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Susan Sarandon Calls Pope Benedict A Nazi, People React Predictably

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At the Hamptons International Film Festival over the weekend, Susan Sarandon was interviewed by actor Bob Balaban (trust us, you know him), hitting on topics ranging from Occupy Wall Street to the NYPD. But in an off-handed comment about giving a copy of the book, Dead Man Walking to the Pope, Sarandon quickly clarified that she meant the late John Paul II, not, “this Nazi we have now.” Newsday‘s Rafer Guzman reports that Balaban “gently tut-tutted,” but Sarandon repeated her remark.

On Fox News Tuesday, the Anti Defamation League’s Ken Jacobsen called the comments “unacceptable” and “inappropriate,” reasoning that it’s not just Catholics who should take offense to Sarandon’s remarks. “Our organization is not a Catholic organization, but we’re offended by this,” Jacobsen said. “It’s offensive to those who died in the Holocaust and it’s also offensive for those who care about having civil discussion in our current society.”

Pope Benedict XVI grew up in Germany and was forced as a child, along with every other 14 year-old, to enroll in the Hitler Youth. But he never joined the Nazi party and never attended any meetings. In fact, he abandoned the organization at the first chance. Catholic League President Bill Donohue released a statement on Tuesday denouncing Sarandon’s comments:

“Susan Sarandon’s ignorance is willful: those who have hatred in their veins are not interested in the truth.”

Donohue later, in an interview with E!’s Marianne Garvey and Sharareh Drury, ratcheted the language up a notch. “She’s a despicable person to make these kinds of despicable remarks,” he said. Donohue added the Catholic League won’t even ask Sarandon for an apology because, “she is ignorant and full of hatred to the Catholic Church.” He’s not alone in his sentiment. In a non-scientific poll on TMZ.com, 75% of the 100,000-plus people responding believed Sarandon to be ignorant.

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  • Anonymous

    I suggest the left kick Sarandon out of the movement.Or maybe let Micheal Moore eat her.

  • Harry Flashman

    Occupy Hollywood!

    C’mon all you occupiers out there. Hollywood is chock full of self centered millionaires like Sarandon. Johnny Depp made over $300 million for the Pirates of the Caribean movies. Robert Redford is mega-rich. The list goes on and on. And on. And on. How much does Spielberg make?

    All of them have iron clad tax shelters. They make every bit as much money as most of the CEOs of those evil corporations. How ’bout occupying Hollywood and demand that those all mouth celebrities pay THEIR fair share to the poor and downtrodden you portend to represent?

    Wnna nest of mega rich people who live behind gates in walled mansions that would make Midas blush. Look no further.

    Occupy Hollywood!!!!!!

  • lazzzlo

    What happened during WW2 was horrific and should never be forgotten.  Blanket condemnations on both sides of the equation are wrong.

    As a Christian, I can say that organized religion has caused innumerable travesties based soley on the fact that “our religion” is better/more moral than yours.

    It’s an individual faith and it is what you make of it.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Sarandon can kiss her movie career goodbye!!

  • Norbit

    This is what today’s Democratic Party is all about – Hate and a WAR AGAINST CHRISTIANS!

    If you’re a Christian still voting Deocratic, you’re even crazier than the Jews who are still voting that way – while Obama sets Israel up for an Iranian nuclear winter!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Actors/actresses are not in control of Wall Street and this nation’s banks!! Though, you failed to mention sports athletes in your rant!!

  • Anonymous

    All the Marys on the front lawn !

    Surely uberCatholic Robert (RRK , Ellie , LLoyd C , Sharpo , Amerika Sucks , Call Me Ishmael , Ted ,etc.) will condemn this vile lefty !

  • TruDat

    Susan Sarandon = Homely, Irrelevant Liberal Loon.

  • Anonymous

    Susan, I like to introduce you to your soul mate, Hank Williams, Jr.

  • TruDat

    What movie career?

  • http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

    since the Nazi party came out in support of the OWS protest this past weekend i’m kinda confused as to whether her remark was meant to be a compliment or a slur.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29BoqCMRBFk

  • Anonymous

    But you cannot deny the fact the he was a Nazi youth. I don’t understand why people are trying to hide something that is clearly obvious. 

  • Anonymous

    Ms Sarandon if you wanted controversy, you’re certainly going to get it.

    …You’ve just cheesed off a lot of practicing Catholics…and Nazis.

  • Norbit

    Marxist Democrats vs. God-Fearing Christians & Jews…with the future existence of ISRAEL hanging in the Anti-Semitic Democratic Party balance!
    heh-heh-heh

    …and Cain will be whittling away at the black support from the personal pride / responsibility side!
    heh-heh-heh

    Can you say: GOP Takeover of the Government in 2012?
    heh-heh-heh

  • Anonymous

    But she is OK with George Soros who as a teenager cooperated with the Nazis and literally took the property of Jews who were being taken off to the death camps.

    George Soros Interview On 60 Minutes
    When the Nazis occupied Budapest in 1944, George Soros’ father was a successful lawyer. He lived on an island in the Danube and liked to commute to work in a rowboat. But knowing there were problems ahead for the Jews, he decided to split his family up. He bought them forged papers and he bribed a government official to take 14-year-old George Soros in and swear that he was his Christian godson. But survival carried a heavy price tag. While hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were being shipped off to the death camps, George Soros accompanied his phony godfather on his appointed rounds, confiscating property from the Jews.

    (Vintage footage of Jews walking in line; man dragging little boy in line)

    KROFT: (Voiceover) These are pictures from 1944 of what happened to George Soros’ friends and neighbors.
    (Vintage footage of women and men with bags over their shoulders walking; crowd by a train)

    KROFT: (Voiceover) You’re a Hungarian Jew…
    Mr. SOROS: (Voiceover) Mm-hmm.
    KROFT: (Voiceover) …who escaped the Holocaust…
    (Vintage footage of women walking by train)
    Mr. SOROS: (Voiceover) Mm-hmm.
    (Vintage footage of people getting on train)
    KROFT: (Voiceover) …by–by posing as a Christian.
    Mr. SOROS: (Voiceover) Right.
    (Vintage footage of women helping each other get on train; train door closing with people in boxcar)
    KROFT: (Voiceover) And you watched lots of people get shipped off to the death camps.
    Mr. SOROS: Right. I was 14 years old. And I would say that that’s when my character was made.
    KROFT: In what way?
    Mr. SOROS: That one should think ahead. One should understand and–and anticipate events and when–when one is threatened. It was a tremendous threat of evil. I mean, it was a–a very personal experience of evil.
    KROFT: My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson.
    Mr. SOROS: Yes. Yes.
    KROFT: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.
    Mr. SOROS: Yes. That’s right. Yes.
    KROFT: I mean, that’s–that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult?
    Mr. SOROS: Not–not at all. Not at all. Maybe as a child you don’t–you don’t see the connection. But it was–it created no–no problem at all.
    KROFT: No feeling of guilt?
    Mr. SOROS: No.

  • lazzzlo

    He’s Catholic…I believe in free will. :)

  • Norbit

    You mean like Democratic Senate Icon Byrd? – who was a Klan Leader?

  • Anonymous

    Your pal  George Soros took the property of Jews sent to the death camps, child!

    Sieg heil!

  • Anonymous

    Right! You sound like a Beck sycophant.

  • Anonymous

    Duh! Isn’t obvious.

  • Anonymous

    Considering all the wars Christians have waged against other groups over the years, maybe they shouldn’t be surprised that they’re facing one now.

  • Anonymous

    You sound jealous that you were not a Nazi youth.

  • Anonymous

    To me, it sounds like you get excited when Nazi references are made.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    hank jr’s soul mates skin bucks and run trout lines…  tim robbins’ mother doesn’t do that stuff…

  • Harry Flashman

    Do the owners of the small businesses at the sites of these protests who are losing money because these halfwits block or frighten away their customers control banks?

    And how many athletes get out there like Michael Moore and Srandon and Sean Penn and demand that other people give up their money for “social justice”? Not many. Not in the way the Hollywood rich do.

    Your point is less than pointed. Try thinking next time. It’s a wonderful experience.

  • Anonymous

    But your insignificant opinion is meaningless like you, Brownshirt!

  • Anonymous

    Damnit Janet, stick to acting and hanging out with South American Dictators.

    http://www.life.com/celebrity-pictures/91101114/south-of-the-border-new-york-premiere

  • Norbit

    Someday you’ll evolve from your tribal worldview of life, and understand the absurdity of your post… or not!

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Uh – there is no such thing as a ‘left movement’ for her to be kicked out of. The so-called ‘left’ is so unorganized it makes the Dem party look organized, and we’ve known from way back to Will Rogers’ day the Dem party isn’t organized. In turn, the Dem party makes the OWS movement look organized, and even the OWS movement isn’t organized to the point of being able to ‘kick’ anyone out of it. 

    Thing is, this was a mistake, but not necessarily a FACTUAL mistake. The current pope was indeed a member of the Hitler Youth. Presumably he can make an argument that such was either a youthful error in judgment or a sign of the times he should not be held responsible for being unable to resist, and indeed he has made BOTH arguments. But the fact remains: this Pope was a member of the Hitler Youth. That’s not propaganda, that’s fact, just as much as Mitt’s tying Fido to the top of the family white whale.

    But it’s a mistake to assert AS FACT that he IS NOW a Nazi, for Tommy Christopher School of Parsing reasons: there was, even at the time, a distinction between being a member of the Hitler Youth and being a member of the Nazi party – a fine distinction in many cases, but nonetheless a distinction; moreover even if the Pope during his pre-Pope days considered himself a Nazi, he may not consider himself one now – indeed, he says he does not. 

    But still: he might indeed be a Nazi in the darkest part of his heart, even if he does not realize or recognize it. That is the stuff of opinion. All Ms Sarandon would have to do is assert this as her opinion, and maybe support it by pointing to a few hard facts. The mistake, HER mistake, was in not clarifying that as her opinion.

    Bill Donohue must be loving this though; I mean, he does what he’s accusing Ms Sarandon of all the freaking time. Now he gets to act all outraged. Bill Donohue, by the way, IN MY OPINION, is somewhat more likely to be a Nazi than this Pope, just off the evidence of his behavior patterns.

    May I just congratulate Mediaite for finding a genius shortcut to violating Godwin’s Law? This is so good it could be reported out of CERN.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    no one is denying it and no one is trying to hide it…  what’s clearly obvious is your determination to tag a sitting pope as having joined the nazi party of his own free will…  this is the same mental agility it takes to tag the tea party as racist for opposing obama’s policies…

  • Anonymous

    In all fairness, the Nazis had more respect for children.

  • Anonymous

    No, but people like Michael Moore get tax credits to make his films, stealing money from the State of Michigan who are suffering through this economy worse than most.

    $$$$

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Umm … as Ms Elizabeth Warren explained, it’s not wealth that’s the issue, it’s irresponsibility and unfairness. It’s not inherently unfair for someone to be or become rich, but it is wrong to use the power of that wealth to step all over the rights and freedoms of others less fortunate or gifted.

  • Anonymous

    wow. The guy before you just tagged Soros with the same brush and you had nothing to say to him. Coincident? nah, it appears to be a selective outrage to me.

  • Rufus Danegro

    Well she got it wrong; she should have called him a Nazi pedophile.

    That would have been more accurate.

  • Michelle

    Yes how dare Beck use Soros’ OWN words against him. 

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Not too likely. This is far from new for her. She made Witches of Eastwick and Bull Durham after making clear her leftitude, so this is not going to do a thing to hurt her Hollywood cred – might even help, but most likely will do nothing.

  • Anonymous

    And just what rights have they stepped over and how many have been prosecuted by the Obama administration?

  • Joeebrasier

    Susan Sarandon is an irrevelent cow just trying desperately to get some sort of attention going…
    It’s actually quite sad

  • Anonymous

    Defending your Mormon brother without comprehension of the issue is embarrassing.

  • Anonymous

    Name the wars, child?

  • Anonymous

    Yes, they gassed them before they burned them.

    What a rancid lib POS you are.

  • lazzzlo

    You danced around it but you didn’t equate the two.  Good.

  • Anonymous

    I meant the Christian ones. The Nazis and the Catholics feel the same way about the Jewish ones. The Nazis wanted them all killed in the Holocaust. The Catholics (all Christians, actually) want them all killed in Armageddon.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    It’s NYC, Harry. People aren’t so easily frightened.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Hey, you’re making progress LawnMeister. I actually agree that Dems SHOULD be for separation of state and religion – and they are. But I’m thinking this brief moment of lucidity on your part is like a single lonely neutrino jumping in and out of existence like a dolphin in choppy waters. 

  • Anonymous

    LOL

    So what Soros says he did, is tagging him with a broad brush?

  • Rex the Wonder God

    I kinda like her. Wasn’t she great as Baseball Annie?

  • Anonymous

    Duh! That both were under the influence of the Nazis.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, now that you were caught, start your lies.

    Man, you are full of lies and so ignorant of Catholicism!

  • Exgoper

    I know that answering back to Stonepark is tempting. I’ve fallen for it myself. But it’s almost like poking a lame animal with a stick. It’s just not humane to taunt a creature that’s that helpless.

  • Anonymous

    And the Catholics just physically abuse them and leave them with lifelong scars……

    Who’s better in that situation?

  • Anonymous

    LOL

    man are you dumb!

    Describe the horrific things the Pope did as a member of the Hitler Youth.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Suggestion TD: post a picture of yourself. Betcha lots here would call you kinda funny lookin.

    I think Ms Sarandon is quite an attractive member of the h. sapiens sapiens branch of the Great Apes family, and apparently others think so too. BTW, how’s your own miserable existence working out?

  • lazzzlo

    It’s not the demonstrable duty of the wealthy to automatically be charitable.  And yet the charities donate. And they donate because of tax reductions and because of genuine philanthropic grants.

    Those charitable donations/philanthropic grants are something to be ignored?

    Knock off all the donations to the “Fine Arts”. ;)

    I actually like Symphonic and Operatic productions…but is it really necessary?

  • Exgoper

    So Hank Williams Jr is a liberal loon now? 

  • Anonymous

    I think ‘Stonepark3 ‘ uses this site as a form of entertainment due to boredom.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, all catholics  are guilty, as all blacks are on welfare, all Mexicans are lazy, all Dems stupid libs, all Muslims terrorists,etc.,

    I see your point, bigot!

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Again: not so. He was a member of the Hitler Youth. The Nazi party was an affiliated organization which essentially believed in the very same things that it sought to indoctrinate the Hitler Youth with, but the Hitler Youth was designed to be more identified with the leader than the policies. Now, you can argue that actually made the Hitler Youth WORSE than the Nazi party, but it’s still tough sledding to make much of any real material difference. Indeed, Ms Sarandon could have said WORSE than Nazi, and she’d have a good argument. 

  • Texan

    No, but his new video shattered download records. ;)

  • Anonymous

    sky, I have bitch slapped Exgoper so often, he is now just like a rag doll in the wind.

  • Texan

    nary an original thought…astro turf much? ;)

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I see little point in such comments. True, His Holiness was born and was raised in Bayern, he was conscripted into the Hitlerjugend, then conscripted into the Wehrmacht Infantry Gruppe. At the end of the fighting in Bayern, he was sent to a POW Camp. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean that he had any Nazi sympathies, and he wasn’t a Parteimitglieder.

  • Norbit

    All Catholics?

    What’s your view on blacks?

  • Texan

    What career?

  • lazzzlo

    I think Ms Sarandon is quite an attractive member of the h. sapiens sapiens branch of the Great Apes family

    That’s how you get the chicks.

  • Anonymous

    Look, you can defend child rape and genocide all you want. I don’t care what you do.

  • Anonymous

    No, you can defend the mass murder and burning of children like libs like to do. You are truly a feral abomination.

    Go back to your pals at NAMBLA.

  • Anonymous

    No, you can defend the mass murder and burning of children like libs like to do. You are truly a feral abomination.

    Go back to your pals at NAMBLA.

  • Anonymous

    Jews, liberals, and gays were the favorite targets of your hero Adolf Hitler. Where the hell do you think your political philosophy comes from, anyway?

    And the Catholic church you’re defending is the largest NAMBLA organization on the planet.

  • Anonymous

    And he has a cool hat.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I have aunts and uncles who admit they were Parteimitglieder, and aunts and uncles who claim they were not. I have cousins who claim they were enthusiastic Hitlerjugend and Bund Deutscher Mädel in der Hitlerjugend and others who claim they were only members because the law required they be. Certainly, all adult males were subject to conscription in the Wehrmacht and all males and females were required to be members of the Hitlerjugend and Bund Deutscher Mädel in der Hitlerjugend at age fourteen (14). No one was required to be Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, but everyone in Der Drittes Reich was subject to conscription. Over the years, I’ve learned to take people at their word on this issue, and most people seem to be honest about it. Germans have come to terms with their past very well, and as such have learned from it.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Indeed.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    *Y*A*W*N*

  • Anonymous

    ‘…and Cain will be whittling away at the black support from the personal pride.’

    That really is…really funny. Wishful thinking at best…

  • Anonymous

    Look at the comments about your religion by your fellow lefties , Robert . Fine with you ?

    Or, do you stand up to their stupidity and bigotry ?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Love “Rocky Horror …” but  the song is “Dammit Janet”.

  • Anonymous

    Who doesn’t like to take the wife or girlfriend (or both) out to dinner and to see the latest
    Susan Sarandon movie ?

  • Anonymous

    I like how calling Obama a Nazi is normal.. but calling someone that was in the Hitler Youth a Nazi is really just UNCALLED FOR! *mock outrage*

  • Norbit

    So that’s your stereotype of Catholics? – child rape and genocide?

    I can’t wait to hear what you think about blacks!
    lol

  • Anonymous

    Yawn- Yawn!

  • Anonymous

    Says the CEO of NAMBLA!

  • Anonymous

    Says the CEO of NAMBLA!

  • Anonymous

    Way to kill your own career, Susan!

    Ask Sinead how that worked for her, and she only insulted the catholics deeply without also insulting the jewish community.  Bigotry and stupidity are a tough combo to overcome… 

  • Anonymous

    Your comment is despicable.  You’re trash.  

  • Norbit

    Even the Democratic Mainstream Media is reporting this story!

    Onward Christian Soldiers – spread the word about the new enemy of Christians in America — the Democratic Party!

    Tell other Christians to Never, Ever cast a vote for a Heathen Democrat!
    heh-heh-heh

  • Anonymous

    It’s not a stereotype. Christians believe that all unconverted Jews will be killed in Armageddon. This is why they train you to support Israel, to bring the Jews together for slaughter. Were you unaware of this?

    As for the Catholic Church, they are a pedophile cult from top to bottom. The Catholic leadership hierarchy, right up to the Popes, has systematically shuttled pedophiles around the world for generations. They are ALL child molesters.

    Just as the person who drives a getaway car in a bank robbery is a bank robber, all persons who enable child molesters are child molesters. The reason you have difficulty with this is because you’ve been trained to support child molestation.

  • Anonymous

    It’s awesome to see the dregs of the democratic party showing what they’re really made of.  I have a funny feeling that you and sam would be banished.  Hate is hate and vile smears are vile smears and you two are merchants in both.

    Just sick, pathetic excuses for humans.  I don’t think anyone wants you.  

  • Tony the Fist

    Absolutely. How dare she call him a Nazi from the ’40s, when it’s obvious he’s a cowboy from the ’50s. ;)

  • Harry Flashman

    You listen to Elizabeth Warren? That explains a lot.

  • Texan

    sez the muslim defender…

  • Anonymous

    ‘Hate is hate?’

    ….What on earth are you commenting on?!?

    How strange, that you of all commentators here, have suddenly gone all touchy feely!

    Perhaps you should take a good and hard look at your own non to charitable peddled posts before categorizing mine.

  • sam

    um…the crusades…there were like 7 of them back in the day…they never REALLY ended…wake up

  • Exgoper

    At least be honest: it’s not that you distrust the MSM for being liberal, it’s that you distrust it for not having your bias. 

  • Anonymous

    Soros admits that he turned in Jews and he doesn’t even apologize for being the dregs of society.  Now, someone who’d turn in a fellow jew you think is out for your good?  How nutty are you?

    There were many reprehensible things that occurred during the war – horrific acts and heroic acts.  One man lived through it and his way of making up for the tragedies he witnessed was to devote his life to helping others by  becoming  a priest, the other’s way of coping was to become shylock and take everyone’s money and use and abuse people and attempt to bring down governments because of his “power”.  

    Don’t you wonder if perhaps his “seed” money was gathered from the jews that were led away to the concentration camps? Just a thought…

    Yup, same thing.

  • Anonymous

    I’m an intelligent person. I don’t defend religion.

  • Anonymous

    . . .[T]he Dem party makes the OWS movement look organized, and even the OWS movement isn’t organized to the point of being able to ‘kick’ anyone out of it.

    Lies within lies.

  • Anonymous

    You’re the one saying child molestation is a great thing. I’m the one who said the child molesters were no better than the Nazis. Try to keep up.

  • Anonymous

    Next time you visit the Dr. ask him why you “yawn”.  He’ll tell you to get oxygen – obviously you’re drowning in your own hate and attempting to bring in air.  Not going to help.  

    Usually, when people are called out for their vile, hateful rhetoric, they’re bright enough to shut up.  You yawn.  Case closed.  

  • One pissed off liberal

    Suzan also frequently speaks out and insults the leaders of Islam as well, because she is a courageous women who speaks her mind against Christian whom she knows will not kill her, and against muslims who will.
     
    Err…nope, she a spineless coward who would never say anything like this about Muslims.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    your hey-that-other-guy-did-it-too excuse does nothing to justify your
    own accusation of the pope being a nazi…    

    damn straight, my outrage is selective…  it’s not like i have all day to be sitting around reading every single reply to every single comment on every single article at mediaite…  plus, you don’t want to know how many browsers i have open at the moment, monitoring world events on other sites…

    now if you’ll excuse me, i have further outrages to select…

  • lazzzlo

    My folks from Scotland will never forgive and I have always been berated by the stories from the war.  As the generations increase the pain goes away.

    However, just because you were there doesn’t automatically mean you were something.  No one knows.

  • Anonymous

    I would never defend Nazis or Catholic child molesters. You defend both. Who’s the trash?

  • Anonymous

    I sent this article in from Perez Hilton’s site. Good to see it get linked.

  • Anonymous

    In the teabagger world Glenn Beck is a hero for calling Obama a Nazi, with film of stromtroopers marching in the background, but Sarandon is a scumbag for calling the pope a Nazi.

    It’s all so boring.

  • lazzzlo

    Christians believe that all unconverted Jews will be killed in Armageddon.

    Where did that one come from?

  • Anonymous

    Seriously. How many people has the Catholic church killed for not being Catholic?

  • Anonymous

    Right, because the belief in God is the evolved view here.

  • Anonymous

    I might take the gas over repeated molestation and the knowledge of a cover up.

  • Anonymous

    Giver or receiver?

  • Anonymous

    I don’t exactly consider E! the MSM. That’s just weird.

  • RestInPieces777

    I wouldn’t call him a Nazi, but he’s complicit in the world’s biggest criminal organization in human history, overseeing the systematic rape and torture of orphaned and disabled children. He is honestly one of the most evil creatures on the planet, Nazi or not.

  • Norbit

    The distrust is borne out of a litany of documented differences in the tone, selection, quantity and manner in which the msm covers stories favorable to conservative perspectives vs. hose moreso to liberal ones.

  • Anonymous

    You, that’s obvious.  Cause you just made up a pile of bull crap and you think everyone/anyone bought it?

  • Anonymous

    Really, is that what Catholics think? lol

    In fact, is that what ALL CHRISTIANS think of the jews?  Hmmmm, never heard that stupidity before.
    You must attend Westboro Baptist.

  • Anonymous

    Anyway she was referring to the previous Nazi . . .

  • Anonymous

    Your posts suggest that you need to take your own advice Norbit

  • TruDat

    Who’s talking about Hank Williams Jr.?

  • Anonymous

    hey Stone head
    You and your teabagging buddies are bigger Nazis than Soros is. Soros was 14 and faced certain death if he was exposed. He is not responsible for what his benefactor did, you complete piece of trash.

  • TruDat

    We’re discussing George Soros now?

  • TruDat

    Aren’t you the simp who posted about the wonderful BJs you give on the Lawrence O’Donnell thread?  Please!

  • Anonymous

    Help! I’ve just been (GROAN) hit by lightning! I think His Imaginary Omnipotence has questions to answer!

  • Anonymous

    Benedict was no Nazi and was in diapers when Hitler took over. But it was people like his father who enabled the Nazis by doing everything they were asked to do without question, While the Catholic and Christian churches did not approve of the extermination of the Jews, they were okay with every other measure to make them non people and eject them from society. The churches in Germany spoke out openly against euthanasia of the crippled and mentally ill, but never raised a voice to help the Jews

  • Anonymous

    make sure you tell real royal emperor that also, mr.lib is catholic lol

  • Anonymous

    Ooooh My! Don’t go forgetting those delightful, ‘pink slippers’…

  • Anonymous

    Yup nice to see it is all love and kisses on your end of the spectrum

  • Emilie56

    When the far left gets completely stupid, and Ms. Sarandon really should not have a public voice, it translates into a vote for a Republican.  Hate is alive and well on all sides.  If we are going to pick on Popes let’s do the truly correct Pope, the one who failed to be a Christian during the Holocaust.

  • Bobby

    who really cares what these actors say or think, if you have ever met any of these people who will see most are kinda stupid and have to be directed in order to even go to the bathroom. didn’t she play a whore in a baseball movie. :)

  • Anonymous

    Wow, the complete shite you keep coming out with is getting to be real_fucking_tedious!

  • Anonymous

    Ya mean there’s a *difference*?

  • Anonymous

    Soros did not, the person hiding him did, He was not responsible for what his patron did, jerkov

  • Anonymous

    Just what every hick wants some women to do his hunting and fishing dirty work. 
    Wanted

    woman with boat
    send pictures of boat & motor

  • Anonymous

    SO, the rich bankers forced those “less fortunate”  to sign on the dotted line?

  • Anonymous

    I guess it’s OK to call Soros a Nazi now.

  • Anonymous

    What is true, is that almost all Germans in the 3rd Reich, even anti-Nazis and non party types, believed the Jews were evil and at very least deserved to be stripped of their human rights and exiled.

  • Anonymous

    Saying he was a Nazi without context is ignorant.

  • Anonymous

    But you cannot deny the fact that he was a Nazi sympathizer.     ;)

  • Anonymous

    Okay
    If it would make people happy, I don’t think Benedict and W.  was a Nazi and Sarandon is full of it too.
    Neither is Soros or Obama a Nazi nor does some lame ass head of a rump Aryan nation group endorsement of OWS means OWS is Nazi either. Have I covered all the bases yet?

  • Anonymous

    Every hard core Jew hater that I ever met was Catholic, does that bother you?

  • Anonymous

    Talk about mindless bigotry and paranoia, you make the grade both ways here, Norby.

  • Anonymous

    I made certain I wasn’t using a broad brush – I singled out 2 left wing loons.  You wanted to be included?

  • Anonymous

    As many tax payers have explained, it’s not taxes that are the issue, it’s irresponsibility and wasteful spending of the government. It’s wrong of he government to use power to step all over individual and states’ rights and spend our tax money to please groups in order to ge re-elected.

  • Rodgers

    Ouch!   lol

  • Anonymous

    What did you take umbrage with?  

    Your last sentence went right over my head – mind explaining? 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    spoken like a true member of the master race…

  • Anonymous

    …No umbrage!

    I find it a little strange given your recent history of comments that suddenly you’ve found offense. 

    My comment was nothing more than an injection of humor. Humor comes in handy occasionally, for moments of ridiculousness…

    There’s not much ‘hate’ in my opinions or comments, even if they are disagreed with. Although, I do confess to disliking bigotry, which there seems to quite a lot of on these boards…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    yeah, the joy division in particular was very respectful of children…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    say the tea party isn’t racist and we’ll call it a day…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    a country boy can survive…  he doesn’t protest against some nebulous entity that life isn’t fair and he doesn’t have as much stuff as the 1%’ers…

  • Anonymous

    ‘ 2 left wing loons.’

    …Should anyone other than Tea Party/ Republicans be offended?

  • lazzzlo

    There you go.
    As a Celtic punk youth in America I saw some serious anger against Sinead.  It happened to occur during my honeymoon so I wasn’t totally focused at the time.

    Her moment ruined mine (!) but freedom of speech certainly was harangued.

  • Superiorpressparts

     You cast aspersions at people like the Pope with OPINIONS, when the only fact is that you, and people like you, are mindless simpletons.  If you would ever do one percent of the good for humanity that this and past Popes have done, your opinion of them might carry a small amount of value with others.  Get a life you moron.

  • Bayden

    and what does that have to do with Pope
    Benedict?   

  • Bayden

    The state of Michigan is the one giving out tax breaks to film movies there,  in the midst of their budget crunch.  That is their problem. 

  • Exgoper

    Then why is it that nearly every independent poll shows that Fox News viewers are the most misinformed? 

    Given the fact that nearly all of your posts string together different combinations of “marxist” and “socialist” epithets, I think your idea of objectivity is pretty easily dismissed.

  • Cecelia

    “People React Predictably”

    GOOD!
     

  • Anonymous

    Who said it was normal? Bosephus had a huge pile of bile hurled at him and he lost a gig over his comments.  I doubt mediaite will have half a dozen story covering Suzi’s Nazi crack like they did with Hank.

  • david r

    You are so full of it.  I guess you would have done things differently in ’41.  You’d have told those Nazis where to get off.  Try reading something other than the vapid posts on this site.  I recommend “Night” by  Elie Wiesel and “This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen” by Tadeusz Borowski.  If you bother to read these works, you won’t have such harsh opinions about those who escaped.  And the pope has a cool red cowboy hat, too.

  • david r

    The Univ. of Maryland study you cite has been discredited by scholars as liberally biased.

  • david r

    There is a passage in “Night” where it is recounted how the Nazi soldiers threw infants in the air and shot them for target practice.

  • Anonymous

    Okay, so he may not be technically a Nazi, but he is an unrepentant
    enabler of serial pedophiles.  While a Cardinal
    he put out an edict to Catholic Bishops to put the Churches interests ahead of
    child safety, very God like person.  Let’s
    not even go into the fact that he is the head of a religion with an ocean of
    blood on its hands across the centuries to go with the systematic rape and torture
    of children.  And while we have to listen
    to the pimp Bill Donohue railing about anyone who dares insult this monument to
    virtue, let’s take a minute to digest just one of the wonderful ideas the church preaches to all of us non
    adherents.  If we don’t go along with their
    fantasies we are all, including children, doomed to burn in hell for eternity.  Now I ask which is worse, an organization so arrogant
    that is professes to doom someone to hell fire for all eternity or someone
    insulting a person (the Pope) who is, and by all of his actions, devoid of any
    human decency?     

  • Rper

    Benny’s much bigger vile offense is he willfully covered-up pedophilia in the church.

  • Anonymous

    …and Sarandon is considered by most (not all) Democrats to be a hero of the Left.

  • david r

    I agree with you here.  I can’t stand people who throw around the term “Nazi” like it is confetti.  If they would actually read a little history, they would not be so cavalier with the term.  For those who know the history and still throw the term around like a Mardi Gras bead, you are FUBAR.  One should never cheapen the enormity of the Holocaust, or denigrate the memory of the heroes who defeated the Nazis, by calling someone you don’t like a “Nazi.”  Beck plays to the same Geritol crowd as Rush.

  • lazzzlo

    Close…getting there with somewhat of a historical reference.

    Don’t get me wrong…all organized religions and all countries failed to protect the “meek”.

  • lazzzlo

    Close…getting there with somewhat of a historical reference.

    Don’t get me wrong…all organized religions and all countries failed to protect the “meek”.

  • lazzzlo

    That was then this is now.

  • lazzzlo

    That was then this is now.

  • lazzzlo

    If you confront the Pope he will just fall asleep.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/ON4HHDYPEEDF3USYEBHZ7CJBCU potvin

    I scrape filth from the bottom of my shoe with more morality than Susan Sarandon.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, that is what Christians think. Did you think you were trained to support Israel because that was a logical place for a Jewish colony?

  • JayJay

    I would say no wonder Tim Robbins dumped her, but he is just as bad as she is. And SHE…a has been, never really much to shout about in the first place and hopefully, won’t appear in another movie. Let her disappear broke and forgotten. That would be the right way!!!

  • Anonymous

    The Bible.

  • Glberry52

    Way to bury yourself as an actress I lost all respect for you! Just remember when your income decreases you did it to yourself. Attacking the Pope is wrong you’ve overstepped!! Good luck you’ve already lost your kids father so deal with it. I will NEVER watch another movie that your in or commercial that you have lowered yourself to do for income!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Italianboy2030

    its amazing to me that after all these years, nazism, can still spark this kind of discussion… it goes to show though that time will never erase the horrific events from back then… no sense in starting a new holy war here just cause someone disagrees with your opinion though… susan is beyond liberal, more liberal than even most liberals claim to be.. if there was a designation of leftist disgustist, she would be the poster girl for it… shes SO far out there that most dems distance themselves far from her.. and as far as the crusades go.. all of them combined lasted more years than some of you have been alive in the here and now.. millions died if you need numbers… which is ridiculous.. the facts are christianity was pushed on a people that had for centuries before that, followed another .. right or wrong, it happened.. get over it.. im just happy to know that ms. sarandon and her drones in hollywood, wont be able to keep the current idiot in the white house this time around… keep talking for your… umm.. “cause” susan.. its pathetic… but… is helping MY cause to get this man out of office.. :)

  • Anonymous

    You need your ass kicked 

    bad

  • Anonymous

    you got to get your ass kicked

  • Anonymous

    Susan Sarandon is such an irrelevant has been.  Does someone really care what she thinks?  I think she’s trying to do/say anything controversial for another jumpstart.  She’s past being able to take her clothes off in a movie.  Pathetic.

  • Milesroxbury

    once again Catholic bashing is the last acceptable bias amongst the major media,the ignorant,and the fallen Catholics such as Susan Sarandon.Poor Hank Williams can’t make an analogy using the word Hitler but the Jersey Girl Susan S-oozing in her Hollywood liberalism-can spew her venom with nary a nod from the media.Kudos to the Anti-Defamation league.Susan Sarandon will wither into further oblivion and blindly continue to follow the oh so common brand of Hollywood radical chic that has become so banal.

  • Exgoper

    “Scholars”?

    LMAO.

  • Norbit

    Quite the contrary, I’m very explicit in why those monickers are applied.

    As for the polls, I’ve always heard just the opposite.

  • richs

    Are you saying the small business owners in the area aren’t losing money?  If you are then you are wrong again, as usual.

  • richs

    Please read history before commenting on history.  The Crusades were not attacks, they were counter attacks.

  • richs

    Too many, St. Stephen of Hungary was the Hungarian King when the country was converted to Catholicism.  He did it by the sword.  There was way too much of that.  And I am a Roman Catholic.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    Well she was old enough to remember Hitler, so I guess I’ll defer to her judgment.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000520625051 Jim Schreiber

    In what sense was she wrong? He was indoctrinated by the Nazi Party into the Hitler Youth. He claims it was “mandatory” but that is not true at all, and he knows it. He also lived near a concentration camp. He was drafted into the military and claimed to have deserted, but he did in April 1945, which was basically the end of the war. He has tried consistently to downplay and bury what he did and what he knew, and if you’re the Vicar of Christ on Earth, one would think your past was a bit neater than that. So, this just goes to show you that the Catholic Church hierarchy is just another haven for the ambitious and the greedy. And no past crime is too big!

  • Anonymous

    Not only was the current Pope in the Hitler Youth, but he headed the Catholic successor organization to the Inquisition.  He was John Paul II’s enforcer.

  • Hankscott

    Nazi?  No, at least not in an active capacity (but then again, would Jesus have joined the Nazi party as a child because he was told to?)  But defender of pedophiles?  You bet.

  • AliveStillKickin

    When the Hollyward liberal “bug-eyed” freakos have to resort to calling The POPE a Nazi…..The fear has reached it’s peak and we have them on the run.
    I am so EXCITED!!!!!!
     

  • AliveStillKickin

    Link it or STFU

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Danny-Ross/100002149217620 Danny Ross

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congregation_for_the_Doctrine_of_the_Faith
    Your ignorance of how to do your own research is so obvious that I take pity on you.

  • CarmanK

    Actually a lot of the small businesses are making buck. How many times do thousands of people gather in small towns etc… The govt is always trying to make up events to get people DOWNTOWN. What is even better is that many of the businesses around Zucotti Park are actually helping the demonstrators. They are allowing them to use their facilities etc…. The real small business in this country are patriots who care about their neighbors, their friends and their country. And when their customers hurt they try to find solution. Sam Walton was a good man, his heirs are the predators and interationalists who want deregualtion to let them get richer while their workforce is over worked and underpaid.

  • CarmanK

    No actually, you are. And the small businesses are helping the occupiers.

  • CarmanK

    Oh, crap. Michael Moore gets tax breaks to bring BUSINESS TO the state!! And he brings lots of money when he does. States bid for the chance to host movie companies.

  • CarmanK

    That’s true. Pope Benedict was a member of Nazi youth. His mind was poisoned when he was a youth. that is one of the reasons that he advised the former Pope to assist in covering up the child sexual abuse cases by priests. He also counseled the Pope to reenstate the extreme catholic goups that work to degrade women and elevate men in the church. He provides shelter and employment for an American bishop who covered up priests sexual abuses of children in the US. Benedict is a reactionary, much like the Youth. He wants to CONTROL: to rescind articles of Vatican II, and send out a EXAMINER to review operations of convents in the US (to find out how Catholic they are). He has not dumped the lessons of Hitler Youth totally. He has just evolved and but often retreats into his desire to be IN CHARGE and thus dictatorial.

  • CarmanK

    That’s true. Pope Benedict was a member of Nazi youth. His mind was poisoned when he was a youth. that is one of the reasons that he advised the former Pope to assist in covering up the child sexual abuse cases by priests. He also counseled the Pope to reenstate the extreme catholic goups that work to degrade women and elevate men in the church. He provides shelter and employment for an American bishop who covered up priests sexual abuses of children in the US. Benedict is a reactionary, much like the Youth. He wants to CONTROL: to rescind articles of Vatican II, and send out a EXAMINER to review operations of convents in the US (to find out how Catholic they are). He has not dumped the lessons of Hitler Youth totally. He has just evolved and but often retreats into his desire to be IN CHARGE and thus dictatorial.

  • CarmanK

    You can bet Snyder has given a whole lot more tax cuts and credits to those politicos in his state who backed his candidacy and helped him with his TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION plans for small towns across the state. Remember in MI, Emergency financial managers have dictatorial powers over a town and its assets.

  • CarmanK

    It is the duty of those who are well off to look after the needs of their neighbors. And it is easier for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle that for a rich man to get to heaven. The dems just want to help the rich get into heaven and the crooks get justice.

  • CarmanK

    that is Ronald Reagan propaganda to divide this country against itself. Are you really happy that the US HOUSE has done nothing to create jobs since the tbaggers took over in 2011?? According to the repugs “govt of the people, can drown itself in a bathtub” while the rich get richer and have no accountability to the nation. Shrinking fed govt has not benefitted the most people in this country. And the very fact that 1% of the population controls 40% of the nation’s wealth is not democracy. They got rich from stealing from american consumers. The repeal of Glass-Stiegel set the CROOKS AND CONS FREE ON THE PUBLIC. Do you really think it is okay for Banks to charge 30% on anything?? We were far better as a nation and stronger pre Ronald Reagan and I hope he is rotting in the netherworld because he is a man who spread political evil that has HARMED AND WEAKENED THIS COUNTRY FOR GENERATIONS.

  • Anonymous

     Which one, there are so many of them? And a lot of them are racist.

  • Anonymous

     So she never spoke out against Muslims? Proof?

  • Anonymous

     So she never spoke out against Muslims? Proof?

  • Anonymous

     Hey, you are more of a Nazi than Soros, scheisskopf!

  • Anonymous

    Brown shirt, my aren’t you clever and original!

  • Anonymous

    I am standing up against stupidity and bigotry by calling your comments rubbish

  • Anonymous

    You are a bit late to the debate, dontcha think?

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