets and we loved you.
When you made a movie, we went to it and loved you (In Suspect, anyway)
When you wore your crazy clothes, we loved you.
When you made jokes, you were truly funny and we loved you.
One day, you became to bored and/or lonely, and decide to use the money you earned from us to build a soapbox.
Then you stood up on that soapbox and stabbed every Republican, Independent and, yes, even some Democrats – that paid money to see you – in the eye.
So now, dear Cher, it is time for you to join Barbra and Tom Hanks and Susanand Tim and Sean and Oprah and Joy. Perhaps they will buy your albums or pay to see your movie or appreciate your wardrobe or laugh at your jokes.
You've managed – like many in the entertainment field to lose our support, loyalty and, most importantly, respect.
Enjoy your second career…whatever that may be.
people,we need to excuse “beat”.he’s living somewhat of a surreal life.he doesn’t know what is real and what is not.so being the kind person that I am,I’m going to help him out.winning an election with 53% of the vote is not a “landslide”.bush,the guy you love to hate won his re-election with 51% of the vote.that’s a 2% difference buddy.so sorry there is no ” mandate” or “landslide”,he was just the right,I mean “left”,”black” guy at the right place and right time.you would have thought though,with 95% of the black vote,he would have won by a greater margin than he did.
Cher's face is like a trainwreak. You don't want to look at it but you just have to.
I was surprised to read that the mummified corpse of Cher speaks! You mean she's actually alive behind all that silicone and botox?
It doesn't surprise me that she, like so many other Libs in Hollywood, thinks she has something to say worth listening to.
She oughta stick to memorizing and delivering screenwriters' words insteada trying to force her imaginations on us.
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