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Report: Donald Sutherland Rips President Bush


By Cris Bergman
Oct 2, 2005
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British actress Keira Knightly recently said that she was terrified of working with Canadian actor Donald Sutherland on their film "Pride & Prejudice."  Now the "terrifying" actor is using his newfound TV fame from his role on ABC's "Commander-in-Chief" to cite his prejudice against President George W. Bush. 

Matt Drudge reports:

 

Choking back tears, "Commander-in-Chief" star Donald Sutherland warned this week: President Bush "will destroy our lives!"

The star of the new ABC drama, which follows the first woman President of the United States, lashed out at the real White House during a dramatic sit down interview with the BBC.

Sutherland ripped Bush and his administration for the war and Hurricane Katrina fallout.

"They were inept. They were inadequate to the task, and they lied," Sutherland charged.

"And they were insulting, and they were vindictive. And they were heartless. They did not care. They do not care. They do not care about Iraqi people. They do not care about the families of dead soldiers. They only care about profit."

At one point during the session, Sutherland started crying: "We('ve) stolen our children's future... We have children. We have children. How dare we take their legacy from them. How dare we. It's shameful. What we are doing to our world."

Sutherland went on rip Karl Rove's "methods and means" against people like Cindy Sheehan.

"We're back to burning books in Germany," Sutherland said of NBC's editing out of Kanye West's comment on Bush during a hurricane relief telethon.

 

Perhaps I'm out of the loop on this, but I'm not sure NBC is actually running the country as they would have to for Sutherland's "book burning" rant to work. 

His Iraq rant is just as foolish.  And Katrina and Cindy Sheehan?  Please.

Bush fan or no, the ignorance of the paranoid Hollywood types is at times flat out annoying.  Just act, leave the heavy lifting to those that can think things out and leave the emotion out of the equation.

--Cris Bergman







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