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Clooney: I'm a proud traitor
AFP ^ | 2/25/06 | Staff

Posted on 02/27/2006 8:07:55 AM PST by Millee

Actor and director George Clooney says he is proud to be denounced as unpatriotic for questioning US policy because he wanted to be on "the right side of history".

Interviewed on BBC television about his latest films Syriana and Good Night, and Good Luck, Clooney said that not only did he accept the right to be attacked for his views but he even relished them.

Clooney, who has weathered attacks since opposing the 2003 Iraq invasion, said at one point that it was "frustrating" to be listed as a "traitor" on a set of playing cards, but he also accepted people's right to free speech.

He later admitted he relished the attacks.

"I think it's important to be on the right side of history," Clooney said.

"I want to be on that deck of cards. And I want to be able to say that they boycotted my films. I want to be able to say I was on the cover of a magazine called a 'traitor.'

"I'm proud of those because those were badges of honour for me because that was when you did it when it was hard to do."

Clooney has received critical acclaim for Syriana - about oil politics and Islamic extremism - and for Good Night, and Good Luck, a reminder of the threat to civil liberties through a story about the anti-communist hysteria in the United States of the 1950s.

Clooney said Syriana did not single out US President George W Bush's administration for attack, though it "certainly goes at this administration" as well as at 60 years of failed Middle East policy.

"If it's an attack, it's because you're asking questions," Clooney said.

Clooney has said the chilling effect of the September 11, 2001 attacks on US politics had inspired Syriana and its unflinching look at the ways extremism and political instability are fostered by the interests of big oil.


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To: Millee

41 posted on 02/27/2006 4:09:39 PM PST by TheBigB (Meanwhile, at the Hall of Justice...)
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To: Millee

So go over to Zimbabwe and speak out against Mugabe, let's see how much real courage you have.


42 posted on 02/27/2006 5:48:38 PM PST by Brett66 (Where government advances – and it advances relentlessly – freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: Millee
"If it's an attack, it's because you're asking questions," Clooney said.

 


43 posted on 02/27/2006 5:57:18 PM PST by Fintan (Did you really think I could post such insightful replies if I actually read the article???)
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To: Millee

I'm afrad the only person that takes George Clooney seriously is the man himself. Does anyone really pay any attention to him?

ann


44 posted on 02/27/2006 7:08:08 PM PST by Cloverfarm (Children are a blessing)
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To: Fintan

You owe me a monitor and a fresh cuppa java


45 posted on 02/28/2006 5:39:12 AM PST by grellis (can't sleep clown will eat me)
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