Matt Damon a Yankee swapper?

Boston Herald ^ | 11/1/10 | Gayle Fee & Laura Raposa

[raccoonradio]

Red Sox diehard Matt Damon promises to wear a Yankees cap (Gasp!) if 200,000 New Yorkers vote with the Working Families Party in tomorrow’s election.

Say it ain’t so, Matty D.!

Taking to YouTube to promote the progressive — some might say Commie — initiative, Damon, who just turned 40, said fans can “really cheer me up” by voting for the WFP.

The Party, he claims, is for cheaper mass transit cards, clean water and more health care reform.

“He says that last one like it’s a thing people would support,” points out Time maggie. “Aw! We’re glad to see even at 40, Matt Damon still hasn’t lost his youthful idealism.”

[PGR88]

I’m not familiar with the WFP.

From Wiki: New York's Working Families Party was first organized in 1998 by a coalition of labor unions, ACORN and other community organizations, members of the now-inactive national New Party, and a variety of public interest groups such as Citizen Action of New York.

The WFP claims to be national, but I only see them here in NY, where multiple "parties" can support 1 candidate. They are the "party" of SEIU and the public sector unions mainly. I would imagine also having their own party allows them to spend money with less regulation on their socialist causes also.

[Question Liberal Authority]

Putting aside the Marxist / Communist thing, I don't understand the offer.

Here's this prick who has despised your favorite sports team his entire life, vocally and publicly. Now, if you vote for something, he'll wear a cap of your favorite baseball team? What the hell kind of deal is that? The Yankees were eliminated from post-season play and won't have another game for months.

It would be like Sarah Palin offering to college kids that if the Republicans take at least 100 seats in the House, she'll wear a T-Shirt of Che Guevara smoking pot.

[Mich Patriot]

The likelyhood that I would ever pay at the box office to see Damon has been downgraded from “Highly Doubtful” to “NFW”.

[EQAndyBuzz]

I’ll wear a red sox cap for a year if Mass goes Republican.

[raccoonradio]

Politics and baseball (and in this case the movies) intertwined..

Red Sox/Phillies/Diamondbacks, etc. ace Curt Schilling said before the '08 campaign that the two candidates who intrigued him the most were McCain and Obama (ugh!), though in 2004 he hit the campaign trail for Bush and said on Good Morning America, "Everybody go out and vote, and vote Bush." Yesterday he made a couple appearances for GOP gov candidate (Mass.) Charlie Baker.

Schilling with W in 2004, either asking for "four more years" or acting like a manager signalling for an intentional walk.

[raccoonradio]

Boston talk host Howie Carr has said when you hear a candidate say they are for “working families”, think NON-working families—as in, welfare...

[wideawake]

Borges, do you find it interesting that Matt Damon and Ben Affleck "wrote" Good Will Hunting together in 1996, that the movie became a smash hit and a critical darling and they followed it up with . . . no new scripts?

They "wrote" a script that generated a quarter-billion in revenues and no one signed them to write and produce a new project? They both decided that it would be better to get paid going forward solely as actors in other people's projects instead of getting paid as actors, writers and producers all at once?

I wonder who actually wrote Good Will Hunting and why it would be pawned off as the work of two up to that point relatively obscure young actors.

I note that there is a guy named Aaron Stockard who was interviewed a bunch of times back in 1997 as Affleck and Damon's high school buddy and LA roommate before the two of them became famous.

Stockard now has two credits in Hollywood: as coscreenwriter of Gone Baby Gone and The Town - which are also Affleck's only movie writing credits since GWH and which were written a decade after GWH.

So this guy hung out in LA for 12 years as the close buddy of Damon and Affleck before he got a single credit on any project?

Usually stars of the caliber they were back in 2000 could have gotten their friend some kind of work before 2007.

And Stockard goes from zero to being the author of two highly-polished and successful scripts in a two year period?

There's a story in there someplace.

[cripplecreek]

All the more reason Damon should prove his dedication and make a real sacrifice.

[Borges]

It’s certainly suspicious. They bristled at some questions they got about that back then. Not to mention the fact that GWH was cliche-addled swill.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Further proof that Matt Damon is a dip shit.

[lowbridge]

So if I vote to live under communism, this ***cough*** actor ***cough*** promises to wear a baseball cap in exchange? Yeah, there’s a fair trade /s