Morgan Freeman wants the President to be as “pissed off” as he is.
That’s an interesting comment coming from one of America’s best actors.
Morgan is a craftsman’s craftsman. I believe he represents the best of classic American acting since Henry Fonda. With similar aesthetics and discipline, both he and Henry Fonda have shown young American actors how to do “more with less” but do it with sharpshooting accuracy.
I can honestly say that I’ve never seen him give a bad performance. Either on stage or in film.
I, along with the hundreds of others less disciplined, certainly wish we could say that for ourselves.
Morgan seems to be congenitally incapable of substandard work. Plus he carries what Fonda carried and what the great English director, Sir Tyrone Guthrie said was the rarest gift among actors: “nobility”.
Morgan and I once discussed, briefly I must add, getting “pissed off”. It was in relation to why Morgan hasn’t performed Othello in a big venue. He generally indicated that the rage within Othello was out of his reach.
Hmmm …
Now, I know he doesn’t want Barack Obama to be tearing the Presidential seal to tatters as Laurence Olivier might be prone to, but Morgan does want the President “pissed off”.
Much of America, as I am sure Morgan Freeman is aware, is very “pissed off” with Obama.
Morgan, please ask Representative Allen West of Florida and Presidential Candidate Herman Cain if we, who are “pissed off” with our President, are unjustified in being “pissed off”.
I’ll try to maintain my own calm as I write this.
President Obama promised Americans a “fundamental transformation of the United States of America.”
We are learning, however, that to “transform America,” the President must first help to transform the Middle East.
“The Arab Spring” – which President Obama, through his own private sources, obviously knows more about than his CIA advisers – is nitroglycerin in the trumpets of a mariachi band.
The ultimate, long term leadership of Egypt is still in question.
Now with Muammar Gaddafi in hiding, Libya’s future has massively dire possibilities, alternatives that could prove quite catastrophic to not only America but the entire Free World.
Isn’t it clear, though, that the “fundamental transformation of the Free World’s Freest Nation” would necessitate an equal and earth-shattering transformation of Freedom itself?
Obama’s idea of a Presidency, however, and government involvement in almost every walk of life, defies the very meaning of individual freedom and responsibility.
Why?
The President’s economic policies are not merely Keynesian, they’re Marxist.
His idea of State-controlled Capitalism benefits the government’s most cooperative businesses which are, as he describes them, “too large to fail”. He shuts out his political competitors, the individually free small businesses which are always a challenge to the large, fat and generally lazy “Bigs”.
Obama is a Marxist ideologue and the intensity of his commitment to ending a totally free market is disturbingly fierce.
And you want him to get “pissed off”?!
You who have been the “coolest” of professionals on any set in the world. The calmest. The most assured, and on the set of Along Came A Spider, the most helpful to other actors.
Is the “Arab Spring” filled with similar “intensity” as that of President Obama? What percentage of the “Arab Spring” is Marxist as well as radically Islamic? What message would a “pissed off” Marxist President be sending to the Marxist troublemakers involved with the “Arab Spring”?
The following comments and conclusions in the Walid Phares interview indicate that President Obama’s cool and his distance from the action, his delays at entering the political nightmares still growing in Egypt, and virtually on fire in both Libya and Syria, are exactly what invites terrorists and radical Islamists to take power in all three places.
Is that what you want, Morgan?
Walid Phares says that the chance of Jihadist presence in Libya is “50/50”.
He says, “Libya could become another Iran.”
He also made perfectly clear that Obama’s hesitation to act is allowing the terrorist element within Libya (as well as Egypt and Syria) is helping the Jihadists to flourish. Because America has failed to act, the “Islamist radicals” have a foothold. It is fairly clear why President Obama is not getting “pissed off” with the Middle East. He seems to love and approve what is happening there.
However, Morgan, it’s not the Middle East you want Obama “pissed off” about. It’s the Republican opposition which is filled with increasingly “pissed off” Americans.
The consistently “coolest” thing to be, or to have ever been since the 1960’s, is to be a Marxist. And you were one of the coolest actors I’d ever met.
That is what you were when we met for the first time at the Charles Street Playhouse in 1970, performing in the very Marxist creation, Jungle of Cities, by that most Marxist of playwrights, Bertolt Brecht. I was a dizzily ambitious young actor who didn’t really give a damn about the political philosophy being sold. The Boston Globe critic gave me a positive review largely because he must have mistook me for a young Marxist. That same critic later murdered my Richard III because of my very un-Marxist idea within it: link Shakespeare’s vision of bottomless and over-the-top evil to Napoleon Bonaparte and that first glimpse of Marxist/Communist Revolt: the French Revolution.
Who knows? I was not an intellectual when we first met and have learned since then that I’m not one now. I’m rolling through ideologies and ideologues looking for the savage poetry in all of it. Having found it, I’m a very “pissed off” American exile watching the United States from Canada. I cringe in dread as the United States drowns itself with the Marxist/Maoist philosophy running throughout most of the Obama Nation.
Performing in Jungle of Cities is one stage of Marxism. However, hanging Mao Zedong on the White House Christmas tree is much more eloquently “Red” than even singing Kurt Weill’s music … which I happened to do in a college production of Brecht’s Three Penny Opera.
We are obviously over the McCarthy days and Joseph’s Irish name, in addition to my own moniker, goes down into the bowels of a recent Marxist’s fantasy, Karl’s atheistic prayers for a Tea Party Inferno.
Elia Kazan was thrown with McCarthy under the same Marxist bus when he testified before the House On Un-American Activities Committee. All the Marxists in America were really “pissed off” then, weren’t they?
Now with New York, Chicago, Washington and Hollywood virtually owned by mini-Marxists and hypnotized by Maoist daydreams, you, sir, want President Obama “pissed off”?
With Obama, Marxists, full-blown Communists and the Arab Spring have reached goals none of them could have imagined. And why did they reach them? Because of Barack Obama’s eloquent cool that won him the Presidency.
And you want him pissed off?
You must know yourself, Morgan, that you reached success by being one of the coolest actors in the history of Hollywood. Staying cool is how you stay a star in both Hollywood and Washington, D.C.
Getting “pissed off” would get both you and Obama fired.
So keep those cards, letters and headlines coming in!
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