Martin Sheen just arrived at Camp Casey.

[brainshrub]

Just so you know. :D

[greenbriar]

1. omg thats awesome

I love Martin Sheen!!!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. should be with Brad

on Raw Radio after the break, I think. At least that's what they hope to do.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

3. That is wonderful! He has been a peace warrior for most of his life

and I am so happy that he is bringing that great energy to Camp Casey!

[fooj]

8. Woo hoo!

I knew Martin wouldn't let us down!

Peace.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

17. Me too!!!! Hi Fooj and Peace! :)

[in_cog_ni_to]

4. President Bartlett!

I love him. :)

[Selatius]

5. Actually, I was hoping no celebrities would show up

There's been enough attacks on liberals through Hollywood as there is. This will just be used as more evidence of the "liberal control of the media."

[in_cog_ni_to]

9. IMCPO, we need Hollywood Liberals and their access to cameras.

:hi:

[FreedomAngel82]

14. So who gives a fuck?

They are regular people just like you and me and have every damn right to say whatever they want and participate in peace movements as well. If a celebrity was a rightwinger I'd still defend them too. I get soooo tired of this "sit down and entertain me" crap. Like they're not people too. They have their Constiution rights too!

[Cha]

24. Like the video I saw of

Steve Earle in Crawford where he said and this is important..

"DON'T CENSOR OURSELVES" !

[hippywife]

36. Excellent reply!

It was also many in Hollywood that stood against McCarthy, too. They are all citizens and they all have a voice. Anything assigning anything more to it because of their "star status" is reading too much into it themselves.

[buff2]

18. Thank God they are on OUR side

I respect Liberal Hollywood.Stand up to the rightwingnuts....just because they piss and moan about something doesn't mean we have to be republican lite. That's what's wrong with our so called Democratic leaders today. No balls.I am proud to be a Liberal,aren't you?

[Selatius]

20. It doesn't take pride to hold principles

Pride has nothing to do with it.

As far as those celebrities go, I don't need them to speak for me. I speak well enough for myself. They are free to do whatever they please, but it was my preference they stay out of this fight between ordinary people who support this war and those who oppose this war. It's our fight because our sons and daughters are dying.

[FreedomAngel82]

28. So you don't think they care?

Martin Sheen is as liberal as you can get, so I'm sure he cares and is general. They're apart of our society too. And remember Pat Tillman was a celebrity who died.

[Selatius]

35. Oh, I think they care, but ultimately, they made their name...

on entertainment, not fighting the battles that ordinary people and workers have had to deal with the whole time they're not there. I stand with the workers and the poor who have to suffer everyday from exploitation and lack of food, education, or health care. It's not as glamorous as getting a check for 10,000,000 for making a movie, but struggle and hardship never was glamorous.

Where were they when the Telecommunications Act was signed by Clinton? Where were they when NAFTA was passed, which drove under countless communities in the Northeast? Were they the workers who had to strike for a living wage? Were they around when union-busting began? Actors and their careers come and go, but workers remain.

With me, I just don't mix politics and paying the fucking bills with entertainment.

[buff2]

37. Did you know that Jim Carey lived in his car and

was homeless for quite awhile before he got his break? A lot of those stars had it rough....why knock someone because they made it in life?

[Selatius]

39. I don't mean to knock them at all

The point I'd make though is why does Sheen get the podium over, for example, a steel mill worker who lost his job because of out-sourcing who also decided to make the trip down to Camp Casey because he also opposes the war? What, is he less qualified than Sheen?

[Booster]

51. You speak for yourself and that is great, but no one hears you

except the people on DU. For whatever reason, people do listen to celebrities and I admire each and every one of them that speaks their mind, no matter which side they're on. I love the ones on our side.

[FreedomAngel82]

26. For sure

I get so frustrated. Only person who has enough balls is Ted Kennedy. Oy! Poor Teddy. He needs someone else on his side. It's kind of sad when you're actually rooting for Chuck Hagel. It truly is in backwards world. I'm surprised he hasn't shown up at Camp Casey yet. Heh.

[brainshrub]

22. Nah, his timing is perfect.

We've already won the battle here. The movement is now mainstream, Bush has been shown for the coward he is, and the RW was unable to discredit Cindy.

Plus, the hurricane has taken much of the media focus off of the protest. (As it should.)

Martin Sheen is welcome here.

Jane Fonda on the other hand...

[FreedomAngel82]

29. I would welcome Jane Fonda too

I think the timing is just right as well. Maybe that's why he's just showing up now. I'm surprised Jesse Jackson isn't around. Heh heh. But seriously, I think enough people know what's going on and the American public isn't stupid like the rightwingers want you to believe. Just look at Bush's approval raitings! I think if Sheen, Fonda and anybody else want to show up then who the hell cares. Oh and I hope someone gets video!

[brainshrub]

38. If I see Jane Fonda here, I might go home early.

I respect her right to go anywhere she wants, but it would be selfish and stupid of her to do so.

[proud2BlibKansan]

40. She's going on a nationwide

anti-war tour. I would be willing to bet she will be in D.C. on the 24th.

[Eloriel]

41. Why?

That seems so little and petty of you.

She's apologized for what she did back then and said she was wrong. Immature and wrong. She's actually done that a number of times. What, exactly, do you want? Is there no possibility of redemption for her in your eyes? She is just forever condemned, without any hope of being able to move on with HER life?

Can you explain to me the mechanism by which a misguided young peace activist did something foolish and is forever banned from being involved in activism again even after apologizing?

[K-W]

27. He has as much right to be there as anyone else.

And the answer to fighting the lies of the right is not to try and make ourselves more acceptable to them.

[Eloriel]

42. Precisely right and it's time our Dem "leaders" learned that

Not to mention a whole passle of DUers.

I think this is an extraordinarily powerful explication of the issue:

Do not submit. It is extremely critical that repression be met head on and that it be resisted with every fiber in our being. There is absolutely no compromise that can be made with it. As a matter of fact, compromise is what oppression feeds on. Without compromise it would be defeated.
-- Harry Belafonte, upon being asked how to survive political repression in a TV interview

[jmm]

34. For every liberal celebrity activist there is a

Arnold, Sonny Bono, Reagan, Pat Boone, Ted Nugent, and a ton of other celebrities who have either run for office or just run their mouths in support of Republican. So granted we have better celebrities :D but they're just a bunch of hypocrites for attacking Hollywood liberals and I'm pretty certain that people who complain about "liberal control of the media" wouldn't be supporting Cindy if Martin Sheen didn't how up.

[Eloriel]

43. Actually,

I think liberals far outnumber conservatives in Hollywood. Now, you want to throw in stupid slug "celebrities" like Ted Nugent, that skews the stats a bit, but Hollywood is and always has been decidedly liberal.

There's a reason for that. People who are actors (and in related fields, like screenwriting, directing, etc.) HAVE to have the capacity to commiserate with others, to understand the human condition in a multiplicity of different manifestations, both subtle and gross. And as we all know, it's liberals who have that capacity, and conservatives not so much, until it happens to them.

Or, as I've put it a number of times in the past, conservatives are by and large "spiritually constipated."

[proud patriot]

6. Cool

:D

[crispini]

7. get OUT, that's cool!

Get your pic taken w. him and post. Please!!

[bpilgrim]

10. anyone got any images?

tia :toast:

peace

[FreedomAngel82]

11. Oh my gosh!!!

I so wish I could be there!

[leftchick]

12. that is sooooo cool!

give him a huge smile for me!

:loveya:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

13. Brad is saying that the President has come to Camp Casey! Meaning

Sheen of course!

[Gabi Hayes]

46. I thought he meant cheney came out from his undisclosed spelunk

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

50. I thought so too for a minute! :) eom

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

15. Martin Sheen not doing media interviews

but RawRadio and Brad will carry what's going onstage. Maybe Martin Sheen will speak from the stage.

[FreedomAngel82]

30. I hope so

And I think it's an important sign to show that he isn't doing interviews. It shows me anyways that he is there for the cause and not a media whore.

[Cleita]

16. Fantastic.

:woohoo::bounce::woohoo::bounce::woohoo::bounce::woohoo::bounce:

Give our love to President Bartlet.

[Mr.Green93]

19. What's he going to do for the people of New Orleans?

What about those people who are about to die?

[Eloriel]

44. So, your rules are

that everyone and everything else must stop and attend to the NO hurricane? What, exactly, would you expect him to do TODAY about it instead of being there in TX? Would you expect him to be down there driving people out of town? Or perhaps making public service announcements -- of what type?

Just what is it you think he should be doing RIGHT NOW instead of what he is doing?

[NVMojo]

48. What are you doing about the hurricane?

just wondering ...

[ashling]

21. Cindy Sheehan gets to meet the president

[ewagner]

23. Damn!

Sheen can show up but not our DEMOCRATIC PARTY LEADERSHIP!!!!??????

:wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

[FreedomAngel82]

31. That's what I want to know

:shrug: Well Maxine Waters has shown up. Kerry and Kennedy wrote support letters and so has John Conyers. So that's something. I haven't heard anything from Clinton or Biden.

[Gabi Hayes]

47. sorta like, "I'm not a leader, but I play one on TV?" how can that

be juxtaposed with the lack of leadership in the Achordate Party?

[SalmonChantedEvening]

25. Awright Martin!

:applause:

Thanks brainshrub!! :pals:

[ultraist]

32. SWEET!

Thanks brainshrub for all of your awesome reports and for being there! :loveya: :patriot:

[Just Me]

33. That is wonderful!!!!

The more warriors for peace and justice, the better!!! :bounce:

[neonplaque]

45. Photo

Credit to alaskagyrl:

http://alaskagyrl.blogspot.com/

[dzika]

49. The Brad Show has Martin Sheen's talk up in the audio archive

http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001771.htm

or

http://www.bradshow.com/#ArchivesONC