In Defense of Chevy Chase’s Right to Call Bush a Dumb F*ck

[patdem]

by Jackson Thoreau

http://www.bartcop.com/chevy-jackson.htm

I’ve long liked Chevy Chase, but now I like him even more. He joins Jon Stewart and Bill Maher as my favorite comedians.
To stand up and call Bush a dumb fuck at a hoity-toity event like one hosted by the People for the American Way in mid-December http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3216-2004Dec15.html>, takes some guts. Chase just said what most of us want to say,
but doubt we would if we had a national stage like Chase has and had to worry about pissing off fans who pay to see our movies and acts.

And I don’t know why Democrats and liberal-types have to apologize for, and distance themselves from, Chase, such as some with the People
for the American Way and others on Fox shows like Hannity’s did. They come off sounding like wimps, and maybe a lot of liberals are wimps
.

Don’t call Chase’s remarks offensive and act like Bush is a legitimate U.S. president. Just say Chase’s opinions are his own and leave it at that. I mean,
if Cheney, who is supposedly a moral statesman, can use the f-word on the floor of Congress, a comedian can surely use it at an awards ceremony.

Bill O’Reilly, that purveyor of morality who paid millions to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit by an employee after transcripts revealed he admitted to having extramarital affairs amid phone sex with her, was indignant at Chase daring to "disrespect" the president this way.


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[genieroze]

1. They are wimps * is a Dumb F**k. eom

[AverageJoe]

2. Chase's opinions are his own

and they're mine, too!

Go, Chevy! Go, Chevy!

If everyone who understands the truth about * and his maladministration just had the guts to say it, this house of cards would tumble down.

[madrchsod]

3. i`ve always thought chevy

was a poor bill murray and not really funny but now i think he`s ok. anyone who gets up in front of the swells and calls bush a dumb fuck is ok in this blue collar democrats mind. if the swells don`t like to hear just what we think well they are dumb fucks to. it`s disrepecting the man not the office. to bad the swells refuse to stand up and be counted...i guess we can`t say what we think anymore in this country.

[Freebird12004]

4. "We can speak out"

If - as our forefather's did - we are willing to pay the price -Freedom isn't Free !

[Kathy in Cambridge]

9. "Freedom Isn't Free" is a RW talking point

care to elaborate for us?

[shrike]

5. Why apologize? He's right

Bushm et. al. are always wrong and they never apologize.

[texpatriot2004]

6. Go Chevy, speak your mind, you're right!

[peterh]

7. Hey…it’s not like Chevy said anything that was all together revelational…

Heck…an aide for then-Prime Minister Jean Chretien referred to the twit as a moron….
We have an Englishman, in reference to the twits role in a nativity scene, saying he doesn’t have the IQ of a hamster….so it’s not like the world doesn’t know he’s a friggin’ dumbfuck…there’s just different ways of saying it and Chevy just took it to the core….






http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6678959/

An Englishman from Blackpool also joked about the American president's role. “Bush hasn’t got the IQ of a hamster,” said Barry Vowell.

[gottaB]

8. Who exactly is apologizing? Ralph Neas?

He represents People for the American Way. I don't want to see that group weakened for the sake of a claptrap insult.

"It was not what I would have said, and certainly not the language People for the American Way would ever use in discussing any president of the United States."

Neas isn't saying Chase doesn't have a "right" to call Bush a dumb fuck. He's saying that his group doesn't talk that way.

If you want to call Bush a dumb fuck, just go ahead and do it. People for the American Way is not going to stop you. The Democratic Party is not going to stop you. Only a total dumb fuck would fall into the trap of believing this has anything at all to do with the Dems.