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Barbra Streisand Political IQ Award for Celebrity Vapidity Award
Winner
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“I just want to say something: 655,000 Iraqi civilians are dead. Who are
the terrorists?...If you were in Iraq, and the other country, the United
States, the richest in the world, invaded your country and killed
655,000 of your citizens, what would you call us?”
— Co-host Rosie O’Donnell on ABC’s The View, May 17. [64
points]
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Runners-up:
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“Over the past six years we’ve had to add to the American picture:
rendition, illegal wiretapping, voter suppression, no habeas corpus, the
neglect of our great city New Orleans and the people, an attack on the
Constitution and the loss of our best young men and women in a tragic
war. And this is a song about things that shouldn’t happen here,
happening here. And so right now we plan to do something about it — we
plan to sing about it.”
— Bruce Springsteen introducing his song “Living in the Future”
before a live concert on NBC’s Today, September 28. [60]
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“Let’s face it: If the mothers ruled the world, there would be no
Goddamned wars in the first place.”
— Actress Sally Field at the Emmy awards, September 16. [43]
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“I don’t know what it’s going to take for people to really wake up and
understand that they [the Bush administration] are liars and they are
murderers. I’m sorry....After the Katrina incident, after the
incompetence that took place there, after the incompetence and the lying
about this war. [Applause] I don’t understand it.”
— ABC’s Joy Behar on The View, February 28. [40]
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“I don’t believe that any gun should be in the hand of a thinking,
feeling, breathing human being. Americans are by nature filled with
rage-slash-fear. And guns are a huge part of our culture. I know I’m
crazy because I’m only supposed to say that in Europe. But violence
corrupts absolutely.”
— Actress Jodie Foster in an interview with Entertainment Weekly
to promote her new movie, The Brave One, September 7 issue. [32]
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Reporter Dawn Fratangelo: “How has this administration affected your
songwriting?”
Singer Mary Chapin Carpenter: “It’s made me more angry. I feel despair
when I turn on the news or I read the newspaper. I feel despair that
we’re, we’re never going to be able to regain the respect of the
countries of this world. That we’re, we’re putting our children in
danger of not having a future.”
— NBC’s Today, March 6. [20]
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