Clooney vows to keep quiet about politics

Irish Examiner ^ | October 4, 2005 | Staff

[Millee]

"We thought women should be able to vote and blacks should be allowed to sit at the front of the bus and Vietnam was wrong. We haven't really been on a lot of wrong sides for us to be sort of used as this bad word.

I'm already tired of the "Stuck on Stupid" expression, but I believe it applies here.

[BulletBobCo]

That's right, Clooney....just shut up and act.

[conservativecorner]

Did he also promise to move away?

[Rummyfan]

Maybe George has figured it out: better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

[GreenFreeper]

"We thought women should be able to vote and blacks should be allowed to sit at the front of the bus

Oh reallllly? News to me!

[ZULU]

"Ocean's Eleven star George Clooney is urging his fellow Hollywood stars to keep quiet when it comes to politics, because he fears celebrity endorsements could wreck their favourite candidates' chances of victory. "

Is George Looney implying that the American voting public has awoken and that they finally realize that Hollyweird stars are no better at politics than they are at providing normal family role models?

[evets]

[jscottdavis_for_48th_district]

Yes, he already moved to Itay! Upon his arrival, his neighbors complained.

[SmithL]

he fears celebrity endorsements could wreck their favourite candidates' chances

And we thought they were completely unteachable.

[BipolarBob]

Yeah Clooney, liberals are always right huh? Abortion is murder and where do libs stand on murder? Libs are against the death penalty and for early release for the heinous criminals ever. Libs are for enticing people to get on welfare and are against big buisness which employs many employees. The list goes on and on.

[Piquaboy]

Keep quiet about politics when you are dumb as a post seems like the thing to do. Wish those other better than thou folks in La La Land would figure that out.

[jscottdavis_for_48th_district]

Allow me to correct my spelling. Yes, he's already moved to Itlay. Hopefully, Rosie will follow in his footsteps.

[wideawake]

George Clooney is a paragon of humility and detailed historical knowledge on a par with FReepers like markedman.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

We thought...blacks should be allowed to sit at the front of the bus

Mr. Clooney has evidently never heard of Albert Gore, Sr., Robert Byrd, Fritz Hollings...

[RoseofTexas]

Bawhahhahaha...this is such a STUPID statement coming from CLOWNey!! Tell that to the writers and producers of The West Wing...yeah right! Hellywood is still...STUCK ON STUPID!!!

[Boundless]

Needlessly polarize and drive off half your movie audience,
AND effect political results opposite to those intended.
Priceless.

We may yet see a return to the days when performers were
smart enough to steer clear of politics, but the stench
left by the recent generation may have lasting effects,
and take a long time to dissipate.

[Carling]

Now, I would argue that (throughout) American history, it's pretty hard to find a time when liberals were on the wrong side of an issue.

Abortion

Welfare

Racial Quotas

Fighting terrorism

Hitler

North Korea

USSR

Whew, that's enough for now.

[LynnHam]

That's right, Clooney....just shut up and act.

Just shut up and act in a true blue conservative movie without smirking and maybe well start going to your movies again maybe

[ponygirl]

Liberal is as Liberal does....

John Kerry's not liberal? And Senator Byrd thought that blacks should have civil rights? Where did he come up with that information? "Mythological Liberal Fantasies 101?"

Clooney seems to have missed a few history lessons. Dumb@ss.