Charlie Sheen: 2 wars going on, Egypt, and all you people care about is my bullshit?

[The Straight Story]

Charlie Sheen: 'Rumors about me are crap'

Charlie Sheen has reportedly insisted that most of what is reported about him in the media is "crap".

Speaking to E! Online, the Two and a Half Men actor refused to answer to rumors including his alleged relationships with several porn stars, his apparent drug and alcohol addiction and his position on the CBS comedy. He instead suggested that people should be more focused on world affairs than celebrity gossip.

"Believe nothing. I will never speak about any of this as long as I'm alive. You're all gonna have to keep towing the same redundant line, guessing wrong," he is quoted as saying.

"By the way, two wars are in an endless state of sorrow. Egypt about burned to the ground, and all you people care about is my bulls**t?

"Shame, shame, shame," Sheen added.

http://www.digitalspy.com/showbiz/news/a301979/charlie-sheen-rumors-about-me-are-crap.html

[BeyondGeography]

1. That's what I tell my wife every time she catches me doing blow with hookers

[MineralMan]

13. There's a really good fusion band called Hookers and Blow

here in Minneapolis.

[BeyondGeography]

18. Yet another point in my favor

:thumbsup:

[MedicalAdmin]

102. They are awesome.

Hookers and blow - it's a helluva show...

[SidDithers]

21. OK. THAT was funny...

:rofl:

Sid

[Tripod]

90. I wanted to say that.

[paparush]

34. Dude, it's hookers to the left, drugs to the right.

"Bachelor Party" defined my adolescence.

[thanks_imjustlurking]

57. Stuck in the middle with you.

:rofl:

[d_b]

38. hahahaha

[cynatnite]

54. This deserves a DUzzy! n/t

[Carni]

67. Hilarious!

I haven't been following Sheen's drama but I love your common sense observation LOL!

[MH1]

73. Well it might be your wife's business what YOU do

but it's not our biz what Charlie is doing.

It's such a waste of ink, all the garbage I see being printed about him. I don't really care one way or the other, just wish it wasn't in my newspaper on the way to the puzzle page.

[Dorian Gray]

100. Warning:

Snorting while posting can wake babies, cats, and any other creatures sleeping nearby!

[johnlucas]

2. Right on Charlie Sheen!

Now it don't get no better than that.
A celebrity telling you himself that this "celebrity news" ain't important.
Pay attention to what is.

He gets my eternal credit for that quote.
John Lucas

[liberal N proud]

3. Spot on!

I love it!!!:rofl:

[Imagevision]

111. k&r!

[CBGLuthier]

4. "as long as I'm alive" Yeah, like that will be a long time.

I feel sorry for his family. Otherwise fuck him, he has had enough chances.

[elias49]

8. '...he has had enough chances'

for what?

[thanks_imjustlurking]

58. As I understand, he does his job, well.

I don't pay much attention to his private life. Hope he's not hurting anybody. If he's not, I'm for him.

(Although I'm tired of the gratuitous smut on his show - I love the characters, but much of the smut is unnecessary.)

[seabeyond]

5. dont give a shit about dude. so much, i didnt read your post.. just title

i am sayin

[elias49]

6. I have to agree with the guy...

There's no law in this country against being an asshole. If there was, I could give you a list of names...many of whom are TV 'newspeople', members of Congress, bad cops...

[thanks_imjustlurking]

59. Can't find a good link quick, but

this calls to mind Spider Robinson's theory that we're all assholes, just try to be a good one.

[CJvR]

7. Couldn't he just say...

...that he is researching for his 2½ character? ;-)

[LisaL]

9. Hasn't he done enough "research" already?

[Leithan]

10. It's called "soma."

K&R

[thanks_imjustlurking]

61. ''Hug me till you drug me, honey;

Kiss me till I'm in a coma;
Hug me, honey, snuggly bunny;
Love's as good as soma."
http://www.huxley.net/soma/somaquote.html

I was actually assigned this book in HS. I'd have read it anyway. Read Lord of the Rings in one weekend, unassigned. Now they're assigned it, and do research papers on the Beatles. Things aren't all bad....!

[Major Hogwash]

69. Yay, dat's right. He wants soma dat, and soma dat! And thro in dah one wit the big booty too!

Don't be leaving Kim Kardashian out of the mix, babe.
Or else she'll cry.
Boehner-style crying, complete with lower trembling lip and wistful looks up to the ceiling.

[kudzu22]

11. Dude's got a point

We have an unhealthy level of celebrity obsession in this country.

[stockholmer]

33. awesome movie called "Starsuckers" about how the media culture came into being

http://www.mefeedia.com/watch/30938165


Starsuckers is the most controversial documentary of the year, and was released in British cinemas in November 2009 to critical acclaim. It's a darkly humourous and shocking exposé of the celebrity obsessed media, that uncovers the real reasons behind our addiction to fame and blows the lid on the corporations and individuals who profit from it. Directed by Chris Atkins, BAFTA nominated for Taking Liberties, Starsuckers exploded into the news in October when it emerged that the team had been selling fake celebrity stories to all the British Tabloids. This became a news sensation in it's own right, and was followed by the darker revelation that Atkins had secretly filmed four journalists for three Sunday tabloids trying to buy medical records. The filmmakers also stung Max Clifford, who the film shows boasting about his clients on undercover camera. When Clifford found out, he hired the infamous law firm Carter Ruck and threatened to injunct the film which would have prevented it's release. The film ends with a damning critique of Bob Geldof's Live Aid and the star-studded Live 8 concerts in 2005.

[socialist_n_TN]

64. EXACTLY! And all this other bullshit that I've seen...........

EVEN IN THIS THREAD about hating on Charlie Sheen is just what he said. It's bullshit. The guy is a ACTOR for God's sake. He ain't no fucking role model to quote another entertainer. I watch his show, I enjoy his show, but I don't follow all the twists and turns of his personal life. Not only does it not matter, I ACTUALLY DON'T CARE! That's HIS life, not mine. If he hurts somebody else, I want him controlled. If he's hurting himself, I'd like for him to not do so. But that's as far as it goes.

Hell, maybe I've lived in middle Tennessee for too long. I never followed the country stars that much either and I was in that business for a couple of decades plus.

[Name removed]

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[WI_DEM]

12. He is right about that--we are too obsessed with celebrity and that interests more people

it seems than what is happening in the world.

[MineralMan]

14. He makes an excellent point. Why do people care what

Charlie Sheen does? I certainly don't.

[mmonk]

15. No matter what you think of him, he's right.

American news has turned into Entertainment Tonight.

[johnlal]

16. Uh, maybe if you don't do interviews with E! people will stop paying attention.

Also, maybe if you cut out the bullshit, people won't obsess over it. Just a thought.

[AlbertCat]

45. Also maybe... he can live his life as he wants.

He certainly doesn't MAKE people obsess over him.

And he certainly seems to not be a failure.... unlike 99.9% of others who party like he allegedly does.

[johnlal]

77. Sure, he can do whatever he wants

As long as he's not breaking any laws.
And if he wants to, he can complain about all the attention he's getting... to anybody who will pay attention to him.

[Barack_America]

17. Wait, so the Egyptian riots are not about Charlie Sheen?

Wow. Are they rioting over Justin Bieber then? The Daily Show? Seriously?

[pipi_k]

23. Breathe deeply....we'll all get through this together....

:+

[Dorian Gray]

101. LOL!

They're pissed that Bieber canceled his show in Luxor!

[liberalhistorian]

19. I can't stand the man, he's a low-life, woman-beating,

sexist, egotistical pond scum. BUT he's got an excellent point and he's right. And I'm old enough to remember a time when we didn't care as much about this fluff-news, celebrity infotainment bullshit, but actual, important news was reported and discussed.

Oh, well, never mnind that. Say, who's whats-his-name The Bachelor gonna send packing this Monday? And what's gonna happen on American Idol? :sarcasm:

[TwilightGardener]

20. We're always going to turn our heads and look at car wrecks. That's all we're doing--

he shouldn't mistake that for "caring".

[pipi_k]

22. Well, he's got a point...I don't give a rat's ass what he's doing... n/t

[Gidney N Cloyd]

24. That's not true. We also care about Lindsey Lohan. nt

[Kurovski]

25. I NEED to know what Bristol Palin does next.

I still have no idea of where she likes to eat. How can anyone live like this? With all this non-knowing?

[Major Hogwash]

26. Bluestar.

Last time I saw you in a movie.
Sorry kid, but you ain't your daddy.

[WinkyDink]

27. Egypt burning, and all Charlie cares about is drugs and hookers?

Goes both ways, son.

[Tsiyu]

42. Checkmate

though I see the man's point.

He's not obsessing about us, only remarking about our obsessions with his escapes from reality via high-dollah distractions.


We're all distracted or we'd go insane. It's easy to judge people whose self-destructive distractions are so public, that's all.

Makes us feel special and all moral and stuff.

[Capitalocracy]

46. Yeah, Charlie Sheen not doing drugs or hookers

is going to solve all the world's problems

[devilgrrl]

47. As if he has any power over it.

:crazy:

[AlbertCat]

48. all Charlie cares about is drugs and hookers?

He does? That's all he cares about? How do you know? From watching E!? Well, it is HIS life after all.

Nope... it doesn't go both ways.

Boy, a lot of people act like they personally know Charlie Sheen!

Proving his point.

[frylock]

50. no, it really doesn't

[Hugabear]

91. Pretty sure he had a problem with drugs and hookers long before Egypt started burning

And even before the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But heck. I guess he's not allowed to have his own personal life, now is he?

[Uncle Joe]

28. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, The Straight Story.

[Horse with no Name]

29. Speak it Charlie

You are a flawed man, but they are YOUR flaws...just as my flaws are mine.

We have more important things to concentrate on.

[Major Hogwash]

30. Oh look, everybody, there's a terrible tornado in Kansas!

*snort snort*
More COKE!

[Arkana]

31. You're still an alcoholic, abusive womanizer, Charlie,

your dad still rules, and as far as I can tell only the third-rate infotainment shows like Inside Edition and the Insider give a shit about you.

[Ikonoklast]

43. Martin had his own problems with demon rum.

He had a heart attack at age 36 on the set of Apocalypse Now from drinking heavily, and doing...other things.

Marty has his share of baggage.

[Arkana]

105. Martin Sheen was President Bartlet AND the Illusive Man.

That gave him enough awesome for a lifetime.

[Dappleganger]

32. The Breakfast Club's version of Sarah Palin.

[Rex]

35. Leave it to a smug, self-absorbed prick to point out a painful truth.

Dam you Charlie.

[90-percent]

36. My book

I need to write a book on how to achieve Charlie Sheen level glamor on a bottom 98% budget.

Charlie has good taste in sluts. The rest of what makes up human existence maybe not so much.

-90% Jimmy

[bongbong]

37. It's human nature

It's human nature to be celebrity obsessed. Celebrities are the alpha male/females that appeal to the "lower" parts of our id.

I bet at least 100 sociologists have authored papers giving credence to this idea.

[FourScore]

39. You tell 'em, Charlie! n/t

[Stringertom]

40. Get well soon Charlie Sheen

You're right Charlie, there's more than enough misery in this world to go around without the funniest guy on TV falling off the wagon again. We need you healthy again to help combat worldwide lunacy with a weekly 1/2-hour trip to Yuksville. Know your role and its importance to the little guy trying to keep his chin up in this sad-sack world. Come back and make us smile again, you lovable lush!

[delightfulstar]

41. Although I won't condone his behavior...

I think he does have a point. I'm so sick of hearing about celebrities' problems, when we're ignoring the society-at-large, where there are things like war and homelessness and unemployment.

A side note - I hope he gets the help he needs...he has a long road ahead, apparently.

[blondeatlast]

44. So what happens to Mr. Sheen if he's ignored? I think it's high time to find out.

:evilgrin:

[AtheistCrusader]

49. Who the hell is charlie sheen, and why is this on the front page?

[RagAss]

51. Charlie....you make Egypt look like a Church Bingo !

[Demoiselle]

52. Bread and Circuses, people. Bread and Circuses.

It's an old formula. The unfortunately crippled, like Mr. Sheen, make wonderful center ring attractions for the Circus. And the circus distracts us from the real horrors going on in this world. (To say nothing of the lack of Bread.) I'm saddened by Charlie, because he has a real gift for comic timing. I've been an actor and I've directed actors, so that kind of ability leaps out at me. I used to wonder who the "half" man in "Two and a Half Men" was. Now I know, and it ain't the kid. Anyway, I think he's right. The whole world should be focusing on the effort going on right now in Egypt to get rid of the bullies. And WE (DU) should be concentrating on getting our wonderful country out of the drainage ditch that is the Afghanistan War. Please, let's not distract ourselves with this small man's very real shortcomings. I think he's asking that we Leave Him Alone for awhile. Doesn't everybody have a right to be left alone? If not, just who the hell are we, anyway?

[BrklynLiberal]

56. +1000

[sarcasmo]

53. Speaking the truth, Kick.

[BrklynLiberal]

55. Sadly, he is right....HIS stories sell papers and advertizing. The truth about wars and death do not

[WCGreen]

60. Charlie Sheen adds a little perspective

[Mopar151]

62. He's crazy, not stupid. n/t

[TBF]

72. He doesn't sound all that crazy to me.

Addicted maybe, but not crazy or stupid.

[Mopar151]

86. I'll accept that revision.

how about "He ain't in rehab for stupid!"

[TBF]

103. excellent -

:thumbsup:

[alp227]

63. HAHAHAHA Good one Charlie!

He's got drug and woman problems? So do many other Americans. It's just that Sheen makes millions of dollars a year to play a divorced, flirty uncle on television. And he's right that people should stop following celebrity gossip as someone who's the target of tabloid trash talk that distracts us from the more important issues like the idiots running Congress, the military industrial complex, and the battle for democracy in Egypt.

[lsewpershad]

65. Jesus Christ

When are we going to learn....about what is really important? He might be a creep but he in right. We are killing millions and yet we place importance on Charlie and his weaknesses or sins. We might be even sicker that him ...come to think about it.

[kenny blankenship]

66. Rumors about me are crap! Police reports about me with sworn affidavits are twice crap!

Believe nothing! The truth is out there but I'm in here, so where does that leave you?

[pam4water]

68. Proud not to know any of the rumors!

[Safetykitten]

71. Bullshit? His show? Oh, and add to the list the decline in quality of television shows.

But let's not go there, Charlie. You have a couple of million per episode to recant lines from writers two steps up from "OW! My BALLS!

[Roci]

74. I agree with Charlie on this one

All of these "screwed up celebrity" stories, from Charlie to Lohan, to Cyrus to (fill in name here) are a creation of the media by, for, and about the media. While the "general (Read: low IQ) public" has their "minds" on this trash, This Nation is going to pot. At the same time overseas, repressed people of other Nations who say they believe in what The US used to believe in are being beaten and shot, while the American Government goes after their latest in a long line of "Friendly dictators gone bad" with a freaking feather duster!!

All of you wankers who spend time on this weak minded gar-bage had better pull your heads out darned fast, or you're going to wake up from this media induced nightmare and find out that you used to be the Land of the Free and the home of the Brave. The way I read America these days is more like the land of the (willfully) ignorant, and the home of the oblivious.

American principles deserve better than this after more than two and a third centuries. But I'm genuinely driven to ask myself if America has any foundation left if a majority of her people care more about "Celebrities" than they do about the freedom of fellow Human Beings.

[midnight]

75. Charlie makes a very good point....

[Lindsey]

76. Yes, I agree w/Charlie too. n/t

[Hippo_Tron]

78. Can anybody honestly tell me that they like Two and a Half Men?

That shit is unbearable. I can't believe it's still on the air.

[walldude]

79. Someone told me it's the most watched sitcom on TV..

I dunno, the only TV show I watch is Bones.

[AlbertCat]

80. Can anybody honestly tell me that they like Two and a Half Men?

Relatively speaking...yeah. It's very funny at times. It's much less obnoxious than Dancing with the Stars (I hate the arts turned into a sport)

But it can't beat RuPaul's Drag Race!

[Hippo_Tron]

81. Out of curiosity, what do you find funny about it?

I watched two episodes and I found it to be completely contrived and not original in the least bit. It's like I already knew everything that was going to happen because I've seen it in another sitcom.

Not trying to criticize you or anything, but I'm just curious as to why the show is so successful.

[pengillian101]

85. I'm in agreement.

SO not funny. Why is even on the airwaves.

The only people who watch it must not have have cable or satellite TV.

Network TV, meh.

[Hippo_Tron]

95. There are plenty of decent shows on Network TV

In sitcoms alone: 30 Rock, How I Met Your Mother, The Office, Modern Family, and The Big Bang Theory are all well written shows (although The Office has definitely run its course). I haven't seen some of the other sitcoms currently airing, but they might be good.

Two and a Half Men simply isn't funny or clever. At least not the episodes I watched, anyway...

[pengillian101]

96. Modern Family

Very Funny Sitcom by far this year.

It is the sitcom on the same network list that broadcasts "The Middle" is also very funny to me. Daughter Sue strikes me as hilarious! She's an up and comer VERY young comedienne, I think. Her facial expressions and timings are way beyond her years.

[Initech]

82. On the local radio here they did an actual Two And A Half Men laugh track.

It was maybe one laugh in a two minute clip. :rofl:

[inna]

83. wasn't his dad actually trying to do something positive for the humanity, at some point?

How symbolic of that generational transition and stupidification of America in general.

[bettyellen]

84. his Dad just recently joined a picket line rather than cross it

he's still at it

[inna]

88. happy to hear that; too bad Charlie didn't take after his dad... nt

[Raine]

89. His father Martin does all kinds of good things

like joining with the Farm Workers etc. Sometimes I think Charlie has serious issues with his father and deliberately tries to undermine and humiliate him.

[Raine]

87. Aw shut up Charlie, take your self-serving statement

and cram it where the sun doesn't shine. :mad: Even with a statement about Egypt he manages to make it all about him. :eyes:

[Hugabear]

92. That's your take?

Sounded to me like he's trying to make it not about him. Is it really his fault that the tabloid media is all over him 24/7?

[Raine]

94. yeah, well I guess you have a point.

I'm just suspicious of the way the always seems to want to creat a scene (possibly to embarass his liberal activist father, just a guess on my part).

[tavalon]

93. Best celebrity quote ever

Priceless.

[Warren DeMontague]

97. Prostitution and Drugs should be legal for consenting adults.

However, films like "Terminal Velocity" should be against the law.

[Maraya1969]

98. He meant redumbnant eom

[Dorian Gray]

99. He's right

but he's still a total woman-hating dick who needs serious help or he will die.

I can hold multiple opinions at once!

[dotymed]

104. I think Mr. Sheen

is correct and he is pointing out what is obvious to most of us on DU. The "NEWS" is supposed to inform us, not entertain us. By keeping the hollywood "crap" in the headlines, it is a great reason not to cover the real news concerning the TPTB in our world. It distracts the people from taking action against the injustices that we should be addressing. It is meant to do just that and TPTB insist that THEIR networks do this. Leave the star sightings and drama to the National Enquirer, I believe Rupert owns that too (?).

[pengillian101]

106. I agree totally,

Absolute news distraction.

[Kaleva]

107. The "2 wars going on, Egypt" defense has never worked for me.

[brettdale]

108. If he cares so much about the wars

Why isnt he doing activism work like sean penn?

[cherokeeprogressive]

109. Fuck Charlie Sheen and the porn star he rode in on.

There's a reason he does TV instead of the Big Screen: More than 22 minutes of Charlie Sheen will probably make people violently ill ala the way Mary Hart's voice was alleged to give a woman epileptic seizures.

[Imagevision]

110. Charlie! THE FU*KING MEDIA IS CRAMMING YOU DOWN OUR THROATS DIPSH*T!

[Quantess]

112. I would say that too, after chiseling lines off a tennis-ball sized lump of cocaine

Cocaine is a powerful drug!