Brigitte Bardot: Sarah Palin Is "A Disgrace For Women"

French film legend-turned-activist Brigitte Bardot took a swipe at Sarah Palin on Tuesday, saying the US vice presidential candidate was a disgrace to women.

"I hope you lose these elections because that would be a victory for the world," Bardot wrote in an open letter to Republican John McCain's running mate in the November vote.

"By denying the responsibility of man in global warming, by advocating gun rights and making statements that are disconcertingly stupid, you are a disgrace to women and you alone represent a terrible threat, a true environmental catastrophe," wrote Bardot.

The screen icon from the 1960s, who now heads an animal rights foundation, went on to assail Palin for supporting Arctic oil exploration that could jeopardize delicate animal habitats and for dismissing measures to protect polar bears.

"This shows your total lack of responsibility, your inability to protect or simply respect animal life," Bardot wrote.

In a final salvo against Palin, the 74-year-old ex-star picked up on Palin's depiction of herself as a pitbull wearing lipstick and said she "implored" her not to compare herself to dogs.

"I know them well and I can assure you that no pitbull, no dog, nor any other animal for that matter is as dangerous as you are," Bardot wrote.

Comments

[profounddogs]

RIGHT ON, MS. BARDO, RIGHT ON!

[Novoski]

I love the French people's stinging honesty. You go girl!

[HopeObama08]

Unfortunately, French people are not what you think they are. Many of them are so hypocritical. They would NEVER elect a BLACK president EVER, as qualified as he or she could be. Most blacks(born French) have the lowest ranking jobs, because of their color or name. Unless it has changed, as far as I remember, employers ask for a picture ID on the resume. If your name is a little funny, or the face not caucasian enough, then you have less chances to get the job. There is a sharp economic and social divide there. Officially, French will be the cheerleaders of freedom, human rights, etc... But if you look in their backyard, you would be disappointed. It's a shame because it could be a wonderful country, if their was more economic equal opportunity and less discrimination. Non-caucasian citizens are treated as second class citizens. There is a need of much better comunication between caucasian French and other French born citizens. Brigitte Bardot is an intolerant person. All she cares about is animals. It's good to care about animals, but you can't dictate your beliefs to everybody. It's like abortion, it's an endless debate. It doesn't mean people should disrespect each others or each others' opinions.

[Lozange]

Bardot should know! Were it not that I fully support animal rights, that she's taken up that cause to remain relevant, but here's a prime example of a dimwit herself. A woman who pandered her femininity in the mindlessness of the 60s, was famous for her hookups and then has publicly grown decrepit in an attempt to what? To show belated depth? I don't want to sound as though I may be defending Palin in any way, however, and agree with the essence of the message. Palin has turned femininity on its head, by showing no compassion for a captive animal with no place to hide, and pointing a gun to its hind legs then finishing him off (wolf helicopter shooting video). It shows the core of a human being when you don't have the qualm to offer some measure of defense to the prey you're grossly overpowering. I don't see the satisfaction in that at all. I don't see a woman in that scenario at all. I see two animals, one innocent.

[zano]

I think it funny how people listen to old bitter celebrities like Bridgett Bardot. So many Sarah Palin attacks, but no one looks to where the attacks come from. Bridgett has been convicted 5 times of racial crimes and once castrated a neighbors donkey because it was sexually harassing her donkey.
GIVE ME A BREAK! Yeah , keep listening to what SHE has to say......

[eriana]

Hi Briggite Bardot, give Palin a chance. Give her wise suggestions.
Erny
http://www.baliglobalmarket.com

[neenj]

In a final salvo against Palin, the 74-year-old ex-star picked up on Palin's depiction of herself as a pitbull wearing lipstick and said she "implored" her not to compare herself to dogs.

"I know them well and I can assure you that no pitbull, no dog, nor any other animal for that matter is as dangerous as you are," Bardot wrote.

ouuuchhh!!!!!

[Bitsko]

Funny how she loves animals more than she does her fellow humans, particularly foreigners.

[charlot]

Bitsko: What a ridiculous thing for you to say. Where do you get this idea? There is nothing in anything she said that inidicates she "loves animals more than she does her fellow humans." Having respect for animals in no way implies a disregard for humanity. Can one not appreciate both?

[RFBorjal]

Don't be surprised if Sarah Palin accuses Brigitte Bardot of foreign meddling in domestic affairs.

[profounddogs]

Palin isn't smart enough to say this. She would say something like, "I'm PROUD of my record of controlling the wolf populuations. I'm proud of my record for watching out for Joe Six Pack." Yada yada yada.

[minty68]

Hye, just having a conversation with Bardot will increase Palin's foreign affairs experience :)

[Happiness4All]

From BB's Wikipedia entry:
Her husband Bernard d'Ormal is a former adviser of the far right "Front National" party. Bardot has been convicted five times for "inciting racial hatred".

Am I the only one here (apart from Sarah Palin fans) reluctant to cheer for Brigitte?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Bardot

[mamacat]

I like the quote here from BB, but I am not a fan of hers. Extremism in the defence of extremists is indeed a vice, both for Americans and the French.

[timmmahhhh]

Agreed, look at their chauvanistic (hey, a French term!) approach to language where the government has insisted on using French terms for everything. So should we no longer have barbecues and soirees and instead have cookouts and night parties? Non, vive la diversite.

[Truthosaurus]

Bardot's latest "conviction" by the French kangaroo court was for denouncing a Muslim feast celebrated by slaughtering sheep. Fortunately in the USA we have strong constitutional protections regarding freedom of speech. The idea that someone could be prosecuted for this type of speech is dangerous, because it could be used to stifle other types of criticism. I also think slaughtering sheep for some religious service is ridiculous - are we living in the stone age? Is the French government now going to prosecute me for saying that? Don't take your cue from the French government in this regard.

[perclidestide]

To DORA and METTALITE.­..doesn't matter if Briggy isn't an American citizen. She is a world citizen who may be effected along with her country in an ecosystem/­environmen­tal sense, by what people like Palin routinely do. Even with Briggy's faraway international spectacles, she can see the stark animal abuse done by Palin and others. METTALITE--I think the Native people of Alaska are more than entitled to traditional ways of fishing and hunting and their soveriegnity to be respected. It is afterall, their original land. But it seems that out of pure selfishness and yes, GREED, Palin wants all those rights for herself and family. Palin DOES NOT seem to understand that you don't take away indigenous peoples' rights to what they have known for thousands of years. This proves she is totally ignorant and in denial about not only the fair treatments of Native people, but of others who are different.

[1FLvoter]

Thanks for making the point of Palin's raping of Alaska, and it's Native population and resources, for her own personal gain. She is a shining example of GOP greed and disregard for the welfare of the people she was elected to protect.
Sadly, once again, many of those who have posted here have proven that personal attacks on Bardot ("kill the messenger!") are often used to distract us from the actual discussion.
As a middle-aged, white woman, I must say that the selection of Palin for VP was extremely insulting to women. While I was not a rabid Hillary supporter, the contrast between Hillary's experience and political skill and Palin's near-illiteracy on most issues is both stark and frightening.
To think Palin could actually slide into the Presidency is a sad commentary for American politics.
Did McCain really think that women are interchangeable for political purposes, and that we are so stupid we would acually vote for him because he chose a token woman to be his political pitbull??
If he were truly concerned with "Country First", he would not have chosen a totally unqualified person as his running-mate.

[ttmatthe]

If it weren't for the McCain/Palin ticket's stance on global warming or the environment, I wouldn't be surprised if she endorsed them. The woman is a real peace of work these days.

[steppenwolf88]

"I hope you lose these elections because that would be a victory for the world"
Bardot sums it up nicely.

[gun]

Brigitte has more sense in the tip of her pinkie than Sarah has in her whole bod.

Soul dead is congratulating yourself as Tarzana when your idea of wilderness travel is on a snowmobile and your idea of strength is to kill wolves from the air.

Beauty may not last but wisdom can.

Years from now, assuming we don't go Hitler's way, people will look back at MCCain-Palin and shake their heads.

[profounddogs]

McCain and Palin, what a sorry excuse for so-called "leaders."

[dora rice]

Briggit don't even know Sarah. And Briggit doesn't live in the wild state of Alaska....­she lives outside of Paris. I wouldn't go hunting outside in the suburbs of Paris either .......Bri­gitte was my idol once. I wore coats like she wore. Fixed my hair like she did. But now she doesn't want to grow old , got a big mouth, and doesn't seem to have the wisdom and a touch of mellow what old people have. She makes money from people that protect the animals and that's fine its a good cause, but she needs to quit bitching.

[thinklib]

Bravo.

If you're someone who's siding with a old, bitter French socialite over a hardworking American woman who's made her own way in life, you need to do some reflecting on what's happened to your own thinking.

[PresWatch]

Not hard working. Hardly working, as in disfunctional.

[metallite]

A certain amount of hunting animals in the wild should be permitted-herds need to be weeded out from time to time. Otherwise, they starve, a horrible death. I have nothing against Palin for doing that as long as the meat is used for eating. Also, I agree much of what Palin has to offer in her politics. Lets say it-many people are angry because they feel their abortion "rights" are threatened-how hypocritical. Death is death. And abortion is not even a presidential platform. See: Supreme Court. I approve Bardot's rant on the disappearing beautiful & inspiring French culture.

[sowhatdemos]

Yes, herds need to be weeded out. Why don't we apply that rule to our own species? There is a lot of rot & decay in a particular animal species.

[LightningJoe]

Wolves live in packs, not herds, and the reason they "need" thinning, is because subsistence and other hunting by humans claims a certain percentage of the moose, caribou, and deer herds.

When the humans see that there are lots of game, they increase take allowances of that game; just as projected good fish counts mean that fishermen get to fish longer or for more total tonnage. Problem is, if the game is plentiful, so have predators increased to take advantage of it. Things happen quick, in the near-Arctic.

Now, if more game is taken by humans, there's less left for the needs of the top predators -- wolves, or black or brown bears -- and they will either starve, or broaden their own take to include animals people love (dogs or livestock) or even people themselves, on occasion.

So the wolf hunts are used to control the appetite of the wolf nation at large; so we humans can take some of their share of the hunt. Or at least that's how it's sold up here in Alaska.

[AcitizenNJ]

you folks have to be kidding me........­........

Ms. Bardot is just stating the obvious. As your own conservative David Brooks said the republican vp choice is a cancer. The only clear thing about her is the fact that she is anti intellectual. Instead of attacking Ms. Bardot as this bitter women from Paris why don't you folks state some reasons why she is not the bimbo that she portrays. This women is sooooooooooooo far out of her league.

[Herkybird]

Ms Bardot is more of a woman than Palin could ever be! Ms Bardot is not bitter. Her definition of a bitch is just different than yours. . How can ANY woman in the US look me in the eye and praise Gov Palin when she is governor of the state with the highest incidents of rape per ca pita in the entire US. You would despise those rape statistics in your city..in your state but say it is ok in Alaska just because what once was McCains boost is really his Achilles's heel? And think about this. If a woman is raped in Alaska not only does she feel violated she has to pay the state $1500 to prove that she was violated. That madam is why Palin (really) fired Walter Monegan. He was trying to get funding somehow to #1 combat the rape crisis in Alaska and #2 get funding so the woman would not have to pay Palin to prove she was raped. If you want to run with the big dogs wearing lipstick get your facts. Here are mine.

http://www.swivel.com/graphs/show/16914870?limit_modifier=all&graph

[LightningJoe]

Remember, Sarah is the "Joe Sixpack" candidate!

Just what we need, a Joe Sixpack President. Dubya at least seems to have cut out the beer, after Mrs. Dubya started sleeping at a hotel. But according to Sarah, he probably shouldn't have bothered. Who needs to be sober to make the kinds of choices a president makes, anyway?

Who needs to be sober to push a big, red, button?

[Conejo]

You are a very stupid woman, misspelling Brigitte, using "don't" in place of "doesn't" and punctuating incorrectly. Who could possibly pay any attention to someone who is so intellectuality handicapped?

[AContrario]

Conejo - How a personal opinion can be sign of intellect defect? Although I disagree with
dora_rice's perspective, I am not sure how a personal opinion and a poor grammar are signs of a deficient intellect.

[richardgordon]

Bardot could not have expressed herself better. Palin is dangerous. She represents what is worst about American politics and Republican values. Nothing matters except making money. And that is the reason why we are in the terrible mess we are now. Arrogance, apathy and indifference created this situation. We all created it. It is a wake up call to us all.

[aicwebmaster]

I whole-heartedly agree!