Why is Hollywood Silent on Roxana Saberi?
by John T. SimpsonI see a great story in Roxana Saberi. Don’t you? A can’t fail, high-concept, four-quadrant script with a unique storyline. In fact, I’d expect a bidding war no less severe and cutthroat for the rights to Roxana’s story as that for Lone Survivor. You know. A MARIE in Iran meets MISSING kinda thing.
A young and beautiful former Miss North Dakota and reporter for the BBC and NPR, among others, falsely arrested by misogynist Iran and tagged with a series of escalating charges, from buying wine to reporting with expired credentials to espionage, charges even Roxana’s lawyer has not officially seen to date, but upon which Ms. Saberi was just sentenced to eight years in the Iranian Hell of Evin prison in a one-day kangaroo court trial. Coercion was also involved, including a threat to kill her.
Any questions as to who and what we’re really dealing with here now? According to ABC News, Roxana is now officially a pawn in the Great Game between Un-Islamic Iran and the Great Satan. How much more of a blockbuster storyline could you ask for?
And that doesn’t even scratch the surface of all the world-turning subplots of international intrigue, conflict and sinister intent that drove such taut films as “North By Northwest,” “The Manchurian Candidate” and “Team America: World Police.” With me so far?
Oh, and I say un-Islamic, because the Hitlerite child-murdering and kiddie martyrdom-training fascist Nazi regime in Iran has nothing to with Islam or God. Just the opposite, in fact. They may call us the Great Satan, but you tell me who acts more like Lucifer here. What has Argentina ever done to Iran to deserve terror attacks and the mass murder of civilians? Am I Reich?
But I digress. We writers do that in moments of passion. Onto the subject at hand.
The backstory. Roxana was arrested on January 31, eleven days after Barack Obama was sworn in as President of the United States. A test? If so, more drama. On March 5th, SOS Clinton demanded Roxana’s release from Iranian custody. The very next day, March 6th, Iranian authorities said they would release Roxana ’soon.’
On March 13th, Human Rights Watch issued a statement calling Roxana Saberi’s detention unlawful under international laws and conventions, in effect declaring her a hostage. Being as the media is so on the ball lately, I didn’t hear about that bombshell HRW press release until five days later, and even then I had to search for it. Somebody has to report this stuff.
Yet, in a twist of fate, I had declared Roxana Saberi a hostage that very same day. Not so much based on international law as knowing how much un-Islamic Iran loves to punk the Great Satan.
Roxana’s parents, father Reza and mother Akiko, flew into Tehran recently with assurances that Roxana’s release would be speeded up, only to land and see their daughter sentenced to eight years in Evin prison for espionage. Which she will not survive. In protest to this abomination of justice that’s S.O.B. in Iran, Roxana is now on a hunger strike. Her situation is precarious at best.
Some in the press have mused that Roxana may even be a pawn in Iran’s own nationwide elections in June. A rouse to the hardline un-Islamic base, who love nothing better than to see the Great Satan get a black eye. Makes them more prone to overlook troubling domestic issues that are hounding Ahmadinejad et al right now. The hardliners are even using Team Oscar as their Willie Horton against moderates. “Who invited the Great Satan in!” That kind of stuff.
It’s called externalizing. Any good dictatorship worth its salt excels at it. Make us look so bad that they look good, no matter how much bad shite they pull. Others in the press believe Iran may be setting up a swap of Roxana for Iranian diplomats arrested by US forces in Iraq, curiously with no questions from the media as to it being an unseemly act. Anyway, lots of storylines. No doubt many in Hollywood will be lining up for the rights to the story of Roxana Saberi.
I only wish they were lining up right now to speak up for HER rights! Where ARE they? They’re the Human Rights Champs! Right? You want to see something REALLY sick? Twenty-six videos on YouTube for Roxana Saberi, and most are news reports! There are 35 alone for Jim Carrey’s video on Burma’s imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, 168 for George Clooney in Darfur. Not counting playlists.
UPDATE: Eighty-four videos now. Still no celebs. So where is Hollywood on Roxana Saberi?
Totally MIA, from what I can see. Or can’t, I should say.
Hell, Clown Man is protesting Iran more than all of Hollywood combined! Speaking of clowns. Or Stooges, I should say. Former Team Oscar leader and Academy president Sid Ganis is still too busy on the Mad Mullah Promo Tour to have a clue. Annette Bening is no doubt still raving about how fabulous Iran and women’s rights for filmmakers are there.
Tell it to Tehmineh Milani, Annette! She was sentenced to death for her celluloid slanders! Tell it to Iranian-American filmmaker Esha Momeni, who awaits trial in Iran before a political tribunal on similar charges for filming a women’s rights documentary in Tehran for her masters degree!
Hopeless. Like the rest of Team Oscar, none of whom has mentioned Roxana Saberi to date that I can find, they are too busy living the fantasy of Iran to see the cold, hard realities staring them in the face, even when those realities involve imprisoned fellow filmmakers and the extermination of gays as state policy. Or an American woman being held hostage, even as they partied it up in Tehran.
Where is UNIFEM Ambassador of Good Will Nicole Kidman? She should be front and center on this! Not one statement on Roxana Saberi I can find. In fact, a search of UNIFEM, the United Nations Development Fund For Women, comes up a big fat zero on a Roxana Saberi site search. What you will find is “Women’s Voices Raised on Climate Change” and “Training of Gender Audit Facilitators.”
In fact, the last UNIFEM entry on the stoning of women in Iran, of three total on the entire site, was from 2002, though it’s gotten much worse since. Iran even imprisons women indefinitely for protesting stoning now! They gonna stone them, too? Wouldn’t put it past them! They feed off that shite! What do you expect from Nazis? Won’t find that at UNIFEM, either. In fact, Iran wasn’t even mentioned at their 53rd Session last year, and they’re the worst offenders on the planet!
How lame is that? Some “spotlight on violence against women” THEY are! Oh, but they do have a spotlight on violence against women in Canada. My women’s rights heroes. UNIFEM. Just as silent on Roxana Saberi, Esha Momeni and the horrific abuse of women in Iran as Hollywood. Yet one more useless UN bureaucracy we’re paying for. Good press, though. PR is all. Right, Nicole?
Gwyneth Paltrow, also silent, is probably too busy boycotting we greedy, unintelligent and uncivilized Americans and prepping for Iron Man 2. She may denigrate and boycott us from Britain as the world’s real capitalist enemy, but she sure seems to know where her Socialist bread is buttered. You Go, Girl! Bravo and Tally Ho! And I do mean Ho. What else do you call someone who sells their virtue for money?
I think I’ll wait to see Iron Man 2 for free. Borrow the DVD. I can boycott on principle, too.
You know what the most pathetic thing is here, people? Even the real Stooges spoke out against the fascist dictator of their age more than all of Hollywood today. Seen any Hollywood rips on Ahmadinejad or Iran at all? Sorry. Shhhh. Don’t want to offend anyone. Walk softly, but carry a big carrot. And no gay jokes about that big carrot, either! Got it?
They don’t like those. Not one bit. Gays, I mean.
I have to wonder. To paraphrase Jon Stewart, Is this Hollywood Diplomacy Inaction? Like they’re afraid if anyone in Hollywood said anything bad about Iran, it might set back the Obamamessiah’s ‘reaching out’ to today’s Third Reich? Or if AMPAS said anything bad about Iran in a press release, they might not be allowed back to apologize, or train Iran’s propaganda film stooges again?
Or is all of Hollywood just so totally duped by the Mad Mullahs of Iran, or so blinded by the Obamamessiah, Roxana doesn’t even register? I do know one thing. If this Roxana Saberi Hostage Crisis occurred on Bush’s watch, how many in Hollywood would have blamed him for Roxana’s horrific situation? Not the hostage-takers, mind you. Don’t answer, it’s a rhetorical question.
No, my guess is, Hollywood Diplomacy is in full effect for the Obamamessiah. Don’t bring up Roxana Saberi, their shady nuke program, their stoning of women, their executing of children, their killing of bloggers, their threats of genocide, not even their gay extermination program: “Don’t give them anything else to apologize for. We have enough already!”
Walk around those blogger-murdering, Jew-bombing, women-stoning, gay-hanging, kid-executing, Armageddon-threatening un-Islamic Nazis like we were in a minefield? NOT ON YOUR LIFE!
What are we gonna do speaking up? Make things worse? HOW? But no. Give Peace a Chance. Here’s what Peace Hath Wrought, Hollywood. The Team Oscar olive branch slapped out of Obama’s hand with the demand for apologies and submission. The Obama Peace Video met with scorn, derision and ‘Death To America’ rallies. And the Roxana Saberi Hostage Crisis. Not to mention all the horrors they’re inflicting on their own people as we speak.
And now this: ‘On Tuesday, Reuters reported that a spokesman for the Iranian judiciary, Ali-Reza Jamshidi, had termed calls for Ms. Saberi’s release from American officials “utterly ridiculous.”
Based on Iran’s total contempt for international law regarding Roxana Saberi, and the mountains of bloody and horrific evidence on un-Islamic Iran staring us in the face, I’d tell everyone in Hollywood that we are dealing with an irrational fascist regime in Iran, and to start speaking up for Roxana Saberi, Iranian-American filmmaker Esha Momeni, the abuse of every other woman in Iran, the executing of children, and the ruthless and brutal anti-gay pogrom Iran is now exporting to Iraq.
If there were anyone rational left in Hollywood to say that to. Used to be. To be sure, if there are any Hollywood celebrities who have been pulling for Roxana Saberi and I just didn’t find you, appy-pollie-logies. But I had to kick some asses here. I hope you understand.
Speaking of which, here’s AMPAS. Tell them Academy members need to start speaking up for Roxana Saberi, and starting acting like the human rights champs they play on TV and claim to be. And see if they can roust Sid and Annette from their next Iran promo video long enough to say a few words on behalf of Roxana Saberi and Iranian-American filmmaker Esha Momeni.
Not holding my breath. But how nice would it be for the next act of Roxana: A True Story to open with crowds of well-known Hollywood faces twisted in outrage over Roxana’s abysmal human rights situation, not to mention the rest of Iran’s. Roxana’s a lucky one. Oh, and to make one point perfectly clear, the question here is not whether Iran recognizes Roxana’s American citizenship. The real question is, do we? She was born here. Good enough for illegals, ain’t it?
And I am certainly hoping Roxana’s story has an ending in Evin prison more like Haleh Esfandiari’s than murdered Iranian-Canadian journalist Ziba Kazemi, who was beaten, raped, her fingernails pulled and her skull fractured, all for the crime of taking photos outside Evin prison. In other words, I’m hoping for an ending more Hollywood, and less un-Islamic extremist Iran.
By the way, Roxana turns 32 this Sunday. Friends of Roxana have set up an email account for well-wishers around the world to say Happy Birthday to Roxana at happybirthdayroxana@gmail.com One nice birthday present would be to see a lot more people in Hollywood and Washington speaking up on her behalf. If it’s not too much trouble, that is.
Raised voices helped free Haleh Esfandiari, Tehmineh Milani and others from the hell of Evin prison. They can do so once again for Roxana. Iran’s Thugocracy, like Hollywood, hates bad PR. Ruins their image. Speaking of which.
On that note, here’s Congress. Here’s State. Here’s the White House. Roxana is an American citizen, not a pawn, and she has been held unjustly in Iranian captivity for 81 days now. Where are the strong words? The Congressional resolution in support of Roxana, like North Dakota’s?
What good are they?
Our government should tell Iran to release Roxana right now, or we cut off their gasoline. For starters. See how fast they move then to avoid gas rioting at home! And if that doesn’t work, warm up the B-52s. And I don’t mean the rock band. But the other type will also be free to roam if they want to, i.e. take out government-financed terrorist training camps, nuke facilities, etc, etc.
Roam around their world. Rock their world, I should say. Do it for Roxana. But only if the gas thing don’t work first. No, I didn’t mean bomb ‘em right away. I’ll give peace, a gas cutoff and some gas rioting in Iran a chance. What do you think I am, a warmonger?
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Roxana Saberi has a history of presenting pro-Iranian propaganda on NPR and the BBC. She is now a "victim" of the very system she has been promoting in her "reports." Why should we shed a tear for someone who has been a promoter of Iranian Nazis who wish to destroy Israel and finish the job Hitler started?
I don't know her history, but if what you say is true, you'd think the Hollywood elite would like her that much more. Guess not.
Shadow, The point here isn't her reporting. The point here is her false arrest, a gross miscarriage of justice and Iran's contempt for international law. Her parents are going through hell right now! As for promoting Iran's Nazi regime, who in the Western press isn't? Who's speaking out against them in force like I've been? They're all hammering Israel like they should be hammering Iran!
Besides, tomorrow's her birthday. Lighten up, Francis. But I will tell you this, Shad. If it were Sean Penn being held captive? "Son, you're on your own."
Sadly, she is proof that no matter how hard you try to appease the beast, eventually you will make the wrong move and get consumed. I found too many of her comments to be slanted toward the terrorists and unfair to Israel. Still, I wouldn't wish that hellhole on anyone, except possibly Penn and the G-Beast666.
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Hollywood is silent on Roxana Saberi because they don't want to offend Obama's Muslim pals. After all, they know he is trying to reach out to the Iranians and you can't have a "pesky" false arrest annoyance take away the "sweetness and light" of the forthcoming diplomacy. We are going to see some really sickening pandering to Iran in the next few months—maybe even an apology of what a rotten country the US has been to Iran.
The interesting thing is that liberals are turning against her. She's one of them and I don't know if it's because conservatives on usenet said that she should be free and the libs are just being contraian. But the libs are saying, GOOD SHE CAN BURN IN HELL!
Somehow, the word of a trial that was so rigged that it could be on Monday Night Raw from a country that has no clue about Civil Rights is gold? Are you kidding me? It's not about right or left, it's about right and wrong! And just because these a-holes say she 'confesed' and that's it!
The silence is deafening. And it shows the truth about liberals. When it comes down to facing real evil, they won't stand. They'll talk a good game, but if the bad guy isn't George W. Bush, they ain't interstred
I fear for Roxana. She won't survive unharmed from prison.
>Why is Hollywood Silent on Roxana Saberi?
Because Geo W Bush isn't President anymore. There is no Republican to bash over the head with this issue. Hollywood outrage is always quieted by the election of a Democrat to the White House.
C'mon- ask us a tough one!
I think the “One” should get his narrow a$$ over to Iran and use his charm on the Islamic goons in Iran, bow, beg, grovel, weep, it’ll be fun. Or better yet another brave appeal on YouTube, what a stud! Fearless Hollywood has decided that the loss of this reporter is a sacrifice they’ll simply have to live with.
Unfortunately it still comes down to the same old liberal equation, _____ (insert any country) Good, USA Bad.
While I'm not all that surprised that the MSM folks and Hollywood avoided this story at all costs.
Any time the equation above doesn't leave the USA in the bad column it's ignored entirely. When countries that have been falsely praised turn out to be as evil as some have said well that would ruin the illusion that the USA isn't the most evil country on the planet.
It reminds me of my response to anyone who would compare Bush to Hitler. I'd just remind people of the atrocities carried out in the Middle East and remind people that. that is where all the Hitlers live.
"Why is Hollywood Silent on Roxana Saberi?"
Because they are cowards.
Yes, we can label homecoming vets are potential terrorists but oh, no, we can't say a word about Muslims.____Carumba!
Ewwww… Hawk you used Penn and Garafolo in the same sentence, sacrilege. What if they bred or something? You’d get some kind of "androgynous skank ho mutant thingy" or a new Democrat victim constituency.
I thought we weren't supposed to mention her–it–whatever.
It only counts if you use the beast's true name, one which I shall never again utter.
As I said to StanH, it's OK to make oblique reference to the Beast as long as you never use its true name.
I must confess I don't follow the One on youTube. I tend to get the dry heaves when I see him and thus change the channel, shut off the radio, or whatever. I guess I should buck up and watch but I'd much rather turn down the sound and count whatever deceptive tells I can see. A lot, mind you! A lot!
Makes me pine for the "good ol' days" of Hollywood (and I wasn't even alive then!). What would Audrey Hepburn do? Or Hope & Crosby, Wayne and Reagan, Stewart and Lancaster…?
So it's okay to mention the code word for the beast not the full name. I got it now. I think I must have been posting while StanH was posting so I missed the briefing. Would it be better if we alternated code names for the beast? I'm thinking Whore of Babylon. WOB for short. Or maybe for the hip among us Ho of Babylon. Not scripturally correct BUT updated! The Message version!
Cool! I read that sentence in horror. I had my wife and family already hunkered down in the basement with a lap top and a flashlight, in preparation for end of days.
Or Audie Murphy and Neville Brand, the number one and two most decorated WW II vets.
I kinda like the last one. She'd be a HOB. And she and Penn could have little HOBbits.
I know I passed out one time, and the dry heaves are common, hey maybe that’s the plan?
Not NOT HOBbits! Not Samwise!!!
Could be… So let's all drag out the Reglan and brace ourselves. It's only been 100 days? Dear God in Heaven! I'm gonna weigh 75 pounds once this is all over.
Yeah. Then we'll toss 'em in the Ganges.
Yeah. Then we'll toss 'em in the Ganges.
Reglan has no effect my friend. These fiendish ba$tards have considered every angle. Perhaps more beer. : )
Why is Hollywood silent? Because they are cowards afraid of having an independent thought! I know. I'm an actress up here in Seattle (not quite Hollywood but similar personalities) and am constantly amazed at the people unable to think outside the "script". The One has set forth his script (Not going to capitalize "his". That's reserved for someone else.) They hate Israel, they hate themselves as Americans but they really can't put a logical reason to their hate. Miss Saberi's politics don't really matter and shouldn't matter to the feminists out there. She has been imprisoned in Iran. She's a woman and a journalist. Her chances of survival are nil because women are about as valuable as dogs in that culture. Journalists, maybe less.
So what kind of law did you practice?
Oh $hit Hawk I did it, look at my post, dear God what have I done? I used the names of he and she whose name shall not be mentioned in the same sentence. Always consult the attorney Stan before you type willy-nilly. You are wise Hawk and understand the finer legal nuances of posting. I’m heading back for the basement until we’re given the all clear, God help us!
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DUDE!! You hit it!! You hit it! Actually, Guiness! Of course now, with all of the health care intervention cr@p that's coming out of DC they're most likely going to tax beer and other beverages like that at 100%. Time to start home brewing. And if you say you already do that, would you be my friend??
Yes I’m a member in good standing in the Wheelbarrow Beer Syndicate, talk with LawHawk he’s the Big Cheese, wink-wink-nod-nod!
Family law, criminal defense (and for a short while, prosecution), criminal appellate. Anything that allowed me to get me into a courtroom where I had a captive audience. I was too chicken to become an actor, so I did the next best thing.
BAH!!! I knew it!! I recognized that answer! "More beer" I've heard it at least a thousand times from my brother who brews his own as well. If I google Wheelbarrow Beer Syndicate, will I find a website???? Wink..hic..nod
Three Hail Lawhawks and a big check made out to me, and all is forgiven.
Hollywood is not silent…I can still hear the large sucking sound !!!!!!!!
I believe the Left is silent because it falls under their need for ethnocentrism & multiculturalism; the "culture" of Iran is absolute totalitarianism. Therefore, they want to respect & fealty to Iran's leaders.
The Hollywood elite are ultimately followers–not leaders. The put their fingers in the wind to see where it blows. Don't hold your breath…
Is she near where the Israelis will bomb when they take out the secret nuke labs? Having one under a prison for enemies of the state seems about right for that regime, the ones that "mysteriously" die could be forced laborers that know too much. Well, it'll be a more merciful end than what's awaiting her.
Then we coulda been friends. I'm former law enforcement then married an air force officer. After our first move, I went to work for an attorney as his secretary/private detective. Lateral transfers don't' work well moving every 3 years. I was on track to work for the CaDOJ and got the call once we had moved. Kind of difficult to commute to work from the other side of the country.
Exactly, For the left to stand up for the release of Ms. Saberi would completely expose their entire worldview. Can't have that! Ms Saberi, faithful shill for NPR and the MSM left, fall upon thy sword for the greater good of the mysoginistic, loathe everything left. We will remain silent. Everyone and everything is expendable to reach the end.
Enjoy it!
Damn that was close, thanks, I’ll send that check to WBS. Oh by the way Driefromseattle was asking about beer eh…hmm… perhaps a Seattle branch?
Just send him beer!
Anything that doesn't show America as the villain, Hollywood could care less.
Yes indeed mention me to the Hawk and you'll certainly survive the "O" gods speed woman.
—they really can't put a logical reason to their hate—
………there it is.
Thanks, Drie.
As sad as this situation is, it is unfortunately the case of a useful idiot asking for it and getting it. So, while I find the case despicable, I have far less sympathy for Saberi than I would have if she were not an Islamic apologist.
isn't in the script.
The LawHawk is the King of Beer, that sounds familiar, ha… beer is the appropriate offering to the WBS, yes.
My daughter is a court officer in Kern County starting law school next year, and her husband is a State Corrections Officer (former L.A. County Deputy Sheriff). We're the only ones in the family in law or law enforcement.
Again, Hucbald, that's not the issue here. Any truly free society, like ours, allows a huge range of opposing viewpoints. Even the burning of our national flag, which irritates me no end knowing what that flag represents, but which I must tolerate if I truly believe in free speech. Which I do. And defended for six years in uniform.
The issue here is fascist Iran's total disregard and contempt for international laws and conventions. Roxana Saberi is a hostage, nothing less. Her political views are totally irrelevant. Although I do agree that if it were Penn or Garofalo that were hostages, I'd probably have written more of a farce than an angry OpEd.
Nobody deserves to be in a hell like that. I don't care if she thinks they are the greatest people before they betrayed her. She's a human being, she deserves basic human rights, she desreves a fair day in court, she is getting neither.
Somewhere down deep, in the goo that makes up the liberal brain, the realization occurs that:
They are the reason that these things occur.
Thier minds instantly go into a "Robbie the Robot" insolvable quandary. They remain silent. If the correct answer materializes, they deny it. They retreat into their comfortable Kumbayacoon and hyperventilate. Reality is for the little people. Fantasy, is my reality.
Nah, the "next best thing" is clinical hypnotherapist. Talk about a "captive audience"!
Kumbayacoon that’s great. Liberals = wussie.
As an American my recommendation would be to stay the Hell out of Iran. The brave Iranians will use her for a human shield. This poor woman is doomed.
True. But it's the third best thing.
They're silent about it, because they're stupid. These aren't people who read the news, who explore the issues. These are people who — as their careers insist of them — spout catchphrases others' write for them, whether it be "I'm to old for this shi*" to "The globe has a fever."
Even the supposed "well spoken" members of the liberal elite never stray from the Cliff's Notes on the issues, the liberal talking points. Which is why if you ever try to debate one, they'll just spout the same old platitudes, and/or call Bush Hitler.
As for this Saberi? Honestly, sucks to be her, but who cares. This is what happens when you take your one-sided "one-world" Kumbaya liberal philosophy for a spin in the real world: you learn that folks aren't basically decent, and that there are some pretty scary people out there who don't give a damn about your feelings, what you think are your rights, or what you think is fair. She played with fire and got burned.
Sebastian, you're preaching to the converted. I even said don't hold your breath! But, as an advocate of the Truth and an enemy of Hypocrisy, I feel compelled to do the math. I don't care what Hollywood's majority belief system is. But when they claim to be human rights champs, then remain silent on the Iranian abomination of justice that's killing fellow American Roxana Saberi and her family right now, it makes my blood boil.
Roxana's not a FOX reporter! She's NPR and BBC! She's one of THEM! As a veteran, I can only hope to God none of them is ever backing me up in a foxhole.
It's precisely because W. is in Texas and Obama is in D.C. that the rouge state of Iran is active. The level of beligerancy will increase because Obama has already shown he's an appeasing coward with no moral compass or core convictions. Well, unless you count standing on the shoulders on Marx, Lenin and Alinsky.
It is now 1984: Freedom is Slavery. The War Against Conservative/Constitutional Principles gets stepped up each day now with each dictatorship's defeat of our interests a victory for Big Brother Democrats. Roxana Saberi is just the latest martyr in their ceaseless war. Yes, they are the reason and the fate of our country lies in their implosion. That is if we recover after the meltdown
Man, something tells me Monday is going to be a very bad day.
As a card carrying hollywodista (25 years in the business) I would like to provide a serious and factual answer to your question, "why is Hollywod silent about Roxana Saberi?"
God, guy. It's only been a couple of weeks. How fast do you think we can churn out those exploitative "true life" docudramas for Lifetime or the History Channel? Give us a break, we're working on it.
They're silent about it, because they're stupid. These aren't people who read the news, who explore the issues. These are people who — as their careers insist of them — spout catchphrases others' write for them, whether it be "I'm too old for this shi*" to "The globe has a fever."
Seems like they were pretty quick to weigh in on the Tea Parties, though
AUTHOR UPDATE: The site I had linked to with the word 'martyr-training', referencing Iran's Hitler Youth-like martyrdom training of even toddlers, http://www.darkblueworld.com, has been hacked by some Islamist outfit called the The Islamic Ghosts. They even has the temerity to use the word 'dude'! "Hey, we'll cut your heads off, dudes!' Doesn't exactly jibe. Lost in translation, I guess.
II couldn't find a link to that OpEd elsewhere, but here's a link to Gateway Pundit, which probably has an Internet Fortress of Death firewall, and their December 2008 report with video. You'll get the picture. It's an ugly one, too. Should have it by now anyway. I've linked to hell and back on their human rights horrorshow stuff! Anyway.
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/12/culture...
The wheel barrows turned out to be defective, so I'll be a little late with the beer. We're running low on beer and wheelbarrow franchises, but we still have a few of the bread ones available for Drie.
Forget Hollywood
Why is Obama silent on this matter.
You know if W was in Office he would be condemning them and demanding here release followed up with F16 strikes if anything happened to her.
Obama does not even mention it.
John T Simpson
Your link to dark blue world does not work. I'll try t help you out.
http://www.darkblueworld.com
Citizen the party has to prioritize don't we…….
I mean which is the greater threat. The Unexpected Life Termination Procedualists who are working with the Overseas Contigency Operators or
………those rabid ex military terrorist right wingers who are out to get Obama.
Happy to help with the reeductation Citizen.
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Just like a monopoly, low supply, low quality, and high price. Will we never learn?
Yes. But the power is intoxicating. And regret is for the little people.
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No, the beer is intoxicating and taxes are for the little people.
Wait a minute, scratch that. . . you might be right.
Hollywood can't comment on the imprisonment of a beauty pageant contestant in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison – where a series of Western journalists have mysteriously died with unexplained bruises, broken bones, mutilated sexual organs, and other injuries – until she declares her political views on state sacralized marriage between sodomites.
Or we could resurrect Jimmy Carter's failed Operation Eagle Claw that crashed a bunch of U.S. military helicopters in the Iranian desert, killing eight soldiers and thus giving credence to the Mad Ayatollah's contention that he was God's divine messenger and invulnerable to the machinations of The Great Satan (America, whose president, Carter, had deposed the Shah to install the Ayatollah.) After all, one of the best t-shirts today greets our new president with, "Welcome Back Carter". Let's again prove to the world how feckless, reckless, and dangerous our kowtowing, appeasing Democrat leaders can be.
I know I have should have taken production schedules into account, G. But this is an urgent matter. Roxana's on a hunger strike now. Besides, it's her birthday. Need to do a Rush Job here, LOL!
Isn't that what they call an indulgence? Not to split hairs, just don't want to see the Church of Lawhawk have a breakaway Church of AndrewPrice or Church of dcase, and then we'd have blogging wars and so on…
When the coin in the coffer rings, the soul from Lawhawk purgatory springs. I love Andrew and dcase, but Andrew doesn't want to be Luther, and dcase doesn't want to be Calvin. But don't tell them.
Why isn't Hollywood saying anything about Ms. Saberi's imprisonment? Because the things they support are suddenly at odds, and they know it. They like Iran for being an oppressed Third World country standing up to the "devil state" America and its proxy Israel, and they like women throwing off the chains of male tyranny. Unfortunately for them, they can't support both in this case; it has to be one or the other, and they can't decide which. Instead, they just stop and stare like the proverbial deer in the headlights, so morally bankrupt they're blind to reality.
I heard that. Lawhawk never sleeps.
I'm sorry, but I don't quite understand the fuss. If not an outright agent of the Iranian Revolutionary state, she's at the very least a fellow-traveler. So she ticked off one of her higher-ups? What business is that of the West? This is like getting verklempt over the killing of Trotsky. One more the white-hats don't have to worry about stabbing them in the back.
She won't survive unharmed from prison. And well so.
Just to prove my point. Her fellow travelers are turning on her. Her fellow liberals are now selling her out, are trusting Iran, hoping for her injury or god forbid even worse. Isn't it the left that accuses the right of not being for basic human rights? Accuse us of wanting to destroy Habius Corpus? Accuse us of imprisoning without a fair trial? But here it is, they are agreeing with Iran's treatment.
Sickening! Won't one liberal stand up and say that this poor woman should be freed?
She's an American. I don't care what her politics are. She's an American.
She's an American. I don't care what her politics are. She's an American.
Please.
Where are your RIGHT-WING HOLLYWOOD TYPES?
Isn't BRUCE WILLIS SILENT? How about BO DEREK? JAMES WOODS? CLINT EASTWOOD? GARY SINISE?Maybe Gov. SCHWARTZENEGGER should rally his old pals?
Yeah, I thought so. "Hollywood" means "Lefty" only when it suits the ignorant Right-Wing.
Get some sleep brother, tomorrow (today) will be another day of chicanery and comment.
Even if that is true – and I would like to see examples – are you saying she deserves torture and death?
I disagree.
It´ll be a cold day in hell before I praise the Iranian regime for "taking care" of people I disgree with, no matter who they are. As for the "fellow traveller" charge, I´m not taking that on faith. I have seen no proof of that. Post a link.
Did I distinguish, GMAB? Did I say why is Left-Wing Hollywood silent? Nobody's saying anything! That said, I will single out those who seem to be doing their best to give fascist Iran their gold-plated PR kiss, be it Team Oscar or Sean Penn. They're hurting Roxana's cause, not helping it! I also want Sinise, Willis and Eastwood et al to speak up, too, but at least they're not acting as a PR firm for the Mad Mullahs.
So who is really ignorant here? Righties like me, who point out the hypocrisy? Or hypocrites like Annette Bening, who praise women's rights for filmmakers in Iran, even as Iranian-American filmmaker Esha Momeni awaits a Saberi-like kangaroo court for filming a women's documentary in Tehran, and other female filmmakers have been sentenced to death? Or Gay Hero Sean Penn, who wrote PR dispatches from Tehran, even as they were exterminating gays? Don't answer, it's a rhetorical question.
Did I distinguish, GMAB? Did I say why is Left-Wing Hollywood silent? Nobody's saying anything! That said, I will single out those who seem to be doing their best to give fascist Iran their gold-plated PR kiss, be it Team Oscar or Sean Penn. They're hurting Roxana's cause, not helping it! I also want Sinise, Willis and Eastwood et al to speak up, too, but at least they're not acting as a PR firm for the Mad Mullahs.
So who is really ignorant here? Righties like me, who point out the hypocrisy? Or hypocrites like Annette Bening, who praise women's rights for filmmakers in Iran, even as Iranian-American filmmaker Esha Momeni awaits a Saberi-like kangaroo court for filming a women's documentary in Tehran, and other female filmmakers have been sentenced to death? Or Gay Hero Sean Penn, who wrote PR dispatches from Tehran, even as they were exterminating gays? Don't answer, it's a rhetorical question.
The reason that Hollywood is silent on Ms. Saberi, is the same reason that no one spoke out about the murder of Theo Van Gogh. They can bash Christians all day long, but when it comes to Muslims they are a bunch of GUTLESS A-HOLES. These people will not stand up for Freedom and Freedom of Speach. Except when it comes to liberal speach. Quslings all!
Hollywood has always had a selective 'courage' when it came to expressing 'outrage'.
Even as far back as the 30's, the rise of facist Germany, Italy and Communist Russia and what was happening to Jews, Poles and other ethnic minorities was not a major cause for concern. You had studio heads who were Jews who feared American anti-Semitism far more than what was looming in Europe and the Far East. It was not until war was just on the horizon were the studios and the people behind the scenes finally willing to suggest that something evil was there. It was a matter of money, not conscience, that kept the blinders on.
The Left was equally as silent when Achmandinajaad (sp?) said no homosexuals exist in Iran; he was telling the truth since all known homosexuals are hanged. This is a similar reason why they are silent about the kidnapped reporter.
You forget the liberal mantra. "we are liberals and we say so!"
Today on ABC This Week, George Steponouslus said that he brought up Ms. Saberi's imprisonment with Iranian President Tom (I won't even spell his name so I'll just use Glenn Beck's spelling of it). Tom said that it isn't in his hands, but in the Iranian Judicary.
BULLCRAP!!! If Tom wanted it so, she would be released and on the first plane to America this very minute.
And George ate it up! Just like a good little liberal.
Sorry, I guess "sad" and "despicable" weren't quite clear enough, so I'll add deplorable: I certainly do not want anyone to get the idea that I think she deserves to be manipulated and held hostage by a totalitarian regime with no due process, only that I simply don't have the same sympathy for her I have for the Iranians who have been imprisoned and executed as opponents of the regime. Mea culpa for any failure to make that clear.
Granted, HucBald. On the same page in many ways. But be it 'useful idiot' Roxana Saberi or anti-regime Iranian dissidents, it all just goes to prove the central tenet of any fascist regime, especially Iran's: no one is safe. But Roxana is one of ours. I'd like to see some much stronger words, a Congressional resolution like North Dakota's, even threats of sanctions like gasoline. Not holding my breath, unfortunately.
Oh, MAAAAAN! Why didn't you tell me this Friday, Jonesy? Could have saved myself all the time I spent writing this, LOL! Okay, a tough one. Why was dissent patriotic under Bush, but not now? No, that's not tough. The Left is really fascist and reserves the right of dissent to itself. Okay, try again. Why does Gay Hero Sean Penn play nice to dictators whose goons persecute and even kill gays? Umm, that's not very tough either. He's a stooge and an idiot who likes to put up pretty but hollow facades.
I'm sorry, Jonesy. I can't think think of any tough questions, except maybe one: will we survive the Obama Administration's and the Left Wing's government and media-backed assaults on the Constitution, free speech and the Right? Now THERE'S one to chew on!
Give him a chance! He'll take care of it. He's busy reading a book right now that one of Sean Penn's friends gave him.
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