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Hollywood, Bush haters
Canuck Donald Sutherland's anti-American tiresome tirades
By Judi McLeodMonday, October 3, 2005
He's in American living rooms on ABC's new Commander in Chief series. The star of countless blockbuster hits, he was married to Shirley Douglas, daughter of former Canadian New Democratic Party (NDP) Leader Tommy Douglas, who CBC Television claims is the "Greatest Canadian of all time". Donald Sutherland is Canadian, another anti-American Canadian.
In his youth, he counted Hanoi Jane Fonda as a colleague and friend. When presidential hopeful John Kerry was identified in a photo at an anti-Viet Nam war protest several rows behind Fonda, Sutherland insisted it wasn't him.
The actor, who started at CBC radio at the tender age of 14, goes about making sweeping statements that condemn Americans for "drowning people" but praises France as a country whose people have for "real family values".
And now Sutherland, paid handsomely in Commander in Chief of television fame, is railing at the real White House.
In a tearful tirade during a BBC interview, Sutherland warns the unwashed masses "Bush will destroy our lives".
Ripping Bush for Iraq and Hurricane Katrina fallout, Sutherland, according to British journalists, was actually "choking back tears".
"They (Bush administration) do not care about Iraqi people. They do not care about the families of dead soldiers. They only care about profit."
And Sutherland, who was made an officer of the prestigious Order of Canada in 1978, doesn't?
"At one point during the session, Sutherland started crying. "We stolen (sic) our children's future…we have children. We have children. How dare we take their legacy from them? It's shameful. What we are doing to our world." (Drudge Report, Oct. 2).
Describing the trait he most deplores in others for a Vanity Fair feature, the New Brunswick born actor answered a "slavish adherence to fanatical religious beliefs."
In the same article he pinpointed former Canadian general Romeo Dallaire as one of his personal heroes in real life.
It seems Sutherland's hatred for America knows no bounds.
But there is no doubt it's the same America that has provided him with a good living for, lo at least the last three decades.
Like so many film stars who would lecture the rest of us, this actor in Commander in Chief lives in a world of pretend.
Canada Free Press founding editor Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck and The Rant. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
