Susan Sarandon calls Pope Benedict a Nazi

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http://news.yahoo.com/susan-sarandon-calls-pope-benedict-nazi-report-222618865.html

By Jill Serjeant | Reuters – 51 mins ago

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress and social activist Susan Sarandon was reported to have called Pope Benedict a Nazi during a public discussion at a U.S. film festival in New York, provoking criticism from both Catholic and Jewish groups.

The movie star, who won an Oscar for her role in the 1995 anti-death penalty film "Dead man Walking" actress, said she had sent a copy of the book on which the movie is based to the pope.

"The last one. Not this Nazi one we have now," she was reported as saying by New York newspaper Newsday.

The remark was made on Saturday in an interview conducted by fellow actor Bob Balaban about Sarandon's career that was part of the Hamptons Film Festival.

Newsday said Balaban gently chided Sarandon for the remark but she repeated it.

Sarandon's Hollywood agent did not respond to calls for comment on Monday.

German born Pope Benedict, formerly Joseph Ratzinger, was briefly a member of the Hitler Youth in the early 1940s when membership was compulsory, the Vatican has said. He deserted the military during World War Two and has said that as devout Catholics, his parents rejected Nazi ideology.

Sarandon, 65, who was raised in New York as a Roman Catholic, is known for her support of causes ranging from hunger and AIDS to opposing the U.S.-led war in Iraq. The "Thelma and Louise" star was appointed a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 1999.

The New York-based Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights called Sarandon's remark "obscene" and said in a Monday statement that her "ignorance is willful."

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which fights anti-Semitism, called on Sarandon to apologize to the Catholic Community.

"Ms. Sarandon may have her differences with the Catholic Church, but that is no excuse for throwing around Nazi analogies. Such words are hateful, vindictive and only serve to diminish the true history and meaning of the Holocaust," the ADL said in a statement.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

It is OK she is a liberal and doesn't really have a job anyway

[Danno 1,228]

I would suggest they should pull her endorsements but I don't think she has any, I mean seriously, what product would you by with her pic on it?

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

.....so she's technically accurate. He was a Nazi.

[Danno 1,228]

  On 10/18/2011 at 11:48 PM, Sousuke said:

.....so she's technically accurate. He was a Nazi.

She said "is" a Nazi.

Not sure how one actually became a member of the Nazi party, were children members?

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  On 10/18/2011 at 11:51 PM, Danno said:

She said "is" a Nazi.

Not sure how one actually became a member of the Nazi party, were children members?

The term for that was Hitlerjugend translated "Hitler Youth".

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

I'm not big on her or the Pope. She's a nut case Jane Fonda wannabee, and he's the Pope which automatically makes him a liar with skeletons in his closet.

[dalegg 143]

It's nice to see the Nazi references are coming back again. Nothing like marginalizing the worst thing mankind ever produced.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

  On 10/18/2011 at 11:51 PM, Danno said:

She said "is" a Nazi.

Not sure how one actually became a member of the Nazi party, were children members?

I do not know about Hitler Youth, but Young Pioneers and Komsomol were Communist party members, albeit not willingly. I know that USCIS overlooks membership in those organizations as they were required and not a matter of choice.

[Danno 1,228]

  On 10/19/2011 at 12:50 AM, dalegg said:

It's nice to see the Nazi references are coming back again. Nothing like marginalizing the worst thing mankind ever produced.

*Arguably*, the worst thing.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

  On 10/19/2011 at 12:50 AM, dalegg said:

It's nice to see the Nazi references are coming back again. Nothing like marginalizing the worst thing mankind ever produced.

http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/dictat.html

The worst genocides of the 20th Century

Mao Ze-Dong (China, 1958-61 and 1966-69, Tibet 1949-50) 49-78,000,000

Jozef Stalin (USSR, 1932-39) 23,000,000 (the purges plus Ukraine's famine)

Adolf Hitler (Germany, 1939-1945) 12,000,000 (concentration camps and civilians WWII)

[luckytxn 2,265]

  On 10/19/2011 at 2:23 AM, Why_Me said:

http://www.scaruffi....ics/dictat.html

The worst genocides of the 20th Century

Mao Ze-Dong (China, 1958-61 and 1966-69, Tibet 1949-50) 49-78,000,000

Jozef Stalin (USSR, 1932-39) 23,000,000 (the purges plus Ukraine's famine)

Adolf Hitler (Germany, 1939-1945) 12,000,000 (concentration camps and civilians WWII)

Anyone of them 3 could run on the Socialist ticket and they would still get the hardcore voting for them. Hell put a Hitler mustache on Obama the Socialist and they would only think he was styling and grow a mustache like him.

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  On 10/19/2011 at 2:30 AM, luckytxn said:

Anyone of them 3 could run on the Socialist ticket and they would still get the hardcore voting for them. Hell put a Hitler mustache on Obama the Socialist and they would only think he was styling and grow a mustache like him.

Pelosi ftw!

[Sofiyya 1,687]

In all fairness, the history of the Catholic Church puts the Nazis to shame.

  On 10/19/2011 at 12:50 AM, dalegg said:

It's nice to see the Nazi references are coming back again. Nothing like marginalizing the worst thing mankind ever produced.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

  On 10/19/2011 at 2:42 AM, Sofiyya said:

In all fairness, the history of the Catholic Church puts the Nazis to shame.

True that.