Chris Wallace Compares Teabaggin' Janine "Northern Exposure" Turner to 'Modern Day Paul Revere'

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Chris Wallace Compares Tea Partier Janine Turner to 'Modern Day Paul Revere'
By Heather Monday Jun 21, 2010 8:00am

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Fox News continues its promotion of the tea party, this time by touting former Northern Exposure actress Janine Turner's new web site, Constituting America where it appears she and her daughter are doing their best to indoctrinate a new generation of teabaggers. Just what we need. I guess she thinks Texas hasn't already done enough damage to our public schools.

Turner claims that her conservative views have cost her jobs in Hollywood. It doesn't seem to be hurting her male wingnut counterparts. I thought casting actresses aside once they reached middle age was just standard practice for that industry, not something reserved for conservatives. With the new blond hairdo maybe Turner's hoping they'll hire her at Fox.

Wallace: She's been facinated by the Founding Fathers since she was in third grade always wondering if they came back what they would think of this country. Now she's pushing an effort to stay true to their values. Here's our Power Player of the Week.

Turner: Our Constitution does work but if we don't understand what we have, we won't understand when it's slowly being taken away from us.

Wallace: You may recognize her from movies and television, but actress Janine Turner is now working on her most important project, a new web site called Constituting America through which she hopes to educate people about our founding principles.

Turner: To me if you want to love it or not love it at least know it, at least know it and I think that that's the goal.

Wallace: For adults there are articles and video clips about the Constitution and the Federalist Papers, but the real focus is on kids and Turner gets some help from her 12 year old daughter Julia.

The web site is putting on contests for students from grade schools through high school to write essays, compose songs and make short films about the Constitution. While the deadline is July 4th they've already gotten some entries.

Winners will be announced on 9/17, Constitution Day in Philadelphia. A DVD will be sent to schools around the country in hopes of being used as part of the curriculum.

Turner: We just want to start to permeate slowly, you know, the youth with this idea, first of all what is the Constitution? And secondly, oh it is relevant. And third, it can be cool.

Wallace: Janine Turner is best known as the Alaskan Bush pilot Maggie O'Connell on the 90's TV show Northern Exposure.

(Cut to video of Turner with Glenn Beck at teabagger rally.)

But she says her strong political views have cost her in Hollywood.

Turner: If you stand up and speak out that you are conservative you are blacklisted to a certain extent.

Wallace: When you say blacklisted do you think you would have lost jobs because you're a vocal conservative?

Turner: Um-hmm.

Wallace: How ignorant do you think Americans are about the Constitution?

Turner: Well ignorant is a pretty strong word. The Constitution is not in our conversation as Americans any more.

Wallace: And so like a modern Paul Revere, Turner will keep spreading the word about our founding principles and warning about a government she feels is infringing on our freedom.

Turner: I want every American, other children in America to know they have rights, to know that they can speak out. If they don't know their rights they won't know when they're being taken away.

[Canuckistanian]

Yikes! Is that what she looks like now?

And she's got those "crazy fundy" eyes.

[lazarus]

1. "You may recognize her from..."

I don't. She used to be an attractive brunette. Now she looks like a Stepford Wife.

[RockaFowler]

3. I was gonna say that same thing

She looked better as a brunette. Same with Kirstie Alley. I don't understand why some women want to be a blonde. It's hard to be a blonde. Plus with as dark as her hair was, she has to have a ton of bleach in the house.

[Canuckistanian]

8. A far cry from this

Which is how she became famous.

[Sherman A1]

11. Agreed

[AnnieBW]

19. Blonde hides the gray better

If you've got lots of gray, it hides it better than brown or red.

[Swamp Rat]

5. I thought it was Orly Taitz

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VizIrBQwA8w/SnkG-LUdu6I/AAAAAAAAHHg/kR8o4eRaZqU/s400/Orly+Taitz.gif

[Sebastian Doyle]

2. What the hell happened to her?

I don't remember her being a nutjob in the 80's (when she and Demi Moore launched their careers at the same time on General Hospital)

[Mz Pip]

4. Maybe she's not getting work

because totally bleached out blonds with big hair and too much collegen in their lips is just too 90s.

She looks like every other Fox News Republican shill.

[madaboutharry]

6. She wants every American to know that they have the

right to seek as many collagen treatments as they can afford.

[Ikonoklast]

7. I didn't know Orly Taitz had a sister.

Nice to see her upholding the family tradition of being loony.

[Archae]

9. Even Paul Revere was no Paul Revere

Paul Revere was hired to do his "midnight ride," he was caught by the British and blabbed everything.

[Johonny]

10. Constituting America L O L.

Seriously there is no end to the money these conservative pundits think they can get out of the conservative voter. You'd think after a while conservatives would get that people like this have no respect from them. They are just suckers for their money making scams. This is so shamelessly silly it is bound to work.

[TexasObserver]

12. What? Paul Revere was a really bad actress?!

Learned something new today.

[Honeycombe8]

13. She's still so beautiful (not the hair). If I could choose to look like anyone, it'd be her....

probably. Or maybe Natalie Wood.

But they both look more beautiful with their natural brown hair. She's just so gosh darn pretty.

Too bad she's stupid. As far her conservatism costing her jobs, I don't believe it. Hollywood cares about money. If she held her beliefs and didn't stand in judgment of others, I doubt seriously anyone would not hire her, if they thought it would make them a buck.

Truth is, her career bottomed out when she took time off to have her illegitimate child and spend a few years raising her. As anyone in Hollywood will tell you, you're quickly forgotten. Taking a few years off isn't a luxury a non-star can take, and still have a career there. There are too many others waiting to take your place, is what I've heard.

She and Clooney used to be an item. Hard to believe, isn't it?

[Dawson Leery]

14. She looks like Orly Taitz. Perhaps she is mimicking her idol?

[tanyev]

15. Well she does appear to be wearing Paul Revere's powdered wig.

I can see how someone might make the mistake.

[pinboy3niner]

16. Our Constitution is being "taken away"? I must have missed the coup...

...not to mention the installation of an unelected dictatorship and the suspension of the Bill of Rights.

Only in Bizarro World do democratic elections and legislating in accordance with the Constitution equate to "taking away our Constitution."

Janine, the mothership is calling...something about a malfunction when your brain was cloned for the earth visit...

[Bitwit1234]

17. She wasn't much of an actress in the first place

and isn't it odd how those has beens that join the republican party always blame the fact that they aren't good enough to get roles, on the fact that they are republicans and people won't hire them...a lot of B.S. they skip over the fact that they are talent less.

[AnnieBW]

18. Turning 40 cost her jobs in Hollywood

Not her political views. Seriously.