NEW YORK -- Tim Robbins is a critic of George W. Bush, calling the American leader "a liar" and "a lame-duck president." Yet, surprisingly, Robbins is testy about the criticism he got in Team America.
In their puppet flick, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone make fun of Robbins and other Hollywood stars for being dupes of terrorists who let them hold a peace rally in North Korea while they plot world domination.
"I never saw it," Robbins grumbles to the Sun. "People have told me about it. I don't get how that's satirical. Satire should go after the liars, the deceivers, the powerful. To view the actor who speaks out against the war as 'the powerful' is a little weird for me.
"However, the guys did the most brilliant satire on the Terri Schiavo case on their South Park show -- and that was within a week! Right to the point and going after the powerful (Republican leaders). There was no fear and I admire that."
He does not admire the Team America approach on Iraq. "For me, thinking as a satirist, who's the target? The target is those pussy Democrats who didn't say anything, that refused to be an opposition party at that time. When there is no opposition party, when there is no one in the media saying anything, then it's down to Janeane Garofalo and me and Susan (Sarandon) to be the ones to say: 'Wait! Hold on! There's something wrong!'
"So," he says of the South Parkers, "I think some of the stuff they do is hilarious but, when I heard about that film, I said: 'I don't want to see that.' And the bottom line is, I'm a little offended that they didn't send me my charred marionette."
