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George Clooney blames himself for John Kerry’s defeat in ‘04:
The Ocean’s Twelve actor was one of several screen stars invited to ride on Kerry’s election train, but it all went downhill for the Democrat when Clooney stayed away.
He recalls: “Kerry asked me to ride on his train - he had a train going cross-country after he was nominated and some actors went on board. I called him and explained that I couldn’t do it. I’d hurt him. I’d actually caused him harm at the polls.”
The egotistical fool! Everybody knows that Kerry was really brought down by Operation Clark County.
Clooney was no big deal, but when Pee Wee Herman turned him down, that was it for the campaign.
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2006 01 15 at 12:20 PM • permalinkOr maybe George realized that, being a Dapper Dan man, he couldn’t be associated with Fop….....Scroll down for Ulysses vs. The Pomade Vendor
Clooney’s melonhead-in-ass statement illustrates the dunderheaded arrogance of an individual leftist, while Tim’s yeoman’s work exposing the Grauniad and their “Operation Clark County” fiasco shined light on the institutional hubris of leftist media darlings.
Both instances of pupal ignorance regarding ‘the masses’ were part of the thousand thousand cuts that doomed Kerry’s ambitions to report for doody with his fellow Democrats.
They can tweak their “message” all they want, but the propaganda minded left still hasn’t learned that truth cuts deep.
Fact is, the real reason that the recentest Nobel Lit Prize was, in effect, donated to Harold Pinter was in order to take his doubtlessly inconsolable mind off his unminimizable role in tipping the election to Bush via Operation Clark County.
It’s the biggest thing that you ever did, Comrade Pinter, and it will remain forever the biggest thing that you’ll ever have done.
And he couldn’t have done it without Tim Blair. Heh. Bweh heh heh heh.
It tells you everything you need to know about why people with a forebrain refused to vote for Kerry that he ran a campaign train in the 21st century…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 01 15 at 04:31 PM • permalinkI’m not a big fan of the guy but it seems obvious from context that what he actually said was “I’d hurt him. I’d actually cause him harm at the polls.” and the reporter misheard him and completely misunderstood his point.
To put it another way, it’s some obscure tense the name of which I can’t remember, not the other obscure tense the name of which I can’t remember. HTH.
Although I like George Clooney as an actor, I don’t agree with his political statements. On the other hand, I will say that his liberal viewpoints are genuine and not an affectation adopted to become more acceptable to the Hollywood crowd. His father is a longtime notable in the Cincinnati area. Although I do like Nick Clooney a great deal—he’s a very nice person—he’s very liberal and somewhat outspoken in his disagreement with the conservative agenda and President Bush in particular. Unfortunately for Nick, he tried to win election to Congress last year and his somewhat conservative district elected his Republican opponent instead.
George pretty much says what his father has always believed.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 01 15 at 08:48 PM • permalinkI think Otter is probably right.
“I called him and explained that I couldn’t do it. I’d hurt him. I’d actually caused him harm at the polls.”
It wasn’t a shift of time viewpoint, from the pasts “called” and “explained” and “could”*, to the the past perfect (aka pluperfect) I had hurt him. I had actually caused him harm…
That past-participle “caused” is likely a bad transcription.
Instead it was a continuation of the pasts into some conditional-form past-futures. I would hurt him. I would actually cause him harm at the polls.
Afer the fact as we now know it, it would be vain of Clooney to think that he had helped cause Kerry to lose. But, back at the time, Clooney was worried about making a small bad difference in an election where people feared that, like four short years before, some very small differences could make the difference in the election.
Who says conservatives never give leftists the benefit of a doubt?
*The tense of this “could” is vague. It could be past, or conditional, or conditional serving as the future-past as it’s sometimes called. In Spanish it could be podía or podría
Sadly I agree with ForNow and others that Clooney was actually showing some sense. Check this Free Patriot link
Cloony has realised that backing from liberal celebrities does damage.Oceans Twelve - now THAT’S something Clooney needs to blame himself for. What a fiasco.
Posted by Tony.T.Teacher on 2006 01 15 at 09:41 PM • permalinkAh, George Clueless, the mastermind of Syriana and Good Night, and Good Luck. Wake me when he’s actually relevant, not merely chasing relevance.
Posted by Warmongering Lunatic on 2006 01 15 at 10:56 PM • permalinkWell, if he caused it, all I can say is, “Thank you. Thank you!! THANK YOU!!!! Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!!!”
George, YOU DA MAN!!
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 01 15 at 11:06 PM • permalinkGeorge Clooney refused to shave his head for Syriana (the guy his character was based on is bald) because he was worried his hair wouldn’t grow back.
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2006 01 16 at 05:47 AM • permalinkActually, in the Kerry mold, Clooney decided to take the train before he decided not to take the train.
Posted by perfectsense on 2006 01 17 at 03:39 AM • permalink
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