Sharon Stone On Chinese Earthquake: "I Thought, Is That Karma?"

Last week in Cannes at the annual amFAR fundraiser for which she annually plays auctioneer, Sharon Stone chatted her way down the red carpet. Stopping to talk to a cluster of microphones, she was asked about the Chinese earthquake, the death toll for which tops 67,000 with over 20,000 still missing.
As seen below (on a Chinese broadcast, so excuse the Chinese introduction), Stone was asked her thoughts about the quake, wondered aloud if it was karma, and said the following:

"Well, you know, it was very interesting, because at first I am not happy about the way Chinese are treating the Tibetans because I don't think anybody should be unkind to anybody else... Then I've been concerned about how should we deal with the Olympics because they're not being nice to the Dalai Lama, who's a good friend of mine. And then all this earthquake, and all this stuff happened, I thought, is that karma? When you are not nice, the bad things happen to you. And then I got a letter from the Tibetan foundation that they wanted to go and be helpful, and that made me cry... That was a big lesson to me."

Watch the whole clip here:

Comments

[ddharder]

That's as loopy as Pat Robertson blaming 911 on the gays or John Hagee blaming Katrina on the sins of NO.

She sounded about as coherent as a WV voter.

[TheKnownTruth]

When the Tibetans volunteered you learned something about karma..... It amazing how it works....e­h ?

[Earl]

Yeah, it's karma when powerless people of an authoritarian government lose their children in an earthquake because of the actions of their country's dictators. Her karmic god has poor aim.

[RAGGEDSTEP]

Come on! There are alot of guys commenting here who are being hypocrites. The fact is women who look like Sharon Stone don't have to be rocket scientists. The difference between her and Revs. Robertson and Wright? Well, I wouldn't want to get it on with either of them.

[pros54]

Brainless people we normally choose to represent us.

[Gary47]

Maybe in this case she could try feeling instead of thinking. Note to Americans - the Chinese are people too.

[lainey]

Thank you for the post. It is always important to separate the people from the actions of their leaders.

[frankky]

But if the people whole heartedly agree with the actions of their leaders they are just as guilty. The laws of karma are immutable and precise. What goes around comes around.
Two thousand years ago a great wise man said it in his own words " Do onto others what you want others do unto you" So you cannot expect to treat people like dirt and live happily ever after. This applies to every man, woman, family, neighborhood, city, state and country.

[Collielady]

This is typical religious thinking..­.. shallow, vengeful, punitive. She's right there with the majority of Americans.

[bluegrasser]

I'm afraid you are correct.

[applehead]

i love sharon stone --- but the karma thing doesn't work here. the people that died and were injured and who lost loved ones and their homes in that quake were not the people who repressed the people of tibet. the evil ones who do the evil things probaly didn't get a scratch on them or even fee lthe earth move and they couldn't care any less about those affected by the quake as they do about the people in tibet, or tiannamen square, or who are killed for their organs.

[LiamR]

If there were such a thing as karma we would all be dead, immediately.

[truthyguy]

"Stone was asked her thoughts about the quake"

That presupposes a fact not in evidence - namely, that Stone has coherent thoughts.

[dumbunny]

So, basically Sharon was thinking:

9/11: Not Karma.
Hurricane Jeanne: Not Karma.
Kashmiri earthquake: Not Karma.
Hurricane Katrina: Not Karma.
Indian Ocean earthquake: Not Karma.
Darfur: Not Karma.
Myanmar cyclone: Not Karma.
Chinese earthquake: Karma.

WTF?

At least the TV Evangelists can claim to be consistent. Of course, it helps to hate people living in 95% of the world.

9/11: God hates Jews and gays.
Hurricane Jeanne: God hates Haitians.
Kashmiri Earthquake: God hates Muslims.
Katrina: God hates black people.
Indian Ocean: God hates Asians.
Darfur: God hates Africans.
Myanmar cyclone: God hates Asians (Part 2).
Chinese Earthquake: God hates Asians (Part 3).

[GeorgeGlass]

So innocent school children being buried alive is Karma? Does she have any idea what she's talking about.

Moron.

[in4success]

sharon,

there is a train leaving town in a few days: the HILLARY EXPRESS. you should be on it.

[elcojonu]

Sharon, you haven't made any movies in quite sometime.
Is that Karma too, or are you a has been that never made it really big ?
One more thing, that fault line where the earthquake occurred also hapens to run thru Tibet; thought I let you know.

[AndreleRoux]

That's putting her straight! She really is as stupid as I thought!

[mike53]

Sharon Stone is one of yours. You liberals can have her.

[Vr6]

She's not yours to deny, fascist discriminator!

[MadJeffersonian]

Ignorance is just ignorance.­..regardle­ss of political leanings.

[rcpmac]

Unlike McCain you don't see Obama seeking endorsement from people like Stone because they don't represent and aren't leaders of any significant constituent group on the left. But the counterpart on the right such as Pastor Hagge and Parsley, sought out by McCain actually reflect the values of large numbers of conservative voters.