Posted on 11/28/2005 9:10:57 AM PST by finnman69
"But he gets just as jazzed talking about politics, journalism and Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show." That show, in fact, is central to a blog entry he posted earlier this month on The Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-cusack/), one in which he excoriates the Democrats for not assuming moral leadership in light of the Bush administration's actions as "criminally incompetent robber barons now raiding the present and future." "
"On being attacked from the right as a Hollywood liberal: "So maybe I'm smug, and maybe the Democrats are petty. Maybe you're right. But you're ordering people to their deaths. How are those two things comparable?""
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He's been staring in some real winners lately...NOT!
"Ordering" people to their deaths?
add another "won't go see" movies to the list.
Is his sister just as big an idiot?..............
A Hollywood twit bitching about the corporate domination of our culture is rich considering they get their money from Disney, Sony, Time-Warner, etc. I've never heard any of them complain about 'corporate power' taking over copyright law, DRM, etc.
Yes, there is a difference between the McCain/Hagel Repubs and the neo-con/White House Iraq Group lunatics. But it's also good to remember: no matter what he does from here on out, McCain stood by the president, a man (and his machine) who smeared him viciously on the 2000 campaign trail, and then, at the GOP convention four years later, campaigned for him when we were well on to this disastrous course. And thinking men -- of which McCain is surely one -- knew the neo-cons were exploiting 9/11 for their hideous misadventure in Iraq, and knew this was an administration that would not allow photos of the dead. Etc. etc. etc. Every man who stood by Bush should be forced to answer for it. The problem isn't with Jon Stewart, who's a hero. The problem is that he's the only one (with ratings at least; none of the right-wing heavyweights are going on the Al Franken show, are they?). And we are pouring too much concrete under his pedestal. But I must admit that he's far too polite to the architects and enablers of the tragic last five years. If I hear one more asshole say, "The issue isn't whether I would send my own children to Iraq, this is an all-voluntary army...National security is at stake... There are monsters in this world." Well, thanks for telling us that -- and for lying about the war and profiting from it. And trying to privatize Iraq so corporate interests could have a free-market laboratory without all those pesky questions about "who owns what" and "who gets a piece of the action." (See Naomi Klein's excellent Baghdad Year Zero.) This is indeed a league of bastards -- these men are human scum. There were many who would have given their life to fight al-Qaeda. Many parents would have sent their children on that cause. It is the issue...of course that is the issue... Here's an American thought: Arab life has as much intrinsic value as American life. We are SUPPOSED to be better than the horrible regimes we must fight (not choose to fight). Due process is a fundamental tenet of civilization. The law is supposed to be better than us. We have veered so badly away from sanity that re-reading an Eisenhower speech or two puts him to the left of Howard Dean. I miss Hunter S. Thompson. We need him -- but he isn't gone...
I remember some quote where he called Bush a "cryptofascist," undoubtedly impressing those impressed by meaningless invented words.
Actors are whores pure and simple. He hasn't worked in a while and may need to advertize his Liberal credentials so he can get much needed work.
Yeah, I don't go to his movies anymore, and I am not one for boycotting much of anything. He just really ruined it for me. Of course, his recent movies haven't been worth a crap from what I have seen from previews, etc. Not appealing to my tastes, I guess.
The problem isn't with Jon Stewart, who's a hero.
If not a god, you ass-sucking doofus.
"...Jon Stewart, who's a hero."
I love how courageous they think they all are, as if Stewart, or Cusack, are in some kind of danger for "speaking truth to power."
As for real courage, try someone like Michael Steele.
As for really real courage, try the Iraqi voters. or the Iraqi judges and prosecutors and politicians.
He is pulling an Al Franken : )
John Cusack is the one who "shoplifts for fun" and they just overlook it in the posh boutiques. His movies have bombed lately, his career is probably as over as Julia Roberts'. But Clooney will coast on his political movies and they'll award him.
Quote of the day.
Yep, my wife made the mistake of putting some gawd awful movie of his in our Netflix queue. Terrible, and I didn't even know what kind of loony leftie he was until reading this.
It's funny, most of the movies in our queue come from the 30's, 40's to early 60's. They don't make men like Jimmy Stewart (saw Mr. Smith again recently), Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly and their kind anymore! Yes, some of them might have been lefties, but most were patriotic lefties. And the ones on the right, are ones that people to this day love (Stewart, Cooper, John Wayne).
And the women back then! Pure class, and *stronger* than the poor excuse for eye candy most of their modern brethren are. Does Betty Davis even have a pretender to the throne in modern Hollyweird?
You wonder why hollywood is in a slump? I for one have become extremely chosey over what films I see and who is in them. It is my money. This must be quietest movement on record. The results speak for themselves.
GIVE HIM MORE ROPE....
I don't exactly boycott either, but if an actor I despise is in a movie, it just ruins it for me, so why go?
There are maybe 10 I feel that strongly about, and most of them don't make decent movies anyway.
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