It’s almost surreal, frankly: Lowel-drenched elitists — in this particular case, a tricked-out version of Mark-Paul Gosselaar whose intellectual bona fides lay in writing himself as a troubled genius — being unable to control themselves, so perplexing do they find the idea of an Alaskan governor and self-styled “hockey mom” running as VP.
And yet these are the same plastic “activists” who have no noticeable “concerns” over a one-term Senator with a purty mouth bounding into the position of CiC on a platform of hope, change, nuclear disarmament, faith in the UN Security Council, and (if I’m remembering correctly) an oblique promise to put a stop to any secret government programs that are manufacturing the AIDS virus and using it to kill off blacks so that the Jews can keep control of the world.
Damon, talking to Access Hollywood (which is a bit like Foreign Policy, only with less emphasis on foreign policy, and more emphasis on ads for calf and pec implants):
In an interview with The Associated Press, Damon expressed his concern over putting Palin in the White House because he contends it may not be long before she’s the Commander in Chief.
“I think there’s a really good chance Sarah Palin could be president and I think that’s a really scary thing,†Damon said.
In making his assertion, Damon cited the age and health of Palin’s running mate, 72-year-old Senator John McCain, who has a history of health issues.
“There’s a one-in-three chance, if not more, that McCain doesn’t survive his first term and it will be President Palin,†the actor continued.
In expressing his concern, Damon likened the scenario to something from the big screen.
“It’s like a really bad Disney movie. The hockey mom… and she’s president and facing down [Russian president] Vladimir Putin,†Damon said. “It’s absurd. It’s totally absurd and I don’t understand why more people aren’t talking about it.â€Â
— Well, except for the entirety of the mainstream press. In Mr Damon’s defense, however, he’s been busy learning lines for his upcoming The Bourne Douchenozzle.
But I digress.
Continues Damon:
“I know she was the mayor of a really small town. She’s the Governor of Alaska for less than two years. I just don’t understand it. I think the pick was made for political purposes, but in terms of governance, it’s a disaster,†he added. “I need to know if she really thinks that dinosaurs were really here 4,000 years ago. I want to know that. Because she’s going to have the nuclear codes. I want to know that and I want to know if she tried to ban books. We can’t have that.â€Â
In addition to conflating intelligent design with Biblical literalism — much as I sometimes inadvertently confuse Damon and Ben Affleck, if they both happen to be seated at the time — Damon, showing off his political acumen, claims to want to know if the Palin pick was made “for political purposes.”
— Which, I think I can answer that for you, Matt: Yes. In fact, that’s the way these picks are generally decided — this being, well, politics and all.
Beyond that, though, I wonder why Damon doesn’t think it “absurd” that a junior Senator whose only executive experiences seem to be running a failed CAC and an increasingly imploding campaign would be any better across the table from Putin in some postmodern version of Failsafe.
What, is it the black thing? Obama fixing to pimpslap a bitch — or give him the yard stare? Because if anything, I think Putin would be more circumspect with a lady who likes to hunt than with a prancing Ivy League dandy more in love with his own tongue than a horny Springer Spaniel.
This ain’t Truck Turner we’re talking about, after all.
Fortunately for the McCain/Palin ticket, all the loss of the “Damon demographic” means to the campaign is that the GOP is unlikely to garner the tween girl vote, and will likely likewise suffer with gay men between the ages of 18 and 35 who engage in fanfic rewrites of The Talented Mr Ripley in which Matt and Phil Hoffman finally let go their inhibitions and really get to rutting in a dinghy like a pair of pale and hairless (and quite lost, as it happens) bull elks. On X.
Otherwise, all good.
(h/t Gary S. Cross-posted at National Lampoon’s the Zaz Report)
Man, you HAD to bring up that movie, didn’t you? I’m just gobsmacked that Matt doesn’t like Sarah.
Really a very seriously imploding campaign is what this Baracky is running. I don’t think even Matt Damon can save him now, but that might be hyperbole on my part.
Matt works out, you know. He has a trainer.
Well, he’s certainly an expert on bad movies.
And he played a smart guy in that one movie.
So… why the disrespect, Jeff?
Ouch. I mean, just…ouch.
“plastic activist”
Just rolls off the tongue in a pique of gloriously nasty assonance.
Worth the price of admission!
Matt Damon
I need to know if she really thinks that dinosaurs were really here 4,000 years ago. I want to know that. Because she’s going to have the nuclear codes.
Right. Because someone who believes that the earth is 4.5 billion years old uses an entirely different decision-making process in evaluating whether the Iranians/Russians/Pakistanis/Chinese are about to pop an eleventy-megaton cap in some hapless country’s anatomy.
Screw you all…. politics aside, I think he a good actor.
Now I just WISH he and his ilk would do just that. Leave politics aside and just fucking read the words on the script like you were paid to do.
Why the Hell has Matt Damon got to know anything about Sarah Palin’s beliefs?
Why? Is it gonna tip his vote or something?
I want to know if Matt believes swirly-shaped lightbulbs will save the planet.
How the fuck can Obama face down Putin if he can’t even deal with Sara Palin.
(where is all this advocacy of ‘cowboy diplomacy’ coming from anyway)
“I think there’s a really good chance Sarah Palin could be president and I think that’s a really scary thing,†Damon said.
Yet another reason to vote for John McCain…..
[don’t remember the attribution, but I used it on my Democrat sister the other day]
A lot of people laugh at Matt Damon like he’s stupid but
I thought that “Commander In Chief” (TV ~ 2005) taught us that feisty “independent” women are the good guys, Matt.
What about “Dave” (1993)? Hollywood loves the neophyte in the White House storyline.
Is El Tejon talking about Damon or Obama?
And I think Damon won’t be working for Disney anytime soon, either.
#9 El Tejon:
He seems to conflate reading lines someone else has written as actual experience. And he desires to share that thought with everyone. That’s enough for scorn. Let the cobbler stick to his last, and all that.
“(where is all this advocacy of ‘cowboy diplomacy’ coming from anyway)”
– Larve from Hah-vud tend to get a bit testy when they’re getting dissed by the fairer sex. Some kind of Metero-sexual thing I assume.
– That, and a nice pair of Gucci soft-calf topsiders.
Or as a better actor said: “A man’s got to know his limitations.”
Here you go, Matt.
I love Rachael Lucas:
“Obama is supposed to be a genius. A whip-smart man of brilliance. A masterful wordsmith with soaring verbal and intellectual skills.
The way I see it, you have precisely two possibilities here, with a dependent conclusion for each:
(1) He did use it as a snide reference to Palin. Which means he’s a dickhead.
or
(2) He did not use it as a snide reference to Palin. Which means he’s not half as smart as his superfans want to believe. If he didn’t know how it would be construed, then he is RETARDED when it comes to nuance and anticipating political moves and all that happy horseshit. ”
http://www.rachellucas.com/
I don’t watch TV or movies, who or what is a Matt Damon? And why should I care?
Hockey is big in Russia ’cause ice grows wild there. I’m betting Putin knows better than to cross a hockey mom.
20: Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/10 @ 5:06 pm #
Or as a better actor said: “A man’s got to know his limitations.â€Â
And Spencer Tracy warned actors to stay out of politics by reminding them who killed Lincoln.
– I asked about Biden earlier.
– Heres his contribution to helping his #1 get elected. He was responding to something a questioner said from the audience, somewhat dismissive of Hillery.
“…Shes top notch…..Lets get that clear right now…Shes…..she was a better pick than me…..shes top notch…..all I can say…”
– Awww, how chivalrous of him. Hes not at all arrogantly sexist like his running mate.
– Think the Obama people aren’t feeling the sting from the “pig” mess?
– Paging Senator Biden…Senator Biden please pick up the courtesy phone….
– Maybe I was wrong….maybe its not Mel Brooks running the Obama campaign, Maybe they hired Baghdad Bob.
MATT DAMON!
– Anyway its nice to know even he thinks his boss fucked up.
JimK,
Matt Damon is the guy who picks the only stall in the mens’ room without a door to take a dump.
Has anyone else got that email going around with the two photos: the first of Palin sitting on a motorcycle, and the second of Obama riding his bicycle (helmet and all)?
“Baghdad Bob”
More likely Sideshow Bob.
OT, but yowza he’s McCain is moving numbers
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of North Dakota voters shows McCain with a 14-percentage point lead over Barack Obama, 55% to 41%. In early July, the candidates were tied in the state and Obama was looking to the Dakotas and Montana as a way to expand the electoral map for Democrats. Now, the Democratic nominee appears to be more focused on traditional battleground states.
McCain now leads by 22 percentage points among independent voters. In July, Obama had a ten-point advantage among those voters.
ok here’s the first shot:
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g225/P1nkcadillac/sarah.jpg
and here’s the second:
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g225/P1nkcadillac/obama.jpg
and the caption reads: This is All You Need to Know
I thought it was pretty funny, myself. I can’t believe how much Obama looks like Steve Urkel.(sp?)
Matt. Damon.
You know what’s like a bad Disney movie? Hollywood.
Matt,
When I need some advice in the thespian arts, you’re my man. However, if the issue involves anything in the real world, (you know that place where most of us live and work…Oh you don’t?…well, you’ve seen pictures of it then) I will ask an actual grown up with experience in the area of concern.
P.S. Can you pass this along to; Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Alec Baldwin, Oliver Sto…. I might as well put it on a fucking billboard of the 405.
Remember that Disney movie about the really smart teenager?
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes? I think they gave the guy from Popeye an Oscar for it?
That was a really bad Disney movie. Gimme Escape from Witch Mountain over that shit, any day.
much as I sometimes inadvertently confuse Damon and Ben Affleck
I do it on purpose.
Al Franken and Hideki Tojo, too.
I love to hear the opinions of Hollywood people. Then I go for intellectual conversation heft at the local Walmart food court.
This is really good news. There’s really nothing that Joe Sixpack in Oil City or Akron likes more than being told who to vote for by a pampered Tinseltowner. O! needs to get these folks out front and center for him, pronto.
“Because if anything, I think Putin would be more circumspect with a lady who likes to hunt than with a prancing Ivy League dandy more in love with his own tongue than a horny Springer Spaniel.”
That is by far one of the funniest lines I have ever read.
Matt Damon prays nightly that he could be overpaid to read lines 1/2 as genius as that, as long as the really big words were sounded out for him.
LMC @ 37: I almost composed a response because I thought you were really confused. Then the truth finally got through the cobwebs in my brain, and I laughed and laughed. Luckily I didn’t get taught explaining that Kurt Russel was in the movie, and Popeye had nothing to do with it, because that would have been embarrassing.
Affleck’s the mouthbreathing fratmo next to the seamonkey-lookin’ girl with both eyes in the center of her face, and Damon’s the cymbal-clanging monkey in his lap.
Hide ’em in the books!
No, wait…
BTW, I have enjoyed many a Matt Damon movie. What I don’t understand it why actors think their political opinions matter. I think that it’s caused by interviewers asking them questions about politics instead of asking about their latest movie and who wrote it and did you have fun and was so-and-so fun to work with and other stuff like that. Because those are really the only questions the vast majority of actors are qualified to answer.
Matt’s really not thinking long-term, though. Just imagine how a McCain/Palin administration will chase his ass all over with satellite lasers, super-duper bugs, GPS trackers and shit, all for a few tens of millions a flik. Think Obama’d do that? Hell no.
Matt’s really not thinking long-term, though. Just imagine how a McCain/Palin administration will chase his ass all over with satellite lasers, super-duper bugs, GPS trackers and shit, all for a few tens of millions a flik. Think Obama’d do that? Hell no.
“What, is it the black thing? Obama fixing to pimpslap a bitch  or give him the yard stare? Because if anything, I think Putin would be more circumspect with a lady who likes to hunt than with a prancing Ivy League dandy more in love with his own tongue than a horny Springer Spaniel.”
Jeff, I’ve been reading this blog long enough never to even have a drink in the room while reading…. but that line had my wife wondering who the hyena was howling in my office.
Shit, sorry about the double post.
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g225/P1nkcadillac/obama.jpg
It makes me want to lisp.
You never go full-genius.
MATT DAMON!!
I read this earlier, btw. Oh, how I laughed…
Re the Obama photo linked in comment #33.
His skinny ass can’t be mashing that rear tire down that much.
I think he needs to take his own advice about tire inflation.
It’s the weight of oppression.
Man, P.D.S. is much more effective than the first generation B.D.S. virus.
Viral. Memes.
Damn, I’m good.
Opps.
http://palepage.com/?p=2491
Do NOT trust Sarah Palin! she is teh heartless!
Matt Damon is that little blond kid in the old Lassie series, right? But the dude does have some kinda genes, aged really well.
Didn’t that movie star the future Snake Plissken?
But, really, I’m waiting with baited breath to hear who Bill Mumy’s voting for. Because, c’mon, the guy can send you out into the corn field if he doesn’t like who wins.
Actually it sounds like a really good Disney movie.
BTW, I have enjoyed many a Matt Damon movie. What I don’t understand it why actors think their political opinions matter.
Their opinion matters only when they’re giving that opinion sans shirt with tight pants. Otherwise, I’m really not interested.
I need to write that down on note card and, whenever I’m sad or blue or sad and blue, pull it out and realize that, the sun will indeed come up tomorrow – on PW.
“There’s a one-in-three chance, if not more, that McCain doesn’t survive his first term and it will be President Palin,†the actor continued.”
ME: “I’ll bet you read that at Daily Kos and thought to yourself that it would be an impressive stat to drop in your next interview”.
MATT DAMON:
ME: “Then, somebody with a brain probably sent you here, but I’m sure your intellectual skills were not quite up to the task of finding the appropriate line/column.”
MATT DAMON:
ME: “50% of all Americans aged 68 in 2004 lived more than 14 years with annual death rates under 2%- and I’m thinking McCain gets somewhat better medical care than the average person.”
MATT DAMON:
ME: “See! That’s the exact same face I make when I bite into an especially tart Granny Smith.”
“Tasty apples!”
MATT DAMON: “Dude! I wouldn’t frikkin’ know Howard Zinn from Howard Hughes- Ben said the reference would make me sound intelligent.”
“Do you realize how many times that movie has gotten me laid?”
ME:
I don’t care what his political affiliations are. Matt Damon is right. Watching his video, it suddenly hit me like a train. This is total madness.
I think James Long is right. What I think the founding fathers meant by government of the people was government by aristocracy. They just didn’t like the word “queen,” given that the ruffled cuffs and powdered wigs already made them look a bit fey.
So, like, code words.
I wonder, what is the chance that Obama will die of natural causes in office, given A – how young his parents passed on and B – that he smokes? Any actuaries out there?
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James LongMoby on 9/10 @ 8:23 pmFTFY.
Durka, durka, durka .. matt Damon
Does anyone really think that movie stars are that much better ?
I guess celebrities are idiots unless it’s Arnold, Reagan, Chuck Norris, Fred Thompson, Sonny Bono, and John McCain.
Arnold ain’t all that either.
“Patriot”
Just off the top of my head, do you know what Thompson was before he ever saw a script?
Why the new handle, AkaDad?
But to answer your question, no, celebrities aren’t necessarily idiots. But Matt Damon didn’t shower himself in glory here — and, for instance, I wouldn’t want Charlie Sheen cutting my hair.
oh geez…you had John McCain on that list? WTF?
And I don’t think much of anybody around here takes political advice from Chuck Norris, unless I missed a Huckabee groundswell recently.
Matt Damon –
Marginal Actor
Marginal Director
Marginal Political Endorser
SHUT THE FUCK UP, MATT!
John McCain has his own IMDB listing. He appeared in a couple of movies.
Um…
Darleen – IIRC, Thompson was a lawyer in TN…was asked to read for a part in a movie that was based on a trial he was involved in, and that was the start of his acting career.
Sonny Bono was mayor of Palm Springs for a while before he ran for a seat in the House…did some really good things to revive business in the area, ad was well liked by both R’s and D’s. Wife has his seat in the House now…
*Does anyone really think that movie stars are that much better ?*
My personal motto is WWGCD.
Obviously : “What would George Clooney do?”
First of all, to set the record straight, Matt Damon is not only just a good actor and as long as we do not here this stuff constantly from the guy I don’t think he should just “keep his mouth shut”. This is a guy who got into and almost graduated before, by his own volition, in his last year, deciding to drop out of Harvard, Harvard people. We are not talking about George Clooney or Alec Baldwin here. He is no idiot. Secondly, I suggest you watch the interview, because yes, someone who believes the earth is 4000 years old, I think does go through a significantly different thought process than one who studies the physics of calculating the probable age of the universe. Now, I am no f’ing liberal, by any means, but it does seem she was picked for political purposes, and it does seem that she is seriously lacking in experience, and some of the things she says and some of the things she has purportedly done, are a bit disturbing when we are considering her as perhaps our next president, if McCain were to pass in office, which as Damon noted has a high probability of occurring. Granted, it is not the biggest deal in the world, please do not bad mouth the guy. He did not go off on some crazy leftist rant. He did not mock middle America. He made some very valid points, without sounding like an idiot, in a straightforward way without evading the controversial aspects of what he had to say. Relax people, Sarah Palin, the soccer mom, as the next president, a little bit scary, Barack Obama, the f’ing inexperienced, social service financing socialist, a bit scary too, given the economic situation, but because Barack Obama has some dumb ideas, does not mean Sarah Palin does not have dumb ones, or dumber ones for that matter. Lighten up on Matty D.
Obama’s parents died at like 50 and 52, Anthony. And he smokes. Meanwhile, McCain’s 96-year old mom looked like she could hit the pommel horse if she had to.
Second, I doubt anyone who knows so much about Matt Damon would know very much about Sarah Palin.
This includes Matt Damon.
He’s a parrot. And you’re a parrot’s groupie.
Mom must be so proud!
Which isn’t to say I don’t enjoy his acting, or that I wouldn’t shoot the shit with the guy. Just that he sounds like a fucking tool for attacking Palin.
“I think there’s a really good chance Sarah Palin could be president and I think that’s a really scary thing,†Damon said.
I think it’s a really scary thing that anyone cares about Damon’s opinions on anything other than how to make himself look pretty.
I get home from work and see from the posts that “foot in mouth disease” is becoming epi-DEM-ic.
Matt Damon says if you look up the actuarial tables there is a one in three chance that McCain will die within the next four years.
Damon then boldly challenges us to “do the actuarial tables”.
Well, I did…and Damon is off…WAY off.
The actuarial tables supplied by the U.S. government indicate a one in seven chance, NOT a one in three chance.
Take a look at http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/STATS/table4c6.html
If you add up the four years for males from ages 72 to 75 you get 0.151985 which translates to about 1/7th or one in 7.
Fouad Adjami wrote on Obama, McCain and their different visions of American Foreign Poicy in the WSJ yesterday. Worth a read.
I watched this interview on CTV yesterday morning, yelling at the TV for most of it. Does this make him the world’s sexiest moron? The male interviewer basically sucked his dick for the whole thing announcing, at the end, he’d vote for Obama but alas … poor Canuck, he’s stuck with boring old Stephen Harper! Sickening.
“I can’t give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.”
As a gay man I can assure you that Matt Damon isn’t swinging my vote… Too much teeth and forehead. A bit like Frankenstein.
This is a guy who got into and almost graduated before, by his own volition, in his last year, deciding to drop out of Harvard, Harvard people.
This would be the same “Harvard” that gave Bush an advanced degree, yes?
Sorry if I’m wrong about that. I get confuzzled by them-there fancy smart-people schools.
Almost graduated from Harvard? Well, that’s a very different thing!
I repent and smack myself with a three day old halibut for even thinking that Matt Damon is a clueless celebrity tool who almost caused all of my cognitive functions to permanently cease while watching “The Good Shepherd.” I mean, rather than see the palsying grimness of the cartoon image of people trying to serve their country I should have divined the almost Harvard diploma brilliance of what I thought was one of the biggest, smelliest piles of Madagascan monkey crap specifically designed to turn the Up With People cast into a brigade of suicidal depressives.
Instead? A deeply wrought tome on the transcendent hopelessness of spying. Bravo!
My bad! I should have remembered that Matt was the same almost graduate who bravely declared that the Bush twins should have been serving in combat.
I denounce myself and will, henceforth, waterboard myself for seven days straight, 2 hours a day whilst screaming about “War Criminals!” and “Blood for Oil!” and “Bridges to Nowhere!!”
“I don’t watch TV or movies, who or what is a Matt Damon?”
Matt Damon’s most notable role is the one where he plays a wooden puppet who has only one line to say; he represents Hollywood’s greatest achievement.
you don’t recall correctly.
Fred Thompson was, in some semblence of chronological order…
1) Lawyer, graduating Vanderbilt and passing the Tennessee bar in 1967.
2) US Attorney (1969 to 1972)
3) Minority counsel for Watergate (73-74)
4) Attorney / Lobbyist (eighties)
Thompson got into acting when one of the cases he had argued became the subject of a movie, based on Peter Maas’ book “Marie.” The director, gathering background and talking to the actual people involved in the case, inquired if Thompson would play himself in the movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089555/
Lawyer and politician Fred Dalton Thompson, appearing in this film as himself, launched his acting career with this movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089555/trivia
Thompson was elected in 1994 to serve out the unexpired portion of AlGore’s term in the Senate.
So, in sum, what your’re saying is that Matt Damon, who won an Oscar and made millions with his writing, is less of a writer and political expert than you are? What have you published again? What are your credentials to speak on politics?
Where is you National Book Award? Where is your Oscar?
Seems to me like Damon has you beat one to nil at the very least
Speaking of movies, I just remembered who Obama reminds me of (bad grammar, I’m no Matt Damon. Harvard baby!)
Bill: OK, here’s an example. Watch out, stand back.
[speaks into tape recorder]
Bill: This is Bill. Idea to eliminate garbage: edible paper. You see, you eat it, it’s gone. Eat it, it’s out of there!
Bill: What if you mix the mayonnaise in the can, WITH the tunafish? Or… hold it! Chuck! I got it! Take LIVE tuna fish, and FEED ’em mayonnaise! Oh this is great.
[speaks into tape recorder]
Bill: Call Starkist!
John Wayne has Oscars and Lifetime achievement awards and I think he would give Damon a cowboy punch if he saw him.
More John Wayne. Less Matt Damon. Thanks Oscar.
Charlton Heston was an Oscar winner as well. Sweet. The Oscar Party? 3rd Party?
Jeff,
The conflating of a literal belief in Genesis and the teleological argument is either a product of extraordinary ignorance or downright perfidy.
Witness my go-‘round with a henpecking clutch of “super science doods:â€Â
http://scienceblogs.com/denialism/2008/09/creationismgops_arugmentum_ad.php
Drawing the distinction between “On the first day, the Lord . . .†and The Republic is polishing a turd, so it seems. Perhaps the super science doods could instruct their fellow travelers to stop teaching Evolutionary theory qua materialist philosophy, thus not antagonizing the angry mob of villagers, but alas . . . .
Interesting bunch over there. Bit of an echo chamber.
Yes, I’m saying that.
Celebrity does not grant wisdom.
So an Oscar makes one smarter than the rest of us? Mickey Mouse and Tatum O’Neill included? And so … Damon’s frightened bleating about the danger of Sarah Palin and the falling sky is which … more acting or the smart guy stuff?
I have a horny Springer Spaniel, and surprisingly enough, he looks a lot like Matt Damon.
Maaaaaaaaatt Daaaamon.
Was it Oscar or Anthony Platt that did the “Leave Britney Spears Alone!” vid on youtube?
“So, in sum, what your’re saying is that Matt Damon, who won an Oscar and made millions with his writing, is less of a writer and political expert than you are? What have you published again? What are your credentials to speak on politics?
Where is you National Book Award? Where is your Oscar?
Seems to me like Damon has you beat one to nil at the very least”
Uh oh. Someone’s got Matt Damon’s name tatooed on his dick. Either that, or someone is really fucking stupid.
Sadly, I know exactly what movie you’re talking about.
So, in sum, what your’re saying is that Matt Damon, who won an Oscar and made millions with his writing, is less of a writer and political expert than you are? What have you published again? What are your credentials to speak on politics?
Where is you National Book Award? Where is your Oscar?
This argument gets so tiresome. His book award, millions, and acting success in no way qualifies one to talk about politics. It does, though, grant him the ABILITY.
Many here could argue circles around Damon.
It is honestly kinda funny. Money and cultural elitism put the opinions of the American Royalty over that of your everyday plebe. Reminds me of that linked article (maybe at hot air) where someone says that Americans are simply too dumb to vote.
THAT’S they way the “elite” think of us. And, still we allow them to be paid millions. I have a GREAT idea. Before we start limiting the pay of CEO’s … let’s start with Hollywood actors. Someone needs to investigate their “obscene profits.”
You know who’s really smart? James Woods. 180 IQ. Republican, though, so I think his smartness and celebritude will be discounted by the same folks who are boosting Damon in this thread. Oh, and he almsot graduated from MIT, which makes him much smarter than a Harvard almostgraduate.
Consistency. It’s not just for breakfast.
almsot = almost.
typng to fast tody
Oh, also: I kind of like Matt Damon. You know who really impressed me, though? Brad Pitt. Back in the late 1990s, he did an NPR interview about his part in the movie Seven Years In Tibet. The interviewer asked him something about the movie’s geopolitics, and Pitt answered something to the effect that You know, I’m just an actor. I don’t know all that much about this kind of stuff, and I don’t think you should even be asking me this kind of question as if my opinion in the matter meant anything.
That immediately made Pitt a more interesting fellow, to me.
Slart, don’t be naive. That was during a period when China was loaded for bear and pulling distribution rights from studios cause of their China movies. MGM got kicked in the nuts for Red Corner about that time and Disney was shitting bricks over Kundun. I mean don’t be naive in a nice way. Damon is a tool, just you should know that.
Pitt had his talking points on Seven Years is all I mean.
It’s just you should know you’ve missed something somewhere when you find yourself typing things like You know who really impressed me, though? Brad Pitt.
So, to recap, Damon thinks that a really good chance Sarah Palin could be president is a really scary thing, but according to his Zinned-out ANSWER/MoveOn platform, Uday Hussein got a raw deal.
Check.
Today’s selection for our, Damon’s and Obama’s netflix queues: Powell and Pressburger’s 1943 The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp
Clive Candy: I often thought, a fellow like me dies – special knowledge, all to waste. Well, am I dead? Does my knowledge count for nothing, eh? Experience? Skill? You tell me!
Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff: It is a different knowledge they need now, Clive. The enemy is different, so you have to be different, too.
Clive Candy: Are you mad? I know what war is!
Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff: I don’t agree.
Clive Candy: You…!
Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff: I read your broadcast up to the point where you describe the collapse of France. You commented on Nazi methods–foul fighting, bombing refugees, machine-gunning hospitals, lifeboats, lightships, bailed-out pilots–by saying that you despised them, that you would be ashamed to fight on their side and that you would sooner accept defeat than victory if it could only be won by those methods.
Clive Candy: So I would!
Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff: Clive! If you let yourself be defeated by them, just because you are too fair to hit back the same way they hit at you, there won’t be any methods *but* Nazi methods! If you preach the Rules of the Game while they use every foul and filthy trick against you, they will laugh at you! They’ll think you’re weak, decadent! I thought so myself in 1919!
Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff: [he pats Clive’s shoulder] You mustn’t mind me, an old alien, saying all this. But who can describe hydrophobia better than one who has been bitten – and is now immune.
Clive Candy: I heard all that in the last war! They fought foul then – and who won it?
Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff: I don’t think you won it. We lost it -but you lost something, too. You forgot to learn the moral. Because victory was yours, you failed to learn your lesson twenty years ago and now you have to pay the school fees again. Some of you will learn quicker than the others, some of you will never learn it – because you’ve been educated to be a gentleman and a sportsman, in peace and in war. But Clive!
[tenderly]
Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff: Dear old Clive – this is not a gentleman’s war. This time you’re fighting for your very existence against the most devilish idea ever created by a human brain – Nazism. And if you lose, there won’t be a return match next year… perhaps not even for a hundred years.
“Microwave underwear!
‘Cause, I’m an idea man.”
Benji won an Oscar and he’s a Republican, bitch!
Yes there is a comma in there, bitch!
BTW: Benji rejects Universal Health Care because he hates doctors!
In my defense, I had really low expectations. Pitt’s response was a pleasant surprise. Really, it was the best day of my life. My breakfast tasted better than any meal you have ever tasted.
I never won an Oscar, certainly. But then, I never tried for one, either.
The rest of my “credentials” for putting my opinions forth can be found in some old documents from the late 1700s. My academic training is noted on the about page.
Harvard, people.
And I’m not even kidding.
Deal with it.
Just saw a clip of Susan Sarandon, having been asked about Sarah Palin:
I know this is the meme of the day, but has anyone seen anyone try to actually support this nonsense with any sort of historical fact? How was Jesus a community organizer? Anyone? Bueller?
Pretty sure that Jesus said you should keep your nose out of Caesar’s business.
But I was reading the white male version of the Bible, so perhaps that’s not actually the case.
Brutus was a Senator. I’m not sure where they’re taking that.
Jesus ran for president? How did he find the time?
that should be “He”
Sadly, Jesus alienated the liberal wing of the party. Too much religiosity. The base found it off-putting.
@ 101 Alec. I had a go at those fellows after you checked out. One of them finally determined that I had to be a troll because he agreed with me. Strange bunch.
I don’t remember if I saw it here or at Ace’s, but somebody pointed out that Osama Bin Laden had quite a stint as a community organizer in Afghanistan back in the day.
[…] whole Matt Damon/ Maureen Dowd Palin smear can be traced back to an old friend of mine.And, by “friend” […]
I’m working on a thesis about how race and sex are affecting the campaign. We keep hearing how Americans’ racism will work against Obama. But I think the reverse: Americans are very, very ready to vote a Black man or a woman into the highest offices in the land. In this climate, being black or a woman is a huge advantage over being just another boring old white guy.
The problem is that any black or woman coming from the Democratic side of the isle will inevitably be a creature of identity politics. And the haranguing, guilt-mongering, and moralizing condescension from the Left is a gigantic turn-off to people like me.
On the other hand, Sarah Palin comes from the right. She didn’t get on the ticket because she believes in the inherent evil of white Christian men. She hasn’t attended a race-baiting church or gender-studies department, both of which vilify the American political center.
I think it’s much easier to sell to the great American middle a “minority,” if that minority hasn’t spent his life laying on the white-male guilt trip. Both tickets are kind of similar: Old white guy Washington insider + Something Interesting. Weighing Obama’s black identity politcs against Palin’s unconventional femininity, I’d say, Advantage: Republicans.
Whether the Republicans can possibly use this advantage to win in an environment where almost every media outlet routinely tongue-bathes Obama is another thing entirely.
“in this particular case, a tricked-out version of Mark-Paul Gosselaar whose intellectual bona fides lay in writing himself as a troubled genius”
Although I’ve got no wisdom, I do know that the above is rubbish, if not entirely
nonconsequential.
http://jcomm.uoregon.edu/~tbivins/J397/Podcasts/Podcast/07FAA981-6253-4CC8-A7C1-7F3A9791A196.html