May 29th, 2008 posted by Bender Rodríguez
Said the BBC's Dan Damon after hearing a dramatization of Sharon Stone's pronouncements about the earthquake in China.
The BBC could not, for some reason they cited as copyright issues, broadcast Sharon Stone's public pronouncement at the Cannes Film Festival this year regarding the karmic retribution that she saw was the earthquake in China, implying that the earthquake could be divine retribution for China's policy in Tibet.
In a horribly inarticulate rambling statement, she said:
"I'm not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans because I don't think anyone should be unkind to anyone else. And then this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and then I thought, 'Is that karma?
"They're not being very nice to the Dali Lama, who's a good friend of mine.
"When you're not nice then the bad things happen to you?'"
She added: "They wanted to go and be helpful, and that made me cry. It
was a big lesson to me that sometimes you have to learn to put your
head down and be of service even to people who aren't nice to you."
Signing off for that hour of broadcast, Dan Damon, famous for his subtle editorial asides at the end of a segment, said, "My karma ran over my dogma."
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