This space is typically reserved for those wascally actors who spout inane liberal claptrap.
But far be it from WWTW to exclude those on the right side of the Hollywood aisle.
Yes, it’s a very tiny aisle. But still …
Actor Jon Voight recently spoke out against the current administration and let loose with this stunner courtesy of The Washington Times:
“There’s a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?”
Voight only recently joined the vast right wing conspiracy, and more often than not he’s a reasoned voice on political matters.
Not here.
Let’s leave the conspiratorial vitriol to the blogosphere. It’s pretty darn unlikely the current President has a civil war in his play book. And no matter how many pre-election promises he shatters (post-partisanship being just one), the site of town hall protesters isn’t proof of anything other than noisy freedom of speech.
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I agree Christian… I cringed when I heard that. There’s a time for straight talk (“death panels” clarified the point even if over-stated — it was great politics) and there’s a time to keep the heat on medium. “Civil war” is so overblown it swamps whatever legitimate point he was trying to get across.
Voight has a long way to go to ‘out-crazy’ Janeane Garofalo, but this kind of rhetoric does the right no favors.
Based purely on what you linked to I think you’re reading something into what Voight said that wasn’t there.
The way I read it, Voight wasn’t saying Obama was planning a civil war, rather with the things he was doing he could be causing one. That could be said to be over the top maybe but I don’t think it reaches whackjob territory.
I understand that it’s not a purposeful aim by Obama, in Voight’s eyes, but it’s still a serious misread of our nation, IMO. And it’s the kind of chatter that doesn’t do either side any good.
I typically ignore political statements by film stars and although my political leanings appear to be close to John Voight’s I initially skipped he comments as printed in the Washington Times. That said J.V. does not appear to be alone in his concerns. I have since heard several people – some whom from which I never would have expected it – express similar thoughts.
I cannot imagine anyone with even a little knowledge of the horrors of the War Between the States to want to see anything like that happen again. But the freedom to live once’s own life in liberty, and to seek one’s own vision of happiness is not something we can take for granted.
Europe – especially England – is the progenitor of the life of liberty we Americans love and cherish. But that life is slowly and surely disappearing from even that island nation, being washed away by the same types of programs and underlying values that the Obama Administration and the current Congress are encouraging and pursuing.
I thus find it encouraging that so many Americans, while remaining lovers of peace, are determined not to stand silent and idle when they see what they love threatened.
Christian… have you ever Ms. Garofalo? I find it hard to believe that someone who comes across as so distasteful can really be that way in person — and work regularly — especially since she’s not A-List. I can see a big-wig being a jerk, but I would think anyone down th elist would have to be at least civil. Or is that hopelessly optimistic and naive?
I did a phoner with her years ago … but the conversation was pretty restrained. I get the feeling she flipped out during the Bush years and hasn’t recovered.
I did chat up Margaret Cho a little while back, too. I gently asked her if her routines would alienate those she disagreed with. She told me she didn’t care if they did … a very unimpressive Q&A in toto.
I concur, opus… Having heard Mr. Voight speak before it’s pretty clear that he was saying Obama is inciting a reaction by acting in a very non-representative way, not planning a civil war. The President’s (and the Dem Leadership’s) disregard for what the American people want and intentions to ramrod through unconstitutional, bankrupting policies may well provoke a modern-day revolt. And I think it’s the fairest understanding of what Mr. Voight meant.