Celebrity has-been: Maybe the earthquake in China was karmic payback for Tibet
posted at 12:00 pm on May 26, 2008 by Allahpundit
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The seventh-most viewed clip on all of YouTube today, doubtless on its way to greater heights as Chinese nationalists circulate it for propaganda purposes. In fairness, she does climb down a bit from her vindictive spin in holding up Tibetans’ reaction to the quake as a model, but even so, I always find these lefty variations on Falwellian cause and effect morbidly fascinating. You’ll find them in spades in comment sections whenever misfortune befalls a conservative, although naturally they’re never couched in anything as retrograde as divine retribution. It’s always something New Age-ier and more “open-minded,” like karma or, in the case of special dimwits, some hazy mind/body connection by which malignant acts “invite” malignant tumors. (There are, of course, more sophisticated versions.) How sad that not even The Enlightened are immune from superstition.
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So what’s the penalty for not wearing underwear in public? Maybe that’s how she channels good kharma…ain’t got no undergarments slowin’ anything up. Allows a free flow of that mystical Obama thrill to travel freely throughout the nether regions.
Wyznowski on May 27, 2008 at 11:33 AM
“claims rights over”? That’s all China is doing in Tibet? …. “claims rights over”?
wise_man on May 27, 2008 at 11:37 AM
Another faded movie actress chasing the spotlight which eludes her. It may be time for Sharon Stone to pay Parade Magazine the usual publicity fee for a gushing article to jump start her stalled career.
viking01 on May 27, 2008 at 11:53 AM
WHAT ! !
She missed a chance to tell the world how high her IQ is. Again,
Texyank on May 27, 2008 at 1:19 PM
What an idiot.
Catie96706 on May 27, 2008 at 1:35 PM
She’s about as bright as Sean Penn and Danny Glover. Must be nice living Somewhere Over The Rainbow………
adamsmith on May 27, 2008 at 1:48 PM
I like the idea of karma, its just the idea that I can hurt you and assume you deserve it.
I’m sure those dead schoolchildren were completely responsible for Tibet’s freedom from China right? Stupid peice of crap.
Capitana on May 27, 2008 at 1:48 PM
Uh, Sharon…. What’s the karmic relevance of the Komodo dragon that bit your husband?
viking01 on May 27, 2008 at 2:12 PM
That was some interesting lunchtime reading. So here’s what Sharon Stoner is remembered for:
Hootchie
Kootchie
punanee
you-know-what
cooter
stunt cooter
beaver
crotch
nether regions
whisker biscuit
and finally
vagina
I wonder how her karma is?
kirkill on May 27, 2008 at 2:57 PM
Well of course the victims of the earthquake are not responsible for the crimes against Tibet, BUT she wasn’t altogether wrong about the fact that China has been “unkind” (purposeful understatement of the year) to Tibet. In fact, I’m kind of glad she poked and prodded the Chinese (Chinese politicians, that is) to, at least, think about what they are doing in Tibet, even if the karmic connection is silly. What the Chinese have done to Tibet is despicable, and they should be called to task, though I agree this way is not very tasteful. The part about how the Tibetans offer to help the Chinese nevertheless, should not be overlooked because it says something true about their character. Ms. Stone was right to point out that fact. Is she a nutty liberal? I don’t know. She seems pretty cool to me, at least in that clip.
pleaseandthankyou on May 27, 2008 at 5:26 PM
can I write in, “I.Q.”?
DaveC on May 27, 2008 at 5:52 PM
Notice the blurred out logo on a microphone. Are the ChiComs afraid of their citizens even knowing the existence of other news outlets?
HockeyTemper on May 27, 2008 at 6:35 PM
“And it’s caramel, because The Dilly Pickle is a goof rend of Mayan!”
Shut up and uncross your legs, Stone.
profitsbeard on May 27, 2008 at 6:38 PM
Ok she is a dingbat, but there is something huge missed here:
This You Tube Post is of a Chinese News Station gathering opinion on this. I think they are trying to make a bigger deal than what it is to create an anti sentiment within the Chinese population towards what they see as outside meddling in internal Chinese affairs (Tibet). One only has to look at the Chinese comments on You Tube to realize just how effective this propaganda peice is.
paulsur on May 27, 2008 at 7:16 PM
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