I watched the rebroadcast of Real Time with Bill Maher last night. I screamed. Really, I did. I just couldn’t take it anymore. Drew Barrymore went on, and on, and on, and on. And on. Bloody, that woman has to learn to edit her statements!
Amen. It was pretty similar to her appearance on The Daily Show a couple weeks back…except the pain went on for much longer this time.
At least Bill smacked her a bit, with the “you’ve been watching too much Oprah” thing. And at least he said (as he’s said before) that a lot of folks might think 18 year-olds who don’t follow politics probably shouldn’t be voting anyway.
Still, Drew’s heart is in the right place. more people should be involved in the election process, and if they start young, they might have time to learn a few things and make a real difference.
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Saw her on the Daily Show. Good gawd, what a muffin head. I wish she’d taken up with FTheVote.com because at least she’d know what the hell she was talking about.
I find her to be such an incredible idiot when it comes to public appearances.
She’s in her mid 20s now. I’d expect her to be a bit smarter and well spoken.
Or at least to know when the STFU and listen.
I think she’s 29.
Yes, but she’s such a cute muffin head. That’s part of her charm.
It did make it a bit of a stretch to believe she was an intellectual in Never Been Kissed, though.
Oh, I would go so far as to say she’s a positively adorable muffin-head (should that have a hyphen or what?), and I do appreciate what she’s trying to do. But the Daily show thing was a cringer of a rather excruciating quality. I found myself talking to the TV: “Drew, tell people to vote, and then shut up. Please shut up. Please? Drew, this isn’t helpful anymore. You’re babbling like an idiot. Shut up, already. Stick to the message: Voooote. Gooood. Smile. Talk about kittens. Then get away from the mic. Um, you’re still talking, Drew…”
(paraphrasized but still marginally accurate)
Drew on the DS: “I had to learn ALL this stuff. Like, people kept talking about being partisan and I had no idea what they meant!”
Eh, you have to give her SOME credit. I mean, before Adorable Muffin Head, she was Teen Skank Coke Whore. At one point, she was seriously heading into Courtney Love territory.
Good point. All that coke can’t help someone master the vagaries of the American democratic process…
Wow, 19 900 posts!
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So… are you having a party for # 20 000?
I just checked her IMDB listing and you’re right.
I really think that makes her more pathetic.
Drew would do herself a world of good to skip making another crappy film and maybe, I don’t know, get a damned GED. Then she can start trying to influence the American electoral process with a little bit of legitimacy and gravitas.
Meanwhile, all of her anti-intellectual whining is demonstrating exactly why muffinheaded young people ought not be allowed within 100 yards of any polling place. I’ve never before used this, but I think all of her rambling nonsense qualifies her as a class-A, dyed in the wool :wally
To be fair to Miss Barrymore, she does appear to be earnest. (Damn, I just got a flash of her crossed with Jim Varney. Drew Barrymore as Ernest!) She’s taken the time to learn about politics. But she does come off as a “muffinhead”. As I said, she needs to edit herself. As it is, she sounds like a teenager who suddeenly has a “cause”. By rambling on and on (and on), she missed a great opportunity to inspire other young people (that is, 18-25 year olds) to become more politically active.
And then she turned 10.
And yet, wouldn’t you have forgiven her if she had flashed her boobs at the end?
Eh, I’ve already seen her tits.
Happened to catch that show when I was on the road last week, and it was painful – I actually changed channels at one point until Drew was about done. As someone else said, at least Bill Maher didn’t entirely give her a free pass on her muffin-headedness – I really thought he could have done more with the point he tried to make that her whole “this was something that I needed to do for me” bit was exactly what’s so sideways about a couple of whole generations of potential voters. Young muffin-heads voting because it makes them feel good about themselves is what we don’t need. How about learning to realize that the benefits we enjoy as members of this society come with obligations, and that one of those is to intelligently exercise the right to vote? How about recognizing all of the other obligations that go along with that and acting on those? On the other hand, I think Maher realized that her heart seems to be in the right place, even if her head is still someplace other than Earth, and really busting her chops would have been like shooting fish in a barrel (or Bambis in a corral, or something).
Or so it seemed – given her relative degree of power in Hollywood as a producer, I have to wonder if she’s as giggly and vapid in production meetings and other business settings. And if not, why does she behave that way in this setting?
Instead of encouraging other young people to vote for president once every four years, I’d love to see someone with her influence encouraging them to get deeply involved in at least one local political issue per year – a rezoning case, a local ordinance change, campaigns for mayor or city council, or county commission, or whatever. Do that enough times, and you might eventually develop the political savvy and skills to do something worthwhile, and the place you live will probably be better off for it.