Sarandon - Light is on - Nobody Home

On Monday, 16 June 2008, Britain's newspaper website Telegraph.co.uk published an article about Hollywood's Susan Sarandon as related by reporter John Hiscock.

The article extols her 'sick' life-style and quotes some inane thoughts she vacuumed up from an empty area somewhere between her ears.

For instance, she claims she was raised a Catholic, but she has very little time for the Church or its spiritual leader. "This particular Pope is not one of my favorites," she says.

Even worse, there were probably thousands of adoring mental-midgets out there saying to one another, "Gee, ain't she full of smarts?"

Assuming her normal position, in the moral low-ground, she reported that she and actor Tim Robbins 'share a home' in New York. Her 1967 marriage to the actor Chris Sarandon lasted 12 years and she then had a two-year relationship with the French director Louis Malle, who directed her in Pretty Baby and Atlantic City.

The reporter went on to say that Sarandon talks frankly of love, sex and previous liaisons and was not in the slightest surprised by Doris Duke's relationship with the homosexual Lafferty. "I've been romantically involved with gay guys," she said.

"Not recently, but early on I had two boyfriends, one very serious boyfriend, and I was the only woman he was ever with and it wasn't his sexual preference that broke us up. So to me the Doris Duke affair didn't seem such a bizarre love story. I think that people make all kinds of deals and agreements and being with another person for any length of time is so difficult, and they obviously accepted each other for who they were and I think it was very, very sweet."

Can you think of 'anyone' less qualified to criticize the Pope or any religious leader? Only if she formed a tag team with the Marquis de Sade could she have less credibility.

But I digress, the reason I mention this icon of cool-ade drinkers is the statement she made later in the interview when she reached further into her vacant attic above the neck and came up with a comment on the 2008 presidential race:
"If McCain gets in, it's going to be very, very dangerous," she said. "It's a critical time, but I have faith in the American people. If they prove me wrong, I'll be checking out a move to Italy. Maybe Canada, I don't know. We're at an abyss."

You will notice, much to our disappointment, she didn't promise to move? She'll be checking it out! We should be so lucky! If any of these Hollywood pinheads would only honor the promise they made… the United States would be so much better off. They won't though; these promises are just as much a bag of hot air as they are. Most people who love this country wouldn't think of denying it no matter what. That's what separates us.

Of course, since she claimed we were at some kind of abyss, maybe she'll stand closer to the edge… one can only hope.
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