Danny Glover: Hero to the Media, Villain to the Intelligent
Get yourself ready for it. The media is going to praise Danny Glover for getting arrested for standing up for workers abused by capitalism run amok. On April 16, he was arrested at a protest against the Sodexo food service company for their treatment of workers. He’ll be hailed as a hero and other Hollywood stars will follow in his footsteps, if for no other reason than publicity, but Glover deserves no praise. He has a history of painting America as the problem and anti-American regimes as the saviors of the oppressed.
“We’re here today to say no more to deplorable pay and working conditions,” Glover shouted before he was arrested after crossing a police line. He wasn’t apprehended for the protest, but for deliberately provoking law enforcement. He was asked three times to move back over the yellow tape and refused.
His admiration for Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, who is surely treating his critics far worse than Sodexo is, gives us an idea of the lens through which Glover views the world. Chavez’s government donated $30 million to a film being made by Glover about Toussaint Louverture. The funding sparked protest from figures in the entertainment industry in Venezuela, who were then punished by having their film guilds shut down.
Glover sits on the advisory board of Telesur, the state-owned television network owned by Chavez’s government, and has frequently appeared on Chavez’s own show. This friendship is forged by anti-Americanism and support for the neo-Communist ideology of Chavez. Glover’s friend and fellow actor, Harry Belafonte, said during a trip to Venezuela he took with Glover that “no matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says, we’re here to tell you: Not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of the American people … support your revolution.” It doesn’t get much more Red than that.
Glover’s other hero is Fidel Castro. He signed a letter calling on the United Nations to defend Cuba against the U.S.’s accusations of human rights abuses, asking that it not “legitimize the anti-Cuban aggression of the administration of Bush.” The Cuban state media has written: “There’s an intense relationship between Danny Glover and Havana. It was love at first sight, and not only has it stood the test of his frequent visits, but it is growing deeper and deeper, through discoveries and affinities.”
Even more revolting was Glover’s reaction to the 9/11 attacks. His immediate reaction was to describe the U.S. as “one of the main purveyors of violence in the world,” drawing moral equivalence between the terrorist attacks and what he feels is American imperialism.
Danny Glover wants to fit into what Hollywood venerates, and what is fast becoming what Obama’s Washington venerates as well. It’s pretty scary.
Too bad they didn’t taze him
What an asshat!!! Another Hellywood idiot whose movies I will not see.
Just another in the line of left-wing dingbats who freely criticize this nation, and praise those nations run by tyrants, and yet refuse to leave this nation for their socialized, tyrannical utopias. Go figure?
For every black wealthy hater of America there are 20-decent black Americans.
Boycott any moving picture show with Glover in it; I certainly will.
Best idea…cut the America hater off at his knees. He hates this country, let him leave.
This goes for people like Sean Penn too..
If he love Venezuela so much, Hugo can have him.
Good idea. Sadly, that means no more “Lethal Weapon” or “Predator 2″, but I doubt I could stomach them with him in them, anyway. The left got all abuzz over Robinson’s and Limbaugh’s statement about the Haiti quake (rather wrongly, I think), but they seem to have conveniently forgotten Glover’s completely idiotic statement that the Earth caused it because of Copenhagen.
Glover, wearing a purple SEIU t-shirt, was arrested along with Andy Stern, outgoing SEIU president, who apparently has some pull at the White House. Between Inauguration Day and July 31, 2009, Stern visited the White House 22 times, meeting with the President seven times. Imagine my surprise if a couple of federal gentlemen in dark suits were to show up at Sodexo headquarters:
[Chicago accent]“Sure is a nice little food business you got here. It’d be a real shame if something was to happen to it.”
I can’t wait to see his face as this nations voters reestablish core principles.
The best way to make this idiot irrelevant is don’t go to any movie that he is in, don’t watch any new station,or talk show on which he is a “guest”. Hit him in his pocket book. Same for Michael Moore and Baldwin, and all the other “celebrities” that regularly vomit their opinions at us. If you regularly spend $10 or 12 dollars to go to movies get a life and do something else.
Professional sports are not much better if you don’t like the behavior of athletes don’t be dumb, stay home and play sports. $125 dollars to sit in some stadium seat for a couple of hours??
You won’t have much effect alone but you can at least say “I didn’t waste my money on that dumb bastard”.
Thank you PAJAMAS media!
Danny Glover & his buddy,Harry Belefonte are the reason I cancelled my AARP membership!AARP featured both of these traitors who “fiddle around with Fidel”,in the AARP magazine.(My husband had just qualified for AARP when he turned 50,so we joined.I was not yet eligible).
Please check it out for yourself & then cut ALL LIBERAL media “Snakes head’s” off at their lifeblood..$$$$ !!!…
‘DON’T TREAD ON ME”!
The media gives Mr. Glover too much time and credence. He is an actor and his high standard of living puts him well above the fray that most of us on this blog experience in our day to day existence. We have seen actors with a grasp on reality like Reagan and Thompson but we have also seen many Glover examples like a Schwarzenegger, Ventura and Franken.
Glover is one of the more ignorant and illiterate nincompoops to have ever found work in tinseltown. How does he pull off his lines? What lines ?!?
This is what happens when you sit across from Mel Gibson in 4 Lethal Weapon movies (like sitting in Reverend Wright’s church in Chicago, but on a lesser scale)
I have a very high regard for actors and musicians that stand for something besides their vast money and fame, whether its for the far right (John Wayne)to the far left (this guy).
However, these folks need to be taken with a grain of salt. They cannot replace real people as they are only iconic “wanna be’s” …They are comfortable and can afford the inconvenience where the real working poor and poor citizens cannot. And these companies (to include banks) that continue to exploit workers and break the law should also be shut down, their management jailed and their assets turned over to a trusteeship or a local charity like what happens to drug dealers whose assets are confiscated. Being exploited as a worker is horrible and these companies give genuine caring capitalist companies a bad name. We should not paint all companies with the same brush. Good Luck to working people !
I have low regard for the opinions of most actors and musicians in general. The problem is a detachment from reality.
They start out poor (but cool) as they try to break into the business. For the actors and musicians we can name, success happens so fast they become rich overnight. They never live as middle-class Americans who worry about affording a house, finding a better job, paying taxes, raising kids. In other words they have nothing in common with me.
Danny Glover actually got into acting later in life – after attending college in San Francisco in the 60′s and working as a city administrator. Real shocker that he’s a radical.
For many performers (actors/singers/musicians) success does depend on getting a lucky break. So it’s quite easy for them to assume that the same dynamic exists everywhere. A person is CEO because he got a lucky break. An engineer earns good money because he got a lucky break.
Once you decide that wealth is entirely due to luck, it’s quite easy to justify having the govt take some of that money in order to give to those who aren’t as “lucky”.
For every Oscar winner, there really are 20 or 30 waitresses who could do as good a job.
I don’t hold any actor in any higher regard than anyone else. John Wayne and Danny Glover are just actors. Most but not all actors and for that matter professional athletes are nothing more that self-centered and self-serving. I may listen to someone like Pat Tillman who put his life on the line for what they believe to be right. Danny Glover can go live in Cuba, Venezuela, or Chad if he wants to, but I don’t want to listen to him vomit ideas about what I should do or how I should live.
I can think of a few I respect. Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, Lee Marvin, even Jimmy Hendrix all served their country before their show biz careers. Ted Williams, Jimmy Stewart, and Ronald Reagan put their careers on hold when Uncle Sam called.
OK, I agree with the people you named. What about in the last 30 or 40 years? I know Jimmy Hendrix served in the 101st ABN. Not to many after him and if ther are any they aren’t as vocal as the idiots.
“Puddle of Mud” and “3 Doors Down” are two bands that have done a ton of stuff for the troops.
Dan Lauria is a Marine Vet and big troop supporter. Gary Sinise has been a lot of Patriotic work for our guys. I saw that J.J. Abrams, Chris Pine, Eric Bana, and Zoe Saldana from the new Star Trek movie made a trip to Iraq. I’m sure there are lots of other examples.
Many comedians have also visited deployed troops.
How could you possibly forget Bob Hope?
Glover, Sean Penn, Oliver Stone (& others) have found Oogoe very welcoming to their film making/acting activities.
Chavez would use American filmmakers to advance his ideological agenda.
Danny Glover had the brilliant idea that global warming was responsible for recent tectonic events in Haiti.
His buddy Oogoe loves Ahmadinejhad, so we’ll assume Glover, with a proclivity to all things totalitarian, does as well.
Here’s another wacko earthquake theory Danny would likely endorse
Women who wear revealing clothing cause earthquakes
Well the Pew Poll is out, and 80 percent of Americans now don’t trust their government. And the likely Glover explanation? It’s official, 80 percent of Americans are racists. Pew.
“whether its for the far right (John Wayne)”
John Wayne was a monarchist? First I’ve heard of it. I don’t recall him ever giving a speech praising throne and altar!
Wayne was so right wing, he agreed with JFK and LBJ that we should try to keep the communists out of South Vietnam. Crazy right-wingers all.
“His immediate reaction was to describe the U.S. as “one of the main purveyors of violence in the world,” drawing moral equivalence between the terrorist attacks and what he feels is American imperialism.”
He’s partly right. The US military budget alone is more than the GDP of any number of countries combined. Our national dialogue includes a war on terror, a war on drugs, and so on. Recently, Ms Palin tweeted to her followers: RELOAD. We have a lot of warlike imagery/iconography. Noticing that this is true isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
And the US is getting really close to being an empire. Of course, he’s wrong in that the US seems to be being dragged toward this kicking and screaming; it doesn’t want the gig. The word “imperialism” implies wanting the gig, but despite that there’s also some truth there as well: some of us do.
Re Glover’s actions bear in mind that our culture has so much happening at any given time that often what gets noticed is noticed only because it’s over the top. It’s a signal:noise ratio problem. Either way this American applauds the fact that Glover stands up for his belief and has the right to be incorrect.
Yet the world’s crazies still want to take a wack at us.
I sat on the Kuwaiti border in ’91 watching an entire Army Corps drive west behind us (1st Marine Division). I kept asking myself “what could they be thinking?” We were the peak Cold War military designed to stop the Soviets.
#21 tanstaafl — Recently, Barack Obama said, June 2008…to counter Republican attacks “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun”
That’s another great example. All politicians claim they want peace; e.g. “a goal of this administration is to reduce the number of nuclear weapons and put an end to violence.” The next day they use violent metaphor without even giving it a thought. They’re surprised when nobody takes them seriously about the whole peace thing.
Using violent rhetoric proves you are itching to start a war?
One of these days I will meet a liberal capable of thought. Today isn’t that day.
Having a big military proves that we are warlike?
I love the way liberals pretend to understand logic.
Having a big military proves that we are warlike?
No, but ability to wage war and willingness to do so speaks to the general concept of empire. I guess it’s the ambiguity of “partly right” that throws you; you’re unable to admit that Glover can make a point. If he said the sky was blue you would argue because he’s just another ignorant liberal.
By the way, I’m still waiting for those studies:
http://pajamasmedia.com/ejectejecteject/2010/04/13/reasonable-men/#comment-30436
Thanks.
Being willing to defend your self speaks to a willingness to survive. Liberalism is an end-state of civilization since that willingness is lost. The Romans became effete liberals at the end and watched the world crumble around them without lifting a finger.
(a)Being willing to defend your self speaks to a willingness to survive. (b)Liberalism is an end-state of civilization since that willingness is lost. (c)The Romans became effete liberals at the end and watched the world crumble around them without lifting a finger.
(a)I realise this may not have occured to you, but self defense doesn’t really require being able to wipe every country off the map three times over. Asking ourselves what we are defending against and how isn’t effete liberal stuff, it’s simple common sense.
(b)”Liberalism is a philosophy of consolation as the west commits suicide” is the common despairing refrain. Some of us reckon Burnham was overcorrecting for his misspent youth. One supposes NRO is the source of all things regurgitated by a certain segment of conservatives.
(c)You *really* need to brush up on your history. The Romans were crushed by a variety of factors all converging at one unhappy time, which included sudden onset of a poor climate (probable vulcanism or possible oceanic meteor strike) and the first iterations of the plague making them vulnerable to attack.
Military might begins and ends with nuclear weapons?
Since the US’s policy has for the most part, excluded first strike, you need to have enough weapons to survive the other side’s first strike. Additionally you want enough weapons so that you can have a variety of options. Do you want to go with the big city buster? Or do you want to go with a few dozen that are small enough to only vaporize a block or two? If so, having both means that you technically have more than enough to do the job.
As to Rome, it was indeed beset by many problems, but all of them stemmed from the fact that the Roman people lost the will to fight for themselves. They started hiring foreigners to do it for them.
I was a History major and really don’t need to brush up.
We damn near lost a war to a third world country in 1950 because Truman was so enthusiastic about tearing apart the military after WWII.
The Romans faced many crisis over the centuries. They always bounced back – until they lost their martial spirit, taxed the Middle Class into serfdom, and debased their currency.
Glover is an idiot, because he’s an idiot.
He isn’t even partly right.
You honestly believe that having a big military makes one evil? Or at least potentially evil? Given the good things that the US’s military has been used for over the last 100 years, I would say that you are as big an idiot as Glover.
So Alston US is imperialist? uh we were a colony of imperialists too- in the same years as many of these whiner nations. Are you an isolationist? we should keep our army and money all to oursleves and just ignore the rest of the world? How do you explain the fact every time we DON’T intervene we also get criticized? you know many of the nations you think we are being warlike and conquering actually asked us to help them.
So Alston US is imperialist?
And to think I went to the trouble of writing that the US is being dragged in that direction kicking and screaming and doesn’t want the gig. This must be very confusing for you.
yes it must be very confusing for you to realize USA is NOT “kicking and screaming” whining victims being led to do what you don’t want– WE, those of us who were and still are PROUD of our nation’s strength and capabilites, KNOW WE CHOSE to take the reins and LEAD , and we are happy to be inthe front rather than dragged under the wheels of those who would lead the globe in afar less magnanimous ways. We don’t apologize for taking responsibility for those unable to defend themselves without our leadership and money.
And that is why we hate to see the current BOZO in the WH do so in every public venue-
Danny the Blubber? Isnt this the same IDIOT who claimed the earthquake in Haiti was caused by GLOBAL WARMING(Dannys brain is fried by global warming, him and his pervert brother Bellafonte have on drugs for many eons). Danny Blubber, you “fame” was gained by better actors like Mel Gibson and Bruce Willis. It also might explain your infatuation with Chavez, It seems you need another butthole to sniff at night. By the way Danny-if earthquakes are caused by “global warming” then how do they occur in Oh Alaska, Turkey, Iran and Chile?-all in the winter season. Danny, your IQ is already below absolute freezing, we know you want attention like a 2 year old, but do the world a favor and move to North Korea, where Im sure Kim Jong Mentally Ill has a nice cold cell with your name on it. A padded cell no less, since even he thinks you are more mentally incompetent than even he is.
Danny Glover is the results of working with a halfwit like Gibson. these people feel like they are privileged and above the rest of us..and in all actuality,as with many actors , we have done this to them with our praise and eewwing and ahhhing at their every move…
the tabloids are filled with them, and we tune into every program imaginable.
They get richer and look down on America more and more..for what ever the reasoning they have evolved to.
It’s not only their fault, we have created a monster class…i.e. Glover
Why do you call Mel Gibson a halfwit? To the best of my knowledge he makes movies and pretty much shuts-up after that. (Exception being too much tequilla and trying to drive home – too much tequilla makes anyone a halfwit!)
Isn’t the another Lethal Weapon movie coming out that will keep him occupied for a while?
Recently, Ms Palin tweeted to her followers: RELOAD. We have a lot of warlike imagery/iconography. Noticing that this is true isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
Recently, Barack Obama said, June 2008…to counter Republican attacks “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun”
Any mildly sentient being should be able to figure out where Palin was (figuratively) coming from with her “reload” comment and not try (in the interests of propaganda) to make it bigger than its obvious intent.
21. tanstaafl
I tried replying but it was placed upthread. Sorry.
The new #%$#^ reply format is worthless.
All politicians claim they want peace; e.g. “a goal of this administration is to reduce the number of nuclear weapons and put an end to violence.” The next day they use violent metaphor without even giving it a thought. They’re surprised when nobody takes them seriously about the whole peace thing.
Does any President expect to be taken seriously on the “peace” thing ?
Barack Obama’s little nuclear gathering last week was (yet another) paean to a personal legacy, this time an attempt to project himself as peacemaker.
(I’m so delighted Chile…and Mexico ? will be reducing their nuclear arsenals. The belligerants, Iran and Crazy Kim, are pressing ahead, unfazed by all the hot air that emanated from DC last week)
Obama does the same weird thing with Izz-lam. While Muslims are, apparently, gratified that an American President wants to placate them, I doubt Obama’s offerings will have much effect on the agenda of jihad, soft or hard jihad.
Danny and Sean Penn and Kevin Spacey and Janine Garafolo and Rosie O’Donnell and Jane Fonda and Hillary Clinton and Raum Emmanuel and Robert Gibbs and David Axelrod and Nancy Pelosi and (Dingy)Harry Reid and Barack and Michelle Obama and the rest of thier ilk all need to move to Venezuela or Iran. They seem so uncomfortable here, I’d think they’d be on the next plane. We know they won’t do that though, because then they’d be swallowed up in the hatred all around them and they wouldn’t be “SPECIAL” and stand out as The Anti-American Revolutionaries they profess to be. They’d have to commit to the austere and become Bona Fide enemies of America and Israel, they couldn’t hide behind thier big money and positions of influence anymore. Talk is cheap, they sound like cowards and traitors to me. Such fickle Little Comrades! What good are you to anyone?
#23 tanstaafl — Does any President expect to be taken seriously on the “peace” thing ?
Of course. Reagan offered peace via superior weaponry, and the USSR collapsed in part because of it. SDI and UAVs and robotics etc is the primary reason for supporting massive military expenditure (not quite the same thing as a massive military.) As far as I’m concerned, let videogame pilots fly F-15′s remotely operated from Nevada and own the skies anywhere we choose. Our guys stay alive, and the bad guys die.
Note that Obama hasn’t canceled any of the forward projects, and in fact there are more UAV’s being ordered. US Presidents, even those from the ‘wrong’ party, don’t just roll over and play dead. The X37B is going to fly soon (a week or so?) as well. Meanwhile the US Navy is still funding EMC2 for proving Bussard’s wiffle ball reactor.
When Obama starts ordering SSBN’s turned into plowshares, then it’s time to get concerned.
We all know that playing make-believe in front of cameras for a living automatically qualifies one as expert on, well, just about anything. But this guy Glover, and his very childish need to attract attention to himself just makes me cringe with embarrassment for him. Most of his buddies in Hollywood give lip service to extreme-left viewpoints but know deep down which country their bread is buttered in, but this poor sap has bought into this nonsense hook, line, and sinker. I would feel sorry for him if he had not made such unfair wages his whole life. What about those poor families Danny, who only wanted to take their 3 kids to the movies but couldn’t afford pay $60 to watch you play make believe on camera? Good thing your movies have been going straight to DVD lately.
>He called on the country to use the tragedy to focus on our “over-consumption” and how “we’re taking a terrible toll on this planet.”<
It is hard to fathom these self loathing kooks – Glover lives in a very nice home in Portland Oregon – has more than enough money – cars – planes – whatever he wishes to own is within his grasp. He has taken advantage of American life at its best – yet wants you and I to move into caves and grow our own food if I read him right.
Hey Dingbat Danny – you first.
Gee, and he seemed like such a stand-up guy in all those Lethal Weapon movies.
He’s too old for this shit.
(Boom tish!)
All these Hollywood Leftists who believe Cuba and Venezula are so great don’t seem to want to leave their multi million dollar homes or forgo their 20M movie fees. Does anyone else detect just a bit of hypocrisy?
To be honest, I feel sorry for him. He’s unable to realize the 1960′s were a long time ago. He’s stuck trying to relive the glory of his protesting youth.
To paraphrase Billy Joel: he’ll go to his grave an angry old man.
I guess Harry failed to mention that millions of Americans FOR Hugo leaves 290+ million AGAINST? I’ve seen comments that ask why these enemies of the American way of life live in America if they hate it so much. It’s because they want to “fundamentally change” the country. Sound familiar? Good luck with that when the patriotic majority rises up against it.
Danny boy….Danny boy. Surrender your citizenship and confiscate his passport. This minstrel clown needs to find a real “free” country to welcome him. Say…..Liberia. He’d fit in nicely over there.
MarkTheGreat — Military might begins and ends with nuclear weapons?
You have a way of constructing strawmen and/or trying to place words in the mouths of others, and I’m tired of that silliness. I didn’t restrict my commentary to nuclear weapons. Try addressing the points that people actually make.
They [Rome] started hiring foreigners to do it for them.
Next week, I’m sure I’ll be fascinated to learn how the use of Janissaries doomed the effete Ottomans.
Your the one who introduced the concept of being able to destroy the world three times over. That’s the basic nuclear argument, as they are the only weapon we posses with such an ability.
I’m sorry that you feel the need to run from your own words.
Next week, I’m sure I’ll be fascinated to learn how the use of Janissaries doomed the effete Ottomans.
What were you saying about strawmen?
Add Glover to my boycott hollywood list.
Under Obama, it looks like compassionate people fighting for justice, while not having anything close to true freedom of speech, will actually be cut a little slack. If he dared try standing up to the plutocracy during the Bush administration, he would have “disappeared” to the death camp at Gitmo, and not merely thrown in the local jail in front of the media where the police brutality was filmed.