Actor Brosnan says Bush 'has a lot to answer for' [View All]

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http://www.metronews.ca/reuters_entertainment.asp?id=93542

Tuesday, September 06, 2005 8:47:56 AM ET

By Shiraz Sidhva

DEAUVILLE, France (Hollywood Reporter) - Pierce Brosnan was the only big star on hand as the Deauville Festival of American Cinema got off to a quiet start over the weekend, and he took advantage of the spotlight to blast the Bush administration's handling of the carnage caused by Hurricane Katrina.

"This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for," the former James Bond actor told reporters Saturday. "I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful."

Huh, unbeknownst to me, Pierce is a tad political:

http://www.gsinstitute.org/archives/000210.shtml

A Message of Hope from Pierce Brosnan

Dear Friends:

When I look into the eyes of my children, I remember why I am committed to working for a safer world, a world without nuclear weapons.

Imagine a world without organizations like the Global Security Institute. Could we survive if the voices of conscience, reason, law, security, and morality, advocating the elimination of nuclear weapons were silenced? Such silence in the face of present dangers is unacceptable.

When our leaders are pressing for preemptive military use of nuclear weapons, resumption of nuclear testing, and the creation of new more “usable” nuclear weapons, clear, competent, morally coherent voices must be heard at the highest levels of power and politics.

I know personally that the Global Security Institute has the expertise, experience, and the political access to move policy and decision makers in the right direction. Please join me in supporting their work with as much generosity as you can afford.

In Peace,

Pierce Brosnan

And I see I'm just a silly foreigner anyhow; he apparently gets invited to vacation with the Clintons, and is involved in environmental causes and supported Grey Davis.

Anyhow, since his statement was made in France, I just figgered it might not get much play in the US media, although the Reuters report has been picked up in a number of other places:
http://news.google.ca/news?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&tab=wn&ncl=http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx%3Ftype%3DentertainmentNews%26storyID%3D2005-09-06T075827Z_01_FOR628617_RTRIDST_0_ENTERTAINMENT-DEAUVILLE-DC.XML