"Ocean's Eleven" star George Clooney is urging his fellow Hollywood stars to keep quiet when it comes to politics, because he fears celebrity endorsements could wreck their favorite candidates' chances of victory. George..What does this tell you about your views vs. mainstream America?
Democrat Clooney and a number of screen stars have recently come under attack for voicing their political views.
And the actor, whose father Nick Clooney was recently defeated in his bid to be elected the congressional representative for Kentucky, has now vowed to be a lot more politically low-key.
He says, "My father ran for congress last year. I couldn't campaign for him and I knew I couldn't, because I'd hurt him. I seem to remember a few public appearances by sonny boy for Dad. They tried to get me to get on the John Kerry train and I said, 'We'll hurt him. They'll correctly characterize use us as "liberal."'
"Now, I would argue that (throughout) American history, it's pretty hard to find a time when liberals were on the wrong side of an issue. Wrong again..The list is way too long to go into (Communism, IRAQ..not to mention Clinton the boy king and his barracuda wife -in-name-only) We thought that the conservative view was, 'Witches should be burned at the stake.' Moderate view was: 'Well, just in case,' and the liberal view was, 'There's no such thing as witches.'
"We thought women should be able to vote and blacks should be allowed to sit at the front of the bus and Vietnam was wrong. Better check the voting record for Civil Rights Georgie boy. Guess who voted against and guess who voted for. We haven't really been on a lot of wrong sides for us to be sort of used as this bad word. How do you think it got that way in the first place?
"But we hurt candidates right now, so we can do fundraisers quietly and make some money. But I think it's dangerous to get up and talk about it."
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