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Smart girl.

They are full of themselves and think that they are changing the world but what do they know about the lives of normal people? For them, it's only a political game. Their lives are not going to change much no matter who gets elected. They support the party they always have been inclined to support with little justification. Period.

On the left, you have actors supporting Bernie Sanders who wants to break up the big banks which big studios rely on and on the right, you have actors supporting Donald Trump because they see a reflection of one of their own in him, a Rambo/Terminator type figure. Idiots.

Alfred Hitchcock said it best when he said that actors should be treated like cattle.

That just doesn't make sense, tactically or ethically. People have a right to speak their minds in America, just like the rest of us have a right to point out where those speaking out are being dumbshits.

We don't bar anyone from having an opinion. That's would be complete bullshit.

Don't take things literally, please. Sometimes I like to say that people should be taken out and shot for saying or doing something really stupid. Rest assured that I don't mean it literally either.

by the right in the US for speaking out. That's not a figure of speech, and you are not speaking of nonpersons but of American citizens, Union members and voters.
What do you do for a living that is so ultra superior to what Mark Rufflao does? What occupations do you think deserve to speak out? Hedge Fund Managers only?

Would I go around and put tape on their mouths so that they cannot speak? Of course not. It's just a figure of speech (noun: figure of speech; plural noun: figures of speech a word or phrase used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or vivid effect.) so relax. I don't really want anyone to be barred from exercising free speech and stating their political opinions.

I'm just playing around with the theme of several film and theatre directors, such as Alfred Hitchcock and Werner Herzog, who have shown contempt towards the actors they work with and several actors who don't take themselves too seriously such as Sean Connery who likes to joke that he's only an actor because he does not really know how to get a real job. Others like to joke that they are always impersonating some great person but never being one themselves.

But rest assured that I believe that free speech is absolute, for actors, hedge fund managers and the rest of us as well.

Oh, and I go to the cinema and the theatre several times a month so I support actors and their talents more than most other people do.

Hyperbole and sarcasm are very hard to monitor on a comment board.

If I didn't already know he lived in Bizzaro World, that's a line that would have me backing away slowly in the direction of the exits.

Considering that the people who are now Trump supporters were the "Anybody But Mitt" voters in the 2012 primaries, no one in their right mind would have that level of enthusiasm for Romney.

But I repeat myself.

honest enough with themselves, or sometimes just brave enough, to admit that they were actually strongly conservative at heart. Left was the "cool" thing to be if you were young and urban, though. Those cons brave enough to stand up for their beliefs at that age had a hard time of it in a lot of places.

Sure, some leftists became conservatives, and some conservatives became liberals. It happens all the time. But in my experience, most 60s leftists are still liberals. This great sympathy for the conservatives who were "brave enough to stand up for their beliefs" is a crock. It didn't take courage to vote for Nixon, who took every state except MA.

Liberals like me do not become followers of people like Trump , not now, not then, not ever . Similarly, people like me were never the so-called liberals who became neocons or other types of right-wing reactionaries.

By some accounts, you would think that neocons started out as good liberals, became moderate liberals, became moderate conservatives, moderate as hell, then moving further right became strong conservatives, became hardcore conservatives, and somehow ended up on the far right as nationalist conservatives with a strange vestigial social liberal streak in them. What actually happened was that they were left-wing extremists who made that short migration across the bottom of the horseshoe and became right-wing extremists with a little social liberal streak left. Extremists have much more in common with each other than they do with moderates of any orientation.

Others who mistakenly imaginedvthemselves moderate liberals, of course, grew up and discovered they had much more in common with moderate conservatives, then had children -- which usually makes stronger conservatives out of any conservatives, and became Reagan Republicans like all good authoritarian conservatives of that day did.

I didn't understand it then, but now, looking back, it's as obvious as the old bread falling butter side down.

He wrote some simple minded febrile conspiracy shit--all vague about how teh actual fuck Obama is actually hurting the nation--and Fox put him on the air, you know, to be all fair and balanced against their tons of flaky ass pro-Obama coverage, and wallah he's got his big career comeback going again.

Pathetic feeb. If you read anything by Angelina Jolie about her relationship with her father, you'll know what bullshit it is that this man presumes to lecture America on family values and public morality

Some good shit that gets you stoned!!

Interesting verbiage. All these old white farts certainly seem to want us to go back to the days before the civil rights movement.

I hope you didn't refer to Ted Kannedy that way,he was the same age.

Being old and white is not a bad thing----ask Bernie----or me.

Lost that ticket long ago

regarding a celebrity endorsement should be "who cares". I mean really, who gives a damn about what some crummy third rate actor thinks about who should be president? But I ask you, who wouldn't want to drive his car?

Those two come as a package deal.

In 1972 I shook his hand (and he has a very weak handshake) at the University of Northern Iowa after he gave a speech in support of George McGovern.

Now he's supporting Trump, for God's sake.

Him, James Woods, Patricia Heaton, and Kelsey Grammar are idiots of the highest order.

For those who don't watch it, he's a complete and total scumbag who will screw over his children and grandchildren and anyone else to take care of himself. I suspect the character is based on him, and he's too fucking stupid to notice.

Not a terrible actor, though ... I do want to punch him in the face repeatedly while I watch the show, and he's probably really a pleasant yet stupid old man in real life. Maybe.