Candidate proposes new movie rating: "T" for treason

[HFishbine]

This is what we are up against in NC. A candidate who is running for the congressional seat vacated by Richard Burr, who is running for John Edwards' vacated senate seat, has proposed a new moving rating system. From his web site:

I for one am sick of these Hollywood elitists. I think the Motion Picture Association of America should add a new movie rating to go along with the G, PG, PG-13, and R. A new rating of T for "Treason" would mean that all of the actors in this movie have given aid and comfort to the enemy in wartime and have interfered with the military operations of the United States.

http://vernonrobinson.com/robinson_contents/issues/#hollywood

[Gman]

1. Its frightening that someone like this is allowed to roam the streets

much less run for office.

[demnan]

2. Two words: Dixie Chicked

You just try to blacklist liberal Hollywood performers and you'll find out that people will flock to their movies so fast you would think it's a best selling Dixie Chicks concert.

[bif]

3. I hope he gets elected

The right-wing assholes deserve him!

[arcane1]

4. Mr. Robinson hates America

that much is plain to see. He doesn't seem to care much for democracy or free speech, either...

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

5. At the end:

"never go native"? Does that mean what I THINK it means?

[HFishbine]

8. Thanks

I hadn't seen that. Weird.

[Misinformed01]

10. He is really weird

Check out this quote from his website:

"And it was my lawsuit that eliminated the strict racial and gender quotas for membership on the UNC Board of Governors, as well as the blacks-only scholarships at UNC-Chapel Hill, Appalachian State, N.C. State, the N.C. School of the Arts, UNC-Greensboro, East Carolina, Western Carolina, UNC-Wilmington, UNC-Asheville, and UNC-Charlotte."

He's a fundie too.

Jesus Christ

[DevilsAdvocate2]

6. Okay then

This guy has been reading too much Ann Coulter. However, I do have a problem with any entertainer that bashes the capitalist system, yet doesn't mind making millions of dollars off of the same system, a la Sinead O' Connor

[HFishbine]

9. I see what you mean

Sort of like, oh, I dunno, Cheney condeming excessive government spending while Haliburton rakes it in.

[prolesunited]

16. Didn't you get the memo

It's OK when they do it. :eyes:

[Bridget Burke]

19. Which ones are they?

I know quite a few entertainers came out against the Iraq war. Here's one:



But I can't seem to recall any raging Marxists among them. Could you refresh my memory?

[Bandit]

26. So you have a problem with Free Speach?

:shrug: "I may not like what you say but will fight to the death your right to say it." Maybe it shouldn't be in quotes as it could be off by a word or two but the jist is exact. I guess you disagree with this sentiment.

[carlvs]

29. I'm just anti Neo-McCarthyism!

No, I just have a problem with those who use their free-speech rights to advocate the suppresion of those that disagree with them. In that case, I reserve the right to verbally "go postal" on their posteriors...

Carl

[Bandit]

30. Maybe you could give some examples

Like maybe Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Ashcraft, and the list goes on and on. Maybe you could provide more.

[DevilsAdvocate2]

31. No, I don't disagree with it

Anyone can say anything they want. I mean to say I find it disingenuous when someone rails against something yet continues to profit from it (or enjoy it) at the same time. Say, for example, someone like Rush Limbaugh telling everyone how terrible drug addicts are.

[Devlzown]

7. Looks like Strom Thurmond had another kid

we didn't know about.:evilgrin:

[Orrin_73]

13. LOL!!!

kucinich.us

deanforamerica.com
clark04.com
sharpton2004.org

Tom DeLay:"I challenge anyone to live on my salary" <$158,000 a year>

[Loonman]

11. Sounds insane

Exhuming McCarthy.

[bushisanidiot]

12. HAHAHAHAHA!! These types of moronic statements is what shows americans

how truly nazi-like the repuke party is!

you're either with us or against us. they want only one party in this country and they'll destroy everyone who disagrees with them.

[patricia92243]

14. I'm in NC. Who are you talking about?

[HFishbine]

15. Vernon Robinson

See the link in the original post. That's what it's there for.

How are things in A'ville. Every run across Funky Jay?

[Loonman]

17. He's a "rock" fan, too

http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/nation/7747194.htm

[HFishbine]

18. Oh yeah

That too!

Posted on Mon, Jan. 19, 2004

Commandments Honored at City Hall in N.C.
Associated Press

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - A city council member who said he was inspired by Alabama's ousted chief justice placed a one-ton granite monument to the Ten Commandments in front of City Hall on Monday while it was closed for the King Day holiday.

Vernon Robinson said he and four others acted on the holiday because the empty parking lot allowed room for a truck and crane, which they used to position the monument at dawn.

The 4-foot-tall, blue-granite block is inscribed on one side with the Ten Commandments and on the other side with the Bill of Rights.

"This display is intended to acknowledge the undeniable role that the Ten Commandments and Bill of Rights have played in developing the American legal tradition," said Robinson, a Republican who has been on the city council since 1998 and is running for a U.S. House seat. "These are the ideas on which society has been built and these works encapsulate the belief system on which the republic was founded."

[arcane1]

23. perpetuating the blatant lie...

that the US is somehow "based" on the bible.. though they never really tell you exactly what that means...

I guess America was the first country to outlaw stealing and murder? :shrug:

[tsakshaug]

20. idiot

Having read his screed on education...NCAE is NOT a teachers union. NC does not have teachers unions. I taught there for 10 low paid years.

[Cat Atomic]

21. Nothing like Nazis.

Nope.

Lalalalalalalala! I can't hear you- lalalalalala!!!

[KayLaw]

22. Straw actors

There aren't any actors who have interfered with the military operations of the United States, for Pete's sake, and he knows it. He must think he's playing to a really dumbass crowd.:crazy:

[arcane1]

24. correction:

he knows he's playing to a really dumbass crowd!

[PopSixSquish]

25. I Suggest that We Also Start Rating Candidates...

in this case - T stands for twit

[greekspeak]

28. Some ideas for the new candidate rating system.

We could also have "s" for stupid, "r" for reactionary, "src" for self-righteous conservative. Or "B" for Buffoon.

[greekspeak]

27. I suppose that it will be him or someone like him

who will decide what movies get the "T" rating. Maybe one should go to movies depicting those who lied to get us into war.