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Not sure who Rupert Everett is? He’s best known for voicing Prince Charming in the Shrek movies, but also played as Julia Roberts’ gay best friend in “My Best Friend’s Wedding” and Christopher Marlowe in “Shakespeare in Love”.
I guess lately he’s bitter about being a washed-up actor, or something, because he’s been spouting some pretty vile stuff left and right.
First, he takes aim at Americans:
I’m totally off the States now. … The reaction to 9/11 and then George Bush – really, they’ve got very blobby as a nation. … Now they (the Americans) are whiny victims whose language is entirely taken from two tv shows – Friends and Sex and the City – and there’s nothing sexy about them any more. And that kind of semi-blindness about the rest of the world, which was attractive when America was exciting, is really unattractive now.
The part about our reaction to 9/11 really riles me up. How is a country supposed to react to such a devastating tragedy? And as far as Americans being “whiny victims”, well… there actually are Americans who fit that bill (they’re called liberals), but by and large most Americans possess a very strong sense of independence, self-reliance, and pioneering.
Anyways, if that annoyed you, just wait until you read this. According to Everett, British soldiers are “dumb wimps”!
English idiot Rupert Everett just bashed British soldiers by saying, “They are always whining about the dangers of being killed. Oh my God, they are such whimps now!”
Unfortunately, he continued on. “The whole point of being the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits,” he told the Telegraph. “Now you have to fly 15,000 ft. above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don’t think there is any point in having wars if that’s how you’re going to behave. It’s pathetic. All this whining!”
Because it’s real tough being an actor.
That’s the most insulting, ridiculous thing I may have ever read.
If Everett thinks that it’s so easy to be a soldier, then maybe he should try it on for size. Maybe then he’ll get some appreciation for the kind of sacrifice these soldiers are making. Until then, he can keep his mouth shut and focus on being a flaming homosexual actor.
I have been making an effort to encourage anti-war half-wits like this to provide me with a reasoned opinion about the proper role of a military resource in a civilized country, if indeed there is any proper role whatsoever — in their opinion(s). Implementing a deadly and destructive defense in the wake of a monstrous attack like 9/11, obviously, is outside-of-bounds so I want to know what is within-bounds.
I consider it astonishing that in six years and nine months, I have yet to receive a coherent answer. Just one. I would settle for someone just admitting, somewhere, that the purpose of a military is to provide free or discounted education for people willing to wear uniforms…which seems to be what many among them want to say…but I can’t even get that much.
I do think, Cassy, that Mr. Everett has highlighted a legitimate issue, although he’s probably too drunk from imbibing his anti-war elixir to realize it. The notion that enlisting carries some measure of danger to life & limb; it is vanishing from the States, from Britain, and from the western civilized world. Like I said, there is an emerging consensus that it’s all about a free diploma to people wearing uniforms — combat is outside the job description.
What I find appallingly offensive, is that it’s Rupert Everett and his buddies who have been injecting the propaganda to enable that mindset to take hold. They’ve been peddling this notion that if you enlist, and woe be unto you but your Commander in Chief has deemed an operation to be necessary to our national defense and Congress has agreed — well then, your “civil liberties” as an enlisted soldier have been somehow violated and said Commander in Chief should be “tried at the Hague,” as Rosie O put it.
It’s a mindset that threatens the very existence of the civilized world.
So Rupert E and his coterie have been flooding us in the very ooze about which he is now complaining.
Thanks loads, Rupert & Co. In my world, you are what a firing squad practices for.
CaptDMO says: I’m not that familiar with Mr. Everett’s slang.
I’m totally off the States now. … The reaction to 9/11 and then George Bush – really, they’ve got very blobby as a nation.
If by that he bemoans the lack of IMMEDIATE and DECISIVE consequence to the ENTIRE sector of radical Muslims guilty, then I must agree!
Other than that, well, he’s an actor! Isn’t he?.
Who, EXACTLY, sought out and published his opinion on such matters of State?
Why?
Actually, I kind of agree with him. America is much softer now than when it was attacked at Pearl. Instead of being skeptical about the enemy, we are holding “multicultural” parties to get to know them better. I’m sorry, but I learned everything I need to know about them on 9/11.
And while soldiers themselves may not be wimps, reaction to them certainly is. ROE, Conventions, La Sheehan… they can’t do their damn jobs, which is to kill the enemy. They spend more time setting up water filtration around the world than they do killing the enemy. It must be frustrating.
RG
LCVRWC says: FWIW, Drudge reports he has ‘apologized’ and links here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2099885/Rupert-Everett-apologises-for-calling-soldiers-%27wimps%27.html
AmeriDan says: “The part about our reaction to 9/11 really riles me up. How is a country supposed to react to such a devastating tragedy?”
Tragedy?
Come on Cassy, you can come up with a more discriptive word than that.
Best regards,
AmeriDan
baz says: I think by “blobby” he means self-pitying. And I’d agree. I’m patriotic, but the Salt Lake City Olympic games was smarmy, self-pitying, and created a new form: “patriotism pornography.” I nearly gagged, it was so saccharine and overwrought. It just didn’t feel genuine or sincere. It felt very phony and manipulative.
I was watching the games with a few Englishmen, a couple of Irish, and a Scot, and they all agreed that they no longer felt sorry for America at that point.
We managed to exhaust the goodwill of entire planet.
Impressive in its way…
AmeriDan says: baz Says:
We managed to exhaust the goodwill of entire planet.
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I don’t think showing patriotism is a sign of self-pity. I also don’t feel that what the majority of this country felt was pity after September 11th.
Rightous anger and fury was my read on the reaction.
Too much patriotism made you stop feeling sorry for the United States a short time after the most evil attack on western civilation in history? To each his/her own I guess.
baz says: AmeriDan Sez:
Too much patriotism made you stop feeling sorry for the United States a short time after the most evil attack on western civilation in history? To each his/her own I guess.
No, my point is that the patriotism seemed insincere, phony and manipulative. The rest of the world saw through it and got fed up. Many people, such as GW Bush and Rudi Guiliani waved the flag while at best doing nothing, and at worst, undercutting the people who suffered or worked heroically in the wake of 9/11.
It was all for show and personal gain, and for that reason I found it offensive. There are no fans of Guiliani or Bush in the NYFD or NYPD, I can assure you.
AmeriDan says: Baz,
Thank you for speaking on behalf of all members of the NYFD and NYPD!
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