Posted on 08/06/2008 11:41:10 AM PDT by STARWISE
Jon Voight intended to turn heads with the “very strong points” in his Washington Times op-ed last week (titled: Voight: My Concerns For America ~ Obama sowing socialist seeds in young people). But he probably didn’t expect so many of them to reside in Hollywood.
In a sign of the growing interest in politics this election year, bloggers who normally focus on the entertainment industry are expanding their presence in one of the Internet’s other spheres of influence.
Voight’s piece slammed Democratic candidate Barack Obama, praised GOP contender John McCain, and even repudiated his own Vietnam War protests as the naïve flailings of a deluded youth. It was a stunning bit of self-revelatory memoir from the now-conservative “Coming Home” star.
The political blogsosphere, of course, went ballistic. Then Jeffrey Wells, who runs the movie and pop culture site Hollywood-Elsewhere.com, took Voight to task for his right turn, and wrote that if he were a studio executive he might think twice before hiring Voight for any future film work. “[Voight is] obviously entitled to say and write whatever he wants,” wrote Wells. “But it's only natural that industry-based Obama supporters will henceforth regard him askance.
Honestly? If I were a producer and I had to make a casting decision about hiring Voight or some older actor who hadn't pissed me off with an idiotic Washington Times op-ed piece, I might very well say to myself, ‘Voight? Let him eat cake.'"
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Stone will probably have President Bush firing the gun that killed Kennedy.
John’s not an A list actor so most in Hollywood don’t really care what he writes or thinks.
Via Pitt to Bruckheimer, of course.
So much for “everyone is entitled to their opinion” when you then condemn him for having one that isn’t the same as yours. And the point he made was that as a naive young man who went along with the liberal agenda of Hollyweird changed when he got older and “saw the light”.
Jolie and Voight have been estranged since Tomb Raider. Since then he has played in over 20 movies with no help from his daughter. His career is far from dead.
Erm, not watched the Tomb Raider movies, then?
Voight plays Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie’s) father.
Hm, I type corrected then.
Either way... if it wasn’t dead before, it sure is now.
I love Orson Bean, Andrew Breitbart, AND Jon Voight. I also protested the Viet Nam War in that misguided era, byt when all those boat people were arriving on our shores amidst the slaughter from Uncle Ho, I sort of woke up.
Now, as a conservative RN working in a NIC, I always refuse to take care of babies of liberal parents. Riiiiiight.
Has Tom Selleck done anything but bit roles and straight to DVD westerns lately? Seems he’s been pretty well silenced.
I always thought Newt Gingrich sounded just like Orson Bean.
The hollywierd crowd all think very highly of themselves even in the face of historical financial realities that clearly demonstrate otherwise. When our economy slows down the first thing in this country to suffer financially is the movie industry. History has proven time and time again that the hollywood funny farm is expendable and the rest of the country can get along just fine without them and their inflated opinion of themselves. Just because people can play make believe doesn't mean they are an expert at anything. Most of the hollywood celebrities live in a warped culture of misguided, misplaced, or constantly changing values. They get paid to make believe that they are important people and soon come to believe in their own fantasies. The rest of us know better.
>>‘Voight? Let him eat cake.’”
Liberal calling for a black!list. Oh, the irony.
I have a soft spot for Voight. I heard him on Sean Hannity at one of the Freedom Concerts. Voight was talking about the troops that are coming back injured and he broke down and started crying. He was totally overcome with emotion. Rumor has it that he and his kids are trying to reconcile and I hope it’s true because he seems to be a great guy.
Just like Robert Conrad.
Thanks for that tidbit.
There’s rather a lot more of that than we assume.
Hollywood is strife with offspring making it big with changed names, sometimes, sometimes not.
For those that don’t know, Voight’s daughter is Angelina Jolie, born Angelina Jolie Voight.
Can you name one project that Jon Voight was involved in that was as the result of Angelina Jolie's control or leverage? It seems like he has had a steady, prosperous career since he has left the ranks of leading men.
voight bump...........
“Jolie and Voight have been estranged since Tomb Raider. Since then he has played in over 20 movies with no help from his daughter. His career is far from dead.”
Finding a sensible conservative in Hollywood would be like finding a perfect pearl just laying there in the sand. Rare, rare, rare.
Jon Voight is a good actor. He played the late Pope John Paul as an older man in a TV movie and he was excellent.
These Hollywood types remind of a family I used to know who were closed minded and stupid (but immensely critical and nasty to others).
One day I mentioned to one of them that I was reading a new book (probably a biography!) after I had just finished one and this person said “You’re reading ANOTHER book?!)
What can you say to that.
“The left is always blacklisting and censoring. “
The left is intolerant of the views of others.
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