Natalie Portman told to hide Kerry T-shirt by ABC

[KurtNYC]

There are equal time rules now?! Oh boy do they owe us a lot of time!

Midway through the TV interview, Sawyer told Portman, "Now if I'm gonna talk to you, you're gonna have to hold flowers here in front of the John Kerry (T-shirt). We can't just have John Kerry the whole time.

http://support.earthlink.net/newsarticle?cat=3&aid=Celebrity3200407300546

[Bertha Venation]

1. "equal time" includes personal garments?

:eyes:

[Feanorcurufinwe]

2. Natalie basically told Sawyer to fuck off.

You go girl!

[dedhed]

3. Now if that were me...

... I would have insisted that she just take it off... right there... in front of me...

Natalie Portman... :loveya::loveya::loveya:

:bounce:

[lanparty]

13. There isn't alot under that shirt ...

If you google "Natalie Portman nude beach" you should find some candids that will satisfy your curiosity.

[KansDem]

4. But will she still get to fly in an airplane? (eom)

[LizW]

5. I saw that interview

and Natalie Portman was awesome. Sawyer did her usual simpering, fake-ass thing, insisting Portman hold the flowers, but Portman wasn't having any of it. She not only put the flowers down, she made an amazing off the cuff endorsement of John Kerry. She was sweet and sincere and optimistic, and made Sawyer look like a nagging witch.

[kaitykaity]

6. Thanks for the details.

:thumbsup:

I might just go see the third Star Wars film after all.

[lanparty]

14. I think you should ...

And I think that all people opposed to Bush should LOVE the first two films. A thoughtful analysis will find MANY Orwelian/Machievellian/Goebelian similarities between Palpatine and Bush.

Both have essentially manufactured a security crises in order to create a pretense for consolidation of power and limiting individual freedoms. They both have used these situations to increase their own power and marginalize their enemies. Both politicians have effectively divided his own opponents and compelled them to fight each other under and illusion when the ultimate goal was the dimunition of both factions (of course, this tactic goes back to secession when poor white folk were pitted against poor black vote on behalf of the southern slave-holding aristocracy).

So many people misunderstand Episodes 1 and 2 because they are POLITICAL films instead of space westerns (but I'll concede that Jar-Jar was stupid and annoying). Lucas has provided us a deep commentary on how Democracy can be twisted into dictatorship. It's unsurprising to me that a generation that has known no great threat would not see the subtext of this film that the greatest evil may come from within.

[kaitykaity]

18. Eps 1 and 2 are certainly more relevant now than

they were when they came out.

Maybe I'll rent them again to see if I get the political
subtext.

Hmmm.

[wndycty]

7. Was Portman at the convention. . .

:kick:

[peekaloo]

22. She was on Letterman Friday and stated she just returned from Boston!

more specifically the DNC.

[gauguin57]

8. Here's the (archived) thread I started about this topic

on Friday.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2128368

[KurtNYC]

10. Thanks for that

I heard just a quick story on this while traveling over the weekend and I figured it would be a DU topic.

[jfxgillis]

9. I saw it

What a freaking riot.

Natalie followed up singing Kerry's praises for a couple of minutes.

And listen. I
LOVE John Kerry as a candidate for POTUS. I've supported him from the day he announced. And it was so good to hear someone (a gorgeous someone, too) express the same sentiment.

I don't support Kerry ecause I'm ABB, I support Kerry because he's good man and he'll make a great President.

[JI7]

16. ME TOO

i LOVE john kerry. everytime i see him i just want to give him a hug. i supported him from the primary also and i'm so glad he won. i get happy just seeing him and listening to him.

[Tardisian]

11. Woo Hoo!

Way to go, Ms. Portman. I've noticed the Kerry/Edwards ticket seems to attracting several of the up-and-coming artistic element. Hurrah for them all! :)

[JI7]

15. Natalie supported Kerry in the primaries. She has always been a huge

supporter of his. everything she says about him is exactly how i feel.

[gasperc]

12. oh ABC, go fuck yourself

go fuck yourself
go fuck yourself

[KurtNYC]

17. I'll bet you 'feel better' having said that!

And in spite of the reference, I mean that in a friendly way.

I want to send a letter to ABC saying that I had an argument over this item and was supporting their "equal time" BS so can they please cite the law they are working under since the fairness doctrine was in fact struck down. And throw in a line like "my friend said you guys were either idiots or Bush supporters" I have gotten responses to 'friendly' letters like these in the past.

[Doctor_J]

19. all the gorgeous young-uns

Natalie, Amber Tamblyn, Scarlett Johannson, Kirstin Dunst, Rachel Leigh Cook, Amanda Peet, Eliza Dushku... If I were 20 years younger, a Kerry rally would be a great place to meet smart beauties

[Lexingtonian]

20. whatta gal

Beautiful, smart, and right on the money.

She can come over my place anytime and stay as long as she wants to :-)

[DaveSZ]

21. BS

"Diane Sawyer, fearing ABC may violate U.S. pre-election media rules..."


I don't believe there is any such thing any longer.

[Eric J in MN]

23. How does this square with the Ann Coulter article which USA Today

refused to print, claiming all pretty girls are Republicans?