Comments on: George Clooney: I Am a Liberal

By: Clooney: I Did Not Blog That » Gone Hollywood

Clooney: I Did Not Blog That » Gone Hollywood — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 02:29:44 +0000

[...] George Clooney says that the recent Huffington Post piece that bore his name was not written or authorized by him, according to a report by LAT Style columnist Elizabeth Snead. Oscar-winner George Clooney may make politically provocative films like “Syriana.” But he doesn’t write politically provocative blogs. So imagine his ire when Arianna Huffington used some of his recent answers to political questions in a way that makes it look as if he wrote one for her Huffington Post blog site. [...]

By: Ray

Ray — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:23:40 +0000

as usual, the lack of any reasonable argument is grossly compensated with the abundance of epithets and expletives... which by itself reveals the intellectual level of the authors :-)

By: Yhoi

Yhoi — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 02:00:37 +0000

According to David Schuler, Clooney is a

a college dropout and most of whose poltiical views consist of pat slogans.

He appears to have the identical background and characteristics of Karl Rove!

By: McGehee

McGehee — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 23:17:49 +0000

Floyd, George and his colleagues are never more entertaining than when they're trying to be taken seriously.

Here, have some popcorn. ;-)

By: floyd

floyd — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 22:35:11 +0000

george; liberal? your a clown, shut-up about politics and entertain me. that's what we pay you for!

By: RA

RA — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 21:47:36 +0000

Boycott all of Cluney's products from now on.

By: just me

just me — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 21:37:11 +0000

I think Anne Coulter has suggested rather tongue in cheek that women shouldn't be allowed to vote, but last time I checked there wasn't some major conservative movement to repeal the 19th amendment.

I think this is where liberals often prove themselves wacked.

By: George Clooney: I Am a Liberal » Gone Hollywood

George Clooney: I Am a Liberal » Gone Hollywood — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 17:32:48 +0000

[...] George Clooney: I Am a Liberal [...]

By: G A Phillips

G A Phillips — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 17:13:31 +0000

George Clooney is a re-writer of history and a donkey minion, nothing but another mindless fool with the power of good looks by celebrity.

By: Sister Toldjah

Sister Toldjah — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:29:17 +0000

George Clooney: liberal and proud of it...

Superstar and liberal activist George Clooney writes in the HuffPo today:
I am a liberal. And I make no apologies for it. Hell, I’m proud of it.
Too many people run away from the label. They whisper it like you’d whisper “I’m...

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:24:49 +0000

Brian: I agree that if you cherry pick their best moments over the last half century, liberals have some things to be proud of. They've been wrong on a whole lot more issues, though, not the least of which was Communism. The problem is that "liberal" and "conservative" are moving targets. Respectable liberals like Harry Truman and John Kennedy would be hard right conservatives if moved into today's environment.

By: reliapundit

reliapundit — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:21:52 +0000

the issue is not whether clooney is a liberal, but whether liberals should have opposed the iraq war.

clooney claims liberals should have voted against the war. but, the war against saddam - and to liberate the arab-muslim world from tyranny - is CLASSICALLY LIBERAL. fdr and truman and jfk were all liberal hawks.

clooney is a liberal DOVE - a 1960's-type of McGovern liberal - an appeaser and a dove who thinks that war is not the answer. he thinks the liberal dems in congress should have voted as DOVES. and that they didn't because they were cowards.

in this clooney is right:

the dems are largely 12960's lib doves who only voted to permit bush to use force against saddam because they were afraid of being labeled as doves. clooney is right: they are phonies and cowards.

i think clooney is more courageous for proclaiming he is a dove.

i wish all Dems would be as brave.

and that would make it easier for hawks to defeat them in elections.

i posted more on this at my blog. here:

By: Technosailor » Clooney’s a Liberal; So What? - Technology, Blogging and Politics

Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:18:42 +0000

[...] Outside the Beltway has a post today called George Clooney: I am a Liberal citing a piece in the Huffington Post. [...]

By: Dave Schuler

Dave Schuler — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:55:16 +0000

If only he were liberal! But like many who claim that label but what he is is a partisan Democrat (gasp!) who's (IIRC) a college dropout and most of whose poltiical views consist of pat slogans.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:51:07 +0000

This, too, is something that almost all agree on.

This is actually his point. It makes more sense in the context of his Academy Award speech. What he is saying is that liberals led the charge on the issues that we now agree on. He is proud of liberal history, and that is why he is proud to be a liberal.

And, for me, one of the things we absolutely need to agree on is the idea that weâ��re all allowed to question authority. We have to agree that itâ��s not unpatriotic to hold our leaders accountable and to speak out.

Cleary, James, not all of your commenters agree with you and I.