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

[ohioan73]

Bardot is still a hottie. Quit hatin'. LOL!

[billkarwin]

Indeed! For a 74 year old woman, Ms. Bardot is mature and beautiful. What striking eyes she has. I guess you don't get to be the biggest sex symbol of a decade for nothing.

And kudos to her for NOT ruining herself by getting a bunch of plastic surgery. She kind of looks like a pissed-off, sexy, apple doll in that photo.

[steeler5]

I loved her in "the dark crystal".

[ohioan73]

"Bardot cares about animals more than humans"?

Animal violence/apathy is directly related to human violence/apathy. I trust people who care about animals moreso than someone like Palin who exploits the false and tarnished rep of pit bulls to make an image for herself as "tenacious and fierce".

Poor pit bulls. Now they have to live down being compared to a sadistic hockey mom. I guess the "Bad News Kennels" wasn't enough to ruin pit bulls. I took in a stray pit 4 months ago because somebody dumped him. Poor guy. He's a good boy. He hates lipstick.

[maryhaze]

good for you! pits are wonderful dogs. & yes, when it comes to people like palin, i like animals more.

[kathy001]

LMAO!!! Gotta love The Bardot!

[marymansour]

Bardot is a study in contrasts. She has been wonderfully outspoken in her support of animal rights while inciting the French against the Muslim population in France. However, anyone who disses Palin is okay with me. There is an old saying to that effect - the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

[sammy50]

Wow, your face looks like a busted couch.

[BrickSykes]

That's because you're 50, Sam. Now, say you were 70, you'd look at her and remember what she looked like 'back then.' There was NO Woman in the world sexier than Brigitte Bardot.

And she's right on about what Sarah Palin is doing to womanhood by the way she's carrying out her 'campaign.' You're a guy so you don't see it, but Sarah Palin is doing much more harm to the cause of women than what Brigitte Bardot is doing by calling her out on it. Palin will likely profit from her experience, but it'll cost her any respect the world might ever have had for her.

Brick

[coldcanuckinwhite]

I'll bet sammy50 didn't even read the entire article. I agree with Ms. Bardot whole-heartedly.
Sarah Palin is no role model, perhaps only to herself. As I've said before in one of my posts, if if didn't get censored ,she's a d.i.g.r.a.c.e to the human race.

[solanus]

hopefully you will live to get old and what will your face look like?....you'll look back on this comment and say OfhS- - -

[Fritzwood]

the most beautiful woman who ever lived...check her out in the 50's 60's pal.

[Hufpuf]

Really? I think she looked more or less like Pamela Anderson or Jane Mansfield -- always a popular type, but "the most beautiful woman" ever? Come on!

[Paralogos]

Um, for those of you whose awareness of Bardot consists only of her glory days of the 1960's, it should be pointed out that, in France, she's well known as a kook. She's married to an activist in the neo-fascist National Front and has made a number of embarassingly racist anti-Arab remarks over the past decade. That she's upset with Palin almost certainly stems from her fanatical animal rights stance. She's been quoted as saying that dogs should have more rights than humans, so shooting wolves from helicopters, well...

[jaslyn]

you too.

[solanus]

and you point is?

[lilring]

i, too, am not really getting the congratulatory tone here; Brigitte's politics, like Palin's, cannot be redeemed by the beautiful face. As much as I appreciate the just condemnation, I'm not sure she's owed a big pat on the back? Bardot and Palin seem to share an agenda on two of the most relevent points of opposition--racism and homophobia. So....uh...

[johnnygoodwud]

KA-BOOM nice job ms bardot

[babyboomerorig]

Way to go, Bridget!!

[fantanfanny]

"AND GOD CREATED WOMAN"...then threw away the mold, at least for women like Bardot!

[brandon102]

I truly respect Brigette Bardot. I can't imagine how difficult it must be for someone known so much for their great beauty, some time ago, to now be active, public and doing tremendous things as she gracefully ages. I'm sure she know that boors are looking at her saying "oh, look how old she looks," but she has the strength of character to ignore them and continue living her life and making a contribution to this earth. Her ealier years as a beautiful actress are well complimented by her mid-life years of wisdom and advocacy. This is a person to be admired.

[jackstone54]

The gloves are off! The French sex kitten of the 50s and 60s, now a natural-looking cougar, should claw that Palin pest! For Palin to ensure her ascent to the presidency, she should join the Alaska Secessionist Party of which the First Dud (not Dude) was a member for seven long years. She could be the President for Life of Alaska! Palin and McCain are a pair of pathetic racists!

[Kojack]

Brigitte Bardot IS the disgrace. How dare you make such a comment. Take
your wrinkled face and shut the hell up!

[Lala777]

You are sad Kojak. Picking on an old woman's features without really saying anything substantial about her message. If you're going to comment, bring something real to the table.

Your comment is very shallow and childish - much like how the McCain campaign runs. No wonder you are a supporter, ignorant minds think alike!

[kustom]

Kojack off in the corner

[Brooklynindy]

Kojack, I just love the arguments Republicans nowadays use. It makes me feel like I'm back in elementary school, on the playground: "Nuh-uhhhh...I don't stink, you do! SHUT UP!" Trouble is, we're in a grown-up world. If this country refuses to engage in complex thinking, and accepts this type of discourse, we will shrink into irrelevance while the adults in other countries take charge.

[eahce]

If Ms. Bardot's comments were untrue you would not be so pissed off. You are just frustrated because your McCain and his Bimbo are losers.

[jaslyn]

wow. you can string words together and that's all you could come up with?

[JakeRedd]

I can't think of another first-world country where someone of Palin's calibre would have been allowed to get as far as she has.

[43P04T34]

There are several reasons why the U.S.A. is, arguably, NOT a developed country. I'm thinking of the tens of millions who have no healthcare, the lack of universal access to education, the millions of hungry and the millions upon millions of truly poor/destitute people who live there..

[lobear00]

Only in "Alaska, where palin doesn't quite know what she/he is , but the man is afraid.

[JoAnnCr]

Palin and McCain=A beauty queen and an old man.

Women will never get ahead as long as that is the acceptable pair. We need rights for older women for movies, slots as anchors, equal pay, political leaders.

Palin keeps us in the dark ages and it makes me want to throw up!

[kace]

Katie Couric is an anchor, and what terrible ratings. And Movie slots? Give me a break. Movie stars make way too much money anyway.

[devadasi]

Of course they make too much money KACE, but at least many of them admit it and many of them say they would have no problem paying higher taxes. If you want to walk your talk, you'll stop going to the movies.

[Territc]

And what does making too much money got to do with the fact that Palin is a disgrace to women? How dare she insult me by running for the second highest office in the nation. She is not capable of looking after my interests and she would best serve me if she went back to Alaska and joined her husbands business. She has no business representing me orr anyone for that matter.

[jaslyn]

therefor, people who make money should no longer have an opinion? or be activists for animals. I pity any pet you would own.

[NoNotAgain]

I agree with you. The skirts get tighter,shorter,the heels get higher,and the eyelashes
get longer. Is this how a woman is pimped in style.?????????
She is a disgrace!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[kadene]

In most of Europe, substance has more value than the superficial. Bardot, to her credit feels comfortable growing old with some sagesse. At 74, it's better than looking like a Barbie doll with nothing between the ears.