CNN’s Larry King actually asked a tough, direct question last night.
But he quickly veered back to softball mode. Let’s give him an A for effort.
Here’s King interrogating George Clooney on the situation in Darfur:
King: What specifically, George, do you want Secretary of State Clinton and the administration to do?
Clooney: It doesn’t appear that the United States is going to send troops in or that the U.N. Is going to send in an army to do this. What it really means is that we’re going to need diplomacy. And diplomacy has to start and it has to be aggressive and it has to start soon. We have an opportunity here.
King: One other quick thing. Are you going to be in the final presentation of “E.R. ?”
Clooney: Actually, I’m doing a remake of “Friends,” which — I didn’t want to break the news.
King: Oh, my gosh.
Clooney: I’m going be playing the Jennifer Aniston role.
King: I’m thrilled for you, George.
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Do these people realize how insanely moronic and foolish they are, or are they seriously oblivious to it?
Do you mean Clooney … or King? Or both? Or is this a rhetorical question
It’s abundantly clear that the current diplomatic paths have gotten us nowhere re: Darfur. To use phrases like “it has to be aggressive and it has to start soon” is just nonsense.
How can diplomacy be aggressive?
Exactly, Kit … it’s a nonsensical statement. Or are you being rhetorical??
To Clooney, Darfur is merely one more stage on which he can play the role of the Moral Superior to his fans/dupes/female conquests. The hard facts of the real Darfur are no more important to him than were the facts of the Middle East in his antihistorical and evil propaganda piece, “Syriana”. The nil likelihood of his “aggressive diplomacy” schtick having any effect in Darfur does not even occur to him. At his root, it’s all just an act, and he is the star.
Clooney has become a perfect Hollywood narcissist. It’s sad to see how far he has come from his small-town Kentucky roots.