Actress Jessica Lange, who last month proclaimed in Spain how she “despises” President Bush and that because Bush's Iraq policy “is unconstitutional, immoral and illegal,” it is “an embarrassing time to be an American...it's humiliating,” campaigned on Monday on behalf of Minnesota Senate candidate Walter Mondale, sharing the stage with him at at least one rally.
Tuesday's Good Morning America, MRC analyst Jessica Anderson noticed, showed a quick clip of her with a soundbite, but failed to inform viewers of her anti-American hatred. FNC's Brit Hume, however, reminded viewers of his program of her earlier left-wing rant.
During a November 5 Good Morning America story on Mondale's campaign schedule the day before, John Cochran noted: "Noon, Mondale gets celebrity help from actress Jessica Lange."
Viewers then saw a clip of Lange proclaiming at an outdoor rally: "We've been blessed to have somebody like Fritz Mondale."
Tuesday's Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported: “At the get-out-the-vote rally with other DFL candidates and about 1,000 supporters, actress Jessica Lange, a Minnesota native, criticized Coleman as a candidate who would 'just be a voice for the administration.'
"'I was born and raised in Minnesota. I know that Minnesotans are stubborn and independent and I know that's where I get those qualities,' she said. 'What we have to determine is whether we are going to choose someone who speaks for us or are we going to allow outside influences to choose who our candidate is?'”
That story is online at: http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/3410299.html
For a Reuters photo of Mondale with Lange after the rally: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/021105/161/2lz8w.html
Lange made her anti-Bush and anti-American remarks at a press conference before a film festival in Spain in late September. The syndicated show Inside Edition later ran these soundbites from her:
-- On George W. Bush: “I despise him. I despise his administration and everything they stand for.”
-- “To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.”
-- “And I think this latest thing with Iraq is absolute madness and I'm stunned that there is not opposition on a much more global scale to what he's talking about.”
-- “There has to be a movement now to really oppose what he is proposing because it's unconstitutional, it's immoral and basically illegal.”
-- “It is an embarrassing time to be an American. It really is. It's humiliating.”
For a full rundown of stories about her comments, both in Europe and the U.S., and a RealPLayer video clip of what Inside Edition showed, see the October 7 CyberAlert: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2002/cyb20021007.asp#5