Hate is a strong word, so let’s not employ it here. Let’s say I strongly dislike this celebrity couple, despite all their humanitarian activities, and my interest was piqued to see this news story criticising their oh-so-laudable choice to give birth in Namibia:
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have been labelled “colonial overlords” for the treatment they received in Namibia in the weeks leading up to the birth of their daughter last month.
Namibia’s National Society For Human Rights accuses the superstar couple of “using heavy-handed and brutal tactics” to get the African country’s government to aid their desire for total privacy.
A NSHR spokesman says, “To shut down a national border so she can give birth in peace is a massive abuse of power.”
You think? Jolie and Pitt closed down a national border so they could avoid paparazzi. This is, as the human rights org says, presumably one that Jolie has worked with during her multiple trips to the country, a massive abuse of power, in part because their refusal of her entry and stay could have hedged on their continuing to receive massive amounts of money from outside donors.
Incidentally, Namibia has a high infant mortality rate and the UNDP’s 2005 Human Development Report indicated that 34.9% of the population live on $1 per day and 55.8% live on $2 per day. So kind of the Jolie-Pitt family to arrange government time and money to give birth to a baby that could have had equally private care and treatment in a country that isn’t so strapped for resources.
The new parents, along with kids Maddox, 4, and Zahara, 1, have been staying at the luxury resort in Namibia since April, where their personal security team and Namibian police have shielded them from paparazzi.
Last week, the Namibian government said foreign journalists wishing to cover the birth must have written permission from Pitt and Jolie to enter the country and obtain a work permit.
And so kind of them to use their brand-new daughter as a donation-seeking, money-making device. That just screams mindful parenthood.
Now don’t get me wrong, I can appreciate that someone so goth as to wear her ex-husband’s blood in a vial around her neck can wake up and realize that the world doesn’t revolve around her personal drama and teen angst. Jolie has done a lot of work and spent a lot of time giving money and raising awareness for human rights travesties around the world. I only wish that more celebrities would follow her example. Except for abusing her power in the third world by shutting down relatively powerless countries for her convenience of giving birth.
H/T: Avast, Feminist Conspiracy!
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And to stave off any indignant commenters who are pissed that I can criticize the beautiful people, I’ll beat you to the punch:
OMIGOD I LUV HER SO MUCH <3<3<3<3<3 UR JUST JELOUS SHE IS SO HOTT WTFl33tBBQ!!!!!!1111!!ELEVEN!!
And just for extra measure, a friend of a friend wrote me when she heard I was irritated about this story with a story of her own:
If it makes you feel any better my nephew worked on the set of oceans 12 and he said brad pitt is a HUGE DICK. like everyone else on the set was having fun, hanging out and pitt ran to his trailer between shots and didn’t socialize because he was too busy fucking jolie, since that was the only time he could work it in since he was hiding the affair from his wife. he made them all complicit in it.
Interesting considering our favorite bee-stung lipped actress and her sherpa boyfriend deny an affair ever occurred. But hey, who am I to question a modern activist imperialist?
Angelina Jolie is simply an unadulterated adultering slut. She is the premium yeasty-twat twit-whore. This hypocritical seeker of sloppy homewrecking seconds should invest in liposculpture of those gnarly scrotum-sausage lips to fund her exoskeleton of a bony arse, so her head might be better nestled while crammed inextricably up there.
You festering baby-napper…we should try to be glad for your exotic child swiping if it limits your urge to propagate your own maggot genes, as the bad apple does not fall far from the nasty mutant family tree. Case in point: you have your father’s bizarre, exaggerated facial twists and pus-bucket cheating heart. May you grow a male appendage so that you can go defile yourself in the way so many command you to. Pig.
Well, we’re spoiled by my douchebag thread, which we artificially inflated by feeding trolls.
Much more challenging getting to 200 on this thread. I would calculate:
Number of people to demonize re Brangelina: 2
Number of people to demonize re douchbag: 4000000000/2/1000
if 0.1% of women(and no men) are raving radical feminists
Not that I am saying all radical feminists are raving.
And another thing – on this thread we have the whatopposition? factor.
n=proponent,lim[n->infinity]: [whatopposition?->0]
and as [whatopposition?->0]: [argument->0]
to borrow some of JackGoff’s maths
gnarly scrotum-sausage lips
and I think adorer has raised the level of adjective to a new level so we could beat the douchebag thread yet. Good things take time.
Actually, the radical raving feminists quit the douchebag thread at around comment 12. If some young conservatives hadn’t shown up and proceeded to bluster on about divorce for something like a month, we’d never have gotten the thread that high.
200!!!!! McBoing wins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
we’d never have gotten the thread that high.
The thread, no. Ourselves….let’s ruminate on that one.
yeasty-twat twit-whore
Say that ten times fast.
Uh, sure. I’m not in trouble, am I?
Whoa, never mind. I replied to you, Marc.
this thread has been hijacked so many times you’d think it was a BJ post.
BJs ARE TEH SATAN !!11!111!!!one-thousand-eleven!!!!
i heart this thread. *smooch*
I totally agree with you. They are oh so ridiculous… besides there’s one thing they are over exposed… They suck! Her whole I will save the world attitude sucks! So hypocrite!
i hate BRAD PITT AN ANGELINA JOLIE TOGETHER I HATE THEM WELL I HATE ANGELINA JOLIE SHES THE UGLEST WOMEN EVER JENNIFER ANISTON DAM SHES WAY BETTER THEN ANGELINA JOLIE SHE HAS EVERYTHING THAT ANGELINA DONT HAVE JENNIFER ANISTON LOOKS WAY BETTER WITH BRAD PITT THEN ANGELINA THEY MAKE A PURFECT MATCH WELL I HATE ANGELINA SO MUCH THAT I WISH SHE WAS NAVER IN THIS WORLD SO YA THIS ALL I HAVE TO SAY
ANGELINA JOLIE IS A BAD MOTHER 4 SHO!!!!!
THIS IS NO LIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The hits just keep on coming.
She’s in the news again, I guess. I read on the cover of some tabloids that Brad only wants custody of Shiloh. So much for the Jolie-Pitts. What a wanker.
i wonder why no one ever seems able to get this much discussion going about women’s rights or politics…
I WISH SHE WAS NAVER IN THIS WORLD
Well, to be honest, I can’t really see how being more nave could be possible.
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And yet, the TomKat thread lies abandoned and unloved. O fortuna! Velut luna statu variabilis!
Jack, it’s those goddam Scientology lawyers. They probably threatened Marc or something…
read on the cover of some tabloids that Brad only wants custody of Shiloh. So much for the Jolie-Pitts. What a wanker.
Depends who you ask. The article my wife read says that Angelina is not contesting custody of Shiloh, which lines up with the party line that she treats her adopted kids way better. Eh.
They both are so fake and I cant understand the royalty treatment they get from the media, they are a publicity hungry cpuple who would do anything for a photo opportunity!
If htere’s a nuclear holocaust, all that will be left will be cockroaches.
Leaving messages on this thread that read “OMfo Shor! Brad is teh Ick! Two Legs bad, six legs betters!!!!!!!!11!!”
But they’re such a cute cpuple!
they are gross already sick of them already
Me too. I’m already ready to get rid of them already!
Already? Already? It’s been over a year!
WHAT THE FUCK?
SEX BEFORE MARRIAGE, WHAT’S THE BLOODY POINT?
YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO SAVE YOURSELVES FOR EACH OTHER, GET MARRIED AND THEN HAVE CHILDREN. NOT HAVE CHILDREN AND THEN GET MARRIED. CELEBRITIES LIKE THESE GIVE MARRIAGES AND THE PURE RELATIONSHIP OF A HUSBAND AND WIFE A BAD NAME.
OH, AND THEY THINK THEY’LL LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER.
…on and ooonnn myyyyy friieeeennnddddsss!!!! McBoing had started posting it not knowing what it was and now we’ll all be commenting for-evah just because…
this is the thread that never eeeennnnddddssss! Yes it goes on and on myyyyyy friieennnndddssss! McBoing had…
This thread fills me with a glad and inexplicable glee. There is something truly wonderful about this thread, and I wish I understood what it was.
, BUT THEY DON’T KNOW ABOUT MY NEFARIOUS PLANS. MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
SEX BEFORE MARRIAGE, WHAT’S THE BLOODY POINT?
1. It’s fun.
2. If you do it, your brain won’t be so full of come that you have to shout all the time just to hear yourself.
3. Sooner or later, they’re going to find out that you’re terrible in bed. Putting it off will only make the situation worse, and won’t give you time to improve.
I do hate someone who hate the people her viewing audience. She hates all conservatives even told HER PEOPLE to keep FOXNEWS away from her, but has a audasity to be in the {Mighty Heart}. I hope NO ONE GOES TO SEE HER ever again,,,,, I won’t!
I don’t blame anyone for staying clear of Fox News.
Why is it audacious to be in this “Mighty Heart” film?
The truth is…..Angelina Jolie is a Cylon. It’s why she is so strange and why Brad Pitt is so enamored with her.
Jolie is a phoney. She wants to believe she’s some kind of savior. She travels to other countries as a goodwill ambassador…she see’s the poor, the oppressed, the hungry and the sick. Then she comes back to the US and walks around with a purse worth thousands of dollars! And don’t forget the money she spends on dermatologists, and facialists. She gets too much sun on her travels, all she has to do is drop a few thousand to have laser treatments. Can the people in the countries she visits do the same? Her children are dressed in expensive clothing (that they’ll end up growing out of). Big deal, so she gives her money to charity. She makes sure we all know about it, and she also writes it off on her income tax. There are others that give to charity, giving what little they have…including giving their time (most of us have to work to survive). Because she can give more, monetarily, and time-wise (she has her own plane), does that make her better? No. The sacrifice of giving to charity by someone barely making it,means more than someone like Jolie giving thousands or even millions of dollars.
To me, she’s dirty. There’s no sincerity. The truth will come out as it always does. What she does is for herself…be it to ease her conscience, or to gain publicity. The public believes hollywood because they worship these people. It shows how shallow we are, and how sorely lacking we are as human beings.
AJ and Pitt are rich because the public made them that way. It’s sickening how people like her are worshipped, and for what? Keep making them rich and watching their movies…what will you gain? They don’t give a crap about you. You lose the money you could have used to buy groceries or give to a charity you support.
Jolie is a phoney.
Could somebody please come up with an award? I’d like to nominate McBoing for one.
Aj admitted that she planned to be pregnant while he was MARRIED . my God, just a b***h can think that. and, “Last week, the Namibian government said foreign journalists wishing to cover the birth must have written permission from Pitt and Jolie to enter the country and obtain a work permit.” heey, they allways say that they support free media.!! she does everythink juz for publicity. if she does not, than she have to go to help people without cameras and shouldnt wear expensive diamonds, clothes.
one of the longest waits ever, but it’s still alive…
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I think it’s undead.
I didn’t know they shut down the border. Who is this bitch? Hahaha. First of all, she has a square head, and a weird nose, and the large lips. No one is jealous, that is for kids. I am not a kid and I cannot stand her. He lost his standing with me when I found out what a pot smoker he was. A lot of money changed hands in this suck ass country for her to be able to close a border and request a work permit.
Check out snopes for the real story on the birth of their child.
wow…i saw on the front page..people are still commenting on this post?!
damn it…now i just posted on it…now i’m part of the problem:(
I just hope that people would leave Angelina and Brad alone. They are trying to live a normal life. Please stop saying bad things about this good family who are also imperfect as all of us. The only difference is they are rich and we are average. They can do whatever they want and just stop all this nonesense. Lady Diana died because of somebodies selfishness to take photos etc. are we going to do the same mistake again loosing another good person who do good things to other’s and are capable people than us just sit here and say bad things, make lists of things they did bad and blub about it or we are just going to say wow they are really trying. I hope and pray they we should just all be happy for them things are not really doing well in the world and all we do is watch them fail and fall down. We have to consider their kids who have a very loving, generous parents.
trying to live a normal life??????? gosh! roaming around together, making out of town trips while brad’s ex wife has been silent and composed don’t seem like “living a normal life” for me…
I think Brangelina is disgusting.My comment to Angie who posted awhile ago is that Brad and Skankelina seriously harmed Jen Anniston. How do they sleep at night. They are such hypocrytes. The best thing is that their movies are tanking. I hope the public continues to silently show their disapproval of this scumbag couple. I have a adopted child and I find how they whore their kids extremely offensive. THEY ARE TOTAL SCUM! I believe in time Pitt will see the most wrath from god. He is so evil!
“so evil”? Really? Apart from adultery (which isn’t that rare a sin) and this, what has he done that’s so evil?
Brad is evil because he whores those kids. Anytime I tune into the E channel I am subjected to hearing how Zahara was conceived out of rape and How Skankelina rescued her. It is all a good ploy from Pitts PR firm. Many children come into this world under very difficult situations and their are many families who take kids from these situations and adopt them. Pitt is evil because he knows that the one thing people will open their hearts to is children. He is trying to make himself and his skank look like they are the Messiah and they are anything but. They are busy buying themselves yachts and french chataeus but yet they have all these people so fooled. The public needs to wake up and see this! They are the antichrist! It is as plain as day.
Angelina Jolie is a huge fraud and a liar and should be kept far away from all children! I was hospitalized with her in 2001 at UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute (now Resnick Neurosychiatric institute; where Britney Spears is currently locked up) on the adult unit, Ward A-South. I was there for depression, Angelina, however, was there because she was homicidal towards Billy Bob Thornton. In California there are only three circumstances under which you can be held in a psychiatric ward against your will- if you are suicidal, homicidal, or gravely disabled. And Angelina was there for being homicidal. Why do you think she never adopts any US children? Um, because adoption agencies don’t hand kids over to people who have been held in mental wards for wanting to kill people. Instead, she pays poor countries off to let them give her one of their kids. Angelina’s hospitalization was in the news at the time it happened, but no one was saying what it was for. Now she claims it was for “exhaustion”, and “a nervous breakdown.” She’s tried to cover all of this up, but I was there. I know firsthand. This woman is wacked and she should not have any kids anywhere near her!!!!