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05-03-2005, 08:20 AM
O'Donnell: Bush "a War Criminal...Should
Be Tried at The Hague"
Rosie O'Donnell: President George W. Bush is a "war criminal." In a taped interview with FNC's Geraldo Rivera aired on Saturday night to promote O'Donnell's role in the CBS Sunday night Hallmark Hall of Fame movie, Riding the Bus with My Sister, O'Donnell charged that since Bush "invaded a sovereign nation in defiance of the UN, he is basically a war criminal. Honestly. He should be tried at The Hague." In her rant, O'Donnell also insisted it's "scary" how "Dan Rather gets taken off CBS News for writing, for saying a report that essentially was true, that George Bush did not show up."
Two other celebrities also made clear over the weekend their opposition to President Bush. Friday night on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, actor Martin Short declared: "I voted for John Kerry." And at a Saturday night concert in Glendale, Arizona, the Arizona Republic reported, Bruce Springsteen "ad-libbed a ‘that's right' after one audience member yelled ‘(Expletive) the President" at one point." The DrudgeReport.com highlighted the May 1 Arizona Republic story which is online at: www.azcentral.com
The Internet Movie Database's page on Short: www.imdb.com
Comedy Central's page for Short's show, Primetime Glick: www.comedycentral.com
O'Donnell spewed her remarks in a taped session aired on FNC on the April 30 edition of At Large with Geraldo Rivera. As she sat in front of a screen with the title of the CBS movie set to air the next night, Sunday May 1, Riding the Bus with My Sister, she launched into a rant about how "disgusted" she is with President Bush's opposition to same-sex marriage and how Bush's position motivated her to go to San Francisco last year to marry her partner.
O'Donnell proceeded to assert: "The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't. And we are losing the democracy that we're trying to sell in the Mideast and everywhere else right here in our own nation."
Rivera: "I adore your outspokenness, as I said at the top, but when you say things about the President, don't you risk alienating half of the country, and especially when you're in a mass medium, doing TV movies and such? Don't you risk kind of crippling yourself in terms of commercial success?"
O'Donnell was undeterred and really let loose: "Well, you know, I don't know. All I know is that when I was a kid the Vietnam war was on and Jane Fonda was the own person standing up and saying what every kid who was nine-years-old like I was knew, war is wrong and we shouldn't go over and kill other people in a country that has nothing to do with us or our democracy.
"You know, this President invaded a sovereign nation in defiance of the UN. He is basically a war criminal. Honestly. He should be tried at The Hague. This man lied to the American public about the reasons for invading a nation that had nothing to do with 9-11. And as a Democrat, as a member of this democracy, as somebody who is a mother who cares very much about the fact that our sons and daughters are being asked to give their lives daily, I feel I have a responsibility to speak out, as does every other person who disagrees with this administration. And it's scary in a country that you can say something against the President and then worry about your career. That Dan Rather gets taken off CBS News for writing, for saying a report that essentially was true, that George Bush did not show up-"
Rivera jumped in to cut her off: "Okay, okay, we get it, we get it!"
O'Donnell: "Okay. There you go. But anyway. It infuriates me."
Rivera: "Riding the Bus with My Sister is going to be a great film. Andie McDowell. Directed by Angelica Huston."
O'Donnell: "See my publicist, she starts screaming, ‘stop talking about politics.' It's a good movie. It's on CBS. But you know what, Geraldo, you always speak your mind. So when I'm with somebody like you, it encourages me."
Rivera: "I throw you a kiss, I throw you a kiss. Good luck. One and only Rosie O'Donnell. You may not agree with her, probably don't, but she speaks her mind."
Be Tried at The Hague"
Rosie O'Donnell: President George W. Bush is a "war criminal." In a taped interview with FNC's Geraldo Rivera aired on Saturday night to promote O'Donnell's role in the CBS Sunday night Hallmark Hall of Fame movie, Riding the Bus with My Sister, O'Donnell charged that since Bush "invaded a sovereign nation in defiance of the UN, he is basically a war criminal. Honestly. He should be tried at The Hague." In her rant, O'Donnell also insisted it's "scary" how "Dan Rather gets taken off CBS News for writing, for saying a report that essentially was true, that George Bush did not show up."
Two other celebrities also made clear over the weekend their opposition to President Bush. Friday night on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, actor Martin Short declared: "I voted for John Kerry." And at a Saturday night concert in Glendale, Arizona, the Arizona Republic reported, Bruce Springsteen "ad-libbed a ‘that's right' after one audience member yelled ‘(Expletive) the President" at one point." The DrudgeReport.com highlighted the May 1 Arizona Republic story which is online at: www.azcentral.com
The Internet Movie Database's page on Short: www.imdb.com
Comedy Central's page for Short's show, Primetime Glick: www.comedycentral.com
O'Donnell spewed her remarks in a taped session aired on FNC on the April 30 edition of At Large with Geraldo Rivera. As she sat in front of a screen with the title of the CBS movie set to air the next night, Sunday May 1, Riding the Bus with My Sister, she launched into a rant about how "disgusted" she is with President Bush's opposition to same-sex marriage and how Bush's position motivated her to go to San Francisco last year to marry her partner.
O'Donnell proceeded to assert: "The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't. And we are losing the democracy that we're trying to sell in the Mideast and everywhere else right here in our own nation."
Rivera: "I adore your outspokenness, as I said at the top, but when you say things about the President, don't you risk alienating half of the country, and especially when you're in a mass medium, doing TV movies and such? Don't you risk kind of crippling yourself in terms of commercial success?"
O'Donnell was undeterred and really let loose: "Well, you know, I don't know. All I know is that when I was a kid the Vietnam war was on and Jane Fonda was the own person standing up and saying what every kid who was nine-years-old like I was knew, war is wrong and we shouldn't go over and kill other people in a country that has nothing to do with us or our democracy.
"You know, this President invaded a sovereign nation in defiance of the UN. He is basically a war criminal. Honestly. He should be tried at The Hague. This man lied to the American public about the reasons for invading a nation that had nothing to do with 9-11. And as a Democrat, as a member of this democracy, as somebody who is a mother who cares very much about the fact that our sons and daughters are being asked to give their lives daily, I feel I have a responsibility to speak out, as does every other person who disagrees with this administration. And it's scary in a country that you can say something against the President and then worry about your career. That Dan Rather gets taken off CBS News for writing, for saying a report that essentially was true, that George Bush did not show up-"
Rivera jumped in to cut her off: "Okay, okay, we get it, we get it!"
O'Donnell: "Okay. There you go. But anyway. It infuriates me."
Rivera: "Riding the Bus with My Sister is going to be a great film. Andie McDowell. Directed by Angelica Huston."
O'Donnell: "See my publicist, she starts screaming, ‘stop talking about politics.' It's a good movie. It's on CBS. But you know what, Geraldo, you always speak your mind. So when I'm with somebody like you, it encourages me."
Rivera: "I throw you a kiss, I throw you a kiss. Good luck. One and only Rosie O'Donnell. You may not agree with her, probably don't, but she speaks her mind."