Demi Moore allows talent agents in her navel?
posted at 5:40 pm on March 25, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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No, no, silly me — she means real bloodsucking leeches, not just the Hollywood variety. And as she carefully explains to David Letterman, these aren’t just your average, run-of-the-swamp variety leeches, but highly trained health-care partners:
Demi Moore has found a health secret that sucks. Literally.
“Just a week ago I was in Austria doing a cleanse and part of the treatment was leech therapy,” Moore said on “Late Show with David Letterman” Monday night.
“It detoxifies your blood and they have a little enzyme that when they’re biting down on you gets released into your blood,” the actress added. “Generally you bleed for quite a bit and it detoxifies your blood.”
Moore said that the treatment is uncomfortable, but a little Lamaze breathing helps her get past the pain.
It actually produces hirudin, which thins the blood rather than detoxifies it, and only at the site of the leech bite. Here’s the video of Demi explaining it to Letterman:
Leeches have real medicinal value, but only in certain applications. They speed up healing for skin grafts by removing pooled blood beneath the graft, and also have uses in reattachment surgeries. The use for which Moore applies them — to “detoxify” the blood — is more folk medicine than actual science.So what’s the biggest takeaway from this? That movie stars will travel halfway around the world to have bloodsuckers crawl into their belly buttons? Or that leeches really prefer “Brazilian”?
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But do they have a low carbon footprint? That’s the question.
lorien1973 on March 25, 2008 at 5:42 PM
Liberals and leaches they go together like cream and peaches
(Damn near screwed that up and said Cream and preachers)
William Amos on March 25, 2008 at 5:44 PM
That’s what I love about her.
The light are on, but nobody’s home.
I’ve taking bets she also believes in that global warming climate changey thingy
Kini on March 25, 2008 at 5:47 PM
is she for Obama?
DaveC on March 25, 2008 at 5:48 PM
I’m moving to CA tomorrow. I already have my Mosquito Therapy sign painted.
Dusty on March 25, 2008 at 5:50 PM
Demi Moore, isn’t she the one who married her son?
Indy Conservative on March 25, 2008 at 5:50 PM
Now that’s funny!
Smooth Rooster on March 25, 2008 at 5:51 PM
The good leeches will do that.
They perform even better under sniper fire.
shaken on March 25, 2008 at 5:55 PM
….doing the work American leeches won’t do…
Canadian Infidel on March 25, 2008 at 5:56 PM
Dummy Moore is probably for Kucinich.
It’s the illegal aliens from planet 9 immigration problem.
Kini on March 25, 2008 at 5:57 PM
Ed just say no to Redlasso! >:{
Chakra Hammer on March 25, 2008 at 6:03 PM
That’s some hardcore Creative Anachronism…
Lee on March 25, 2008 at 6:04 PM
Leeches love leeches.
Also, part of our next healthcare system, if we’re not careful.
Entelechy on March 25, 2008 at 6:04 PM
I’m interested in this Mosquito therapy and would like to learn more. Please send me your brochure. Enclosed you will find $50,000 because I’m a rich idiot who will fall for anything, not matter how insane.
Note to Demi: It’s not the 1500’s. We don’t believe in “bleeding” people to make them healthier. Just FYI.
mjk on March 25, 2008 at 6:06 PM
All this time! To think I have been draping these little money-makers on a hook and trying to catch fish…uhg…I could kick myself.
I’m thinking there could also be medicinal uses for minnows; you give me ten grand and I will drape a few on your face.
Bishop on March 25, 2008 at 6:09 PM
Also, part of our next healthcare system, if we’re not careful.
Sorry but a pint of good ribbon leeches can get expensive, better that you just go off and die.
Next patient please.
Bishop on March 25, 2008 at 6:12 PM
“We have educated ourselves into imbecility”
– G.K. Chesterton
Me thinks someone has too much time and money on ‘er hands.
CynicalOptimist on March 25, 2008 at 6:13 PM
Speaking of Hollywood and Austria, just wait until you see the next generation of blood suckers hopped-up on steroids.
My collie says:
Okay, so it’s not that funny.
CyberCipher on March 25, 2008 at 6:13 PM
G.K. Chesterton, one smart cookie.
Chakra Hammer on March 25, 2008 at 6:21 PM
Hmmm…Hollywood and leeches…wouldn’t that be considered an oxymoron?
Liberty or Death on March 25, 2008 at 6:23 PM
If I’m not mistaken, Demi smokes cigarettes. She inhales toxins on purpose.
Also, how many pounds of CO2 did she burn flying around the world to do this?
Oh the irony is wonderful.
redshirt on March 25, 2008 at 6:25 PM
The Education System
* “The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.” – ILN, 9/7/29
* “Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to describe as Self-Examination. The consequence is that the modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads.” – Nash’s Pall Mall Magazine. April, 1935
–G.K. Chesterton
Chakra Hammer on March 25, 2008 at 6:29 PM
that about sums up, Hollywood.
Chakra Hammer on March 25, 2008 at 6:32 PM
All you haters can say what you want. If my wife looks that good at 75 I will be pretending to be one of those leeches every night!
Vigilante on March 25, 2008 at 6:44 PM
All you haters can say what you want. If my wife looks that good at 75 I will be pretending to be one of those leeches every night!
Vigilante on March 25, 2008 at 6:44 PM
#1- she ain’t 75…
#2- your wife CAN look that good… it’s all plastic… with the right amount of portraits of Ben Franklin anything is possible :)
CynicalOptimist on March 25, 2008 at 6:51 PM
Wonder if Ms. Moore was part of the Hollywood brain trust that was paying that South American “doctor” to inject automobile-grade lubricants into their faces?
AZCoyote on March 25, 2008 at 6:55 PM
Fixed
eeyore on March 25, 2008 at 6:59 PM
I just got a flash of Steve Martin as Theodoric Barber of York bleeding the old SNL cast.
hburns on March 25, 2008 at 7:15 PM
Hmmm…
… bait shop leeches + gullible new age types with too much money = profit. Who wants in on the IPO?
Hollowpoint on March 25, 2008 at 7:28 PM
FREAK!!!
NTWR on March 25, 2008 at 7:36 PM
Now we know why Bruce Willis cheated on her…
greekinfidel on March 25, 2008 at 7:56 PM
That we pay 10 bucks to see a movie so lowlife hollywierdos can waste our hardearned money.
peacenprosperity on March 25, 2008 at 8:02 PM
Uh, hey I’ll suck on her navel, and she won’t have to travel so far.
conservnut on March 25, 2008 at 8:06 PM
You laugh,
I’ll have you know, I opened the first Leech Obedience School in 1968.
HEEL!
franksalterego on March 25, 2008 at 9:03 PM
Fricken Moonbats will believe anything, as long as it’s not based in fact.
R D on March 25, 2008 at 9:08 PM
Fixed, and might I add…? God what a bimbo! Every interview I’ve seen of her she comes across as dumber than a box of hammers. This was the icing on the cake.
4shoes on March 25, 2008 at 9:52 PM
Bleczcsch!
Akzed on March 25, 2008 at 11:26 PM
Uuuuuhghhhhghhhghghghghg!!!
Sorry dude, get me that bucket over there, please.
Akzed on March 25, 2008 at 11:27 PM
Hunhunhunhunhu ughhhhhhghghghghgh uhuhnghungh ughn, ughhhughhguhguhgh… ugh!
Akzed on March 25, 2008 at 11:27 PM
Whew!
Johan Klaus on March 26, 2008 at 12:20 AM
…glad that’s over with…
Akzed on March 26, 2008 at 12:26 AM
i was just thinking this.. ‘Another blood letting’
that’s a great sketch..
DaveC on March 26, 2008 at 12:33 AM
Yuck, gross across the board, sounds like you can get more disease than not.
She also mentioned Turpentine Baths which sound awful….
AprilOrit on March 26, 2008 at 2:06 AM
No, that was Cher I think.
labrat on March 26, 2008 at 2:41 AM
A little glimpse at Obama style universal healthcare.
labrat on March 26, 2008 at 2:42 AM
And she’s STILL hot…does this woman ever age?
Livefreeordie on March 26, 2008 at 3:01 AM
Hummm…leeches huh…if the will make me look that good, I’ll take 3 dozen! By the way, went swimming in a creek when I was a kid. Got a leech on my arse….it hurt like hell!
kcd on March 26, 2008 at 10:14 AM
Claims to have had four treatments bellybutton is one. They don’t like hair so expect to be shaved, so where were the other three placed?
MSGTAS on March 26, 2008 at 10:20 AM
Hey HP! We can put this one right beside our other two booths! Before long we’ll have us a little moonbat town!
kcd on March 26, 2008 at 10:21 AM
What’s wrong with good old American leeches? Too Plebian? Too culturally ignorant to fully appreciate a demi-tasse of Demi-blood?
UreyP3 on March 26, 2008 at 11:11 AM
What will she use to resuscitate her career? Marynol?
Sensei Ern on March 26, 2008 at 11:47 AM
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