Sooner or later, outspoken liberals will let their big mouths overload their asses. And so it is with actress Susan Sarandon, one of Hollywood’s most outspoken left-wingers. Sarandon, who was prominent in her defense of President Clinton and who has been a strong backer of President Obama, has now referred to Pope Benedict XVI as a Nazi.
SUSAN SARANDON CALLS POPE A NAZI, OFFENDS LARGE SEGMENTS OF HUMANITY
She managed to offend both Jews and Catholics by reportedly calling Pope Benedict XVI a Nazi. Apparently her comment was an attempt to say something nice about Benedict’s predecessor, Pope John Paul II
By Jill Serjeant, Reuters
The Christian Science Monitor
October 18, 2011
Los Angeles -- Actress and social activist Susan Sarandon was reported to have called Pope Benedict a Nazi during a public discussion at the International Film Festival in Sag Harbor, 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.
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