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Matthew McConaughey Steps Up as a Voice of Reason
PJ Media ^ | 7 dec 2020 | Bryan Preston

Posted on 12/08/2020 2:49:55 PM PST by Rummyfan

Actor Matthew McConaughey is making a lot of sense.

The actor, who hails from Uvalde, Texas, and eschews left-wing Hollywood to live in Austin, has a new book out and has been making the rounds to talk about it. He recently appeared on Russell Brand’s podcast and laid into Hollywood and the leftist elites.

Brand asked the Academy Award winner if he noticed any condemnation of ordinary working people emanating from the elites. McConaughey did not hold back.

“[There is] a kind of offhandedness, like, ‘Oh, they’re dumb, they’re voting for Brexit, they’re voting for Trump.’ I don’t like it, and I don’t like to hear it,” Brand said in an episode last week.

McConaughey replied, “There are a lot [of people] on that illiberal left that absolutely condescend, patronize, and are arrogant towards the other 50 percent.”

The “True Detective” star pointed out how some of his Hollywood peers struggled to accept the results in the 2016 election — but now the roles have been reversed.

(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...


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McConaughey is successful enough and a big enough box office draw that the entertainment powers that be can't touch him, but bless him nonetheless for speaking out.
1 posted on 12/08/2020 2:49:55 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Dont let him fool you


2 posted on 12/08/2020 2:52:13 PM PST by mouse1
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To: Rummyfan

Don’t be too easily impressed. He is an actor afterall and if you study him much you may see that he’s playing both sides, running conservatives down, too, and trying to bring us together. There is no together when it’s communism v freedom. I haven’t read his book but my sister did and she says that he goes on a lot about his concern regarding global warming. At this point, I’m feeling very dismissive of him.


3 posted on 12/08/2020 2:53:55 PM PST by little sis
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To: Rummyfan

The most laughable part is that the H-wood cretins actually think that they are smart.


4 posted on 12/08/2020 2:54:11 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: mouse1

Agree.


5 posted on 12/08/2020 2:56:58 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: mouse1

You are correct - read his whole comments. He really isn’t saying we have a case here just that we wont accept the election (fraudulent) results because we are sore losers.


6 posted on 12/08/2020 2:57:14 PM PST by frogjerk
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To: Rummyfan

Matthew McConaughey reunited ‘Dazed and Confused’ cast to support voting

The event was organized to support the March for Science, the Voto Latino Foundation, and increase awareness about voting in Texas.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/12/entertainment/matthew-mcconaughey-dazed-virtual-trnd/index.html


7 posted on 12/08/2020 3:00:07 PM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: Rummyfan

You said what I was thinking. They know better than to attack him. He’s no shrinking violet.


8 posted on 12/08/2020 3:01:06 PM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: Rummyfan
Uvalde, Texas, home of John Nance Garner, Dale Evans, Gary Ferguson, and the meanest strain of anthrax in the entire world.
9 posted on 12/08/2020 3:01:20 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: mouse1

What an absurd statement.

What has he got to gain from saying this in a world where he WILL be blacklisted for saying this.

I don’t care what one is worth, no one likes being out of work.

For whatever reason you are bitter and distrustful, let go of it. It’s not healthy.

He DID say that we need to accept the 2020 results, which I disagree with.

But dont be so jaded as to always believe someone has a sinister reason for saying something we believe.

It’s a terrible way to live.

have a good one


10 posted on 12/08/2020 3:01:46 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3862327/posts

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3854286/posts


11 posted on 12/08/2020 3:06:18 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Rummyfan

Uh, Austin is very far left.


12 posted on 12/08/2020 3:09:41 PM PST by Fledermaus (The Republican Party is DEAD. Rot in hell ALL of them!)
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I was never a big fan of either McConaughey or Woody Harrelson, but they NAILED that season of “True Detective.” They were both superb in that show.

But, politically Harrelson is a nutball and McConaughey is — while not a moderate — certainly to the left of the center line.


13 posted on 12/08/2020 3:13:56 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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And he drives Lincoln’s in commercials!


14 posted on 12/08/2020 3:29:54 PM PST by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!) )
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To: Rummyfan
Wooderson had his own view on things.
15 posted on 12/08/2020 3:44:34 PM PST by Roadrunner383
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Bongos playing drugged out naked Matthew McConaughey??? Just checking . . .


16 posted on 12/08/2020 4:04:20 PM PST by LTC.Ret
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That's what I was thinking of too.... Wooderson. But he's come a long way since then.

Alright, alright, alright.....

17 posted on 12/08/2020 4:06:18 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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To: Rummyfan

By the way, rumor has it he is thinking about running for Governor!?!


18 posted on 12/08/2020 4:07:43 PM PST by LTC.Ret
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To: ought-six
But, politically Harrelson is a nutball ....

Stoned half the time, and with a father who was a convicted hitman... well, that's two strikes.

19 posted on 12/08/2020 4:08:48 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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To: Rummyfan

No thanks


20 posted on 12/08/2020 4:10:40 PM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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