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Jon Voight is the new Britney Spears.

By Nico Pitney on Apr 27th, 2007 at 12:28 pm

Jon Voight is the new Britney Spears.»

Pop star Britney Spears in Sept. 2003: Always trust our president.

SPEARS: Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision he makes and should just support that, you know, and be faithful in what happens.

Actor Jon Voight last night on The O’Reilly Factor: Criticizing our president is “dangerous.”

VOIGHT: When I see our president defaced, which is defacing our country… it is very concerning to me that I have heard this [criticism] from, you know, from people who have great celebrity, and they talk against our president. And I say, “Well, this is a dangerous time, fellows.” They don’t realize…

O’REILLY: The downside of free speech. And that’s what it’s all about.

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147 Responses to “Jon Voight is the new Britney Spears.”

  1. Republicans are the Fear and Smear Cowboy Says:

    Thank you Midnight Cowboy for your conservative perspective.


  2. spyder Says:

    No wonder Angelina doesn’t want him around her kids.


  3. Angry One Says:

    Did Voight mention “Surrender Date”, “Embolden the Enemy” or any of the other Top 10 GOP Sound Bites?


  4. Karlyn Says:

    I can’t help but remember when he played a male prostitue in Midnight Cowboy….that was a direct attack on family values!


  5. Tom3 Says:

    I used to like John Voight.

    Now he’s on my list of actors I refuse to watch, along with other Repukes and $cientology whackos.

    It is not dangerous to criticize the President or even call him Chimpy.

    It IS dangerous to tell people not to.


  6. Crump's Brother Says:

    Must be hard being a mindless automoton. Why should we think for ourselves when we have the Messiah (GW) telling us all that we need to know.


  7. War4Sale Says:

    Herr Voight is right! Vee must not criticize Der Fuhrer!


  8. Can-O-Whoop-Ass Says:

    If I click on the link, do I have to see his up-skirt photo too?


  9. tarazan Says:

    Voight must have passed the O’Reilly aptitude test to be on the O’Reilly show.
    O’Reilly always criticised Hollywood stars and called them ‘liberals’; but if they pass the O’Reilly Show ’shut your mouth and obey’ test , then they are welcomed to his show.


  10. drew_ill Says:

    This coming from Voight and O’Reilly who MAKE THEIR LIVING BASED UPON FREE SPEECH!!!! I thought O’Reilly was the “downside of free speech”!!! Idiots!


  11. GSD Says:

    No wonder his kids make out with each other. He’s a braindead mushroom head.

    -GSD


  12. HeartlandLiberal Says:

    Someone explain to Herr Voight this is not North Korea. He seems to be lost, and talking about Beloved Leader.


  13. Wayne Says:

    Figures that Voight and O’Liely speak out against first ammendmant rights, which ironically allows them to speak out against first amendment rights and voice their own opinions
    without fear of government retalliation.


  14. Tom3 Says:

    Repukes are insulting our troops with the word “surrender”

    When our troops leave Iraq, they are not surrendering.

    They didn’t lose a battle. General Betrayus didn’t hand his sword and sidearm to Osama. Our troops will not be surrendering in Iraq.

    The Repukes are INSULTING OUR TROOPS by saying they are surrendering.


  15. hellinabucket Says:

    What’s it all about Billy O? there’s a downside of freespeech? So we should just be quiet and let the big boys do what they do.

    Well here’s some more of the down side then. Bill, you are a hack. A bottom feeder that would rather worry about profit than substance.

    I’ll save the more specific vent for another time. What a chooch.


  16. J-rock Says:

    VOIGHT: When I see our president defaced, which is defacing our country

    “Defacing”? Did someone pencil a mustache beneath Dubya’s nose?

    And when will……people…learn the difference between The President and THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA?

    What a dolt.


  17. tarazan Says:

    May be Voight is seeking ‘career resurrection’ on O’Rielly show.


  18. citizen_pain Says:

    Jon Voight, you used up has been, you are just as much a freak as your slut daughter. The president has DEFACED OUR COUNTRY! Bu$h is a goddamn cretin, and anyone that supports this egomaniacal, silver spoon, feather-brained rotten excuse for a human being is in the same league. Go to hell asshole


  19. hugo Says:

    Lemmings…
    Support our Troops
    Impeach Bush/Cheney


  20. drew_ill Says:

    I think Voight is bucking to become the next head of the NRA…


  21. Costanza Says:

    I bought Jon Voight’s Chrysler Le Baron!


  22. Shane Says:

    Bill O’Reilly and Joh Voight - hahahahaha, gasp, chuckle, aaahhha,hahahahahaha. And Brad Pitt, a little left of liberal, poor bastard, bought into this gene pool.

    Bet Jennifer Aniston will be having a nice little chuckle today.


  23. Badmoodman Says:

    That Jon Voight sho’ got a purrrrdy mouth, don’t he, boy?


  24. And You Thought REAGAN Was Stupid Says:

    “The downside of free speech”??? O’Tooly is such an idiot. The downside of free speech is that people might say something you don’t agree with? In fact, that’s the purpose of the First Amendment’s free speech guarantee.

    “An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.” — Justice Black.

    “The First Amendment allows all ideas to be expressed—whether orthodox, popular, offbeat, or repulsive. This is the ideal of the Free Society.” — Justice Douglas.


  25. Bruce Gorton Says:

    SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2

    Nuff said.


  26. War4Sale Says:

    #19,

    Good point. Voight probably figures Heston will die soon, so he wants to leapfrog Mel Gibson and Tom Selleck as Hollywood’s Grand Pubah of Wingnuttery.


  27. cage free brown Says:

    everytime they book a right wing celebrity, an angel gets it’s wings.
    there’s no way to frame this without them looking like bastards. Celebrities who don’t support the Boy President are BAD. Celebrities who DO are good.

    crazy talk.


  28. Eskwaya Says:

    Now I know why Angelina Jolie doesn’t want to have anything to do with him.


  29. djangone Says:

    Great timing, Voight. Just when that opinion is shared by about ten people across the land.


  30. sickofitall Says:

    “General Betrayus”

    That is just brilliant, Tom3!

    Might just be closer to the truth than any of us know…….

    What’s this about Generals lying? Say it ain’t so!


  31. james k. sayre Says:

    Geez, I must be really out of it. The only reference to Jon Voight that I ever heard of (before this TP story) was in one of the Seinfeld show reruns in which one of his sidekicks had bought a car that had been previously owned by one “John Voight”… That being said, Sieg Heils all around! What planet do these Reich-wing dingbats live on anyway?

    The Bush imperial occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia will soon be coming to an end. The illegitimate traitorous election-stealing Bush regime will soon melt away… and folks will look back in the future and say to themselves: how the heck did that ever happen?


  32. klyde Says:

    spears was what 19 when she made her comments about the boy king? A stupid uneducated xtianist pop singer from rural Luisiana.

    Voight is a 60 something year old man who has lived a full life and should be resonably well informed but he’s too goddamned stupid to know defamed from defaced.


  33. Shane Says:

    And he’s scared because we send our kids off to college where professors try to teach them things, like history, oh crap.

    What are we gonna do, what are we gonna do?

    Is it dangerous, Mr. Voight, to convince parents who aren’t celebrities not to send their kids to college because there is propaganda THERE?

    Well most Fox viewers don’t have a daddy who can get them into auditions to be movie stars. So I guess since college is so risky they better make sure they get the good job at the local fast food joint.

    Unless you’re proposing stifling the speech of educators? Are you?


  34. Erroll Says:

    O’Reilly criticizing the right of free speech is not, unfortunately, all that surprising. Soon after the illegal invasion of Iraq, O’Reilly warned that he was going to “spotlight” liberals such as Barbra Streisand if they dared to criticize how the Bush administration was handling the war.

    What Jon Voight said reminds me of the odious Reese Witherspoon. A few years ago in the USA Today Magazine, she spoke out of both sides of her mouth when she said, out of the clear blue, that even though Susan Sarandon has the right to speak out [how magnamious of Witherspoon to believe that] she should not speak out against the war. The hope is that Voight and O’Reilly and Witherspoon had watched the Democratic debate last night so that they could have seen Dennis Kucinich pull out of his jacket pocket a copy of a document called the U.S. Constitution, a document that these three would seem to be totally unfamilar with.


  35. Shane Says:

    Jon Voight, one of those left wing Hollywood types. Another neocon myth bites the dust.


  36. Loonie Says:

    Country = Party…

    Hmm… sounds familiar…


  37. eve Says:

    Damn. I’ve liked him as an actor ever since Midnight Cowboy.
    .
    Now it will be hard to watch him in anything without being reminded that he doesn’t believe Americans should have any say in how their country is run. He particularly wants us to shut up while the country is being run into the ground!

    .


  38. hgc Says:

    Voight be strange. I caught a Chabad Lubavitsch fundraiser on a local cable-access channel in NY. It was a telethon, and it was co-hosted by a glib, black-hatted rabbi and John Voight!


  39. Gregor Samsa Says:

    Well, this explains Angelina Jolie’s shenanigans. It runs in the family.

    As for O’Reilly, if there is a downside to the freedom of speech, that would be him, his show, and his hateful, fearmongering rhetoric.


  40. Lupeyg2 Says:

    I’d do him.

    Oh wait - you didn’t mean he is the new Britney Spears in that way.


  41. eve Says:

    Message for O’Reilly:

    There is no downside to free speech.”


  42. powkat Says:

    Because I always listen to men who have had multiple wives and whose children refuse to have anything to do with him. You know, like Rudy Guilani.


  43. Fed the Fcuk Up! Says:

    Ah yes, the downside to free speech is that it does not allow for truth to be easily suppressed.

    Welcome to the U.S.S.A.

    And to Mr. Voight, who has made his fortune off of the fruits born from free speech and the freedom of expression, shame on you and your shallow intellect.


  44. Tom3 Says:

    Reese Witherspoon is going on my “do not watch” list.

    The best way to stop this insanity is to boycott these whackos.


  45. Erroll Says:

    The great irony about what Voight said is that he played a Vietnam veteran in the film “Coming Home” who returned from the war damaged both physically and psychologically, disillusioned about what he saw and the direction that the country was taking at that time. In the film, his character would speak at high schools, telling the students to be very wary about what the government would tell you, especially during a time of war. Perhaps it is time for Jon Voight to view that film that he starred in and to try and emulate the position that his character had taken in that inspiring and moving film.


  46. todd Says:

    i think the fact that foxnews has to dig up someone like john voight
    to agree with billo says it all.


  47. GregM Says:

    Voight is right for most presidents, but not this one.


  48. Ringo Says:

    He is not not criticizing the right to free speech; he’s criticizing the wisdom of the speech itself….but you people are too stupid and narcissistic to understand the difference.


  49. Keith Gore Wiseman Says:

    America - Love it or leave it! If you can’t handle free speech - please leave this country which has fought for freedom for more than 200 years. China will welcome you!


  50. Karim Says:

    Jeez…now I know where Angelina Jolie gets her quirks from.


  51. buzzbomb Says:

    What stunning successes has Bush delivered for us to blindly follow him, Mr. Voight? Catching OBL? nope. Rebuilding the city of New Orleans? nah. Spreading democracy across the globe? yeah right. F%ck you Voight and F#ck your boy king.
    Yo sickofitall, does your handle have anything to do with the NYC hardcore band of the same name? They kick ass. “Death to Tyrants”


  52. Evil Spaniard Says:

    No wonder Angelina doesn’t wan’t his surname and has ADOPTED her sons. She doesn’t want to perpetuate the defective X chromosome of her father.


  53. Dumb_Fox Says:

    Me too, I hate it when people spray-paint Bush. It’s so demeaning to the graffiti.


  54. Evil Spaniard Says:

    And, Jon Voight acting skills are, well, yet undemonstrated.


  55. linda Says:

    wanna bet this isn’t related to his ongoing fued with his daughter the humanitarian… he’s pathetic in his attempts to garner publicity.


  56. ggibson Says:

    They are right. We need to pull some of that gold out of Fort Knox and make us an American Golden Crown and Scepter. Hell a golden throne to… but dont forget the Golden Guillotine… because we the people would needs those soon also…


  57. the fly-man Says:

    Let’s not make an unfair comparison about boobs shall we?


  58. oldtree Says:

    poor jon. he will be like ron sliver and disappear from anything but religious broadcasting.


  59. Knappy Headed Ho Says:

    >He is not not criticizing the right to free speech;
    > he’s criticizing the wisdom of the speech itself

    right..only a moron would think that trying to turn iraq into a pro-western democracy by force is a bad idea, huh genius?

    yes, lets just keep out mouths shut about the prudence of lashing out by blindly attacking countries that did nothing to us, until the finite amount of terrorists are killed and the war is over. thank god no new ones are being created..


  60. Republicans are the Fear and Smear Cowboy Says:

    He sounds like he’s been in a coma for the last 6 years.


  61. Abby Says:

    A man who sees no difference between the person of the President on one hand and the country on the other, is too stupid to opine on the subject.

    Aren’t these are the same people who said Bill Clinton, not America, got a Lewinsky in the White House?

    So take a position, jesus freaks. What is it? Is the President, the country? Does Bush-hate born of what he has done to this country equal hate of America? How about your Clinton-hate? Was that hate of your country too?


  62. ohboy Says:

    Yeah Free Speech is really a bumber unless you make 50 mil a year and have a worthless tv show.

    The reason there is so much decent is the fact we’re not fighting islamic facists but rather the fact we’re spening billions on needless military to invade a country for its fossil fuels.

    Comparing to Germany and Japan is pathetic. Those 2 countries were first rate military powers and an actual threat and don’t dare say we didn’t ask anything from them. We took 700 Nazi scientists to make NASA and the CIA and used the medical research japanese scientists did on prisoners to better our country. Their land in comparison was worthless … but wait, we left military bases there.


  63. keith Says:

    I like what David Michael Green said about the Bush administration today:

    “We have a word for Americans who sell out their country for their own profit.

    They are traitors.

    And we have a word for what these traitors do when they betray our country, our values and our Constitution to pursue their agenda of personal aggrandizement.

    It’s called treason.”

    You don’t have to like these people just because they are our current leaders, Jon. That’s just being “a good little German”. Fox despises Clinton just for misleading about a bj ten years ago.


  64. Fed the Fcuk Up! Says:

    How ironic that a cat named “Ringo” would make such as statement as:

    He is not not criticizing the right to free speech; he’s criticizing the wisdom of the speech itself…

    You see, “Free speech” is great as long as what is said meets some standards of “wisdom” or “correctness” that are applied by some form of “speech police”.

    I find this funny because I remember people wanting to censor The Beatles’ music. The argument, of course, was that it wasn’t that the “good folks” wanted to censor music, it’s that they didn’t believe that what The Beatles were producing was music at all or even an art form.

    And now, some 40 years later, we have a “Ringo” telling us that this is not about censoring free speech, it’s about making sure that “unwise” and “incorrect” speech not be included in the “Free Speech” concept in the first place. And I think that this cat is serious.


  65. BlueArkansas Says:

    “The downside of free speech.” Eat me, O’Reilly. It’s because of free speech that ignorant a$$hats like yourself have a forum in which to spout your mindless venom.


  66. geoman77 Says:

    Anybody wanna buy a once-viewed DVD of “The Odessa File?”


  67. Sally Says:

    Erroll, I was thinking the same thing. “Coming Home” is one of my favorites and a must see for all, especially now during this Iraqi fiasco. Dennis Miller, Ron Silver and now Voight are so wrong on this topic and they seem to possess the same stubborn streak as our President.


  68. anon Says:

    That’s too bad. I always liked him in Airwolf.


  69. Ed Says:

    Might explain the family values behind Voight who in his late wife’s will (she died in Jan) that Voight still owed her over $180,000 in child support.

    http://www.tmz.com/ 2007/ 04/ 15/ batty-britney-caught-on-tape/

    Go down for “Jon Voight –Deadbeat Dad?”


  70. Keith H. Says:

    Just appearing on Focks’ Billbo show is enough to ruin a guy’s career.
    How many people is it that watch focks again?
    Oh yeah, it’s down to 28 percent of the voters.


  71. Wayne Says:

    Well, this explains Angelina Jolie’s shenanigans. It runs in the family.
    Comment by Gregor Samsa

    Angelina is still rebelling against her father. She does not even speak to him anymore. Now we know why. He is an asshole.


  72. Kiki Says:

    Shouldn’t that be “defamed” instead of “defaced”. I think the President would be defaced if someone wrote “LIAR” on his forehead with a Sharpie.

    (Maybe one day in prison, but I doubt “LIAR” would be what they would write. And it wouldn’t be on his face.)


  73. buzzbomb Says:

    Jon Voight wasn’t in Airwolf. Your not thinking of the director guy with the eye patch are you? Or maybe your being sarcastic? Crap, I don’t know. Maybe we should get Stringfellow Hawk and Ernie Borgnine over to Iraq- so long insurgency.


  74. Tundra Says:

    Wow,

    Watch the posters Swiftboat Jon Voight for not towing the “hollywood” line. Freedom of speech as long as it’s what they want to hear. If not attack his character, bring up his personal life and call ihm names. I’ve seen that somewhere before….


  75. keith Says:

    Free Speech: anyone with billions of dollars is allowed to buy the media—-even if they are from Australia and made their fortune in sleazy British tabloids (Murdoch).


  76. Ringo Says:

    And now, some 40 years later, we have a “Ringo” telling us that this is not about censoring free speech, it’s about making sure that “unwise” and “incorrect” speech not be included in the “Free Speech” concept in the first place.

    Comment by Fed the Fcuk Up!
    ———————————————————————————-

    I said no such thing…I am an absolutist when it comes to the 1st amendment. That said, some speech is dangerous, stupid and even seditious.

    For example, Harry Reid has every right to say the war is lost and I have every right to critize his wisdom, question his intelligence and even suggest that he is playing into the hands of Americas enemies.

    But as I said before, the the Left is too stupid, narcissistic and downright immature to understand the difference.


  77. keith Says:

    Reid did not say the war is lost. Just because you hear the media say something 100 times does not mean that it is true.

    What Reid actually said:

    “As long as we follow the President’s path in Iraq, the war is lost. But there is still a chance to change course and we must change course.”


  78. Jake Says:

    Britney’s words are as true today as they were then!!

    What? You don’t think Spears is a credible person to speak on issues of politics and foreign policy?


  79. Juan C Says:

    That Jon Voight sho’ got a purrrrdy mouth, don’t he, boy?
    Comment by Badmoodman — April 27, 2007 @ 12:48 pm

    Best comment ever!!!


  80. Ringo Says:

    Keith,

    “Reid did not say the war is lost.”
    ————————————————————–

    Actually he did…The quote that you give is from the explanation he gave afterwards.

    His original quote was: “You have to make your own decisions about what the President knows, this war is lost, and that the surge is not accomplishing anything, as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday”.

    http://blogs.abcnews.com/ politicalradar/ 2007/ 04/ reid_says_iraq_.html

    Get your facts straight.


  81. Republicans are the Fear and Smear Cowboy Says:

    I will defend to the death Voight and O’Lielly’s free speech right to make asses of themselves at anytime and as much as they want.


  82. Julie Says:

    John Voight is a moran.

    “The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.” - Theodore Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star, May 7, 1918


  83. pablo Says:

    #20 - Costanza

    jon voight the actor? (hope you’re still out there, sorry it took so long…)



  84. keith Says:

    The war cannot be won militarily. Neither could Vietnam. We should pull out and let the UN take over peacekeeping. Maybe that would quell the violence.

    But the White House is not concerned with quelling the violence or stopping terrorism. They are only concerned with controlling that part of the world either through puppets or directly. PNAC spelled it all out in the ’90s.


  85. TripMaster Monkey Says:

    Tundra sez:

    Watch the posters Swiftboat Jon Voight for not towing the “hollywood” line.

    First of all, the word you’re looking for is ‘toeing’.

    Second, last I checked, the viewpoint you blithely describe as the “hollywood” line is shared by a majority of Americans.

    Freedom of speech as long as it’s what they want to hear.

    We’re not the ones equating dissent with treason.

    If not attack his character, bring up his personal life and call ihm names.

    Projection.

    I’ve seen that somewhere before….

    In a mirror, perhaps?


  86. Erroll Says:

    #73

    To claim that Sen. Reid “is playing into the hands of Americas [sic] enemies” because Reid had the temerity to point out an obvious truth is the same thing, as Geoffrey Stone, former professor of law at the University of Chicago, has pointed out in his extremely rrelevant book “Perilous Times- Free Speech in Wartime- From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism” that was said every time the United States has elected to go to war. Supporters of LBJ and Nixon said that critics of the war would be aiding the Communists while today free speech is once again endangered because those who dare to speak out may once again be smeared as [allegedly[ supporting the enemies of the United States.


  87. keith Says:

    I thought Ned Beatty had the purdy mouth. Maybe I’m wrong. You can see Voight play FDR tomorrow night on ABC in the stinker “Pearl Harbor”. Wonder if they have the part where we knew it was coming but allowed it in order to get the public behind the war (like 9/11).


  88. Fed the Fcuk Up! Says:

    #73-Ringo,

    Thank you for clarifying your position. In essence, it’s that there is “good” free speech and there is “bad” free speech and that people should refrain from “bad” free speech, of course. And who makes the determination as to which speech is “good” or “bad”, well, Mr. Ringo of course.

    Yes, Ringo, you have displayed the most asinine and moronic reasoning for the censoring of “free speech”. But now you will say that anyone who doesn’t agree with you is “dangerous, stupid, seditious, stupid, narcissistic, and downright immature” and, as such, should not be allowed to speak at all, otherwise they will just be polluting the cosmic river of “good” free speech.

    Righto there Ringo. Enjoy life back in the U.S.S.R.


  89. DRxJ Says:

    and who is Jon Voight?
    and his relevency to the politcal spectrum is…?


  90. nofltwlt Says:

    I saw Voight and was left hanging as the show ended. It was as if Voight was about to finish his thought with what I thought would go like this.

    “This is a dangerous time, but in all honesty the President must admit his own complicity in the hatred Americans feel for him and his administration. Maybe it is time for him to come clean, step down and dismantle the neocon conspiracy before it is too late for our nation”.


  91. Arn Gunnutes Says:

    Funny how HENRY KISSINGER, the “statesman”,

    ALSO said that the Iraq war cannot be won by military force.

    The Iraq Study Group, headed by DADDY’S friend, James Baker, ALSO said that it CANNOT be won.


    So the REAL TRAITORS are the LIARS like Bush, Cheney, O’Dildo, and “ringo”.

    See you in hell “ringo” (cause I’LL be THERE),


    Mr. Bush
    MURDEROUS WAR CRIMINAL
    COWARDLY PUNK TRAITOR TO THE USA (TM–BushCrimeCo)


  92. keith Says:

    That quote from Spears was on CNN politics show “Crossfire”, talking to Tucker Carlson—not on an entertainment show.


  93. Ringo Says:

    “…let the UN take over peacekeeping. Maybe that would quell the violence.”
    ———————————————————————–

    The UN ran from Iraq after one attack, what on Earth makes you think that they would even be willing to go back?…They certainly have not offered.

    And do you really believe that al-Qaeda in Iraq would respect the UN and their pretty blue helmets?…These are people who attack public markets, schools and even hospitals. They have no respect for human life, Muslim or otherwise. They are Hell bent on creating chaos in hopes of fueling a greater war between Sunni and Shiite across the greater Islamic world.

    Get a clue.


  94. Keith H. Says:

    He’s reduced to television appearances on fox.
    Must need the money pretty badly.


  95. goehl Says:

    SPEARS: Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision he makes and should just support that, you know, and be faithful in what happens.

    This mind set, with this age group, is soooo very frightening and I do believe it is more prevalent than we think. Is it because some need to feel all is well for reasons of security - especially this age group just starting out? Would the truth be too much? This generation will be one of many to reap the evils Bush has sewn.


  96. Ringo Says:

    Fed the Fcuk Up,

    Ringo, you have displayed the most asinine and moronic reasoning for the censoring of “free speech”
    ———————————————————————————

    Please show me where I advocated censoring any speech.

    You are simply blinded by you raging hatred.


  97. keith Says:

    Saddam was doing an excellent job of supressing al Qaeda before we invaded and opened up the country to them, gave them recruits and a training ground. Bin Laden and his men are in PAKISTAN–the country that has aided them for decades and actually HAS nuclear weapons (and sold them to North Korea). So, tell us Ringo why we are in Iraq and not Pakistan.


  98. Mr. Bush Goes To Hell Says:

    Waxman has asked Tenet to appear before his committee:

    http://thinkprogress.org/ 2007/ 04/ 27/ waxman-asks-tenet-to-testify/ #comments

    Although Tenet IS one of the complicit TRAITORS, if he tells the TRUTH,

    Bush is ONE FCKVED TRAITOR coxucker PUNK.

    I guess the “medal of freedom” is just another politicized item in Bush’s array…


  99. ben Says:

    I’m confused. I thought the Presidency was the highest office in the country and George Bush was just a man holding hat office. How is it that criticizing a man (ignoring the fact that he is a huge failure) relates to criticizing the country.

    I love the logic on this douchebag.


  100. Ringo Says:

    The idiocy at this website is mind-numbing.

    I can only assume that most of the people who post here are teenagers so I’ll try to be forgiving.


  101. keith Says:

    Bush has given al Qaeda:

    “a greater war between Sunni and Shiite across the greater Islamic world.”

    I read today (at consortiumnews.com) that one of bin Laden’s top lieutenants wrote that prolonging the war in Iraq is in al Qaeda’s interests.

    Why don’t you get a clue?


  102. OutSourced Says:

    When the only gig an actor can get is a quickie on O’Really?, it’s time to retire gracefully. The idea that criticizing a partisan politician for being a partisan politician is unAmerican has it exactly backwards. But then, that’s why O’Really calls his diatribes the “No” Spin Zone.


  103. Barry Says:

    No wonder he and his daughter Angela Jolie don’t get along. The guys a close minded con. Never knew that. No wonder he does not get much work these days.


  104. Barfly Says:

    I can only assume that most of the people who post here are teenagers so I’ll try to be forgiving.

    Comment by Ringo

    You have no point, so you resort to ad hominums. Piss off.


  105. keith Says:

    The idiocy at this website is mind-numbing.

    I can only assume that most of the people who post here are teenagers so I’ll try to be forgiving.

    Comment by Ringo — April 27, 2007 @ 2:16 pm

    According to the 16 intelligence agencies of the USA, this invasion and occupation has harmed the security of the US by opening up Iraq to the terrorists (they could not get in before), being a tremendous recruiting tool, provided a training ground, overstretched our military, and made us less able to respond where needed.

    Are all the intelligence agencies of the USA full of mindnumbingly idiotic teenagers? Or is there something wrong with you?


  106. Ringo Says:

    Keith,

    The war in Iraq is in al-Qaeda’s intrest, especially if we leave and they are seen as driving out the Great Satan.

    Yes, our withdrawl from Iraq will be al-Qaedas greatest victory since 9/11 and it will be handed to them by the Democratic party.

    BTW - Are you going to acknowledge that you were wrong about Harry Reid’s “war is lost” comment?


  107. Juan C Says:

    These are people who attack public markets, schools and even hospitals.
    Get a clue.
    Comment by Ringo — April 27, 2007 @ 2:07 pm

    Sounds like shock and awe and shake and bake.

    They have no respect for human life, Muslim or otherwise.
    Sounds like Abu Ghraib, Gitmo, Fallujah, Qana, Haditha, etc…

    They are Hell bent on creating chaos in hopes of fueling a greater war between Sunni and Shiite across the greater Islamic world.
    Yes, they do. Cause they invaded Iraq…right…


  108. Mr. Bush Goes To Hell Says:

    I can only assume that Ringo is another RNC TROLL getting .10 per post.

    BRING IT ON, Bush-licking TRAITOR!!!

    REAL Americans know Bush is a LIAR, TRAITOR and WAR CRIMINAL.

    See you in hell “ringo” (cause I’LL be THERE),

    Mr. Bush
    MURDEROUS WAR CRIMINAL
    COXUCKER PUNK TRAITOR TO THE USA (TM–BushCrimeCo)


  109. Ringo Says:

    You have no point, so you resort to ad hominums. Piss off.

    Comment by Barfly
    ——————————————————————-

    What the Hell?…90% of the comments in this thread are ad hominums.

    Every time I post a comment at this website I am attacked with ad hominums….Heck, I’m just joining the fun.


  110. Barfly Says:

    The Midnight Cowboy is getting all self-righteous? He must be trolling for a job on the sequel of “Path to 9/11;” “Path to Quagmire.”


  111. Mr. Bush Goes To Hell Says:

    The war IS lost.

    Kissinger said so.

    Daddy Bush’s Iraq Study Group (TM–BushCrimeCo) said so.

    Reid was correct.

    Petraeus admitted yesterday that the “surge” will NOT be short-term.

    Once again EXPOSING BUSH AS THE LIAR AND TRAITOR HE IS…

    See you in hell my Nazis (cause I’LL be THERE), AND GET YOUR ASSES TO IRAQ, cause I need you (RINGO!) to DIE for my LIES,

    Mr. Bush
    MURDEROUS WAR CRIMINAL
    COXUCKER PUNK TRAITOR TO THE USA (TM–BushCrimeCo)


  112. keith Says:

    The Baker-Hamilton Commission and some of our top generals have said that it cannot be won militarily. Do you think it can? Only about 5% of the ones fighting us are al Qaeda. Noone would be killing us in Iraq if we had not illegally invaded and occupied Iraq based on a stack of known lies.

    If China invaded and occupied the USA because we had WMD (we actually do) and might be a threat—-would Ringo be aiding the occupiers or resisting?


  113. Barfly Says:

    The war in Iraq is in al-Qaeda’s intrest, especially if we leave and they are seen as driving out the Great Satan.

    Yes, our withdrawl from Iraq will be al-Qaedas greatest victory since 9/11 and it will be handed to them by the Democratic party.

    As usual, no facts. Are you related to Bob Novak? Your styles are very similar.


  114. Ringo Says:

    “.10 per post.”
    ———————————-

    C’mon…I get a dollar for every five.


  115. Barfly Says:

    Every time I post a comment at this website I am attacked with ad hominums….Heck, I’m just joining the fun.

    Comment by Ringo —

    Tyr posting something with a factual basis. So far, zip.


  116. Fed the Fcuk Up! Says:

    #98,
    The concept that seems so incredibly difficult for you to grasp is this:

    Qualifying speech, any speech, based upon the judgment of an individual or group, as being good or bad (your choice of words, “unwise” = “bad”), is a position contradictory to the concept of free speech.

    If you say that anything John Doe says is stupid and should be disregarded, without ever addressing WHAT it is that John Doe actually said, then that represents an attempt to qualify the speech in order to either validate or discredit it based upon external judgment. In other words, censor.

    You cannot see this because you are either disingenuous or ignorant. Regardless of your motivations, that is the truth. And here’s the kicker, it doesn’t matter in the LEAST whether you like it or not to anyone other than yourself.

    Goodbye Ringo.


  117. Ringo Says:

    It’s been fun but I’ve got to get back to work.

    See you nuts later.


  118. keith Says:

    Half the time the righties are so very concerned about the poor innocent Iraqi civilian lives that are lost due to al Qaeda. The other half of the time they are viciously attacking people for pointing out that our invasion and occupation have resulted in the loss of 655,000 innocent civilian lives.


  119. Barfly Says:

    Every time I post a comment at this website I am attacked with ad hominums….Heck, I’m just joining the fun.

    Comment by Ringo

    Actually the “fun” is reading the pitiful troll droppings, and making them eat their words. You have yet to post anything of substance.


  120. Kate Henry Says:

    Heil Hitler!


  121. Marie Says:

    I thought Fox and the Factor sneered at the “hollywood types” — oh, I see..

    IOKIYAR!!


  122. cosmosis Says:

    No wonder Angelina Jolie won’t talk to the old man. It’s hard to hold a conversation with a moron.


  123. Maharaja Says:

    I’m very frightened too !!

    since I’m confused on definition of Propaganda.

    Anyone please ??


  124. big papa Says:

    …another irrelevant…

    …has been…


  125. Luther Blossett Says:

    Finally found somebody to agree with Bill O and the resident.


  126. ecthompson Says:

    Where did they dig up John Voight?


  127. Gareth G Says:

    Jon Voight demonstrates the effect that massive amounts of cocaine -and heaven knows what other drugs- can have on the human brain. I remember watching him give an acceptance speech at the Oscars once and he was so wasted he was incoherent. It was so embarrassing that the other actors in the audience were rolling their eyes and holding their heads in their hands.


  128. goehl Says:

    The war is lost????
    What war? This is a US illegal led invasion/massacre, now occupation. It is time to stop occupying, leave as 70% - we the people - wish as the rest of the world wishes.

    Bush wants to keep the mayhem and carnage going so he will not look like, and it will not go down in history as the failure he really is. Death to the soldiers so his vanity can be saved.

    What a bastard.


  129. Uncle Ho Says:

    How dare anyone criticize Midnight Cowboy’s fuhrer! Seig Heil! sarcasm


  130. brianS Says:

    Another phony “family values” conservative who abandoned his own family. Voigt didn’t even know the names of his own grand-children when asked . He abandoned Angelina when she was 1 year old, and didn’t want anything to do with her until she became an actress.

    Why is O’Reilly even having him on? I thought he didn’t care about opinions from Hollywood actors. Oh, that’s right, Republicans LOVE actors whenever they’re right-wingers (see Ronny Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Fred Thompson, etc.).


  131. USA Says:

    It’s funny how stupid people say everything that is wrong, ignorant and backwards, yet think they are correct.

    The whole: “they want to destroy our democracy” is so funny everytime I hear it, it shows how ignorant people are about the situation, and where is the single place they heard it? George Bush. Completely ignorant and incorrect.


  132. GregNewYork Says:

    Too bad for the Midnight Cowboy…. I would have gone to see his movie…. ya know, in a theater, buy some popcorn…. but now, after his rant, I’ll catch it on HBO in a year or two or whenever, if ever, it’s broadcasted.

    I will not spend a buck on someone to tells me I am defacing my country for pointing out that Bush is a Complete 100% Failure.


  133. HeckuvaJob Says:

    If you travel anywhere in the world, except for within the U.S., and say that the president of the United States is “the leader of the free wolrd,” people just roll their eyes at you.

    I know that because, I tried it a few years ago.


  134. JIMBO Says:

    WTF happened to Jon Voight?

    In “Ali” he played legendary sportscaster Howard Cosell who supported The Champ’s refusal to fight in Vietnam. In “Coming Home”, he played a Vietnam veteran who has seen and suffered the horros over there. In the IFC docuseries, “THE 70′S Under the Influence”, he talked about the brilliance of Hal Ashby’s films that had great social commentary.

    But then when he played Pope John Paul II, that should have given off as a sign, especially when he was being interview on some religious tv station. And now this. Has he drunken the entire Kool-aid? Has he become Felafel Boy’s new personal bitch?

    Jennifer Aniston, you’re luckier than Angelina. I just hope your dad never acts like that.


  135. Zooey Says:

    My son and I went to a movie this afternoon, and saw a coming attraction trailer for a movie starring Jon Voight as one of the lead characters. It was called “Balls of Fire.” It’s about ping pong. Oy…


  136. Jon Voight Says:

    Somebody please shoot me.


  137. Jason Says:

    The level of ignorance in Jon Voight in astounding. Professors with an agenda? Yea, like education. Something Jon obviously never received. And on Bill O’Reilly talking about propaganda invading our country. How surreal is that.


  138. loretta Says:

    Now we have gotten to the bottom of the separation between Voight and his celebrity daughter…..


  139. Benedict Kelso Says:

    When will idiots like this learn that the president and the government and whatnot are NOT the country. That’s right. America is NOT her government.


  140. kevkev Says:

    I recall the Voight was involved with some u.f.o. cult in the late 80’s
    He sold his home and everything…
    Then the cult waited in the mountains for some space craft that never showed up.
    if anyone knows any more about this, please post.


  141. demdandy Says:

    Oh yes, Voight wants to be on the side of the American Nazis because they will protect him when Osama invades America. This behavior is common in times of crisis, when two sides are competing for ruling power. Well, Johnny, the Democrats have wrested control of this country away from your beloved failures, but don’t worry, we will protect you, just as we will protect everyone else in the country, because we are Democrats. We are enlightened, intelligent, compassionate, understanding, brave and strong in principle and in action. For your suport of him, Bush is going to fart in your face at the earliest opportunity.

    As for Britney: Just shut up and sing, airhead.


  142. frenchfries Says:

    Sad, sad, sad.


  143. zoroaster Says:

    “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

    –Theodore Roosevelt


  144. A.J. Says:

    Thats right on and for you who say that speaking out against the president is okay yes you are allowed to and no one is trying to take that away from you. Yet, it does lower morale among the public and TROOPS! Considering I am one. Please stop with the furher remarkes and North Korea crap. Youve probably never been to a third world country and most likley never will. You dont have the slightest idea what its like to be ruled under a totalitarian or facist leader. Appreciate what you do have.


  145. snesich Says:

    I also saw Jon Voight tonight on Scarborough Country. On that show, Voight ironically sounded so much like Jack Chismore, the out of control, deranged alcoholic that he portrayed so well in “Desert Bloom”. Chismore would ramble on about worldwide conspiracies and how evil people were out to get our country, blah blah blah blah…

    Tonight, Voight was rambling on like someone who really did stop taking his medication. He was scary. He seemed very high or very crazy. Maybe a bit of both?

    What he said was bad enough. But how he acted when he said it was also very, very strange. I was actually embarrased for him. If I were his kid, I’d be shaking my head and looking downward.


  146. J.D. Says:

    AT LEAST ONE CELEBRITY GETS IT!!!!!!!!! YOU WHINING TREE-HUGGING HIPPY LIBERALS!!!!!!!

    http://www.SeptemberDawn.net

    GOD BLESS JON VOIGHT!!!!!!!! GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS!!!!!!!!!!
    AND GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!!!!



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