Wednesday, January 5, 2005
Good heart, but....
According to an NBC news item quoting The Associated Press, Richard Gere told a Palestinian news person, "Hi, I'm Richard Gere, and I'm speaking for the entire world. We're with you during this election time. It's really important: Get out and vote." Just for the record, Richard Gere doesn't speak for the entire world (see entry 3038 at Fresh Bilge) and, gee, isn't it kind of presumptious of him to say so without asking each (or at least a whole bunch) of us? I guess it's fair to say that most westerners support voting qua voting - as opposed to not voting - but (a) isn't that the issue in Iraq right now, duh? and (b) it's too bad he's insecure enough that he feels he has to make so much more of it than that. (Rats. Now I feel bad. I commend him for caring enough to be involved in ways other than writing holiday songs or screaming on tv magazine shows. And I realize that some people listen to celebrities just because they're who they are. But sometimes they kind of overblow their own importance, you know what I mean?)
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