This story isn’t really about something George and Amal Clooney actually did. But it’s an interesting story about a crazy person and her suspiciously interesting thoughts on the Clooneys. THR reports that the CEO of Time Warner, Jeff Bewkes, was trying to speak to shareholders during an annual meeting and one women – a shareholder – tried to hijack the talk by going OFF about the Clooneys and their (alleged) politics.
Things got testy at Time Warner’s annual meeting on Friday when CEO Jeff Bewkes found it necessary to interrupt a shareholder who, during a question and answer period, suggested there was something nefarious about George Clooney’s marriage to Amal Alamuddin.
“I have a compensation question. How much have you paid George Clooney for Gravity and Argo?” the woman asked Bewkes before launching into a rambling, minutes-long attack on the actor and his Lebanese bride, accusing the couple of funneling money to enemies of America and Israel. “Alamuddin has been portrayed in the press as a sexy, international civil rights lawyer. She is not. She is a criminal lawyer. A defense attorney who puts the worst tyrants back on the streets,” the woman said.
Bewkes gave the shareholder plenty of rope but eventually interrupted. “Excuse me. We cannot allow this meeting to be the place where personal and political views from any of us are expressed,” the CEO said.
“I would like to know how much Mr. Clooney has received, how much money is going to Lebanon and to his wife,” she said, having ticked off Clooney’s alleged expenses for his wedding, honeymoon and homes he has purchased abroad.
“In terms of what any of our actors, directors, writers make as citizens of the United States, they’re free to spend their money where they choose, and it is not something that our company has any influence over, or power about, nor do we have knowledge of it, and we should not further detour this meeting to discuss those matters,” Bewkes said.
She closed by accusing journalists at Time Warner of misrepresenting Alamuddin in their reporting. “This is not a fashion show for a prime minister, clients who are in jail instead of running for elections or for Lebanese tribunal.”
The thing is… while the woman did come across as unhinged, we really can’t say for sure that she’s wrong. George Clooney’s press machine has been working overtime for more than a year to try to create an image of Amal as the most brilliant, humanitarian, intellectual, glamorous, fashionable unicorn-lawyer in the world and for many people, that campaign has fallen flat. Because we actually don’t know much about the real Amal – she is still an enigma, which adds to her allure, of course, except that being a professional enigma means that people really don’t know the basics of where she stands on many political issues. If we’re supposed to judge her politics from her legal work, yes, she has represents tyrants and despots and she’s been on the “wrong side” of some issues.
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She sounds intense. Unhinged, even. How is TW responsible for the way George Clooney spends his money? Amal certainly brings out strong feelings in people.
I don’t think Amal brings out the intense feelings, it’s Clooney’s aggressive PR campaign. Amal herself is extremely bland and seems to let Clooney play his game.
Amal’s perfect image, carefully built, is almost nauseating but I think it reflects Clooney’s dreams and hopes regarding his ‘wife’. Right now, we can all see why he stayed single for such a long time: he had enormous and unrealistic expectations. He still has.
He stayed single for so long because he’s gay. His enormous expectations are a gay man’s way of never having to involve themselves seriously with women because no woman will ever be superhuman enough to live up to their expectations.
WAAMOS
You state this as fact when it is just your opinion. An opinion not really supported by the facts.
And that conclusion of avoiding seriousness women so he must be gay and the enormous expectations part… smh
However a celebrity lives his life it will be taken as proof that he is gay. Married with children? – ‘he is hiding from his true nature and/or the wife knows everything and is probably gay too’. Unmarried and discrete about his private life? – ‘what is he hiding’? Unmarried and a bit of a player? – ‘over compensating’. There is almost no scenario which cannot be spun to support the undeniable truth of the gaydar.
Dear George …Please Stop trying to hold up Amal, as some unicorn and human rights lawyer , shoving her on the U.S. Public to buy her fake image, Clooneys PR image of Amal is bull!
The U.S. Has thousands of accomplished women, Who are actually working hard in the nation and they don’t need red carpets and constant press to do it.
I agree with one part of the woman’s rant at that meeting Amal is NOT a human right lawyer, she represents tyrants and despots and IMO!
This is only the beginning, of the Amal train going off the track, IMO. Clooney could never seriously run for an office or present Amal as a First Lady of anything,because her real Connections to tyrants and despots will come to the forefront, just as this woman did at the meeting in the a particle.
P.S. Clooney marriage is as fake as Barbie.
And Amal’s Clooneyed PRimage does not explain the full details of of connections to truants,made spots and her Uncle the Arms dealer.
IMO:Amal is being exposed. Much of what the woman said in the meeting has been said by various commenters before.
NO ,MS/MR you are wrong Amal falls flat for most people just like Kaiser said,no intense no feeling at all.
if people had any feelings for Amal his last movie should done better she been in the promoting campaign red carpets and interviews,strong feelings is wrong word for Amal.
dammit- before Amal, I was the “brilliant, humanitarian, intellectual, glamorous, fashionable unicorn-lawyer in the world” and now, I’m like one of those unhappy cats with a fake blow up unicorn horn strapped under my chin..
Why don’t people understand how the justice system works? Someone HAS to represent criminals. That doesn’t make them bad people. If we want to live in a civilized society we have to have a justice system that operates under the assumption that everyone deserves a fair trial.
Totally agree. Our system is supposed to work so that everyone is entitled to representation. I guess what I find galling is the constant description of Amal as a “human rights” lawyer. She’s an attorney specializing in international law. Human rights lawyers don’t represent the King of Bahrain.
Her her uncle, to whom she is close, is an arms dealer not allowed entry into France and England. Some her associates have criminal ties.Her mother is anti Isreal and pro HAMAS.
The marriage is clearly an arrangement. And Clooney made no effort to promote Tomorrow land. But instead his wife
I can certainly see what prompted her questions.
actually, we are not free to spend our money where we choose, if what we choose is to help fund terrorists.
just pointing out a flaw in Jeff’s logic.
I think that comes under basic common sense and is self-explanatory, original kay, hence why Jeff probably didn’t think he needed to make that (obvious) disclaimer.
It could very well come under basic common sense.
call me Ms Obvious!
I agree. Their was a small middle eastern restaurant near me that was accused of using their profits to support terrorism. People boycotted the place and they were investigated. It turned out they were sending money home to Lebanon to support family
. The woman that interrupted the meeting
seems unhinged, but that is how crazy the US has gotten in the last few years.
That’s sad. I wonder how that effected their business and if they were able to maintain a profit. It’s funny how worried people are about something funding terrorism overseas but no one questions where someone funds the KKK or other groups currently in the U.S.
Food is great, the community rallied around them and they are still in business.
That’s great lowercase, thanks for the update and good on you guys for helping and supporting them! I imagine it’s really horrible to be faced with accusations like that but amazing to have a community rally around you.
That’s why I can’t believe people who think Clooney’s wife is part of his master plan for a political career. This is what he would run up against repeatedly, people who froth at the mouth at the very thought of an American involved with someone “from there”.
I don’t know, that woman seems like the same ilk as those ridiculous “birthers”. It’s one thing to have legitimate objections to the Clooney press machine, Amal’s choices and attitude, or Amal’s past legal work, but it’s quite another thing to see conspiracies everywhere. I mean, it’s true that no one really knows that much about Amal, but would G. Clooney have any reason to funnel fortunes to Lebanon?
Agreed. This woman sounds like she believes in chem trails and the like. Oy.
Unfortunately, conspiracy theories about chem trails have a somewhat legit basis for belief because of the numerous and documented unethical experiments conducted by the US government and military in the 20th century. For older generations (and even some younger), it’s difficult to believe our government has not stopped conducting experiments on it population without public knowledge and consent.
Preach it, Olenna!
@olenna. Didn’t the US government once conduct LSD experiments on unsuspecting soldiers?
Oy…that cracked me up….Oy. LOL
Yes, they’ve experimented on soldiers with LSD, biological/radiological/chemical agents, and reportedly viruses and vaccines, venereal diseases and treatments. Some by (dubious) consent, some not.
Olenna
And that is what has been uncovered.
Large numbers of people never meeting have given mirror like descriptions of things done to them by their goverment. Some chemical, some by extreme harm, some by assaults. Goverments are capable of much without us knowing.
But that’s for another time.
That’s what I was going to say, cuckoo!
The woman did have some valid points in some areas of her rant, many commenters have said here many times, that Amal has connections to tyrants through representing them and Amal is not the Human Rights Lawyer that George is trying to promote to the public.
Say what you will, but Amal has represented Tyrants and IMO she is a human rights lawyer tyrants on,those points the lady has valid points,
Amal through Clooneys PR has been promoted in a certain way that does NOT show the scope of her representing tyrants or dictators , on that point the Woman is on point.
Amal’s Clooney built image is bull.
“accusing the couple of funneling money to enemies of America and Israel” – uh what? This is the truly offensive part of that rant. It makes me wonder whether the sole basis for this part is because AA is from the Middle East.
Also, doesn’t the U.S. support the idea that all the criminally accused should get a defense attorney?
+1.
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Totally agree!
Yep.
+10000
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That’s true but if all your career based on being defending shady names w/great money that’s speaks a lot about this lawyer and speak volumes about what kind of a person amal is.
that’s true too.
Lawyers like this are not less than scums in Wall street ,drug or weapon dealers or terrorism.all of them can never have my respect.
watch the devil ‘s advocate it’s a nice movie.!
Exactly Amal defends Tyrants the woman was right on that point.
Get ready for more of these type of things to come to the public arena for public consumption.
Clooney has tried to fool the public about her.
Lawyers defend people for different reasons, that doesn’t make them evil or as guilty as their clients.
I know one lawyer for a fact who loves to take on problem clients because he feels like even the bad guys really deserve defense when the police/attorneys can be just as corrupt (look at current examples of excessive police force and them lying on paperwork). He’s also the nicest guy you’ll meet.
You’ll never know when you’ll need a lawyer like Amal till you end up on the wrong side of the law, it happens horrifically more often than it should.
The Clooney scrubbed image of Amal as Only the Do Gooder Lawyer for Humanity is a false one and that’s what many are saying and have been saying since the beginning of this show marriage.
Portions of Amal’s fake image are being exposed , even if the woman went on a rant in other areas, on that part about Amal’s image being fake, she made a valid point. Amal is not what Clooneys PR has tried to sell the public.
+10000 lama
Those ‘tyrants and despots’ are entitled to legal representation the last time I checked, and how are her religious beliefs any of our business?
This whole rant seems more than unhinged. It seems racist, like ‘how dare he give his American money to that dodgy foreign lady, she might give it to terrorists’.
exactly.
Nailed it.
Exactly. Just because they have representation, it doesn’t mean their agreeing with their clients. Both sides need to be argues for a court of law to function. Besides, defense lawyers usually end up making more money so why shouldn’t she take those types of cases and clients on?
And the American public has every right to reject a lawyer who has represented enemies of the U.S.
Amal is not and never has been a human rights lawyer for the good of man.
Eh, the American public has a lot more to deal with and reject than the wife of an actor.
The ‘American Public’ is rejecting her now…?
Some of you people are entirely too obsessed with Clooney, now that obsession has extended to this woman who shouldn’t receive as much attention as she does except for the rabid attention Clooney received for daring to be single so long.
You can’t and shouldn’t judge an attorney’s personal and political views by their clients. It might be easier to guess by how an attorney uses their free time- charities or organizations supported, etc, or maybe by pro bono work. But being an attorney is simply a job, and it is impossible to have “perfect” clients. I know many lawyers, criminal and civil, plaintiff, DA, or defense attorneys, and none of our clients are representative of who we are, politically or morally. I also judge an attorney on a personal level by their professional conduct- are they diligent and hard working? Are they ethical, and above board in their dealings with clients and other attorneys?
Exactly. Not to mention too, that a lot of people get accused of a lot of crap they didn’t do, they become a victim of the dirty legal system.
No, but I can judge the Clooney PR machine for making Amal out to be a successful “human rights attorney” when she is more correctly an international criminal lawyer who acts largely as a figurehead or in a supporting role on “her” cases. It is an insult to those of us who fight for refugees and asylees in and out of court and run real risks from foreign regimes and terrorists for defending our clients’ rights to live safely and freely.
BearcatLawyer – but isn’t that a misunderstanding over the difference between an “international human rights” specialist (which Clooney is) and a “human rights” specialist, used as a synonym for “civil rights” specialist (which Clooney isn’t, and, so far as I’m aware, has never claimed to be but is continually having that claim made for her)?
She’s part of a growing law sector in Europe which is trying to establish international jurisprudence for supranational cases. I mean, you can like the idea or dislike the idea, but the point is not at all to fight for the little person. And the US isn’t taking much part in it because it doesn’t sign up for the relevant international bodies and treaties for constitutional and/or exceptionalist reasons.
I take your point about her being a junior, though.
I also think you, personally, do sterling work and long may you continue. You’re a boon to society. And I’m not keen on Clooney at all.
Sixer, I don’t think it is a misunderstanding. It is PR spin from Clooney’s camp about what she really does and who the clients are. His camp isn’t telling us tales about her working for tyrants and despots, we get the PR spin from his camp that she is an “international human right lawyer”.
In my world, “international human rights” law generally carries the connotation that one represents individuals or NGOs in protecting individual, civil, and political rights. One usually does not refer to lawyers who represent despots and tyrannical regimes as “international human rights lawyers” or even “human rights lawyers.” I believe that the Clooney PR machine has quite deliberately painted Amal as an “international human rights lawyer” when precious little in her background suggests that she has ever done this sort of work. I also find it curious that she was able to get an adjunct teaching role given her client list and her junior role, but I imagine Columbia Law was more interested in the publicity than anything else.
I would have a lot more respect for her and her PR flacks if they called her job what it is: an international lawyer (as you correctly describe in your second paragraph) or perhaps even an international criminal lawyer. There is no doubt that she is assisting on very important cases that raise serious issues (e.g., Assange). So why massage the truth? Why make her out to be something she is not? She is plainly not stupid and obviously well-connected so why not let her accomplishments stand on their own merit? As a woman and a lawyer, I simply must side eye the Amal PR circus for these reasons.
And thank you for the sincere compliments. I do not necessarily think of myself as being a boon to society so much as a thorn in the side of governments who would seek to harm people (barred from entering at least four countries and counting!!!). Today and tomorrow I am preparing exhibits for two asylum cases involving female genital mutilation in the Congo and Burkina Faso, respectively. Trust me – reading about the various levels of FGM practiced in central Africa will wake one up on a Monday morning.
BearcatLawyer, International human rights lawyers are those who practice in international human rights law. It makes no difference which side you are on, and ALL international human rights lawyers work both sides (well at least in Europe and Australia ). Especially those lawyers who actually work directly on cases with the UN. The US is obviously different but this is not the case in Europe
She has worked on a number of these cases which makes her an international human rights lawyer. Nothing is souped up, it is out there and legal documents with her name attached are in records before she was with Clooney. People just seem to think the world works just like America and it must be made up if it isn’t.
Notasugar, BearcatLawyer
I’m entirely open to the possibility that Clooney’s PR machine has spun a faulty definition of what she does behind the scenes – nothing would surprise me with celeb-style PR machines. However, she’s never openly done it.
However, I’ll repeat – international human rights law has little to nothing to do with individual human rights. It has to do with international law that signatory nations must adhere to. It currently has to do with establishing a body of jurisprudence and case law for the judgement of international cases going forwards. It is a political area of law. The idea is to create a framework in which countries and individuals can be judged OUTSIDE domestic law and INSIDE international law – you could call the Nuremberg trials a prototype, but international human rights law extends outwith merely war crimes.
The US is not a signatory to most of these bodies – depending who you listen to, this is either because it believes international law cannot risk trumping the constitution or because US exceptionalism means it’s above international law – and therefore it has little to do with this development and why all the work takes place in Europe.
Clooney is not, and has never openly claimed to be, a human rights lawyer in the way Americans define the term.
(I’m glad you saw sincere in that. Because I am sincere in that. Honest!)
It does make her Clooney scubbed image as a Do Gooder Lawyer for the Common Man Human Rights Lawyer come into question as bull, IMO Which it is and has Always been….
..and Amal would never represent me, were I in trouble. I am not rich enough or high profile enough. Rich tyrants and International name clients are her ilk of choice. Lol
I am with BearcatLawyer on this.
And, am I wrong in thinking that for Amal not to clear up the Clooney Machine’s misstatements about her work is as much a problem as saying incorrect things herself — because these statements are from her husband’s paid spokespeople.
Absolutely. It’s like this. Let’s say I am a lawyer for the ACLU specializing in First Amendment issues. I sue a government official in the State of California (leaving aside absolute and qualified immunity issues) for a First Amendment or related state constitutional violation. Let’s say I litigate cases like this all the time. I think in that situation I could call myself a civil liberties lawyer, or a First Amendment lawyer.
But what about the lawyer on the other side, who is defending the government’s right to violate my free speech rights? Is that lawyer a “civil liberties” lawyer? A “First Amendment” lawyer? What if that is the type of case that he defends on a regular basis?
Technically, perhaps it would not be WRONG to call the defense lawyer a “First Amendment” or a “civil liberties” lawyer. But I know darn well that a lawyer who goes around calling himself or herself that (or who allows PR/marketing people to do so) is 100% aware that he is IMPLYING that his practice is on the “right” side of those issues (i.e., that he is an advocate–not that he is defending against people who want to exercise their rights).
That’s why I think that this “international human rights lawyer” stuff is BS. It’s not that it is technically wrong–but it is extremely, extremely misleading, and everybody on that PR team knows it.
At one time or another, lawyers will represent some not nice people. Kind of on the same line that medical professionals care/rehabilitate/treat not nice people too. It sorta comes with the territory….
Someone funding terrorism or criminal activity is wrong but do get the proof before you accuse people on a public platform. Regardless of her religion, it is wrong (but hey try calling a terrorist a Christian / Buddist / Hindu terrorist) but at least show some proof. I cringe at her job but if justice says to give these people a lawyer for a fair trial, then so be it.
Given that we only heard of one wedding ceremony that was performed by a catholic official I think that would mean she is catholic right? I don’t remember the details but I think he is catholic as well.
That’s a possibility, I have a friend who’s Lebanese and she’s Maronite Catholic (Mass is so neat at her church).
You don’t have to be Catholic to have a Catholic priest officiate as long as the other is C.
Her mom is Islam & her dad is Druze still Islam as well, so she is not Catholic far from it
Her mother and father are a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion?
The word you’re looking for is Muslim. Druze are not Muslim btw.
Druze is not part of Islam. I live in a country with a large Druze population (near a Druze village) and know their culture and religion fairly well.
The word for a person who practices Islam is “Muslim”, btw.
Jessica her mom is Muslim
A lot of Lebanese are Catholic, however she is not nor was born Catholic. My understanding was they had a non-religious ceremony as he is not a practicing Catholic either, a former mayor in Italy officiated.
Also, as far as the loud mouthed share holder, I agree it was a weird place to voice those unsubstantiated comments. As a person who married into a Lebanese family, I will tell you that some people have very strong opinions on the subject, and they might not be unhinged just extremely passionate. Still the wrong place for that showing.
I don’t think it’s her religion at issue it’s her and her families connections to terrorist organisations like HAMAS and her Uncle alledgedly being arms dealer that has links with terrorist organisations. It has been said for a long time that Amals family are anti semetic. None of these things add up to a Humanitarian Lawyer with a brilliant career especially when she hasn’t won a case is simply a very junior barrister and her clients are all wealthy despots not the victims of human rights violations. The press need to stop being lazy and actually take a real look at Amal and her family this marriage has looked more a PR stunt then an actual romantic relationship she barely looks like she even stands George. But she is clearly loving the clothes, money and lifestyle. Amal was nowhere in the same financial league as George. Amal comes across as bitchy and elitist everyone talks about how smart she is no one has said she is actually a nice person or what she has actually done for others without a huge paycheck. Amal seems to do everything for herself and nothing for others. George made a huge mistake picking her he should have stayed single.
Has she always been this tiny? The pic of her in the sleeveless sweater and jeans is like wow. And not in a good way.
There are pictures of her weighing more although she was always slim. Now she is really slim. Stress maybe?
Let’s not forget how her past has been scrubbed clean and embellished on the internet. So shiny!
Do you have any links where I can read about her family’s alleged connections to HAMAS and arms dealing?
I found this: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/arms-deals-fixer-ziad-takieddine-refused-entry-and-returned-to-france-9032101.html
Imqrious2 – Thanks! Clooney’s people have done a good job of keeping Amal’s shady uncle Ziad Takieddine out of UK and US headlines. Here’s a link about his failed attempt to get permission to leave France to attend Amal’s wedding. http://www.articlejax.com/ziad-takieddine-is-the-uncle-of-amal-alamuddin-wife-of-george-clooney/
Here’s a link with photo of Amal at her wedding with a man that seems to be her shady uncle Ziad.
http://www.purepeople.com/article/mariage-de-george-clooney-et-amal-alamuddin-les-photos-des-superbes-maries_a148317/4
Always a shady uncle involved in some boarder crossing crimes of traffic…
That link has nothing to do with HAMAS, it is in relation to Takieddine taking a cut because he introduced Gaddafi to Sarkozy who received £40 million towards his presidential campaign. He got caught but don’t think it doesn’t go on in other countries. Power brokers have their hands in the same honey pot. It is not fair to lob family members who are not remotely in the same business into the blame pot.
The second links refer to him asking (not being denied) permission to attend the wedding. He was there and willing to have photos so presumably it was granted. There is no drama.
He also isn’t out of the headlines but most of this happened years ago before Clooney. It was very much in all decent newspapers and sites.
If she was such a hot shot lawyer people would have heard of her before she got together with Clooney. She’s comes across as Barbie Doll Lawyer and thinks more about her clothes and photo ops than the law.
Really? Are people familiar with the names of successful professionals in various fields if not associated with celebrities? I doubt it. I’m not sure if people can name the Supreme Court justices on the spot.
I’d heard of her due to the Assange extradition case and the Yulia Tymoshenko case, and I’d seen her speak quite a bit in video’s regarding various legal battles/issues. I knew she worked with Robertson. Wouldn’t have known her name off the top of my head but certainly knew the face and a bit of her work. I’m a lawyer, but in a completely different field, in a different country, in a much lower league.
She didn’t just appear out of thin air one day, her work history is well-documented, and it’s not the work history of a ‘Barbie Doll Lawyer’. She’s not the greatest lawyer in the known universe, but she’s done extremely well for herself. Every single person person I went to law school with (those who haven’t given up and found a new career) would kill to be a tiny part of any of the major cases she’s been a part of.
Really? Maybe I’m just very dumb and uneducated but I can’t name many hot shot lawyers. Neither american, not international ones nor the ones from my country.
@ meme: does the name Sonia Sotomayor sound familiar to you? Amal clerked for her. And she got a merit scholarship at her college at Oxford University.
Off the top of my head Johnnie Cochran, Mark Geragos, Alan Dershowitz, Gloria Allred, Leslie Abramson, F. Lee Bailey, Shawn Holley, Robert Shapiro…like or not they are considered hot shots in the legal field.
Well, you’d been doing way better than me. Gloria Allred is an ambulance chaser of the stars. Even a clueless nimrod like me knows that.
Meme, not to embarrass you, but you didn’t get that off the top of your head. You googled famous defense attorneys, then copied and pasted a list of the seven most famous, not even bothering to change the order they appear in, just adding Shawn Holley and Robert Shapiro.
What Jessica said.
I knew her as part of Assange’s team, and of course Yulia Tymoshenko – she did a round of interviews on British TV when Yulia was released.
All this before she was outed as GC’s girlfriend.
sorry meme, but the only ‘hot shot lawyer’ I’d heard of before this was Robert Kardashian.
And we all know how that last name became famous this decade, it wasn’t for achievements in the legal field lol. re: Amal’s work, I call bs on the claim that “people would have heard of her”, the general public doesn’t actually care about lawyers at all.
@Viv…no, I did not and I could name a famous case each worked on. They are all famous attorneys who appear on legal TV shows. And were on Court TV if you remember it.
Never heard of her before George and MOST of the public, I would bet had never heard of Amal …….Clooney before George entered her life.
Dear God, I would LOVE to stop hearing people claim that Amal “clerked” for Sotomayor. SHE DID NOT. She externed! Which is more like a “come in to the office part-time while you’re a student” kind of a job. It is nowhere near as selective (or frankly, as prestigious) as a real clerkship.
Signed, a former Ninth Circuit clerk who had to beat out 700 people to get her clerkship
Some spectacularly crazy people show up at shareholder’s meetings. I don’t think I’ve ever been to one where there wasn’t at least one person who tried to filibuster throughout the whole thing with a rant about something stupid like this. The last one I went to one guy just kept trying to talk about how GM crops were going to poison and kill us all. The company who held that meeting has nothing to do with GM crops and doesn’t do business or invest with companies that do, but try telling him that.
I’m not sure why we need to know Amal’s political or religious views? She’s not running for office, she’s a lawyer married to an actor.
“Some spectacularly crazy people show up at shareholder’s meetings.” True. It’s long been a protest tradition to purchase a few shares & gain access to nationally-covered platforms such as a shareholder meeting to air other views. Back in the day, I may have pulled this off a time or few myself (although my causes were quite different).
What I find tangentially amusing is picturing Jeff Bewkes – the straight-laced, uber-oatmeal exec who was supposed to calm TW things down after cool-cattin’ around, publicity-friendly Dick Parsons rather conspicuously shot himself out of the CEO cannon – faced with this particular shareholder.
You’ve got b@lls, lady. I like it! 🙂
I wonder this with every article about this woman, even if it’s all Clooney’s nefarious plans the press has bought into hook, line, and sinker and made her into a celebrity by association. Until she acts or represents a case of value to me I don’t really care what she does or wears in anything that isn’t a movie premiere.
If people are upset by one shareholder at a meeting, just wait and see what happens to Amal’s Clooney-PR-scrubbed image (if he were to ever run for an office) …once the opposition in a political campaign Goes after her connections to Tyrants and Arms Dealers!
George’s fragile ego will never be able to stand up to a political campaign.
Can you imagine what the republicans would say and Fox news, oh boy! Saying that what makes people believe, George would ever run for office, please that would be as big a joke as Donald Trump. Theres no way thats going to happen because we would really find out what George is all about.
I’ve seen crazies show up at shareholder meetings for sure.
Conversely, I have seen a couple of shateholders who had realistic and on-point, if unfavored, comments to get across, and watched them get so intimidated by bullying and taunting, they were soon talking fast out of nerves or possibly being upset, and began to come across as crazy. Which was sort of sad to see…the charters allowed questions and the questions were denied. A coworker once said “what we would cheer in a movie, we scorn in real life, so we can get to lunch on time.” I always think he had a point,
Amals thighs ar the same size as her calf’s. Just a simple observation
Yeah, my eyes went right to that. If she’s that scrawny in photos, just imagine what she looks like IRL. We know she’s not naturally boney because we’ve watched her shrink. I don’t get how she can be productive at her job when she’s extreme dieting.
+1
Another simple observation: why does Amal always look happier when she *isn’t* with GC?
That’s all I’ve got in regards to Geo and Amal.
She may be too thin and very vain, but that doesn’t mean she isn’t a lawyer or that she is an anti-Semite (the clear inference from this crazy woman and on occasion, commenters here).
But how is she a lawyer? Serious question. My job isn’t nearly as demanding as hers. No one’s life hangs in the balance if I’m suffering from low blood sugar, but I know I don’t give it my all when I’m underfed.
Everyone’s different. I know people who start talking about feeling faint if they haven’t eaten in a few hours (no underlying medical issues), others who would be fine missing breakfast and lunch but would keel over without dinner, and then there’s people like me who can go days without eating and not even notice. It’s Ramadan right now, and if you live/work with people who participate, you really see the difference in how people cope. Some of my co-workers at at their most productive right now, others have to schedule time off.
It’s the same as sleep. Some people can’t function without 8 hours, others do amazing things while only getting 2 hours a night for years.
I always say she a liability to George if he run for office & I think George will no run for office because he can’t take criticism very well to be a politician u have to take criticism, & he is no like & he like his clean image, his vacancy & partying, he is not a politician
EXACTLY. I also have always viewed Amal as a liability to George is he were to ever run.
She has way too much in her background and connections to Tyrants, Arms dealers. The opposition would make mincemeat and roadkill out of her image,
It is infuriating to me that we expect anyone of Middle Eastern descent to declare their loyalties. I don’t plan to go up to every southern white dude with a terrible haircut and ask whether he supports the Charleston shooter. It’s flat out bigoted to assume that because she’s brown and we don’t know every detail of her past, she’s hiding something nefarious. As another poster stated, even the bad guys get legal representation and a fair trial; it’s one of the few things that separates us from the bad guys. The woman at the shareholders’ meeting and the last line of this story, frankly, are gross.
BTW, if this woman is concerned about her money going to fund terrorism, she might want to focus on the fact that our tax dollars continue to go to our “allies” in Saudi Arabia, the country of origin for the majority of the 9/11 hijackers.
yes. yes to this 1000 million times.
plus, they are still are not releasing Raif Badawi. It’s heartbreaking.
Thank you for saying this. Her religion or political beliefs have nothing to do with TW. That’s like some racist saying all of Hollywood is Jewish and they take care of their own. Racism is racism no matter how you couch it.
^^ THIS. I’m Jewish and belong to some Jewish social and interest FB groups, and seriously, no lie, I had to LEAVE several of them around the time Alamooney got engaged. Some twit posted this open letter that he wrote to George Clooney, basically saying his fiancee is anti-Semitic, and now GC needs to come out and declare whether he himself holds these beliefs as well, blah blah.
Right after I clicked “Yes, I’m sure I want to leave this group” I went straight to my kitchen to get fitted for a tinfoil hat. SMH.
Times a hundred million. Your point about loyalty only needing to be spelled out when the individual is foreign in some way is absolutely true, you have to wear a flag pin and state you love America 24x for people to get over their ignorance.
This lady has b@lls.i like it!
Me too. Lol
It goes to show what people are thinking, not only fans, but people in Hollywood.
Yesterday, I was thinking to myself “hey, what happened to the Amalooney PR machine – maybe they went on vacation?” There hasn’t been any planted stories about them in the past few weeks – must be Lake Cuomo time. Attention PR team: Vacation time over!”
Lol
Dont worry we will see them soon lounging around Lake como, eating at the Villa deste, the usual that he does everyyear.
Amal was in the news yesterday, ‘hard at work’ in London.
George is, or was , biking in the mountains of Utah and Colorado with Rande Gerber, Grant Heslov, and ‘the boys’.
I thought the love birds said they made promises to each other to never be apart for more than a week. Yeah, right. haha
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3134966/Amal-Clooney-legal-team-say-ex-residents-Chagos-Islands-suffered-significant-injustice-Britain-forcibly-removed-homeland-40-years-ago.html
https://instagram.com/randegerber/?utm_source=partner&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=photo
https://instagram.com/p/4I8DUBSoCP/?taken-by=jenncalegory
Haha. She had me at “sexy civil rights lawyer.’ Too funny.
Why should we care what amal does? Shes an employee and just the wife of clooney. Not everybody on this planet agrees with israels politics and thats not just a few. But maybe some people are just bothered by the fact that shes from the middle east.
I wonder if this is the infamous Davida Rochelle.
“judge her politics from her legal work”……. no. who a lawyer represents does not remotely necessarily reflect their politics. if George’s PR people are trying to position her politics via her legal work, that’s one thing. and it may or may not be stupid. but she is not an arsehole soley on the basis of having represented some.
All attorneys are human rights lawyers..tax, divorce, defense, environmental, prosecutors, and on and on..there are humans with rights involved..it’s semantics. What a lame story..evidently it was a slow weekend or some can’t go a few days without their dose of amalrexia
Wait, I thought she WAS a human rights lawyer?
What a blown opportunity by a shareholder to hold Time Warner via People Magazine (published by them) for paying for exclusive access to the Italian wedding spectacle.
If this woman had not gone off on a tangent, the investors could have had explained to them what was paid for the access and what was earned off the investment.
Just saying-
This whole marriage thing for George seems to be backfiring on him. Everybody seems to be putting him down in some shape or form. His movie flopped, nearly everyone hates him on the internet, even journalist are writing articles saying he is finished. I think he should of stayed single!
Exactly.
No he should have gotten married if he was in love and found the right person.
George like Johnny Depp had a long run of positive press. It is the cycle of things. Now it is his turn to get some negative press that he has never gotten before. Part of it is because of his marriage the other is people are seeing George differently. That means they find negative where it was not found before
Welcome to the world of celebrity rise, fall and rise again.
But at least Johnny dated his bride and knew her for several years and also Johnny is not shoving himself or preaching how great he or his bride is at us at every turn.
Yep, major backfire here. Y’know, I don’t think anyone would give a damn about this shareholder’s rant (hell, the rant may well have never even occurred), had Kloons just married on the down low and kept his pie-hole shut instead of trying to drag us all along on his endless couch jump-a-thon. Why is he SO invested in the unicornization of his wife? And why, if his team is able to scrub the internet clean of anything non-unicorny, can they not rid the Internet of every photo of that awful vagina-vest-on-a-stick outfit??
Thats the problem, he built her up too high, and put down his other girlfriends in the process. People dont like that. He should of just potrayed her for what she is a junior lawyer working her way up the ladder. But because George likes to think hes Gods gift to women and the greatest bachelor who ever lived, she had to be super amazing in every way. Well I think he should of stuck to the truth.
He might even cultivate some sort of cultural ‘inferiority complex’. When he states things like “It’s impressive when she’s wearing her robes.”, it sounds like he truly believes she’s sort of a Mother Teresa, yet at the same time, he’s not overly well-informed about her cases at times…I think he’s living a script written and directed by his PR, whatever the reason. And she is just a character in this script.
Also it’s not helping George that a stockholders meeting time is spent ,in many minutes of a person discussing him negatively.
Which would explain why Angelina won’t go near Amal. Hmmm
Reading these comments makes me want to scream. So many people apparently have zero understanding of how international human rights law works.
If you go into Amal’s area of law, you take the cases you are given. You don’t get to pass unless you have a conflict or a personal reason that stops you working on all cases. You don’t get to pick and choose between the ‘good guys’ and the ‘bad guys’. The lawyers who were on the ‘good’ side in the cases people here are raving about, they’ve all defended war criminals too. That’s just how it works.
I’ve read back over the stories Clooney’s PR was putting out there about her. There’s nothing insinuating anything about her being a great humanitarian through her work. Americans just read human rights lawyer and thought it meant something it doesn’t, then judged her based on their false idea of what she’s ‘supposed’ to do.
Thank you for saying this. I thought I was going insane
I beg to differ on the George PR stories. Good example and most easily understandable by Americans, the Enron and Arthur Anderson cases the gossip articles and even Tina Fey/Amy Poeler’s Golden Globes joke implied she worked to take them down instead of for them. I don’t have a problem with her being a defense lawyer, but I wish she would own it, and not let George’s PR team imply other because that is an easier story sold to the public. There are plenty of articles in People and US, known celebrity PR magazines, implying her accomplishments as a humanitarian.
As much as you want to scream at the comments so do I about the difference in being a US lawyer and a UK barrister. She does not work for a law firm anymore as she did in NY, she works for a chamber where you have more control over your schedule and clients as you are not an employee. I suppose if she refused some cases it could hurt her progression to a QC or senior barrister, but at this point it is obvious that the QC’s on some of her cases are using her for publicity, i.e Elgin Marbles, Irish hooded man, and Chagos island cases. I don’t blame them as she is an accomplished junior barrister and their cases could use the public on their side to win politically. I think she suffers from George’s oversell as she is an accomplished barrister, she doesn’t need to be an accomplished humanitarian unicorn.
The cases Amal has been involved with are literally a matter of public record. She gets up in court or signs her name to court documents and all of that information is public. And among the people she’s worked for is Julian Assange. I don’t offhand know any of her other clients, but it’s entirely possible to, for example, defend the concept of freedom of speech, by using the case of someone you wouldn’t want to have dinner with. Even crap dictators have rights, and the UK has been encroaching on all rights, of all human beings, for decades.
http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/amal-alamuddins-caseload-why-the-future-mrs-george-clooney-isnt-about-to-give-up-her-day-job-as-a-human-rights-lawyer-9680615.html
She’s never led a case. Period.
Dude is looking OLD.