Comments on: Mia Farrow Launches Hunger Strike Over Darfur

By: lord garth

lord garth — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 01:07:32 +0000

back when W was prez afair number of lefty types said it was simd be willing to fight if the us proveded them the kind of sppoe
le rascism onthe part of W that was preventing action in darfur

bully for Mia for keeping this in the news

and btw, many of the darfarians would fight and win if we gave them the kind of support we gave the Libyan rebels

By: mhbion

mhbion — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:49:53 +0000

Among the several immature and insensitive comments there are a few that share this one persons concerns about a part of our world that is so far away that few of us know or care about the people who live and die there. Mia has worked in an extreemly committed and conciensious way as the most recognized spoke person for the terrible existence that they have from birth to death. I commend her for championing their cause but she needs to remain strong and seadfast in this just cause. She needs not to immerse herself in joining their hunger and pain but rather project herself to the rest of the world as a strong, positive example and continue her campaign to improve their quality of lfe. mhbion

By: ddc

ddc — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:18:13 +0000

Dafur: a disease for which there is no cure outside the death of more American sons and daughters being sent to “save” the citizenry. It would just another mess that I hope the US is not dumb enough to involve herself in. Our children have done enough. It’s someone elses turn but not surprisingly, NO OTHER COUNTRY is dumb enough to sacrifice theirs. I wonder why that is?

By: tanstaafl

tanstaafl — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:12:56 +0000

…feel better about themselves by feeling worse.

I think that’s the point of such gestures as Farrow’s. She has always had that kind of “I’m wistful and just” persona going on. I find her self-righteous gesture & self- advertising repugnant.

The years go by, the guests sit down on the couch and get up from the couch, and Omar al-Bashir goes on killing.

Ordering and supervising the killing, anyway. Al-Bashir seems to have laughed at his indictment by the criminal court at the Hague (war crimes & crimes against humanity & arrest warrant.) I doubt any additional attention to his habits of conducting carnage for personal enrichment will have much of an effect.

By: G-man

G-man — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:07:31 +0000

If only Ms. Farrow and her ilk would go as far as Bobby Sands. At least the poor public would be spared thier self-centered bloviating.

By: ked5

ked5 — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:01:00 +0000

#44 Meryl,

I call it “psuedo-compassion” vs. *real* compassion.

pseudo-compassion makes the “compassionate” person feel good (epsecially if they can tell everyone how compassionate they are), but actually does *nothing* for the person they are claiming to help.

By: Sebastian Shaw

Sebastian Shaw — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:59:06 +0000

Meryl (#44), we all occasionally get a frog in our throats. It happens to the best of us. I usually trip over myself when I want to say too much about one subject.

By: Meryl

Meryl — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:30:23 +0000

“Why all the dumping on Mia Farrow? She has been on this issue from way back. Did I stumble into Daily Kos here?”

My post #42 was a response to #22, Gary Ogletree, whose quote I used to begin….should have marked that better.

42 Sebastian. Exactly…well said. (And succinct! Occasionally I flail, verbally, particularly when I have just “had it up to here” with the unthinking “go along to get along” naivete, which is dressed up to look like empathy and compassion. Grrrr.)

By: Sebastian Shaw

Sebastian Shaw — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:07:48 +0000

Meryl (#40), I’m suspicious when a celebrity gets in any headlines for supposedly noble causes. Darfur is the chosen poster child for the Left. Mia Farrow has chosen Darfur. Does that make her a mindless ghoul looking for publicity? I think so.

In the 1980′s, the cause celeb was AIDS (to use it a weapon to bash President Reagan). Today, it’s Darfur (then as a contrast to Iraq & bash President Bush). Nothing really has changed.

By: Meryl

Meryl — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:49:43 +0000

“Why all the dumping on Mia Farrow? She has been on this issue from way back. Did I stumble into Daily Kos here?”

Apparently her “being on this issue from way back” hasn’t helped. But of course, with the her dhimmi crowd, results don’t matter, just good intentions.

If she’s been on this issue from way back, is there a record of what she has accomplished? Is anyone else (in her Hollywood networking group) helping her? Has she been successful in setting up a process and a flow of funds to meet the need?

Sorry. When there is a Franklin Graham with Samaritan’s Purse and Josh McDowell with Christmas gifts/funds/clothing working regularly, effectively, year after year, funneling millions of dollars in cash and supplies to similar situations, (with very little general publicity and “attention”) you’ll just have to pardon me all to pieces if I don’t just fall over and weep with empathy because Mia Farrow has stopped eating this week (with doctors on standby).

She doesn’t occupy any moral high ground here.

This isn’t Daily Kos. This is real people who get tired of the endless attempts toward manipulation and phony empathy. Just real people fed up with the games and saying so. That is DEFINITELY not Daily Kos.

Good grief. THINK.