Hollywood Stars Gather To Pre-Emptively Protest
By Murray Soupcoff (03/05/03)
HOLLYWOOD -- More than 100 entertainers have teamed up to write a letter to President George W. Bush to pre-emptively protest anything the President does now or in the future. The West Wing star Martin Sheen and Mike Farrell (M*A*S*H ) were among nearly a dozen performers who got together outside Dustin Hoffman's Malibu condo to draw attention to their new coalition, Artists United Against Anything George W. Bush Does, Now & Forever.
According to The Associated Press, Farrell, who most recently starred in the television drama Providence , said Hollywood was speaking out to show average citizens that it's OK to "voice dissent and criticize and whine when you don't get your way and voters give Republicans a majority in the Senate and House."
He also said he did not believe that Bush has yet proven that Saddam Hussein is the evil man that the president says he is. "Sure Saddam personally tortured hundreds of political prisoners by submerging them in vats of acid, and he gassed thousands of his own people," noted Farrel. "But a few questionable bad choices can't extinguish a wonderful record of service to the Iraqi people, including a government-subsidized universal health-care system that delivers first-class medical care to every Iraqi who Saddam hasn't killed yet."
More than 100 entertainers signed the all-inclusive letter of protest against Bush, which stated that continuation of the Bush presidency would "increase the likelihood of even more verbal malapropisms by the loose lips of the president which could set back the grammar skills of a whole generation of impressionable youth." The letter also said that Bush continuing as United States president would cause undeserved damage to the Democratic Party by encouraging even more blacks and Hispanics to vote Republican in the 2004 election "simply because George W. Bush looks neat wearing a denim jacket and cowboy hat."
Other entertainers that signed the pre-emptive protest letter "against everything George W. Bush does now and in the future" included Rocky and Bullwinkle, Susan Sarandon, Kim Basinger, Bart Simpson, Matt Damon, Helen Hunt, and Carrot Top.
"The man's a frickin' idiot," commented Carrot Top to reporters while smacking Matt Damon with a rubber chicken and mouthing risque remarks to Kim Bassinger.
Martin Sheen, who plays the president on The West Wing was also joined by his co-stars Janel Moloney, Bradley Whitford and Lily Tomlin in support of the cause. He said his son Charlie Sheen also wanted "to be here personally" to express his opposition to "everything that the president does now and in the future," but he noted that "Charlie's in rehab again -- he's been snorting the white stuff again -- and he would have smashed up his Porsche for sure if he tried to drive here for this wonderful event."
Sheen said he thinks Bush should resign immediately and let Sheen become the president. "After all, I'm a Democrat in real life," he reminded reporters. "And it's the natural order of things in Washington that Democrats run things there."
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