From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: taustinca{at}gmail.com
Subject: Re: Kate Mulgrew says Sun revolves around the Earth

David Johnston  wrote in
news:li4ins$lnu$2{at}dont-email.me: 

> On 4/9/2014 4:22 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>> David Johnston  wrote:
>>> On 4/9/2014 9:30 AM, anim8rFSK wrote:
>>>> Joe Pfeiffer  wrote:
>>>>> "Adam H. Kerman"  writes:
>>>>>> David Johnston  wrote:
>>>>>>> On 4/8/2014 2:44 PM, anim8rFSK wrote:
>>
>>>>>>>> Let the furious backpedalling begin!
>>
>>>>>>> It is not backpedalling to deny holding a position that
>>>>>>> one never claimed to hold.
>>
>>>>>> She knew she was working for Robert Sungenis and what his
>>>>>> reputation was. So, yeah, "I don't stand
behind the work I
>>>>>> was just paid for" is backpedalling.
>>
>>>>>> She's a compensated spokesman, literally. Wrong again,
>>>>>> Johnston. 
>>
>>>> >From shawn 's quote of her
>>>> >statement: 
>>>>>> proponent of geocentrism. More importantly, I do not
>>>>>> subscribe to anything Robert Sungenis has written regarding
>>>>>> science and history and, had I known of his involvement,
>>>>>> would most certainly have avoided this documentary. I was a
>>>>>> voice for hire, and a misinformed one, at that. I 
>>
>>>>> So she says she didn't know she was working for Sungenis.
>>
>>>> yeah, that seems unlikely.  I mean, it's *possible* but it
>>>> would take a really concerted effort on Sungenis' part to
>>>> hide his identity, and why? 
>>
>>> No, it wouldn't.  All it would require is for him to deal with
>>> her on a corporate basis.  And there's no way she would have
>>> known who the hell he was if his name happened to come up
>>> anyway. 
>>
>> I learned who he was with two seconds of Googing,
> 
> But you did have to do that two seconds of Googling.  You
> couldn't just immediately hear the name and know he was a
> nutbar. 
> 
And the only IMDB  entry for the guy (which is rather more valuable 
for Hollywood types who want to know who they're working with) is 
for this movie, and most of that info  looks like it's from after 
this hit the news (it's not very complimentary, and they list the 
movie as "News |  Sci-Fi |  Thriller"). And Sungenis' name doesn't 
appear on the company info page, either.

It's Hollywood, after all. Lying is what it's made of, and they're 
all professionals. It's not at all surprising that Mulgrew says she 
had no idea. What comes out the end of the process often has *no* 
resemblance to what went in to the beginning, and the contracts 
expliclitly allow that, even if they make the actors looks stupid 
(one of the contest shows - The Voice? - recently kidna made the 
news for a contract that said that outright in so many words, until 
the Hollywood pressp ointed out the rest of the press how normal 
and universal such clauses are.)

-- 
Terry Austin

"Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole."
    -- David Bilek

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