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Flying the coop

by Judi McLeod

November 4, 2004

Hollywood celebrities who threatened to flee the country if George W. Bush was re-elected should do the noble thing and follow through on their threats.

Robert Redford can pout just as prettily in Ireland as he can in Hollywood. The aging heartthrob will find himself right at home in the poetic land that St. Patrick rid of snakes. Besides, Senator John Kerry had loads of supporters there, some of whom weighed in on the eve of election to state why they believed that Bush would likely be re-elected.

It’s because americans are stupid, said the blarney-stone kissers.

at last count, Kim Basinger was threatening to pull up stakes to pitch her tent on Canadian soil. No one should hold their breath waiting. In 2000, ex-hubby alec Baldwin insisted his country wasn’t big enough for both himself and Bush. But Baldwin’s passion for departure soon evaporated, and not even war veterans who showed up at speaking engagements offering one-way tickets to other countries could coax Baldwin to live up to going abroad promises.

In “give-me-back-my-marbles”, “I’m-outta-here” style, motormouth Michael Moore pulled his cameras out of Election night Florida.

Then came diamond-on-his-pinkie, american porn mogul Larry Flynt, who said in an 11th-hour election threat that he may decide to go into exile if Bush was re-elected.

“If Bush is re-elected—but I don’t want to even consider the thought for one second—I really have to think about living somewhere else,” Flynt said early Monday from a strip club on the Champs Elysees in Paris, where he happened to be celebrating his 62nd birthday.

Flynt, who made his fortune through a porn magazine found under teenagers’ beds, had flown the coop to Paris to “escape the nauseating atmosphere of the electoral campaign.”

Forty strippers. who accompanied him to gay Paree, did not go to escape Bush country, they just needed the work.

No one can really say where diva Barbra Streisand stands on decamping, but the day after election high notes heard coming from her mansion had nothing to do with scale practice.

The flying the coop celebrity gang can afford to live wherever they want. No one is forcing them to stay in the God-awful country that keeps them in champers and caviar. Moving households and re-locating to new countries is second only to death on the psychiatric stress list. But not if your butlers and maids have to do the packing and unpacking.

Yeah, the Redfords and Flynts are so hard done by in america.

They’re going to need help just pulling through the depression of the election aftermath.

Canada Free Press has a nifty suggestion to help the flying the coop set heal their emotional wounds. They could always use the time to brush up on their acting skills.

There’s no better way to do that than watching the post-election antics of the talking heads on television.

as noted by the rubes at RatherBiased.com, “NBC, MSNBC and FNC have called Ohio for Bush. But they refuse to call any of the other states for Bush, even Nevada, which has had 100 percent of its votes come in. CBS, aBC, and CNN refuse to project Ohio. But they have projected Nevada.

“as it stands, all six of the television networks are deliberately keeping the election in limbo.

“The actual count is over in Nevada.

“Mathematically, Kerry cannot win in Ohio. He trails Bush by 145,000 votes. The Secretary State of Ohio estimates that there will be 175,000 provisional ballots. Many of them are invalid. Even if Kerry received all of the votes on the valid ballots, he could not win.”

Perhaps the stampede of celebrities running off to other countries could extend living abroad as a sympathy gesture to the actors of CBS, aBC, CNN, etc.

Iraq would be the best place to start.

Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by 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. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com


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