Kathy Bates: I Want Obama ‘To Stand Up on His Hind Legs and Fight These Rat Bastards’
Academy Award-winning actress Kathy Bates wants President Obama “to stand up on his hind legs and fight these rat bastards.” When asked by the host of CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight to elaborate, Bates said Friday, “I think he has got to indict these guys from Wall Street. Somebody's got pay for that mess” (video follows with transcript and commentary): PIERS MORGAN, HOST: What do you make of what's going on now in Washington, President Obama, the whole political shakeup at the moment? KATHY BATES: Well, you know, I have to kind of go back and say that I — I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. I grew up in a segregated town. When I went back my first year in college, that spring, I had my first black friend. I wanted to bring her home. And my father said, “Are you crazy? You want to start a race riot?” And I was like — I didn't understand it because my parents were from another generation. My dad was born in 1900, my mom in 1907. I came very late in life to them. Long story short, that was the spring that Martin Luther King was slaughtered in my hometown. Fast forward now to, what is it three — two years ago, I'm in Paris, I'm on my computer watching these election results, because I've gotten so inspired by this man — and I'm so apolitical. And for the first time in I don't know how many years, I was just galvanized by this election. It was so emotional to me. The last two years, I want to go back, something my father said to me — he always said, “Stand up on your hind legs and fight.” And that's what I'd like to say to my president, whom I'm so proud of. But I want him to stand up on his hind legs and fight these rat bastards. And he has got do it. MORGAN: Who do you mean by the rat bastards? BATES: Well, I think he's got to indict these guys from Wall Street. Somebody's got pay for that mess. And I don't think it's the American public.
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