Cher has always been somewhat of an enigma. Ageless until recently, when she unwisely showed up at the 2010 VH1 Music Awards wearing the exact same outfit she wore in her 80’s video “If I Could Turn Back Time,” she has weaved in and out of movies and music since making her name via the mid-60’s The Sonny & Cher variety show. Throughout, she has slowly become more vocal about her hatred for the Republican Party, her low opinion of George W. Bush, and most recently, her belief that Sarah Palin is “a dumb woman,” and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is even “worse.”
Less than a month after Barack Obama was sworn in as President, Cher breathed a sigh of relief by saying the previous eight years of Republican rule had almost “killed” her. I’ve never figured out if the root of her hatred for the Republican Party really rests in George W. Bush, whom she called “stupid,” or in the fact that her former husband, Sonny Bono, traded Hollywood for a career as a Republican Congressman before his untimely death?
And here’s an interesting insight into the “progressive” Cher and the Republican Sonny:
Cher kicked Chastity out of her NY apartment when her daughter came out to her, and it took her a while to come to terms with it. Chastity’s father, the late singer and Congressman Sonny Bono, was said to be immediately accepting and to have already realized that his daughter was gay.
Her own daughter.
In the Vanity Fair issue referenced in my first paragraph, Cher is on record saying of Palin: “A dumb woman is a dumb woman.” Maybe she wishes she hadn’t said this after watching the November 2nd election results? In those elections the “dumb” woman and her Tea Party candidates made the “smart” liberals in DC and Hollywood look pretty stupid.
By the way, the very Cher who believes herself intelligent enough to pronounce Palin “dumb,” looked at Obama’s inauguration with such gullibility that she said of him: “His intelligence is so great and his spirit is so great, I believe he will be able to do as much if not more than anyone could possibly do.” (Perhaps Cher would also like to recant this statement in light of Obama’s healthcare reform, which, when coupled with the cost of the stimulus bill and January 2011’s pending tax increases, portend economic ruin for this nation?)
In addition to the Cher statements enumerated above, remember that she holds Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer in greater contempt than she does Palin. Of Brewer she said: “She’s got a handle on the services of [Arizona], and I would not let her handle the remote control.” Such statements make Cher look like an out-of-touch Hollywood elitist along the same lines as a Robert Redford or a George Clooney: especially since the people of Arizona just re-elected Brewer at landslide proportions. (Of course, the people of Arizona are probably viewed as being dumb as Sarah Palin in Cher’s mind.)
Call me crazy, but Cher seems to be quite angry. And the more she talks, the more evident it is that she’s fast approaching the outright lunacy we’ve seen in people like Janeane Garofalo: people who let her anger consume them and rule their lives.
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