Jamie Lee Curtis: Yippee! For Economic Devastation
Posted by Dirty Harry on Sunday, December 28th, 2008
Jamie Lee Curtis has written a socialist screed that has to be read in full in order to be believed:
What this crisis is going to do is bring us into financial alignment. Families may have to live together again! What a concept. Grandparents will live with their grown children and help raise their grandchildren — even at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Neighbors are going to meal share and carpool and child care for each other and maybe even rent out parts of homes to other families. Less meat, more beans. Might be better for you anyway. Less indoor gym workouts and more walking, more park time, more family outdoor time.
See, losing your home is a good thing, you can just move back in with the folks. Don’t have enough money for food? Join a collective with the neighbors. Eat beans peasants! Because I say so.
Here’s a woman raised in Hollywood by Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, who knows absolutely nothing about what it is to live on the edge, even less about pride and self-worth, and who quite obviously can’t comprehend the real meaning of freedom beyond the right to slice an unborn child into small pieces.
But isn’t this the essence of socialism? Her idea of what a society should look like is worth it to her at any cost. As long as people live in the way that makes her comfortable, economic devastation, job loss, inflation, hunger, unemployment, and foreclosure are all good things … you know, because unlike her, we’ve become too self-indulgent.
Another do as I say, not as I doer. When she gives up her wealth and home and lives amongst the rest of us and shares a few meals with the folks next door, I’ll still think her a cruel, elitist fool, but at least not a hypocritical one.
UPDATE: To be clear, I’m not opposed to the sharing of food and extended families. Hell, I like butterflies and rainbows too.
Many things would be wonderful to have, including equality and fairness and a nation of small towns where we all share and live together in extended families. Who wouldn’t like that to some degree?
The difference is that conservatives value freedom more. We believe in the opportunity for equality, not automatic equality. Liberals, however, are willing to snuff any freedom (as long as it’s not sexual freedom) to muscle society into their vision of it.
Notice, though, that no one on the Left will live under the consequence of their vision. Jamie Lee Curtis isn’t about to leave her swank home to move to East L.A. and enroll her kids in the public schools. She won’t live in her collective, but she sure is willing to sign up as an overlord.
When it comes to Hollywood liberals, we’re the ant farm. They’re the fat kids with all the toys peering into it.
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Stephanieon 28 Dec 2008 at 4:38 pm 1Now I have a headache. What we need is the same bear that ate the Grizzly Man…oh well never mind.
Jasonon 28 Dec 2008 at 4:50 pm 2“Financial alignment”
“Might be better for you anyway.”
???
Karl Marx couldn’t have said it better himself.
Now everytime I watch True Lies, I’m gonna hope that she just crashes into the ocean with the limo…Arnold can save the crazy Persian terrorist chick instead.
Grofeon 28 Dec 2008 at 4:53 pm 3I had to read that 3 times. Is she smoking crack? Really. When the hell was the last time that woman was down to her last $25 with the rent due? Or maybe had to decide between a utility bill over a car payment? Does she have a clue? America in about fulfilling your potential. To get to the point that you don’t have to live with Mom and Dad. To stand on your own two feet without a government handout. To know that you can succeed, through hard work and sacrifice, beyond your wildest dreams. That Jamie Lee Curtis has nothing but contempt for our way of life (not her own, mind you) is both disturbing and another example of a Hollywood that has lost complete touch with average Americans.
Here’s an idea Jamie, make a movie somebody gives a crap about.
Rather Readon 28 Dec 2008 at 4:54 pm 4If Lady Haden Guest had to live my simple life, she’d run back to her privileged one in less than a week.
Kensingtonon 28 Dec 2008 at 5:06 pm 5You know, I could actually appreciate many of the things she mentions. I do think it would be good if families chose to live together longer, for example.
Nonetheless, it’s nothing short of unseemly coming from someone like her, someone who will not actually be touched by any of this herself, at a time like this.
fiestamomon 28 Dec 2008 at 5:10 pm 6Is it too obvious if I say she’s a typical limosine lib? I’m gonna take a wild guess here, and say that Jamie’s kids are all set for an Ivy League college after they graduate with all smiley faces from Crossroads? Her kids aren’t going to have to take out student loans, or gasp! join the military to help with the college expenses.
How can we have more walking/more park time if mom AND dad are both working because of high taxes? Mom and dad can’t afford a personal chef, or a dog walker!
Call me Jamie, when you’re hanging your clothes on the line with Babs.
Billon 28 Dec 2008 at 5:11 pm 7Before I even checked the link, I just knew this would be on the Huffington Post. Why do you even bother to read that crap? Yeesh.
Ed Driscoll.comon 28 Dec 2008 at 5:18 pm 8A Fish Called Recession…
John Hinderaker of Power Line asks:If you seriously believe that the Earth is threatened with destruction by global warming, then the current global economic slowdown is providential. Reduced economic activity equals less energy consumption equals less…
Z Ryanon 28 Dec 2008 at 5:20 pm 9I think of The Aviator when Hughes is at the Hepburns’ family dinner and Mrs. Hepburn says, “We don’t care about money.” “We’re all socialists here!”
Hughes scolds her saying that’s because they’ve always had money.
Stephanieon 28 Dec 2008 at 5:21 pm 10Why read and post it? So those of us PLEBES that Jamie Lee so stupidly gave her middle finger to could scoff, and ridicule her. Yes she is an out of touch moron, and she proved it.
Dirty Harry's Momon 28 Dec 2008 at 5:33 pm 11We’re packin’ up, lots of stuff on top of the car, of course, and we will be in LA in a few days. We’d like the master bedroom, of course. Respect for your elders and all that. Once we are settled, we’ll sit down and go through your investments and everything to make sure you are sharing evenly We don’t want to take everything–just that parental portion to which we must be entitled. Can’t wait to see you. Love, Mom
Rob Howadon 28 Dec 2008 at 5:36 pm 12Fantastic insight DH, with that last post. This is why you’ll be gangbusters over at Big Hollywood.
Harry is exactly right. Yes, there are lots of virtues that disappear or change in a way we don’t like when prosperity occurs in any society. But the answer isn’t self punishment. The answer is more personal responsibility and accountability, something that our churches and other private institutions are supposed to uphold (this is why Franklin donated money to every church in Philadelphia).
Yes, if economic hard times continues and even blooms into a disaster, some people will find in themselves decency and spirit that they didn’t know they had. But the same was true of the firemen and police officers during 9/11. We don’t lust for disaster like Jamie Lee Curtis seems to be doing in order to get our societal wish list.
These things fix themselves. The answer to familes living together is not economic punishment. It is actually more prosperity, not less. Prosperity allows more people to work from home, as my wife does, and as I would probably like to do as well if the opportunity extended itself.
YatYason 28 Dec 2008 at 5:42 pm 13Another actor, who has lost their mind and common sense. What the hell are these idiots smoking or drinking.
Floyd R. Turboon 28 Dec 2008 at 5:45 pm 14This rips it. I will only freeze-frame Trading Places twice a week now!
USS Benon 28 Dec 2008 at 5:51 pm 15Yes there is something wrong with wanting to force folks to live like she would wish they lived, without living that way herself, of course.
And it’s not like she knows each persons circumstances.
I prefer liberty, not millionaires or politicians forcing me or anyone else to live according to some “blueprint” decided by whoever has power.
There’s nothing stopping Curtis or anyone else from living like this voluntarily…and yet, most rarely do in respects to all of Curtis’s points.
Just like those who want higher taxes…they can give as much as they want to the govt., but you hardly ever see that happening.
They would rather use other peoples money.
I can’t see what’s appealing about taking liberties away from the “little people.”
Religion & Politics linkaround | The Anchoresson 28 Dec 2008 at 6:08 pm 16[…] Jamie Lee Curtis says the economic downturn will be a good thing for the peasant class. Or something. Hmmm…daughter of Hollywood B+ royalty, married to a Baron who also happens to […]
StevefromMKEon 28 Dec 2008 at 6:10 pm 17I swear, the peace sign isn’t a peace sign, it’s a make me want to crack skulls of ignorant stupid libtards sign.
Ginaon 28 Dec 2008 at 6:14 pm 18That’s one brilliant metaphor in that last paragraph. The ant farm image is going to stick with me for a long time.
Major Grahamon 28 Dec 2008 at 6:21 pm 19Just more proof that at the bottom of their hearts most libs are tyrants. They think nothing of the impact their views have on others. Suffering and hardships are only abstractions to them. Forcing everyone into their vision of how things should be is all that matters to them.
millaon 28 Dec 2008 at 6:22 pm 20The Huffpo people are gushing and all but calling her a saint for writing this. Frankly it would go down a lot easier if it had been written by someone like Sarah Palin, who knows what it’s like to work hard and be frugal when you need to be, and how to rely on extended family, than by this princess.
Crison 28 Dec 2008 at 6:25 pm 21Qu’ils mangent de la brioche.
millaon 28 Dec 2008 at 6:27 pm 22actually, “let them eat beans.”
Ohio Wolverine Momon 28 Dec 2008 at 6:33 pm 23I think that Jamie is setting us up for her new reality show, after all, it is her turn for one, dontyaknow….Tony, his toups and his over-ripe, over age cupcake move in with Jamie, Chris and the kiddies….first episode, he finds Chris’ old Spinal Tap costumes, and starts his own band—invites Mike McKean to be part of it, and Lenny from L&S, too…
I tell ya, it will be coming soon to a tube near you….another reason not to get a converter for post February 2009 tv….
loved the post, DHM—shared it with my mom and she got a glint in her eye—though I’m in my dad’s office right now; measuring for drapes for when I tell him that our holiday stay is a permanent one:)….
Johnny Ed's Babyon 28 Dec 2008 at 6:36 pm 24Does the Huffington Post reject essays that make sense and just post ramblings that are asinine and stupid?
I can’t figure out if she thinks it is good to live the way we did in the United States 80 years ago or parts of the world still do today. Should we all follow the Obamas and have mom-in-law move in so we have someone to watch the kids while we try and save the world? For someone that probably considers staying at the Four Seasons instead of the Ritz as roughing it, she can really sound stupid.
If socialism will strip the weenies like JLC of their easy lifestyle it would almost be worth it to see her live like Dr Zhivago after the revolution with the peasants deciding her house is too big for one family.
But of course the rest of us will suffer too so we just have to put up with her stupidity.
Traffic Cop Timmyon 28 Dec 2008 at 6:47 pm 25I’m sure she actually THINKS she is walking the walk and not just talking the talk because she goes to the farmer’s market, volunteers at the soup kitchen on holidays, keeps her hair natural and eats (oops, sells) yogurt.
I’m sure that she would have lived all her life the way she describes it, but that darn little troublespot called “I want to make lots of money and live a life of luxury” just kept getting in the way.
pandaxon 28 Dec 2008 at 6:50 pm 26As I mentioned in another thread..liberals would really be funny if it wasn’t for all the damage they do.
tom aricoon 28 Dec 2008 at 6:50 pm 27I dont know where to begin with the nonsense of her post so I’ll just pick a few points randomly.
She mentions the “darkness of Bush”. If the Bush years were dark, why was the economy booming up untill a year and a half ago?
She mentioned Madoff who has nothing to do with the economic situation. Who, in fact would still be misleading investors if the economy haddent slowed. Madoff (although a crook) is a victim of the economic slowdown.
The Grapes of Wrath. Again, where do I begin. (conservatives should rent the movie, you’ll consider it a comedy)
I recommened a diferent book and film. Victor Hugo,s Le Miserable. An honest man becomes a victim of a tremendously harsh and intolerant sociaty only to gain strength when a man of God shows him fairness and respect. He then pleges to lead a just and honest life no matter what the consequenses.
I noticed Curtis didn’t mention more people might get married, or more people might find religion, the church, God, faith. More people will cancel their health club memberships, stop buying four dollar Starbucks and re-discover doughnut shop coffee, and basicly save money.
By the way, The economy is really not as bad as the MSM will lead you to believe. No country has collapsed, no countrys currency has plummeted in value, no investors are pulling out of emerging markets. This is the fourth recession since 1980 and will last no longer than eighteen months.
Traffic Cop Timmyon 28 Dec 2008 at 6:52 pm 28“Why do you even bother to read that crap?”
i think it’s helpful to know - and make our viewing/spending choices accordingly.
For example, since my wife found out about Will Smith’s open marriage she refuses to watch anything he is in. She might miss a good performance that way but she has made a stand.
Aaronon 28 Dec 2008 at 7:15 pm 29I read sites on the right and the left and both sides rail against each other in the same sort of over the top way. Libs are the devil incarnate, righties are the devil incarnate. Something is wrong when we all screed the same way.
I take your point Harry on Curtis’s glib statements about how a little economic apocalypse will be good for our souls. Its crass crap from somebody who’s rich and galls me as well. So we’re in agreement there. But the following statement I found downright chilling:
“The difference is that conservatives value freedom more. We believe in the opportunity for equality, not automatic equality”
The opportunity for equality? What on earth does that mean? You didn’t spell that out much, but it sounds very wrong at first blush.
HARRY HERE: Aaron: Equal opportunity. We all have the same opportunities to be equally rich, succesful, powerful, etc…
Tar Heel Momon 28 Dec 2008 at 7:19 pm 30JEB at 6:36 - you took the words right out of my mouth! Who does this woman think she is - the last queen of France?
How much will Lady Haden-Guest think her life’s improved when she’s queuing up to use the bathroom in the house that she’s forced to share with the tenants she’s had to take in to help with the bills? And - oh, my stars, where will they park the tenants’ Priuses? Is the garage big enough?
And she’s kidding only herself if she thinks Michelle’s mother is moving to DC for any other reason than to be a free nanny for the kids. Madame O will be too busy to see to the mothering herself - she’ll be working to rebuild a country she can be proud of again.
As far as the “improved diet” claptrap, I remember a time in life when I had very little money. I ended up a nervous wreck, stretching dollars and dimes beyond their snapping point, making sure the kids had enough to eat while I basically subsisted on a diet of peanut butter and beans for about 2 years until things got better. Sure, I dropped a lot of weight. But you know what? I can’t stand the taste of peanut butter anymore - it tastes like POVERTY.
Someone else upthread mentioned her going to the farmers’ market. I bet she does, and I bet it makes her feel all good and virtuous to “buy local.” What she might not understand is that it’s too expensive (in time, transportation, and cash) for everyday working stiffs to indulge in this. Why am I going to wait for Saturday to buy my organically-grown to-mah-toes off the back of some hippie’s pickup truck when I have to have something for supper tonight, at a price that’s within my budget?
It slays me when these limousine liberals, these Nieman Marxists, insist there’s virtue to be found in lean times. What a load of Marie-Antoinette type garbage.
Plissken79on 28 Dec 2008 at 7:31 pm 31In fairness to Marie Antoinette, Tar Heel Mom, she actually never said, “Let them eat cake”
Carolynon 28 Dec 2008 at 7:46 pm 32Obviously, Jaimie took a header into one of Marie Antoinette’s milk pails.
Tar Heel Momon 28 Dec 2008 at 7:47 pm 33No, but there was that whole little fake farm where she and her ladies-in-waiting played at being milkmaids. It was probably fun to dress up in highly stylized versions of milkmaid’s dress and pretend for an afternoon, but I doubt any of those ladies got up day after day before sunrise because there was work to be done, and if they didn’t work they wouldn’t get to eat.
Floyd R. Turboon 28 Dec 2008 at 8:02 pm 34Jamie Lee Curtis to cancer patient… “Buck up trouper! Think of all the weight you’ll lose — and the chance to read books!”.
Tomon 28 Dec 2008 at 8:07 pm 35A huffpo article? Are we sure huffpo didn’t get it from somewhere else first?
Carolynon 28 Dec 2008 at 8:21 pm 36Tar Heel Mom? Do you want to fax Jamie the definition of ‘tumbrel’ or should I?
Splashon 28 Dec 2008 at 8:28 pm 37What tom arico said. (#27)
On the other hand, she’s onto something insofar as the Great Depression wasn’t all that depressing for a great many po’ folk. Economically (obviously) it sucked, but to listen to the old timers talk, they did rediscover what really mattered in life.
Harry has JLC dead to rights on all counts, tho, for sure.
voodooon 28 Dec 2008 at 9:19 pm 38What has Social Security done to/for society? It has relieved parents of the necessity of raising children responsible enough to support them in their golden years. It has relieved children of any responsibility for the well being of their parents. That is now all the governments’ problem. Socialism has created the culture that this dummy is against — and she’s a socialist. It all makes perfect sense.
Then there is welfare and the inner city….
MissJeanon 28 Dec 2008 at 9:42 pm 39What Ms. Curtis misses - and her selection from Steinbeck does, too - is that during the Depression, sustenance farming saved people. Rural people hunkered down on land they owned, or worked someone else’s land. The distribution of population is much different now. How many people have enough fertile acreage to sustain themselves now? How many have the resources and skills to raise fowl and rabbits for food?
Fiftyfooton 28 Dec 2008 at 9:56 pm 40She’s got her clothes on, yet you still pay attention to her. Why, might one ask?
Danielon 28 Dec 2008 at 10:40 pm 41Without even clicking the link I knew, based on the clip DH posted, that that had to be more Huffington Post drivel.
Sure enough, rolled my pointer over and there is was: www.huffingtonpost.com.
Pretty sad that a site is so predictable for such left-wing lunacy.
The title should include a sub-head: “It is a Wonderful Life … As long as I don’t have to live it.”
Traffic Cop Timmyon 29 Dec 2008 at 1:10 am 42Have you seen Tony Curtis lately? My god, the man is a blimp! Jamie better have a talk with him about his diet!
wfon 29 Dec 2008 at 1:33 am 43She was a skilled pole dancer though. Gotta give her that.
Jack Marinoon 29 Dec 2008 at 2:14 am 44Hey jamie, get that spare bedroom ready I am moving in and you are paying my way baby
adrion 29 Dec 2008 at 2:30 am 45i was born and raised in santa monica and JLC lives in pacific palisades. two years ago we had a supermarket strike and i ran in to her in a gelson’s(non union) she asked me to see if the cheese she was buying had live enzymes in it. i lost all respect for her after that. ( she was beautiful though) I wonder if she would be okay with me, my husband and 2 year old son moving in with her so that she can spread the wealth, seeing as how my contractor husband has not had work for 8 months?
Crison 29 Dec 2008 at 3:04 am 46Nice riff going here…
Drive the new DM (Democrat Majority) Tumbril! Powered by 30 out of work Silicon Valley engineers and their families, this sleek new design will be the talk of Brentwood! Just stop off at the local food bank on the way to and from the studio and let your team chow down and you’re on your way!
Knitting needles standard!
Pat Pattersonon 29 Dec 2008 at 5:06 am 47And adding to the healthiness of eating more beans we can also stop using butter. Lard worked so well in the Great Depression and it will bring us all together in a more spiritual and alimentary way.
Plebon 29 Dec 2008 at 6:40 am 48Jamie, if reincarnation & Karma exists… you are soooo screwed!
Full Metal Deer Platoonon 29 Dec 2008 at 7:11 am 49Will there be rabbits, George? Will they nibble & nibble the way they do?
L Nettleson 29 Dec 2008 at 7:33 am 50Victor Davis Hanson had a few word on the economy and the enviroment
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YjY5MmQxYzY0ZDBjNWM1OWFlM2EyODBiMGNlN2RhODk=
Surely, the world right now is sort of what the radical Gorists wanted to see, since the current cutback in gasoline usage, and general economic slowdown are radically restricting the burning of fossil fuels in a manner that even the most optimistic green utopian could hardly have envisioned just few years ago?
Odgieon 29 Dec 2008 at 7:38 am 51The only thing funnier than Ms. Curtis’ post is the response over at Jeffrey Wells’ Hollywood Elsewhere. Wells talks about it like its some sort of manifesto for the 21st Century, and the more people take him to task, the more incoherent he becomes. Head over if you want a good laugh.
JohnJon 29 Dec 2008 at 7:48 am 52Hollywood’s going to make the most of the recession: http://tinyurl.com/6ts9ae
millaon 29 Dec 2008 at 8:21 am 53Also, I am offended that this silly woman is using Wall-E as a prophecy for our future.
G-MANon 29 Dec 2008 at 8:35 am 54Holy crap. People actually think like that?
Kiton 29 Dec 2008 at 10:24 am 55Since we are all talking about GRAPES OF WRATH . . .
I think Dirty Harry shoudl do a video of him saying
“Where ever there is a dumb celebrity mouthing off, I’ll be there
“Where ever a filmgoer is beaten with a liberal sucker punch, I’ll be there.
“Where ever . . . “
mrpitheron 29 Dec 2008 at 12:09 pm 56“Grandparents will live with their grown children and help raise their grandchildren — even at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.”
Does that mean BHO will have his illegal immigrant aunt take up residence at the WH?
Granton 29 Dec 2008 at 12:43 pm 57What an evil bitch. She can hardly wait to view mass human suffering from her balcony as she eats (organic) cake.
The only thing more vile than Curtis’s rant are the mindless buffoons at the Puffington Host giving her the high-five.
I’m eagerly awaiting the day when Curtis gives away all of her property and is living in a two-room four-floor walk-up with her father.
Oh, burn… : Twisted Spinsteron 29 Dec 2008 at 1:01 pm 58[…] speak for us all just because she’s been in a movie with the current governor of California. Thus spaketh Jamie Lee Curtis on the current economic troubles: What this crisis is going to do is bring us into financial […]
Albertus Magnuson 30 Dec 2008 at 10:00 am 59What is truly funny about this flapdoodle is that it reads like a dialogue outtake from her husband Christopher Guest’s hilarious fake-umentary about left-wing folk singers, A Mighty Wind.
Texas Billy Rayon 30 Dec 2008 at 7:18 pm 60Entertainers whom I will never patronize because of their betrayal of American values and their retarded, uninformed attacks on our nation:
Morgan Freeman, Hanoi Jane, Sarandon, Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Babs Streisand, Jamie Lee Curtis, Madona…. the list goes on. Mostly a bunch of high school dropout retards.
Obviously, Joseph McCarthey was on the right track since our entertainment industry is rife with America-hating ratbastard commies.
IronMikeon 31 Dec 2008 at 1:53 pm 61#60: I won’t go as far to call JLC a retard. I don’t want to offend retarded children.
But these folks are one of the reasons I love DVR. When the annoying American Express commercial with Gweneth Paltrow (or however you spell her name) comes up, I press that magical FF button. I get to avoid all the blustering blow-hards that way!
Additionally, someone needs to show JLC and her ilk the typical conservative family: a nuclear family with kids (my goodness, sometimes more than 2!).