Old Whine Rack

[Ryan]

Gonna list the data I have for the members of the old Whine Rack. I'll move them to their own thread later. But if you want to help, feel free.

EDIT: Instead of countless hours being spent moving all these into new threads, let's just leave this list as is. if you're searching for what a celebrity may have said or done, it should show up in the search. We'll just start all new incidents in their own thread.

[Ryan]

"If George W. Bush is elected president, I'm leaving for France."
www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg091800.shtml

"[it would be a] catastrophe for the world if George Bush is elected. You won't see me for dust. I for one will be leaving the country and living in France."
www.dittohead.org/stars_Leave.html

"This present government in America I just find disgusting, the idea that George Bush could run a baseball team successfully -he can't even speak! I just find him an embarrassment. I was over here when the election was on and I couldn't believe it -and I'm 76 years old. Then when the Supreme Court came in and turned out to be a totally political animal, the last shred of any naivete that was left in me has gone. When I see an American flag flying, it's a joke."
www.artistsnetwork.org/news3/news134.html

"It [shooting a film in Britain] was the best experience of my life, with actors and with crews -the whole process. If you asked would I live in London the rest of my life, yeah, I'd be very happy to stay here. There's nothing in America that I would miss at all."
www.artistsnetwork.org/news3/news134.html

[Ryan]

"Bush is a f**king idiot."
www.rollingstone.com/mv_features/cs878article.asp

"We'd [Brad Pitt and her] pass her [Jenna Bush] in the hall, and Brad would say, 'Heyyyy, Jenna, wanna beer? I got one in the truck!'"
www.rollingstone.com/mv_features/cs878article.asp

[Ryan]

"I feel that George Bush's actions are desecrating the America that I grew up in and believed in. He is making us an imperialist government. He is choosing to replace heads of state and government he doesn't like."
www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2002/cyb20021001.asp#3

"I think that the idea of Iraq being a nuclear threat is poppycock, and if they are a nuclear threat then they'd have to borrow atomic bombs from Israel."
www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2002/cyb20021125.asp#4

"I pray that this council, which will probably be too late to save Iraq, will do what it can, which will be immeasurably strong in what it does in trying to save our democracy."
www.sbsun.com/Stories/0,1413,208~27080~1188681,00.html

When Pat Buchanan noted that Castro "has denied" Cubans "free elections for 40 years," Asner fired back: "We didn’t have a free election in 2002."
www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030508.asp#5

[Ryan]

In response to Clinton's impeachment:
"They voted on one article of impeachment already. And I come back from Africa to stained dresses and cigars and this and impeachment. I am thinking to myself, in other countries they are laughing at us 24 hours a day and I’m thinking to myself, if we were in other countries, we would all right now, all of us together, [starts to shout] all of us together would go down to Washington and we would stone Henry Hyde to death! We would stone him to death! [crowd cheers] Wait! Shut up! Shut up! No shut up! I’m not finished. We would stone Henry Hyde to death and we would go to their homes and we’d kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families. [stands up, yelling] What is happening in this country? What is happening? UGHHH!"
secure.mediaresearch.org/news/mediawatch/1999/mw19990111p4b.html

"I never made that statement [about leaving the country if Pres. Bush was elected], but you can tell Gov. Bush to rest assured that I'm not going to leave the country because we have to get him out of office and we have to get his brother out of office in 2004. We're not resting until we get that done."
"Bush wasn't elected, he was selected — selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines."
www.naplesnews.com/02/03/florida/d771472a.htm

"I know that's a harsh thing to say, perhaps, but I believe that what happened in 2000 did as much damage to the pillars of democracy as terrorists did to the pillars of commerce in New York City."
www.artistsnetwork.org/news3/news138.html

"I think my exact comment was that if Bush won it would be a good time to leave the United States. I’m not necessarily going to leave the United States."
www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2002/cyb20020416.asp#4

[Ryan]

"What I think we should do is draw up a petition, everybody sign in crayon, and then he'll [Bush] understand."
www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030220.asp#5

[Ryan]

"There's an old saying, in the days of slavery, there were those slaves who lived on the plantation and were those slaves that lived in the house. You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him.
"Colin Powell's committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture."
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,66288,00.html

"This was not a personal attack on Colin Powell. However ... speaking on behalf of so many African-American citizens, I have found Colin Powell to be a tragic failure."
www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ED102702.cfm

Accused the Bush administration of using the Sept. 11 terror attacks "to extend its imperialist, economic and political domination all over the planet."
www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30011

About the cause of black America:
"In fact and practice ... you are serving those who continue to design our oppression," he said of Powell and Rice. "That is villainy, and I insist you look at it."
newstribune.com/stories/012103/ent_0121030037.asp

"Absolutely. I not only think that they [U.S. leaders] are misguided, but I think they know exactly what they are doing and I think that they are men who are possessed of evil."
"I don't think that [U.S. President] George Bush...is a man of honor."
"I think he has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people."
abcnews.go.com/wire/Entertainment/reuters20030304_173.html

[Ryan]

"That’s so weird that you ask that because we were just talking about I.Q.s the other day – you know, George W.’s I.Q. is like 92 and Bill Clinton’s was like 190 or something."
www.geocities.com/jonesie_91304/bernhard.html

"The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs."
www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2002/cyb20020311.asp#5

"... Any thinking person who lives in the world would be disturbed at what's going on right now. I think Bush is amateurish and self-serving, and frankly it's disgusting. I think everybody is covering their [posteriors] with the Enron scandal and it was very convenient that Sept. 11 came along to deflect the fact that they should never have been in the White House in the first place. What happened in the election was completely corrupt."
www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2002/cyb20020311.asp#5

"The infrastructure of America and the world is caving in, and George Bush is a figurehead of that."
"I don't think he's an informed person, or intelligent, or interesting. I think he got waylaid into the job by his family, he's in over his head, and he's kind of a dunce."
www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/8/4/153329.shtml

[Ryan]

"And I certainly would never wish a president any sort of harm …out loud. It’s not in my heart to do such a thing –to any human being. I wish all people only the best at all times …out loud. Especially the president. Because even though I disagree with his policies, and think he is a dangerous imbecile, he is, after all, the President of all of us, and he is a fellow human being, deserving of respect. (That was hard to say, but I wanted to keep the record straight.) "
www.georgecarlin.com/georgecarlin/home/germs.html

"I especially like those terrorist fellows in the Middle East who run around blowing themselves up along with other people; they strike me as interesting guys. And pretty soon they’ll graduate from simple explosives to more interesting and sophisticated things like germs and chemicals. That will really be fun. Especially for a guy like me who enjoys chaos and disorder."
www.georgecarlin.com/georgecarlin/home/germs.html

[Ryan]

"I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy."
"If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?"
www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2000/11/2/194548.shtml

[Ryan]

"I'm saying that the moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class of Hitler's Germany."
"I'm not comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler - because George Bush, for one thing, is not as smart as Adolf Hitler. And secondly George Bush has much more power than Adolf Hitler ever had."
"I'm saying that we (Americans) have sunk pretty low and I'm saying that you can look at the moral climate in Germany in 1933," Clennon reiterated. "We have to ask ourselves if we found ourselves in Nazi Germany, what would we do? Now I say, let the inspection process take its course."
www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2003/2/3/172603

[Ryan]

"The problem is we elected a manager, and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim."
www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2002/cyb20021219.asp#3

[Newt Gingrich looks like a] "dinosaur," laughing, "The man has no arms..."
www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2002/cyb20021219.asp#3

"Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer's."
worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30590

"I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association; he deserves whatever anyone says about him."
worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30590

"We moved away from what we were going after which was the al-Qaeda and there’s no connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq, which we know, we spent a lot of time trying to prove it and it didn’t happen. And we’re going to go into a war and we’re going to kill a lot of innocent people."
www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030123.asp#7

"...We’re picking on people we can beat, you know, and we’re saying 'okay, we’ll go get them.'"
www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030123.asp#7

"I am just looking for someone in the news like Murrow did with McCarthyism, like Cronkite did with Vietnam and like Bernstein and Woodward did with Nixon. I'm just looking for someone in the news to ask difficult questions of this government. It's not my job to do that. I'm not intelligent enough to do it."
www.theksbwchannel.com/entertainment/1951923/detail.html

"You make a lot of films, do you?" Clooney asked rhetorically. "You make a lot of films yourself? Yeah, I'd like to see you make a film first before you get to talk about it. What a jerk!"
in.news.yahoo.com/030209/137/20xm4.html

"It's the head guys who really tick me off. You dumb down at the top, so what does that do to the bottom? Who's going to stand up for us now? I just want someone smart to stand up and shout, 'Bullshit!' They tell us we're going to war and no one's saying 'Bullshit' loud enough. And the language! Listen to the language! 'Evil.' 'Evil'? 'Nexus of evil'? 'Evil-doer'? That's my favourite, 'evil-doer'! What's wrong with their vocabulary: couldn't they come up with 'schmuck'?"
www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,894646,00.html

"What did Bush do on 9/11? He ran away and hid. Even Reagan knew more about leadership than that, and he was as bad a symbol of America as I can think of, off-hand. But at least he's been in enough cowboy movies to know he had to come out and stand on top of the rubble and be seen shaking his fist or something."
www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,894646,00.html

"I'm not the person to be sending messages to — I'm not smart enough and I don't know enough about what's going on," Clooney said. "I just want it to be talked about and discussed a lot more before one man makes a decision to go in and bomb."
abcnews.go.com/sections/us/Primetime/celebritypolitics030220.html

"I believe he thinks this [war against Iraq] is a war that can be won, but there is no such thing anymore."
"We can't beat anyone anymore."
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52559-2003Feb23.html

[Ryan]

"This dude who’s got control of the White House now, he’s gonna do a lot of damage,” Cusack says. “I think people are gonna respond to all the hypocrisy of this Bush administration. He’s sort of like this great sort of symbol of inversion to me – the inverse of the truth. It’s like the ethics of the new millennium, the new dawn: All you have to do is say something and it’s true. It doesn’t matter if it’s based on any core principle; it doesn’t matter if it’s based on any facts. The most important thing is the aesthetic. If you have a compassionate aesthetic, that‘s all we need to do. All you have to do is say ‘I’m Muslim.’ But you don’t actually ever go to a mosque. You don’t have to give up pork. You don’t have to do anything. You don’t have to believe in Allah. You just say it. And maybe wear a turban. That’s the level of the hypocrisy and stupidity that’s going on right now."
www.simsstudio.com/POLINADETAILS.htm

"Bush means Dick Cheney, Tom DeLay, and all these f*cking crypto-fascists are gonna get in and start carving up the pie and handing in all their markers to the Republican Party that's been itching to get back into power."
www.simsstudio.com/POLINADETAILS.htm

"... I’m not saying I loved Gore, but I’m saying I don’t want that mother-f*cking Bush in the White House."
www.simsstudio.com/POLINADETAILS.htm

[Ryan]

"It's a hard one to stomach. It's hard to wake up every day with a feeling that you are ashamed of your country and then get out onstage and find something inspirational, something hopeful. I am part of the huge, voiceless population in this country. I have been attempting through my work to deal with it, but sometimes I get a little lost. I love America. I hate the American Government."
www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/13/1044927736188.html

"They are just living day to day. There are huge populations of disenfranchised people alienated from the whole idea of government. The Government seems to be acting completely contrary to the will of the people again and again and getting away with it. Everybody knows it is a sham."
www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/13/1044927736188.html

From her song Self Evident: "so here's a toast to all the folks who live in palestine
afghanistan
iraq"
www.danah.org/Ani/SoMuchShouting/SelfEvident.html

From her song Self Evident: "under the thumb of some blue blood royal son
who stole the oval office and that phony election"
www.danah.org/Ani/SoMuchShouting/SelfEvident.html

From her song Self Evident: "and we hold these truths to be self evident:
#1 george w. bush is not president
#2 america is not a true democracy
#3 the media is not fooling me"
www.danah.org/Ani/SoMuchShouting/SelfEvident.html

[Ryan]

"Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas."
www.guardian.co.uk/arts/reviews/story/0,11712,912236,00.html

"We've been overseas for several weeks and have been reading and following the news accounts of our governments' position. The anti-American sentiment that has unfolded here is astounding. While we support our troops, there is nothing more frightening than the notion of going to war with Iraq and the prospect of all the innocent lives that will be lost."
"I feel the President is ignoring the opinions of many in the U.S. and alienating the rest of the world."
dixiechicks.launch.yahoo.com/news.asp?id=24

Referring to her anti-Bush comments, Natalie Maines said "it was a joke and it wasn't planned. And it was really funny at the time. It got lots of cheers, and that's what it was meant for."
www.netmusiccountdown.com/news/article.php?id=2s10di

"The more flack I get for it, the prouder I am." She was also quick to point out that in her hometown of Lubbock, Texas, "only six people showed up," for a public Chicks CD-smashing protest.
launch.yahoo.com/read/news.asp?contentID=212904

"I feel patriotic -- and strong. We will continue to be who we are. People think this’ll scare us and shut us up, and it’s gonna do the opposite. They just served themselves a huge headache. [laughter] But that’s not a threat!"
www.cmt.com/news/display/1471497.jhtml

Natalie Maines said after a cancelled show, "I am so glad I got my voice back for tonight. I had absolutely no voice yesterday--and I swear you could hear clapping from the Oval Office."
launch.yahoo.com/read/news.asp?contentID=213646

"Seems like people have been questioning our patriotism lately," Maguire said, referring to Maines' recent comment that she was ashamed that President Bush came from Texas, "so I bought a $2.50 American flag sticker from a 7-Eleven and put it on my car. Now nobody questions my patriotism."
seattlepi.nwsource.com/pop/130665_dixie14q.html