At the Media Research Center’s “DisHonors Awards” held on Thursday, September 26, 2013 during the MRC’s annual gala, one of three nominees for the “Barbra Streisand Celebrity Dumb Ass Award.”
“So you have people like these Tea Party people protesting government and then asked if they really want to give up their Social Security payments. And they don’t seem to know that, that is actually part of what government is. There’s a rejection of the sort of basic idea of human community behind the Reagan, behind Reagan-era ideology that is really frightening. And it leads us to terrible, terrible places. And now that we’re facing challenges like climate change that absolutely demand a global collective response, an organized global collective response. We have no hope for survival as a species if we continue down the path of this kind of psychotic individualism.”
— Lincoln screenwriter Tony Kushner appearing on PBS’s Charlie Rose, February 14, 2013.
