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April 18, 2003:
PoliSat.Com's
Political Satire/Commentary
Daily Update #01··™©·2003····
Petroskey, I'm sorry you
said you are "sorry."·
Petroskey for baseball had hit a home-run*
in telling Sarandon and Robbins "Don't come--
Your presence ain't groovey
to honor your movie,
'Bull Durham,'" but now his home-run he's undone.
Responding to Tim in his crybaby state,**
Petroskey in error implies a mistake
was calling it off
by mail without talk,
and thus he's refusing to step-on home-plate.
In "hindsight" he calls it an impolite act
in failing to call before sending the fax
in hopes they'd eschew
contemptible views
as though their mere silence could clean-up their act.
The
right of free speech allows people to choose
to speak on behalf of contemptible views,
but doesn't oblige
that others provide
a platform of honor in spite of their views.
But Robbins' response to Petroskey's "I'm sorry,"
exemplifies why he should not say "I'm sorry,"
'cause Robbins' reply
attempts to belie
that Dale 'stead of Tim should be saying "I'm sorry."···
Inspired by an April
18, 2003, news report about a letter Petroskey published to say he's
"sorry" for not having called Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon before
issuing his cancellation of the planned Hall of Fame celebration of the 15th
anniversary of Bull Durham. Because Petroskey's letter
expressed regret for not having called Robbins and Sarandon before canceling the
event but not for the decision to cancel it, Robbins characterized it as a
"non-apology apology."
In typical style of a narcissistic celebrity, Robbins
asserted that "Petroskey's actions resulted in a bipartisan, nationwide affirmation of free speech and the First
Amendment," which obviously was not the result. Any alleged
"nationwide affirmation" related to mere manners rather than
"free speech and the First Amendment." Petroskey's
cancellation of the celebration had nothing to do with infringement of free
speech. Instead, it exemplified the exercise of rights of free speech and
free association to express distaste for, and to refuse to accord
the dignity of social acceptability to, such passionate proponents of such
contemptible views.
Just as Petroskey would have been right to withdraw an
invitation to someone who had chosen to make himself a passionate spokesman for
racist views, he was equally right to have withdrawn the invitation to Robbins
and Sarandon in light of their passionate promotion of vitriolic views deemed
highly offensive by an overwhelming majority of sensible Americans. This
was especially so at a time when the risks to American military forces
varied inversely in relation to the Hussein regime's false perception (which had
just recently been reinforced by Peter Arnett***)
that there was a growing (rather than shrinking) anti-war sentiment among
influential Americans (rather than those losing influence and respect) such that
tactics to protract the conflict or increase casualties would lead to a
political solution satisfactory to the Butcher of Baghdad.
·*·To
read/view "Petroskey's home run-- an error undone," go here.
·**·To
read/view "Though Robbins loves dishing it out, as dishee, he's a whiner
who pouts," go here.
·***·To
view/read about Baby Milk Factory II, go
here, and Arnett's Fog on the Mirror, go
here.
--Jim
Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com.·
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April 16, 2003:
PoliSat.Com's
Political Satire/Commentary
Daily Update #01··™©·2003···
Though Robbins loves
dishing it out,
on being dish-ee, he's a whiner who pouts.·
Though Robbins loves dishing it out,
his speech to the press removes doubt
that being dish-ee
has caused him to be
a whiner who cries and who pouts.
Click image at left to view animated version.···
·
Tim Robbins has said many outrageously offensive things, but
among the things he's done I found the most offensive was his behavior at a
London anti-war rally I witnessed on C-SPAN. Not only did he attribute to
mere motives for "profit" the plans for use of force to disarm Saddam
Hussein, he joined hands and raised arms with the Mayor of London immediately
after the Mayor characterized America's war on terror as a "racist"
war and characterized Bush as "the most racist President in American
history." (Ostensibly, he agrees with Belafonte
that Colin Powell, Condi Rice and Rod Paige aren't really "black" or
are merely "house slaves.") Such irresponsible statements and
behavior merely reinforce hate-speech so prevalent in the Arab press, which
still contends the CIA and the Mossad flew the airliners into the Towers and the
Pentagon.
Yet in speaking before the National Press Club today, Robbins
seems amazed that people such as I find his behavior so offensive that we would
rather walk through broken glass than have one more penny of our money ever find
its way into his pocket. It's a free country and people such as Robbins
are free to make asses of themselves and as well as being free to whine like
babies when people with better sense express their utter contempt for them and
choose to have nothing further to do with them.
His whining about Petroskey's cancellation of the Baseball
Hall of Fame "celebration" of the 15th anniversary of Bull
Durham and his other complaints about being so harshly criticized for his
anti-war demagoguery manifest his fundamental lack of understanding of the right
of free speech. (He seems to think "free speech" is an
"entitlement" rather than a right-- a distinction apparently beyond
his intellectual capacity.) It's irrelevant whether Robbins had planned to
make political statements (or even promised not to do so) at the Hall of Fame
event. To have allowed him onto the platform would have been a form of
speech by the Hall of Fame. Given the spectacle he's made of himself, his
mere presence would have been a form of speech-- an embarrassment to the Hall of
Fame and a source of disgust to most of its supporters. If those who have
entrusted such judgmental decisions to Petroskey find the judgment he exercised
on their behalf to have been offensive, they can fire him. I'm sure they
won't.
One who has made a public spectacle of himself by willfully
and repeatedly exhibiting contemptible behavior does not have a
"right" to appear on anybody else's platform because the very act of
allowing such appearance accords tacit dignity to the one who has achieved
well-deserved notoriety for contemptible behavior. I have no doubt that if
Robbins were to have recently begun passionately endorsing segregationist
policies rather than trashing America's motives in Iraq, Petroskey would have
made the same decision. Both kinds of behavior are fundamentally
offensive, in my opinion, to the vast majority of people whom the Baseball Hall
of Fame seeks to serve.
Pete Rose merely gambled on Baseball-- he's banned from
baseball. Jimmy the Greek merely made offensive statements that slavery
had somehow contributed to the athletic skills of blacks-- he was immediately
fired. Another baseball official, whose name I can't recall, lost his job
years ago after making what some interpreted as racially patronizing statements
to Ted Koppel on Nightline in an interview in which the official's very purpose
in being a guest on Nightline was to honor and laud Jackie Robinson as a pioneer
against racism.
In my opinion, Robbins is lower than pond scum and a crybaby
to boot. That's why I, and I think many other Americans, will consciously
strive to avoid even mere pennies of our money ever again finding their way into
the pockets of Robbins, Sarandon, Martin Sheen, Mike Farrell, Janeane Garofalo,
Ed Asner, and a host of other entertainers suffering delusions of importance and
intellectual acuity. To metaphorically paraphrase an old cliche:
"Those who live by the free market, die by the free market." --Jim
Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com.·
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Update: ·http://polisat.com/du2003/du030430.htm#20030416-01·™©2003.
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April 10, 2003: PoliSat.Com's
Political Satire/Commentary
Daily Update #01··™©·2003···
Petroskey's home-run:
An error undone.·
A Hall of Fame error has now been undone:
By telling Sarandon and Robbins "Don't come--
You're presence ain't groovey
to honor your movie,
Bull Durham," the error's become a
home-run.
Click image at left to view the animation.··
·
Inspired by an April
9, 2003, report that Dale Petroskey, President of the Baseball Hall of Fame,
canceled a 15th-year-anniversary "celebration" of the baseball movie,
"Bull Durham," at which Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, who starred in
the movie, were scheduled to appear. In canceling the event, Petroskey
cited the Hall of Fame's unwillingness to host an event that could provide a
platform for Sarandon and Robbins to express their hostility toward our military
action in Iraq. Laughably, Robbins' indignant response criticized
Petroskey for using his "position at the Hall of Fame to make a political
statement." Exemplifying his utter lack of understanding of the
fundamental notions of free speech, Robbins further characterized the Hall of
Fame's refusal to serve as a platform for Robbins' and Sarandon's political
views as somehow "dishonor[ing] 'patriotism' and 'freedom.'" --Jim
Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com.·
