I have loved George Clooney and his work for a long time. The Perfect Storm, Oh Brother Where Art Thou?, The Ocean's series. . . even him at Batman (to name a few), but I have to confess, that I have become a bit unhappy with George Clooney in recent years....because of his outspoken political views. Guess you can now tell, that I am not a Liberal! :)
I feel that HOLLYWOOD and other personalities, including TV talk hosts (Oprah, Martha Stewart, etc.) should not use their fame as a way to influence voters, because, sadly, the ones they seem to influence are the ones who don't dig any deeper into a candidate's background other than to hang on every word of the "personality" as the "honest to goodness truth".
That goes for Liberal and Conservative personalities alike. "We" just seem to put these folks on pedestals....making them more important and knowledgeable that what they are...they're actors, TV personalities. WHY are their political beliefs any more important than those held by my checker at HY VEE or my mailman? They are certainly professional enough to keep their views to themselves....why can't the actors/hosts?
Anyway, I can tell you that because these folks do this, I have become a boy-cotter of their work, their shows, etc.. They just irritate me so much, that I feel the only way I have any power over them..is to not support their lively-hoods.
I have to say, I don't put the hosts of the irritating shows on the national news channels on my Boycott List, cuz that's their job...to be crazy over the top, politically....on both the Liberal and Conservative sides. I just don't watch them often, cuz I don't value much of what they say. Their jobs are to "stir folks up"...and I don't need that in my life.
Enough said.
Now, back to George.
I guess I am a bit of a hypocrite by saying that so far, I'm not boycotting him. He hasn't been "over the top" about his Liberal beliefs.....just expressing them (as I am expressing my beliefs right now in my NON- Liberal leanings). So far, he hasn't offended me like many others that have made it to my Boycott List. . . . .
AND I have to say, I am thrilled that George hasn't made it to my list, cuz if he had I would have missed out on one of the very best movies I've EVER seen : THE DESCENDANTS.
Bonnie and I went to see it yesterday as part of our "Christmas Gift Exchange and Get-together".
There are parts that will probably offend lots of folks....for instance, his children in the movie, are prolific foul language users and the F Bomb is dropped frequently...especially in the beginning, but to me, that just "fit" with what the family was all about at that time.
I will say, that while there weren't a lot of us in the theater, cuz we went on a weekday morning , there was no jibber-jabbering going on, no rustling of food wrappers and no cell phones lighting up from sending and receiving texts. Folks were focusing on the moving and entertaining story unfolding before them.....from start to finish.
THE STONE RABBIT said he didn't know who George Clooney was, so I Googled some photos for him to view.
After looking at them, he said that he was a very nice looking man and then asked if that had anything to do with why I enjoyed the movie so much.
That rabbit is really a smarty-pants sometimes. :)
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