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Subtleties of the liberal press not so subtle
Fading actor says “People in other countries hear Mitt Romney speak, and they think, ‘He’s inauthentic.’”
The Sunday edition of the failing Arizona República includes a slim Gannett insert: USA Weekend. It sounds benign enough, often featuring a celeb on the cover. The vapid ‘magazine’ with ads clearly aimed at the seniors who still subscribe, routinely includes a simple recipe, a health tip, and celebrity buzz — where it appears agents pose as readers, submitting questions about their second-rate clients in order to gin up their stagnant careers.
Sunday’s cover featured Richard Gere. The accompanying article is titled, “It’s Only Money.”
Beside him are the words, “RICHARD GERE understands that wealth and power aren’t what’s important in life.” The tabloid-size insert calls Gere, whom they refer to as an “elegant figure,” THE THINKER.
The article attempts to resuscitate Gere’s lifeless career by pushing his new film, Arbitrage, in which he plays a character named Robert Miller — a hedge-fund billionaire.
Just the usual movie promo, right? Not quite.
The entire piece is a promo, alright, but for Barack Obama — with plenty of slams thrown in for Mitt Romney, whom Gere — whose last major hit “Chicago” was a decade ago — describes as “inauthentic.”
The slobbering article opines: With Arbitrage opening before the presidential election, it wasn’t lost on Gere that alpha types, and Miller, share key assets for politicians. “You need that confidence and charisma. And you need believability,” he says.
Gere feels that the candidate with more corporate experience lacks that. “People in other countries hear Mitt Romney speak, and they think, ‘He’s inauthentic.’ With Obama, you think, ‘Yeah, he’s bright, sensitive, has his foibles — he’s very human.’ Romney just doesn’t project that. It’s bizarre that this man leading the charge for this whole other way of looking at government doesn’t have that No. 1 quality.”
It goes on: But Gere isn’t entirely unsympathetic to Romney supporters, including some in Miller’s tax bracket. “I remember standing in a billionaire’s house, asking this very powerful Republican, ‘Do you think it’s going to change this billionaire’s life if he has to give up $10 million in taxes?’ And this Republican said, ‘No, it wouldn’t.’ I think his concern was that the money would be squandered.”
NewsMeat puts this in perspective. Check out the political donations made by Richard Gere. And Elysa Gardner who wrote the blather? Who’da guessed? She’s also an Obamacrat.
2012-09-10 13:06:33
Source: http://seeingredaz.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/subtleties-of-the-liberal-press-not-so-subtle/
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