Posted on 06/16/2009 5:16:06 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Jon Voight may have come to CineVegas Sunday night to accept an award, but that didn’t stop the outspoken actor from sharing some of his partisan political views on the red carpet.
“Right now we’re in a real bad mess,” Voight said when asked about the current state nation’s politics.
“So many things are changing, we don’t realize that we’re losing ground almost every day,” he said.
It’s no secret that the actor is no fan of the President.
(Excerpt) Read more at lasvegassun.com ...
I think he regrets being the absentee father to Angelina and she's having a hard time forgiving him.
But I think innately he's a good man as he's matured through the years.
Jon Voight = one of the good guys
They never saw fit to notice this about any of Bush's pundits.
I forget the specifics but a local radio personality told a story about the Carter-Reagan election and a woman (actress, perhaps, I’m unsure) went to bed the night of the election before knowing the results and when she was told the next morning she said “That can’t be. Everyone I know voted for Carter.”
I guess he has made enough money that he doesn’t need to work in IdiotWood anymore. ;-)
True Patriot Alert
I think his best film is “runaway train” - that movie is awesome.
he gave birth to a demoness
Angelina is no fan of Dems, based on her few public statements on politics.
That actress must have REALLY went to bed early.
I lived in California during the 1980 election, and it was announced that Reagan won before 3 o’clock in the afternoon.
Just a few informative comments about the Las Vegas Sun newspaper: It is a left tilting publication published by a good buddy and eternal supporter of Bill Clinton and everything and everyone else on the Left. The newspaper would not even be around today if it were not being propped up by the other newspaper in town, the Las Vegas Review Journal (which is a pretty decent newspaper). The Sun “is published under a Joint Operating Agreement, with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, which guarantees a second newspaper voice in the community.” It comes an an insert in the LVRJ. It makes a great fish wrapper or mat for the bottom of a bird cage. I can assure you that the editor of the Sun is not bothered by the plethora of left leaning Hollywood stars who frequently interject their asinine political views into the public square at every opportunity. He only take offense when the opinion comes from the Right side of the political spectrum.
YESS!! I was just telling this to a friend of mine the other day. Incredible flick, just Jon V. and Eric Roberts, wow.
Joe Buck is one stand-up guy. And a great actor.
He’s “partisan”. The rest of Hollywood is not. Sheesh.
Is Runaway Train an old movie? Can one rent it?
Yes, 24 yrs old, released in 1985. I’m sure you could rent or buy fairly cheap.
Here is more info: http://www.amazon.ca/Runaway-Train-Widescreen-Full-Screen/dp/0792838424
That is an urban legend quote attributed to the late film critic Pauline Kael about Nixon being reelected in 1972....what wiki says about it....
Nixon “quote”
Kael is frequently quoted as having said, in the wake of Richard Nixon’s landslide victory in the 1972 presidential election, that she “couldn’t believe Nixon had won”, since no one she knew had voted for him. The quote is sometimes cited by conservatives (such as Bernard Goldberg, in his book Bias), as an example of liberal bias in the mainstream media. There are variations as to the exact wording, the speaker (it has variously been attributed to other liberal female writers, including Katharine Graham, Susan Sontag, and Joan Didion),[38][39] and the timing (in addition to Nixon’s victory, it has been claimed to have been uttered after Ronald Reagan’s re-election in 1984.)[40]
There is, in fact, no record of Kael making such a remark. The story may have originated in a December 28, 1972 New York Times article on a lecture Kael gave at the Modern Language Association, in which the newspaper quoted her as saying, “I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken. But sometimes when I’m in a theater I can feel them.
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