Richard Dreyfus on the state of the Press CSPAN2 9AM

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CSPAN2
National Press Club Speech

Stage and screen actor Richard Dreyfus addresses Hollywood's view of today's media at the National Press Club luncheon speech.


thanks to clitzpah queen for the heads up and personal review of the speech!

CSpan 2 Alert: Richard Dreyfuss KICKASS speech (9am Friday)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x449774

[babylonsister]

1. Thanks. Sounds good. nt

[babylonsister]

8. Impeachment: we refuse to endorse bad behavior! nt

[in_cog_ni_to]

2. Thank you!

I'll be watching!:hi:

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3. kick 2 minutes

[in_cog_ni_to]

4. He's on! Go, Richard!

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5. he hasn't lost his sense of humor!

:)

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6. I'm googling for the transcript.... no luck yet. nt

I loved the line about America - If you can take the shit we throw at you, and you have a little luck, you can make it here.

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7. whoo hoo! Reminding the Press that their job is to inform

without screwing the story. :evilgrin:

[in_cog_ni_to]

13. I loved his question..."Who would have the moxie to dissent when

everyone around them is against dissent?"

That's me. I'm surrounded by repukes and feel as though I stand ALONE in a sea of stupidity, anti-dissent, Bush lovers.:scared: Even though my voice shakes, I still speak out. Does that mean I have moxie?:7 Or am I just stupid?:scared:

[rpgamerd00d]

9. Talking about Impeachment now

[Roxy66]

10. Wow...an intelligent ,thinking person. This is rare. Thanks!

[janx]

11. IMPEACHMENT

[helderheid]

12. thanks!!

[Sydnie]

14. I want to have his babies!

If I wasn't all done having babies that is. He is saying what is in my head, sometime even in the very words I think.

I just tuned in, I wish I had seen the whole thing!

BTW, I don't go to the movies very often, but I saw all three movies that he requestd his friends to see.

Why can't we vote for him?

[janx]

15. He's really giving it to the press.

And he's doing so very eloquently and seriously.

[madokie]

16. dang I wish I would have tuned in earlier,

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19. CSPAN has the video up already!!

:bounce: For everyone that missed it...

search page
http://www.c-span.org/search/basic.asp?ResultStart=1&ResultCount=10&BasicQueryText=dreyfuss&image1.x=15&image1.y=8

[Spazito]

21. Thanks for the link!

I missed the early morning coverage so very much appreciate being able to watch it now!

[madokie]

23. Thanks, I will, in the mean time check out this video I posted a link too

a little while ago, I promise you'll laugh your ass off.
http://www.wimp.com/bushcomedy /

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17. ...

[janx]

18. Thanks for the alert, VLR.

He got a fairly tepid response from the press, which was to be expected.

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20. you're welcome!

:) but clitzpah queen deserves the credit. :)

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22. Impeaching Bush Is 'Cause Worth Fighting for,' Actor Says

Impeaching Bush Is 'Cause Worth Fighting for,' Actor Says
By Randy Hall
CNSNews.com Staff Writer/Editor
February 17, 2006

(CNSNews.com) - Richard Dreyfuss, the actor who starred in movies ranging from "Jaws" to "Mr. Holland's Opus," told an audience in Washington, D.C., on Thursday that "there are causes worth fighting for," and one of those is the impeachment of President George W. Bush.

"There are causes worth fighting for even if you know that you will lose," Dreyfuss said during a speech at the National Press Club. "Unless you are willing to accept torture as part of a normal American political lexicon, unless you are willing to accept that leaving the Geneva Convention is fine and dandy, if you accept the expansion of wiretapping as business as usual, the only way to express this now is to embrace the difficult and perhaps embarrassing process of impeachment."

Noting that the process was established by the country's "founders, who we revere to check executive abuse with congressional balance," Dreyfuss said impeachment "is a statement that we refuse to endorse bad behavior."

lots more here - http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=\Politics\archive\200602\POL20060217a.html