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Millionaire actor/activist Tim Robbins finds ordinary Americans who agree with his brave anti-war stance:
"I had to walk the streets of New York after being called a traitor, and I found nothing but support on the streets. There’s a real disconnect between what’s being portrayed in the media, and what the American people feel and believe."
I understand James Wolcott rarely leaves his apartment without a seven-man security squad, such is the level of fear in Bush’s Manhattan. If only he knew about the disconnect.
He’s got a point Tim. Walk the streets of Berkeley or Madison, Wisconsin and you won’t find one person who doesn’t support Tim Robbins’ brave Lifetime-Movie-portrait-of-courage stance.
I’ll go one better. Walk the streets of that gawd awful college, Antioch University, in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Stop any same sex couples or Birkenstock boys and ask them and they’ll tell you. You’re just out of touch with the ways things are Tim.
As an aside comment: Each year my mom schedules a dinner at Youngs’ Dairy Farm Restaurant. It’s a nice place with a good restaurant, a corn maze, pumpkin patch, water balloon war, batting cages, and so on. It’s very wholesome and a nice day for the kids. Better yet, it’s located in Clark County and I always like to give business to the county that thumbed its nose at The Guardian.
The only problem with driving to Young’s Dairy is one has to drive through the town of Yellow Springs. Now Yellow Springs is a gorgeous town, broad leafy streets, vibrant artsy fartsy downtown, the whole nine yards. The only problem is one has to drive through Antioch University to get to Young’s Dairy. I defy anyone to find a more in your face ultra liberal institution of higher learning than Antioch University. It simply does not exist.
My first experience with Antioch was riding in the back of my father’s Chevrolet Impala and listening to his derogatory remarks about the men with ponytails and sandals. This was 1970 of course. I thought at the time, dad, you’re so out of it. But as I now drive through this town, I find myself making the same remarks. Damn hippies. “Sod off swampies!”
Anyway, last year on our annual trek to Young’s Dairy we were welcomed with the sight of two groups of protesters, each heckling each other. On the leftside were the Birkenstockers with their Che shirts and signs saying “ARREST BUSH NOW!”. On the rightside (of course) was an impromptu group of normal looking people, similar in numbers, shouting their statements in support of Bush. The thing that amazed me most was I found the leftside angry. Visibly uncontrollably angry.
But the rightside was having fun. I wanted so much to stop and join them. I wanted to have fun too. But alas, it wasn’t meant to be. The turkey roll and mashed potato dinners were waiting, the putt putt golf course warmed up for action.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 10 09 at 12:11 PM • permalinkThanks for the info about Antioch College, wronwright. One of my sisters-in-law went there in the late Seventies, and that explains a *lot.*
Maybe Robbins read about the 95,000 Manhattanites who voted for Bush in 2004, and he imagines they’ve got a posse ready to jump him when he goes out.
Posted by Sonetka's Mom on 2006 10 09 at 12:20 PM • permalink"What is it with New Yorkers and their assuming tha they speak for the whole country?”
If Robbins had walked the streets of Brooklyn, Queens, or Staten Island, he might well have gotten a different reaction. Or Harlem - I’d love to see that tower of courage Tim Robbins walk the streets of Harlem, especially at night. But since he chose to rub shoulders only with his fellow limousine liberals in midtown Manhattan, small wonder he feels re-enforced in his opinions.
Posted by Urbs in Horto on 2006 10 09 at 12:44 PM • permalinkThese must be the same streets walked by Pauline Kael in 1972, when she cried in anguish, “How did Nixon get elected? Nobody I knew voted for him!”
Posted by Bruce Lagasse on 2006 10 09 at 12:53 PM • permalinkI hate Tim Robbins. I wish for bad things to happen to him. I’ve always hated him (especially after he admitted enjoying being in the passenger seat in the prison rape scenes in Shawshank Redemption), but as hard as I find it to believe, he manages to make me hate him more each time he opens his blow hole. What a dick. As if being a Hollywood celebrity automatically burdens you with political activism. Shut up and entertain Tim. That’s what you are paid to do. If you spent more time working on your acting skills and less time spewing your leftist insanity, perhaps you’d be more entertaining. He is more out of touch with reality than John Kerry (if that’s possible).
Screw Tim Robbins and his harpy scank bimbo of a wife (BTW Susan, you SUCKED in that waste of film The Banger Sisters).
OK, I’m now thoroughly pissed off and disgusted.No offense to anyone here who lives there or is originally from there, but I consider New York and California to be part of America in geographical terms only.
(BTW Susan, you SUCKED in that waste of film The Banger Sisters)
So you’re the other one who saw that picture? What a waste of a $7.50 movie ticket.
There’s a real disconnect between what’s being portrayed in the media, and what the American people feel and believe. It’s just propaganda, and it’s to do with convincing the majority that they’re a minority, so they should shut up and watch what they say.”
It amuses me that Tim Robbins saw absolutely no irony at all in this statement. It explains a lot about why he chooses such awful scripts (except for the Shawshank, that one wasn’t bad). I think that’s why he’s so busy concentrating on “the stage” now, putting on his own stuff. He’s not exactly big box office.
wronwright, I live in a little town not so very far from Yellow Springs, and you were spot on. When I worked in the Graduate School at my university, I had to deal with Antioch graduates, and they were loonytunes to the last idiot. Antioch doesn’t issue grades or gpa, by the way, which made transferring credits into their graduate programs a nightmare.
Young’s Dairy, however, makes absolutely the best ice cream in the world, bar non. Butterfat paradise, I’m tellin’ you. Italy, I used to think you made the best gelato, until I visited Young’s.
Alec Baldwin: By following the rules of the Film Actor’s Guild, the world can become a better place; that handles dangerous people with talk, and reasoning; that, is the fag way. One day you’ll all look at the world us actors created and say, “wow, good going, fag. You really made the world a better place, didntcha, fag?”
Tim Robbins: We’re guarrrrrrrds!
Janeane Garofolo: As actors, it is our responsibility to read the newspapers, and then say what we read on television like it’s our own opinion.
Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2006 10 09 at 02:04 PM • permalinkPerhaps Tim Robbins should stroll down the gravel road in front of MY property. I’ll give him support—if by “support” you mean an ass full of buckshot.
Posted by Shaky Barnes on 2006 10 09 at 02:13 PM • permalinkThis is the third time I’ve seen a conversation turn to the subject of Young’s Dairy Farm in the last two weeks.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 10 09 at 02:24 PM • permalinkRebecca, I’m originally from that area too. I found Young’s Dairy from my years of driving up to college. I stopped there once when they only had a cow barn and an ice cream shop. At the time I got a one dip cone. Then next time, two dips. Then a sundae. Then a milk shake. Now we just the whole freaking family to eat there.
Yesterday I had BBQ ribs, a whole rack of course. Ohio ain’t New Zealand, we eat a whole rack. It wasn’t bad, and of course they were named BEST RIBS OF GREENE COUNTY 2001 which means a great deal.
After eating the ribs and unbuckling my belt, I sat down to an ice cream sundae and I’m not ashamed to say it was three dips (not one dip like in New Zealand). Covered with hot fudge, real whipped cream, nuts, and a maraschino cherry. Based on a dinner like that, I’ll probably die of gluttony but I don’t care. I’m from Ohio, not New Zealand. We like our food.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 10 09 at 02:50 PM • permalinkTim Robbins, is a self contained, brainless person, who unfortunately found wealth, by doing not a god damn thing, I’d ever want to see or hear.
"I had to walk the streets of New York after being called a traitor, and I found nothing but support on the streets. There’s a real disconnect between what’s being portrayed in the media, and what the American people feel and believe.”
Oh Timmy, did you go to see the hole in the ground, somewhere in New York I believe, while you were there?
Traitor, is a little tough, “useful idiot” would work though, don’t you think? (well of course he doesn’t)
The disconnect, is very similar to what you do, to make money. Producing mostly fable slanted to the Leftist view, to tell those, who can’t think for themselves, and do support your and those keyboard or broadcast wizards efforts, (acting, if that is one calls what you do) typing, or broadcasting those fables.
First, I want to take care of the important thing--HELLO TexasBob! I can’t tell you how it lifted my spirits to see your name under a comment again. As usual, I like the comment, too. ;^)
Now, about that poor benighted idiot.... Nope, there’s not a thought in my head about the idiot. I can only feel, in a general sense, a certain pity for people like Robbins. It must be terrible to have to constantly beg for validation from any and every other person, to believe that what one believes can’t be true otherwise. Poor idiot. Tsk. Tsk. Tsk.
Perhaps the people that Tim Robbins encounters on the street who have opinions on the other side of the aisle from his are too polite to point out his mistakes to his face. That’s what people with class do when meeting people they don’t know. They don’t go out of their way to presumptuously get in the face of people that think differently. That is behavior reserved in modern times for Democrats and those even further left. I guess manners just don’t mean much to certain people any more.
Funny thing is he lacks the balls to leave the Eeeeviiil Amerikka and find some place more in tune with his thinking.
Why would a person who considers his country hell stay there?Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 10 09 at 08:51 PM • permalink"Geez, did Robbins really expect to be tarred and feathered as he strolled along Fifth Avenue?”
He probably would be if he ran into a bunch of people who’d just wasted there money paying to see Code46.
I know I wanted to kick his ass.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 10 09 at 09:13 PM • permalinkIs Antioch worse than Haverford College? When I was in school, Haverford was still all-male and our all-female chorus used to perform with its all-male chorus. I loved going around to the men’s schools to sing, but I hated going to Haverford to work and socialize with those supercilious liberal twits. And that was back before all hell broke loose--the Haverford boys were hippies ahead of their time.
Glad to see you back, TBob. We were worried about you.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 10 09 at 11:45 PM • permalink
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There’s a real disconnect between what’s being portrayed in the media, and what the American people feel and believe This bufoon is finally right about something. The MSM has been reporting massive failures of Bush policies everywhere and getting it wrong everytime. And Americans, ordinary ones, know it, not like “elite” idiots like Robbins. Hey, what streets did he have to walk? The location of the Communist Party headquarters is known to this guy as is the location of CAIR, Hamas headquarters in the USA.