Sarandon Evicts Reporter From Creative Coalition Event

Robin Roberts of ABC News asked Barack Obama what he would remember most about his inauguration day.

“You know,” he said, “I think it is just the way that the American people have made this about more than just an election. You get a sense that kids are rethinking their priorities; neighbors are starting to think about each other differently.” (Your dog wants to do what on my lawn? Sure, no problem!)

Some things haven’t changed, however.

Exhibit A – Susan Sarandon. According to this report from Politico, not only did Sarandon refuse to answer a question from a reporter at a Creative Coalition Brunch – a brunch to which some reporters were invited – she actually had the reporter kicked out of the event.

“We spotted Susan Sarandon and we wondered if she would say a word or two about Obama’s speech. So we asked her. Everyone else was abuzz about the newly-elected prez so we assumed she would be too, right? Well, not so much. Sarandon told us she wanted to grab a bite to eat first. Fair enough, we said. We’d catch her later.

But before we could even walk away, a woman ran up and informed us that Sarandon doesn’t do press. Okay, we said. No Sarandon for us. Got it.

Then, moments later, the same woman told us she’s been asked to ask us to leave.

So we did. Just like that. We only wonder how the woman would act if we asked her something realllllly personal.”

It’s easy to be critical of Sarandon. After all, the reporter was just doing her job and, at the risk of sounding hysterical, kicking her out for simply asking a question is something more likely to happen in Fidel Castro’s Cuba than at a fancy brunch on the first day of Barack Obama’s America.

But let’s not be too quick to criticize. Sarandon has demonstrated – again and again – that she should not be talking to the media. To take just one example, last year at about this time, she took questions from Time readers. One asked why she was supporting John Edwards for president.

“He is the most authentic character,” she said, later adding that Edwards “really is who he says he is.”

If you were on record saying such things, would you be eager to talk a reporter?