Brigitte Bardot Swipes at Palin

[Joanne98]

Reprinted from www.huffingtonpost.com:

French film legend-turned-activist Brigitte Bardot took a swipe at Sarah Palin on Tuesday, saying the US vice presidential candidate was a disgrace to women.

"I hope you lose these elections because that would be a victory for the world," Bardot wrote in an open letter to Republican John McCain's running mate in the November vote.

"By denying the responsibility of man in global warming, by advocating gun rights and making statements that are disconcertingly stupid, you are a disgrace to women and you alone represent a terrible threat, a true environmental catastrophe," wrote Bardot.

The screen icon from the 1960s, who now heads an animal rights foundation, went on to assail Palin for supporting Arctic oil exploration that could jeopardize delicate animal habitats and for dismissing measures to protect polar bears.

"This shows your total lack of responsibility, your inability to protect or simply respect animal life," Bardot wrote.

In a final salvo against Palin, the 74-year-old ex-star picked up on Palin's depiction of herself as a pitbull wearing lipstick and said she "implored" her not to compare herself to dogs.

"I know them well and I can assure you that no pitbull, no dog, nor any other animal for that matter is as dangerous as you are," Bardot wrote.
Posted by Cait at 12:38 PM

http://legerdenez.blogspot.com/2008/10/brigitte-bardot-swipes-at-palin.html

[RoadRage]

1. Daaayyyyyymmmm

I think Palin just got TOLD.

[madaboutharry]

2. I bet Brigitte isn't to crazy about the shooting

wolves from helicopter thing either. I have always loved Brigitte Bardot. She is a very intelligent and good woman.

[msallied]

3. Bloody hell! LOVE that!! LOL!

[Satyagrahi]

4. Bardot is worse than Palin

In a 2001 article named, Open Letter to My Lost France, she said: "...my country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims."<17><19>

In her 2003 book, A Scream in the Silence, she warned of the “Islamicization of France”, and said of Muslim immigration:

"Over the last twenty years, we have given in to a subterranean, dangerous, and uncontrolled infiltration, which not only resists adjusting to our laws and customs but which will, as the years pass, attempt to impose its own."<20>

In the book, she goes on and talks about her homosexual friends, and said today's homosexuals, "jiggle their bottoms, put their little fingers in the air and with their little castrato voices moan about what those ghastly heteros put them through".

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On 10 June 2004 Bardot was convicted by a French court of "inciting racial hatred" and fined 5,000 €, the fourth such conviction/fine she has received from French courts. The courts cited passages where Bardot referred to the "Islamisation of France" and the "underground and dangerous infiltration of Islam"<22>. Bardot's book also attacked "the mixing of genes" and compared her beliefs with previous generations who had "given their lives to push out invaders".<23>

Bardot denied the "racial hatred" charge and apologized in court, saying: "I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody. It is not in my character.<24> She excused her opposition to interracial marriage stating that she was born in 1934 and such marriage was looked down on then.<25>

In 2008, she was convicted of inciting racial/religious hatred in relation to a letter she wrote, a copy of which she sent to Nicolas Sarkozy when he was Interior Minister of France. The letter stated her objections to Muslims in France ritually slaughtering sheep by slitting their throats without stunning them first. She also objected to France's rapidly growing Muslim community trying to take over France and impose their culture, values, lifestyles etc. on France and its native people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Bardot#Politics.2C_controversy_and_legal_issues

[madaboutharry]

8. That is rather distrubing information.

And disappointing as well. :(

[ForeignSpectator]

9. Heard about that before but I really must disagree that she is worse than Palin...

Because Palin has all that Bardot has plus all the other stuff such as disregard for nature and all the religous super-nuttery.

[Window]

5. Damn. Bridget read her off the page!

:rofl:

[1corona4u]

6. Go Brigitte!!!

[ContinentalOp]

7. Poor Brigitte.

It's a good thing she isn't American or she would be forced to choose between an animal killer and one of those dark skinned people who she hates so much. Her head would probably explode.

[Frustratedlady]

10. Sweet! That's the only good thing about growing old.

You can speak your mind and people think you are spirited.

WTG, Brigitte!

[RollWithIt]

11. Odd, Bardot is a bigtime racist and homophobe.... convicted in France multiple times...

http://jonathanturley.org/2008/06/04/brigitte-bardot-convicted-of-hate-speech-and-discrimination/

It could be a sequel to her role in Jean-Luc Godard’s film Contempt. Actress Brigitte Bardot has contempt for Muslims, homosexuals, immigrants and many others. It is quite a list and few people would frankly care much about what the aging starlet thinks about such subjects. However, in France, it appears to be a crime. Bardot was convicted this week of provoking discrimination and racial hatred for writing that Muslims are destroying France. It is another example of the assault against free speech in Western countries. The punishment of such views is even more outrageous than the views themselves.

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A Paris court also handed down a $23,325 fine against the former screen siren and animal rights campaigner. The court also ordered Bardot to pay $1,555 in damages to MRAP.

Bardot’s lawyer, Francois-Xavier Kelidjian, said he would talk to her about the possibility of an appeal.

A leading French anti-racism group known as MRAP filed a lawsuit last year over a letter she sent to then-Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy. The remarks were published in her foundation’s quarterly journal.

In the December 2006 letter to Sarkozy, now the president, Bardot said France is “tired of being led by the nose by this population that is destroying us, destroying our country by imposing its acts.”

Bardot, 73, was referring to the Muslim feast of Aid el-Kebir, celebrated by slaughtering sheep.

French anti-racism laws prevent inciting hatred and discrimination on racial or religious or racial grounds. Bardot had been convicted four times previously for inciting racial hatred.

“She is tired of this type of proceedings,” he said. “She has the impression that people want to silence her. She will not be silenced in her defense of animal rights.”