Carrie Fisher’s life would make a great book.
Oh, wait, the actress turned author already mined her sordid past both for her hilarious fiction and a recently released memoir. “Wishful Drinking.”
Her battles with addiction and mental illness are legendary, but to “Star Wars” geeks like myself she’ll always have a “Get Out of Jail Free” card for being Princess Leia.
But Fisher’s latest comments nearly turned me against the pint-sized princess of my childhood.
Here’s Fisher letting loose on politics to PopEater.com (Hat tip: Big Hollywood):
Is there anyone you haven’t met that you’ve always wanted to?
Obama.
I’m surprised you haven’t met him.
I know. I love him. Hopefully I’ll meet him sometime. I’m just happy he exists.
(WWTW note: Fisher speaks as if it’s Nov. 2008, and we haven’t seen the broken promise-palooza that is the Obama administration, nor his inept work with the Gulf oil spill crisis. Good thing Kool-Aid is alcohol free …)
Do you think Tea Party is just people who are pissed that there is an African-American president?
Yup, and the fact that they chose to call themselves “teabaggers,” which is slang for a certain act involving b***s. It sort of says a lot. I would say a mouthful. Looks like it’s very upsetting for them, but he’s brilliant. The thing is, he’s half white but that’s still not enough — for them it’s all white or f**k off. I think we don’t deserve him and certainly teabaggers don’t deserve him.
What can you say about her comments? Ugly, hateful and utterly ill-informed is a good start. Tea Party members don’t call themselves Tea Baggers – their critics (as well as CNN anchors) use that slur. She can’t even get that basic fact straight.
Next, she slanders the entire movement as racist. Well, if you can’t argue the facts or discuss the administration’s out of control deficit you better play the race card – stat.
And has she missed liberals like Congressman Charlie Rangel and James Carville slamming Obama’s handling of the oil crisis? Or how ’bout liberal doyenne Maureen Dowd mocking Obama in her most recent op-ed? Are they racists, too?
We’ve got a long way to go before Dec. 31, 2010, but Fisher’s comments could be the most ignorant rant from a celebrity all year. At least let’s hope so.
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I’ll give her credit for saying exactly what the left thinks without trying to hide behind any PC garbage. It may be arrogant,bigoted and ignorant but it’s honest.
Anytime I hear someone on the left and the MSM trying to parse their words when talking about the Tea Party movement I’ll think of what Carrie Fisher said.
Wow. We’re going to have to change her title from Princess Leia to Cleopatra, Queen of Denial.
Hey cut her some slack. The reason she speaks as if it’s 2008 is due to the Shock Therapy. Kinda lose your memory and your filters. But she’s never really had filters, that’s one reason she is CARRIE FISHER. I just love her. She’s has a great wit. Just because your politics are on the opposite side of what she is saying, you shouldn’t knock her. Maybe it’s because I am politically a moderate, that I find the laughs from the left and the right. Try laughing at both sides,it makes life much easier.
She is a great wit, Mo, but that doesn’t inoculate her against hateful commentary. Labeling a third or a fourth of the American people ‘racist’ is flat out wrong. And it’s not remotely funny. I’ll laugh at those who mock the Right when it’s funny – Jon Stewart is a prime example. But no one is above criticism.
Just so I’ve got this straight, Mo: she accuses a group of people of racism, simply because they don’t agree with her politics, and the real problem is that I don’t find that funny?