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Ben Affleck on Republican Actors: 'I Probably Wouldn’t Like This Person If I Met Him'
newsbusters.org ^ | 12/9/13 | Noel Sheppard

Posted on 12/09/2013 10:49:56 AM PST by ColdOne

Just how much do many Hollywood liberals hate conservatives?

In an interview with Playboy, Ben Affleck said, "When I watch a guy [on film] I know is a big Republican, part of me thinks, I probably wouldn’t like this person if I met him":

PLAYBOY: You developed a political profile campaigning for presidential candidates Al Gore, John Kerry and Barack Obama. How did that come about?

AFFLECK: I grew up in a house with a mother who was a teacher and a Freedom Rider—very left-wing Democrats living in a heterogeneous working-class neighborhood. I picked up a lot of those values there, and I brought them with me when I showed up in Hollywood. In 2000 the Gore campaign said, “Hey, would you

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: benaffleck; benwho; buhbyeben; haters; hollywood; hollywoodliberals; liberalhatred; libidiots; partyist
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To: mountn man

Hey, thanks for that link. A classic moment!


41 posted on 12/09/2013 12:05:48 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg (Some people meet their heroes. I raised mine. Go Army.)
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To: ColdOne

Source, meet horse, the south end of a north bound one that is. His words are an aroma in the air and that aroma is not that of roses!


42 posted on 12/09/2013 12:11:54 PM PST by SES1066 (To expect courteous government is insanity!)
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To: driftdiver

Argo was good. Very good. I’d say had John Goodman and Alan Arkin not been in that film, it wouldn’t have been as good. All Affleck had to do was be credible, which he was.


43 posted on 12/09/2013 12:12:09 PM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: Colonel_Flagg

but he wasn’t always conservative...they can grow.


44 posted on 12/09/2013 12:14:22 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: tanknetter

Just watch Iron Man 2. The quality is dubious, but Mickey Rourke and Robert Downey Jr are both conservative.


45 posted on 12/09/2013 12:16:38 PM PST by chae (I was anti-Obama before it was cool)
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To: EDINVA

Neither was Charlton Heston, and you are absolutely right.


46 posted on 12/09/2013 12:16:43 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg (Some people meet their heroes. I raised mine. Go Army.)
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To: mountn man

Don’t forget Gary Sinise.

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47 posted on 12/09/2013 12:34:24 PM PST by Mears (Y)
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To: ColdOne

Alternate headline:

AFFLECK SEEKS TO GUARANTEE THAT HIS “BATMAN VS. SUPERMAN” FLICK WILL BE BOX OFFICE POISON

Seriously ... I can’t quite say “I’ll never see a movie with _____ in it,” but absolutely I am LESS likely to see movies featuring people who repeatedly announce their hatred of me.


48 posted on 12/09/2013 12:45:24 PM PST by pogo101
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To: driftdiver

I need you like Ben Affleck needs acting school,
he was terrible in that film,
I need you like Cuba Gooding needed a bigger part,
he’s way better than Ben Affleck,
and now, all I can think about is your smile,
and that (expletive) movie too,
Pearl Harbor sucked and I miss you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pM8PrqY5Rg


49 posted on 12/09/2013 12:51:28 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: TheCause
Translation: The new Batman will suck!

Inevitable anyway since the new Batman will be teamed with Hopeman, but Affleck removes all doubt.
50 posted on 12/09/2013 1:02:53 PM PST by Dahoser (Separation of church and state? No, we need separation of media and state.)
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To: ColdOne

Hollywood leftists are stupid low info people. If they were smart they see the financial advantage of conservative/christian movie goers instead of alienating them.


51 posted on 12/09/2013 1:20:22 PM PST by RginTN
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To: ColdOne

This guy will make Val Kilmer and George Clooney look like Marlon Brando


52 posted on 12/09/2013 1:28:03 PM PST by Sybeck1
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To: mountn man

“Ron Silver was conservative. James Woods is conservative. I believe Andy Garcia is conservative.”

Gary Sinese


53 posted on 12/09/2013 1:40:23 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("Senator Cruz basically made the Democrats fight for a whole bunch of things that they already had.")
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To: ColdOne
For starters I'll wager that Ben Afleck isn't taxed enough.
54 posted on 12/09/2013 2:11:54 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Osama Obama Care: A Religion That Will Have You On Your Knees!)
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To: chae
Just watch Iron Man 2. The quality is dubious, but Mickey Rourke and Robert Downey Jr are both conservative.

I don't know about Rourke, but I personally saw RDJ get his a** kicked by a VERY large Republican on the floor of the 1992 GOP Convention. He was filming some sort of political documentary about the campaign and he and his camera crew got passes to the floor for the final night. He decided to stage an impromptu anti-Bush (41) demonstration in front of the Presidential Box and quickly ended up eating the carpet courtesy a nicely executed hip-check.
55 posted on 12/09/2013 4:01:25 PM PST by tanknetter
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To: Boogieman

Tears of laughter are streaming down my face.....never heard that song,


56 posted on 12/09/2013 5:39:14 PM PST by TheCause ("that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States")
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To: tanknetter

I am not disputing that, but in interviews he has given after his stint in prison, he has said you can’t go through that and still be a liberal. Rourke was pretty vocal in his support of Bush 42’s handling of the Iraq war. This was when “the wrestler” came out, and some people think that was what cost him the Oscar.


57 posted on 12/10/2013 5:54:27 AM PST by chae (I was anti-Obama before it was cool)
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