Actress Eva Longoria Trashes ‘Dangerous’ ‘Extremists’ Who Oppose Obama
Actress Eva Longoria appeared on Tuesday's Jimmy Kimmel Live to trash the “dangerous” “extremist movement” that opposes Barack Obama. The Desperate Housewives star became just the latest celebrity to smear the Tea Party movement. Longoria didn't directly identify the group as the target of her anger. However, she made her point clear, fuming, ” …[Obama] keeps getting beat up lately because there's such an extremist movement happening and it's a very dangerous .” [See video below. MP3 audio here .] The actress continued, “For me, it's very dangerous because it's not the character of America. It's really under attack.” She added that Obama has governed in a “state of emergency.” The Desperate Housewives star began by defending, “…I'm a big Obama supporter no matter what he's been through. He's been beaten up the past couple of years.” There seems to be an unusually similar-sounding amount of venom coming out of Hollywood in the last few weeks. On the September 23 Piers Morgan program, movie star Morgan Freeman spun the Tea Party as saying, “Screw the country. We're going to whatever we do to get this black man, we can, we're going to do whatever we can to get this black man outta here.” “It is a racist thing,” he concluded. [Dedicated Newsbusters readers! We are up to $2880 of our goal to raise $5000. Help us continue to expose and defeat the insidious bias of the liberal media. Show you appreciation for NewsBusters and get "I Don't Believe the Liberal Media" buttons and bumper stickers, or a Chris Matthews floormat, as our thank you. Donate now! ] The day before, on September 22 edition of the same show, actor Alan Cumming excoriated Tea Partiers, saying their fiscal issues only serve to cover up “a lot of real homophobia and racism. While hosting the September 18 Emmy Awards, actress Jane Lynch mocked, “Yesterday my daughter had a tea party with her little friends and it was so cute. They complained about taxes, called Obama a communist and wondered how the Latina kid got in?”
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