Richard Dreyfuss for President

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Richard Dreyfuss for President

 

 

 

 

I just fell in love with Richard Dreyfuss and couldn't

think of a better _expression than to nominate him over

the usual wusses for our leader. He spoke up for

impeachment of Bush today (see below) in a way that

not a single member of our spineless, goosestepping,

cowered, cya-absorbed Congress (except maybe Byrd,

Waters and just a couple of others) would do. S.

 

 

 

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=\Politics\archive\200602\POL2006021\

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See Video

http://www.cnsnews.com/cns/video/2006/060216rhRichardDreyfuss02-Process.wvx

 

 

 

Impeaching Bush Is 'Cause Worth Fighting for,' Actor Says

By Randy Hall

CNSNews.com Staff Writer/Editor

February 17, 2006

 

(CNSNews.com) - Richard Dreyfuss, the actor who starred in movies

ranging from " Jaws " to " Mr. Holland's Opus, " told an audience in

Washington, D.C., on Thursday that " there are causes worth fighting

for, " and one of those is the impeachment of President George W. Bush.

 

" There are causes worth fighting for even if you know that you will

lose, " Dreyfuss said during a speech at the National Press Club.

" Unless you are willing to accept torture as part of a normal American

political lexicon, unless you are willing to accept that leaving the

Geneva Convention is fine and dandy, if you accept the expansion of

wiretapping as business as usual, the only way to express this now is

to embrace the difficult and perhaps embarrassing process of

impeachment. " See Video

 

Noting that the process was established by the country's " founders,

who we revere to check executive abuse with congressional balance, "

Dreyfuss said impeachment " is a statement that we refuse to endorse

bad behavior. " See Video

 

" If we refuse to debate the appropriateness of the process of

impeachment, we endorse that behavior, and we approve the enlargement

of executive power, " regardless of whoever may occupy the White House

in the future, he said.

 

" And don't kid yourselves: No one ever gives up power, ever, " Dreyfuss

added.

 

" Now, it is not your job as the press to impeach George Bush, " the

actor stated. However, people in the media should " maintain the

integrity of that debate " by not dismissing the topic out of hand as

partisan or unpatriotic.

 

During his address on the subject of Hollywood's view of contemporary

news media, Dreyfuss said he is not a cynic or a liberal, but is

instead a " 'libo-conservo-middle-of-the-roado,' and I have been for

many years. "

 

" I'm deeply in love with my country, " he added. " As a matter of fact,

I'm deeply in love with the country that I was taught about in school,

the land of the free and the home of the brave. "

 

Nevertheless, Dreyfuss charged that " people can sometimes be pretty

thoughtless, pretty terrified and do some pretty impressive damage "

when they are wrong or " are the victims of political hypnosis. "

 

In the past, " time and distance played an amazing part in keeping the

human race from killing itself, " the actor noted. The need for revenge

after an attack " inevitably weakened because it took a lot of time to

get men into ships and move them to the right battlefield. Only those

truly staunch of heart and truly zealous could keep up that hatred.

 

" But now, people in Kansas see the [Twin] Towers fall at the exact

instant as people in Nigeria or Cairo, " he said. " Instantaneous

knowledge leads to instantaneous reaction, which creates a demand for

an instantaneous, reflexive response. "

 

Dreyfuss blamed part of that reaction on television newscasters, who

" fill the air with the same terrible clips, the same blaring intro

music, the same screaming fonts, and then the same clips again and the

same screaming fonts again and again to fill up these news cycles. "

 

" Television did this. Television created the sound bite and then

shrunk it, " the actor said. " Television replaced words with images so

that people make extraordinary decisions based not on prose or any

attempt at analysis, " but on pictures instead. See Video

 

The actor saved his harshest tone for those who accuse critics of the

government and its officials of having a more serious motive.

 

" Watch me lose my sense of humor if people accuse me of treason, "

Dreyfuss said before mocking two of the Fox News Channel's most

popular hosts. " 'That's not very O'Reilly of you, Mister

Smarty-Pants,' or 'What would Sean Hannity have to say about that,

Mister Too-Complex-for-Your-Own-Good?' " See Video

 

However, " none of this happened because of any conspiracy, " he stated.

" This happened because we have not paid attention to the new rules of

the electronic media. "

 

To restore true American values, the actor called for children to be

taught " the tools of debate and dissent, " as well as a return to the

principle of civility, which he called " the oxygen that democracies

require else they become poisoned and die, as this democracy will. "

 

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