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[sophiaserpentia]

People who took my poll about Johnny Depp's anti-US comments should take note, and ponder what this tells us about the experience of being rich and famous:

"I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it," Depp said in a statement released by his Los Angeles-based publicist. "It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country and for this I am eternally grateful."

... Explaining his comments a day later, Depp he had been using a metaphor that was taken "radically out of context," adding, "There was no anti-American sentiment."

"What I was saying was that, compared to Europe, America is a very young country and we are still growing as a nation," he said. "My deepest apologies to those who were offended, affected, or hurt by this insanely twisted deformation of my words and intent."

from Actor Johnny Depp Disavows Anti-American Quotes

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[liminalia.livejournal.com]

Should I laugh, or shake my head?

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

I did both.

[soulsong.livejournal.com]

Heh. I really believed he'd stick one finger up at the self-righteous patriots. More fool me.

[mb2u]

I just knew it...:P

[herbalgrrl.livejournal.com]

dickless wonder

[lassiter.livejournal.com]

Sellout prick. Hunter Thompson needs to bitch-slap the boy.

Here, Johnny. Let the good Doctor show your how it's done:

From http://espn.go.com/page2/s/thompson/030722.html

When I went into the clinic last April 30, George Bush was about 50 points ahead of his closest Democratic opponent in next year's Presidential Election. When I finally escaped from the horrible place, less than three weeks late, Bush's job-approval ratings had been cut in half -- and even down into single digits, in some states -- and the Republican Party was panicked and on the run. It was a staggering reversal in a very short time, even shorter than it took for his equally crooked father to drop from 93 percent approval, down to as low as 43 percent and even 41 percent in the last doomed days of the first doomed Bush Administration. After that, he was Bill Clinton's punching bag.

Richard Nixon could tell us a lot about peaking too early. He was a master of it, because it beat him every time. He never learned and neither did Bush the Elder.

But wow! This goofy child president we have on our hands now. He is demonstrably a fool and a failure, and this is only the summer of '03. By the summer of 2004, he might not even be living in the White House. Gone, gone, like the snows of yesteryear.

The Rumsfield-Cheney axis has self-destructed right in front of our eyes, along with the once-proud Perle-Wolfowitz bund that is turning to wax. They somehow managed to blow it all, like a gang of kids on a looting spree, between January and July, or even less. It is genuinely incredible. The U.S. Treasury is empty, we are losing that stupid, fraudulent chickencrap War in Iraq, and every country in the world except a handful of Corrupt Brits despises us. We are losers, and that is the one unforgiveable sin in America.

Beyond that, we have lost the respect of the world and lost two disastrous wars in three years. Afghanistan is lost, Iraq is a permanent war Zone, our national Economy is crashing all around us, the Pentagon's "war strategy" has failed miserably, nobody has any money to spend, and our once-mighty U.S. America is paralyzed by Mutinies in Iraq and even Fort Bragg.

The American nation is in the worst condition I can remember in my lifetime, and our prospects for the immediate future are even worse. I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it. Our highway system is crumbling, our police are dishonest, our children are poor, our vaunted Social Security, once the envy of the world, has been looted and neglected and destroyed by the same gang of ignorant greed-crazed bastards who brought us Vietnam, Afghanistan, the disastrous Gaza Strip and ignominious defeat all over the world.

The Stock Market will never come back, our Armies will never again be No. 1, and our children will drink filthy water for the rest of our lives.

The Bush family must be very proud of themselves today, but I am not. Big Darkness, soon come. Take my word for it.

[aethyrflux.livejournal.com]

my sentiments, exactly.

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

What's even more sad is that two of the things on my poll happened exactly as I said them -- there was a statement from a publicist that the comments were 'out of context' and the apology/retraction was given in 48-72 hours, as I predicted.

So it's not just that celebrities do this, it is that the pattern has happened so many times I'm forced to wonder why celebrities should even bother having political views. It seems obvious to me that the Suits fret too much and will never allow someone as valuable as Johnny Depp to get away with making 'dangerous' comments.