Posted on 10/04/2005 7:46:00 AM PDT by Millee
Ocean's Eleven star George Clooney is urging his fellow Hollywood stars to keep quiet when it comes to politics, because he fears celebrity endorsements could wreck their favourite candidates' chances of victory.
Democrat Clooney and a number of screen stars have recently come under attack for voicing their political views.
And the actor, whose father Nick Clooney was recently defeated in his bid to be elected the congressional representative for Kentucky, has now vowed to be a lot more politically low-key.
He says: "My father ran for congress last year. I couldn't campaign for him and I knew I couldn't, because I'd hurt him. They tried to get me to get on the John Kerry train and I said: 'We'll hurt him. They'll use us as 'liberal'.'"Now, I would argue that (throughout) American history, it's pretty hard to find a time when liberals were on the wrong side of an issue. We thought that the conservative view was: 'Witches should be burned at the stake.' Moderate view was: 'Well, just in case,' and the liberal view was: 'There's no such thing as witches.'
"We thought women should be able to vote and blacks should be allowed to sit at the front of the bus and Vietnam was wrong. We haven't really been on a lot of wrong sides for us to be sort of used as this bad word.
"But we hurt candidates right now, so we can do fundraisers quietly and make some money. But I think it's dangerous to get up and talk about it."
That's right, Clooney....just shut up and act.
Did he also promise to move away?
Maybe George has figured it out: better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Oh reallllly? News to me!
"Ocean's Eleven star George Clooney is urging his fellow Hollywood stars to keep quiet when it comes to politics, because he fears celebrity endorsements could wreck their favourite candidates' chances of victory. "
Is George Looney implying that the American voting public has awoken and that they finally realize that Hollyweird stars are no better at politics than they are at providing normal family role models?
Yes, he already moved to Itay! Upon his arrival, his neighbors complained.
And we thought they were completely unteachable.
Yeah Clooney, liberals are always right huh? Abortion is murder and where do libs stand on murder? Libs are against the death penalty and for early release for the heinous criminals ever. Libs are for enticing people to get on welfare and are against big buisness which employs many employees. The list goes on and on.
Keep quiet about politics when you are dumb as a post seems like the thing to do. Wish those other better than thou folks in La La Land would figure that out.
Allow me to correct my spelling. Yes, he's already moved to Itlay. Hopefully, Rosie will follow in his footsteps.
George Clooney is a paragon of humility and detailed historical knowledge on a par with FReepers like markedman.
Mr. Clooney has evidently never heard of Albert Gore, Sr., Robert Byrd, Fritz Hollings...
Needlessly polarize and drive off half your movie audience,
AND effect political results opposite to those intended.
Priceless.
We may yet see a return to the days when performers were
smart enough to steer clear of politics, but the stench
left by the recent generation may have lasting effects,
and take a long time to dissipate.
Abortion
Welfare
Racial Quotas
Fighting terrorism
Hitler
North Korea
USSR
Whew, that's enough for now.
Liberal is as Liberal does....
John Kerry's not liberal? And Senator Byrd thought that blacks should have civil rights? Where did he come up with that information? "Mythological Liberal Fantasies 101?"
Clooney seems to have missed a few history lessons. Dumb@ss.
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