Matt Damon Gets it Right on Palin

[Anonymous]

I'm going to say this one last time. While in his 20s, Matt Damon wrote and executed an Academy-Award-Winning Screenplay.

How many award-winning screenplays (or other pieces) did you write in your 20s? Or ever?

Dismissing Damon's intellectual fortitude comes of as very unsophisticated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And, um, how many Academy-Award-Winning Screenplays have you written? While still in your 20s, I might add? Matt Damon is no Tom Cruise, you ignorant ass.

A bit of friendly feedback from anotehr corner: "you ignorant ass" is makes you sound like one yourself.

BTW, RR had Senator George Murphy, an old Hollywood song-and-dance-man as a predecessor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Knowing Matt Damon's opinions ALWAYS influences how I vote. Brad Pitt too. And Tom Cruise is helpful in considering religious issues. Yes, Hollywood is the real intellectual center of our country.

Can we say PROVINCIAL?

Can we understand the concept of OVERLY-INCLUSIVE?

Oh, that's right. I'm responding to some shit-kicker in VA.

Let's go slow: Hollywood is, indeed, one of the most intellectual, artistic, creative, and diverse places in this country. I know Hollyood very, very well.

And, um, how many Academy-Award-Winning Screenplays have you written? While still in your 20s, I might add? Matt Damon is no Tom Cruise, you ignorant ass.

Huh? I guess living in Virginia makes me a shit-kicker too (I haven't posted on this thread until now) and therefore am your intellectual inferior.

I'm also a liberal who opposes McCain/Palin, loves Matt Damon, and doesn't understand why presumably educated DC residents persist in their bigotry of people outside the federal city.

Matt Damon did win an Academy Award for Good Will Hunting. But if you think that the quality of writing was good, you've got some pretty low standards. He and Affleck won in part because it made for a great story -- and Hollywood does love a good narrative during Oscar season. And anyway, everyone in the film industry knows that that screenplay was completely rewritten in committee. There was a considerable amount of controversy surrounding that fact at the time.

[Anonymous]

How does it backfire?

The American public is pretty suspicious of Hollywood support for a candidate, whether he's Harvard-educated or not. In fact, if he's Harvard-educated, he's probably even more suspect. I fully support Matt Damon's right to voice his opinion, but I don't think he's doing Obama any favors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

How does it backfire?

The American public is pretty suspicious of Hollywood support for a candidate, whether he's Harvard-educated or not. In fact, if he's Harvard-educated, he's probably even more suspect. I fully support Matt Damon's right to voice his opinion, but I don't think he's doing Obama any favors.

I don't disagree, but it's kind of a Catch 22. Anyone establishment enough to see problems with Palin is probably so establishment that their comments would backfire. What do you suppose Dolly Parton thinks of her?

Not trying to be snarky, BTW.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

it made for a great story -- and Hollywood does love a good narrative during Oscar season.

Isn't there a narrative being spun in DC about a certain governor from a sparsely populated state? In Hollywood, the story ends when the movie ends. In DC, we don't stop paying for the consequences after the web is woven and the story told.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

it made for a great story -- and Hollywood does love a good narrative during Oscar season.

Isn't there a narrative being spun in DC about a certain governor from a sparsely populated state? In Hollywood, the story ends when the movie ends. In DC, we don't stop paying for the consequences after the web is woven and the story told.

This is the best observation I have read in a while, poster--on this site or elsewhere. Well said.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Matt, Dump that waitress and do me!

LOL.

Me too!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Matt, Dump that waitress and do me!

LOL.
Me too!

Not to be shallow or anything in the face of such important national events but I think you PPs may enjoy this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLG3S5WzHig

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like this video too but be aware that Damon asks about whether she banned books. We know that this is, strictly speaking, not true. She only inquired about the possibility of removing some books. Of course, Damon only asks about it, but I'm concerned that him asking the question will be enough for some people to just repeat it as if it did happen. Please caution people not to pass on that false story.

Right, and then she asked for the Librarian's resignation and continued to ask for it until the Librarian finally gave it.

[Anonymous]

True, but she can say that she asked for the librarian's resignation at the same time she asked for the rest of the staff's resignations. There is no evidence that she did NOT do it because the librarian refused to remove books but then there is no evidence that she DID either. If we go around saying that she banned books, the Republicans will twist that into an allegation that we are attacking her with falsehoods.

[Anonymous]

Frankly, I think we should keep repeating it. As the Republicans know all too well, the truth doesn't matter. All that matters is what people think. Her banning books and firing the librarian is a lot closer to the truth than a lot of what McCain and Palin go around saying anyway. If we want to win we have to be willing to be as ruthless as they are. My husband's advice to fellow dems? "The truth: Get Over It"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Frankly, I think we should keep repeating it. As the Republicans know all too well, the truth doesn't matter. All that matters is what people think. Her banning books and firing the librarian is a lot closer to the truth than a lot of what McCain and Palin go around saying anyway. If we want to win we have to be willing to be as ruthless as they are. My husband's advice to fellow dems? "The truth: Get Over It"

Oh I hear ya on that one. I'm not worried about being ruthless. I'm worried about this particular story backfiring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Frankly, I think we should keep repeating it. As the Republicans know all too well, the truth doesn't matter. All that matters is what people think. Her banning books and firing the librarian is a lot closer to the truth than a lot of what McCain and Palin go around saying anyway. If we want to win we have to be willing to be as ruthless as they are. My husband's advice to fellow dems? "The truth: Get Over It"

Oh I hear ya on that one. I'm not worried about being ruthless. I'm worried about this particular story backfiring.

I agree, PP. So much of this stuff is backfiring. Yesterday the head of the S. Carolina Democratic Party said McCain chose a running mate "whose only apparent qualification is that she's never had an abortion." Guess what dominated the news in South Carolina last night? Today Lincoln Chafee was speaking at the New America Foundation here in DC and called Palin a "cocky whacko." Guess what effect that's going to have? This stuff is just so silly. We need to get a grip. Barack Obama is not running against Sarah Palin! Note to Obama surrogates: Get back on message!

[Anonymous]

Seems Palin has stolen the "celebrity" spotlight. Palin's getting too much free press mileage.

Can we shine the light back on Obama, please?