Important: Matt Damon horrified by Palin
posted at 3:05 pm on September 10, 2008 by Allahpundit
We cannot afford the possibility of an Alaska hockey mom with no experience having to face down Vladimir Putin, which is why we must elect an Illinois suburban dad with no experience who’ll definitely and immediately have to face him down. Who’s already embarrassed himself with the weakness of his response to Putin’s incursion into Georgia.
The odds he gives for McCain surviving his first term are also off, of course. Exit question: He sneers that Palin was picked for “political purposes” and nothing more. Remind me again, which important policy proposals landed trial lawyer turned first-term senator John Edwards on the national ticket four years ago? And whom did Matt Damon endorse at the time?
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It’s just too easy to deconstruct these idiots.
Dash on September 10, 2008 at 3:06 PM
McCain’s mother is how old now? 96? 97? And everybody seems to act like McCain’s going to kick the bucket just any moment now.
Beo on September 10, 2008 at 3:07 PM
Obama, quite frankly, is more of a female than Palin.
Hey Matt Damon, STFU.
carbon_footprint on September 10, 2008 at 3:07 PM
The Hollywood illiterati are gong bonkers!!
Keep it up!
jukin on September 10, 2008 at 3:07 PM
the “Durp” expression in the screencap says it all
Drunk Report on September 10, 2008 at 3:08 PM
Matt. Damon.
/Team America
Karl on September 10, 2008 at 3:08 PM
When Anti-American/Pro-Jihadi Democratic Traitor Leftwing Nutbags come home to roost…
Dale in Atlanta on September 10, 2008 at 3:08 PM
And I should listen to the opinion of a mental midget who’s two claims to fame are a pretty face and a half way decent ability to read lines that other people wrote?
MarkTheGreat on September 10, 2008 at 3:08 PM
Maaaatt Daaamooon!!
Grafted on September 10, 2008 at 3:08 PM
Damon is the new King of the Hollywood Moonbats. Long live the King!
hepcat on September 10, 2008 at 3:08 PM
The hyperbole on both sides is ridiculous. None of these people will have that much effect on anyone.
I’m not ‘scared’ of an Obama presidency. I just don’t want him taking all of my money because he claims he knows what to do with it better than me. I don’t want bigger government because being elected doesn’t mean you know anything. . . although most people in DC think that being elected means you know EVERYTHING.
Arguments on either side are ridiculous. There isn’t a nickel’s worth of difference between them.
ThackerAgency on September 10, 2008 at 3:08 PM
Now that I think about it, no wonder he likes Obama.
MarkTheGreat on September 10, 2008 at 3:08 PM
Hey Matt Damon, you are such a man that the drummer from Metallica stole Sklar from you. Pathetic.
carbon_footprint on September 10, 2008 at 3:09 PM
The Bourne Idiocy
God, Bourne is such a bad***, but Damon is a freakin’ Streisand. How appropriate they both shill for Snobama.
Flyover Country on September 10, 2008 at 3:09 PM
Seriously, thought, this is SNL, right?
Editor on September 10, 2008 at 3:09 PM
A lot of times, I look for excuses not to go to movies.
And this is as good as any.
logis on September 10, 2008 at 3:09 PM
He needs to stick with the “Jason Bourne” movies. At least he looks intelligent in those.
.
GT on September 10, 2008 at 3:09 PM
Shut up and make me another Bourne movie, idiot!
Grafted on September 10, 2008 at 3:09 PM
It’s a good thing he gets paid to act, and not to think.
UncleOlaf on September 10, 2008 at 3:09 PM
Whacker,
You wouldn’t be saying that if Putin were in the race.
MarkTheGreat on September 10, 2008 at 3:10 PM
And we care what this Hollyweird deviant has to say because…because…
My collie says:
Oh yeah. That’s right.
CyberCipher on September 10, 2008 at 3:10 PM
Quick Matt. Stare at your watch, then take off at a dead run to … somewhere other than where real people live in the real world. Butt Head!
AubieJon on September 10, 2008 at 3:10 PM
Funny that Mr. Damon thinks that’s a barb against Gov. Palin when, in reality, he’s actually admitting how dumb he is.
Yeah, Matt, we realize that it’s going to take a lot more than eight weeks before you begin to understand Palin (or anything else for that matter).
BTW – do you think Damon has ever BEEN to a hockey game? Because I think knowing/playing hockey would be a plus in handling idiots like Putin.
Religious_Zealot on September 10, 2008 at 3:10 PM
Insert Team America video mocking “MATT DAMON”
jp on September 10, 2008 at 3:11 PM
Matt Damon!
Ugly on September 10, 2008 at 3:11 PM
C’mon, we all know John Edwards was put on the Democratic ticket in 2004 because he had all that valuable foreign policy experience that he got from . . . . uh . . . . well, he had all that valuable executive experience that he got from . . . . uh . . . well, he had all that military experience . . . no, well, . . . he was from the South and he was mighty purty, wasn’t he?
AZCoyote on September 10, 2008 at 3:11 PM
Why do these Hollywood types keep doing this? Each one makes more of a fool of him/herself every time they do it. They don’t seem to realize that their opinions are generally regarded as frivolous and light weight and often do their candidate more harm than good. Stick to raising money Matt!
jeanie on September 10, 2008 at 3:12 PM
He’s probably still hurting from his rendezvous with Ben Affleck. That was widely publicized don’t ya know.
GoodBoy on September 10, 2008 at 3:12 PM
Well Mr. Great, our current administration’s posturing just got two strategic bombers landing in Venezuela a couple of hours ago. Yeah, just what we need, Cold War II. Please poke the bear some more. DARE him to destroy our cities because we are so much ‘tougher’ than they are.
Mr. Great, why is it that your Georgian kin got biotch slapped by Putin again? Why didn’t you RUN to their aide? Aren’t you Georgian?
ThackerAgency on September 10, 2008 at 3:12 PM
“But but but, Matt, you know Palin is black.”
Damon face turns red and responds with the usual white guilt, “Really? In that case, me and all my friends will surely vote for her, with all these bad things we had done to her. I ain’t no racist, you know”. :(
poxoma on September 10, 2008 at 3:13 PM
Is he coming back for the Team America sequel ??
redrock on September 10, 2008 at 3:13 PM
I take it the Red Sox arent going to win the pennant this year?
So he has to take out his entire life as a die hard Sox fan out on a woman?
Where is Gary Johnson when you need him! The best actor evah!!!!!
TheHat on September 10, 2008 at 3:13 PM
Funny, I have been saying the same things about Obama that he was bashing Palin for.
ericire12 on September 10, 2008 at 3:13 PM
This is what growing up in Cambridge does to your brain. Decades of indoctrination by Commies with teaching degrees turns out Matt Damons.
TheBigOldDog on September 10, 2008 at 3:13 PM
When I want his opinion, I’ll write it up and put it on a cue card.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on September 10, 2008 at 3:13 PM
whats scary isn’t the Obama presidency itself, its the Presidency combined with a Dem/Libtard House run by Pelosi and a Dem/Libtard Senate run by Harry Reid at the same time. along with Federal Court Judge nominations, Fed Reserve, etc.
factor that in with a worshiping in the tank media and how it will be said The One is the second coming of JFK and we are all to worship at his feet.
scared yet?
jp on September 10, 2008 at 3:13 PM
Matt Damon makes a compelling argument, but before I make up my mind I need to hear what Paris Hilton thinks.
Cicero43 on September 10, 2008 at 3:14 PM
Every time Matt Damon opens his mouth, milk comes out of an angel’s nose.
Ronnie on September 10, 2008 at 3:14 PM
well I’m gonna change my views for a guy who shares precisely Barry’s qualification to be in charge…which is to say “looks good while reading other people’s lines.”
thanks Matt
sven10077 on September 10, 2008 at 3:14 PM
More like The Alaska hockey mom educated at the University of Idaho with a minor in political science and 20 months as governor vs. the former president of the Harvard Law Review who has been in the Senate 4 years, met with many foreign leaders and has served on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
crr6 on September 10, 2008 at 3:14 PM
I never understood how badasses like Jason Bourne and Jack Bauer turn out to be Hollywood liberals in real life.
At least Bruce Willies is a conservative
lodge on September 10, 2008 at 3:14 PM
Kindly STFU and go enjoy your millions, Damon.
Citizen Duck on September 10, 2008 at 3:14 PM
To steal a line from Laura Ingraham:
Shut up and try to act.
Always Right on September 10, 2008 at 3:15 PM
hey Matt…..your a tool, you have no real talent or skill, you provide nothing to this country and we COULD CARE LESS WHAT YOU THINK!
How do ya like them apples?????
SDarchitect on September 10, 2008 at 3:15 PM
I’m so glad Matt Damon finally came out about this. I have been dying to know what he thinks.
capitalist piglet on September 10, 2008 at 3:15 PM
If you don’t know anything about her, Matt…
…maybe you should *drumroll please* DO SOME RESEARCH!
Maybe then your opinion will be almost as valuable as the rest of the commenters’ opinions here at Hot Air.
MadisonConservative on September 10, 2008 at 3:15 PM
Ugly on September 10, 2008 at 3:11 PM
“great minds…” and all that…
jp on September 10, 2008 at 3:15 PM
I always run to some vapid celbrity when I want hard hitting political commentary, just like I always run to a politician when I want to be kept up on the latest movies.
Vic on September 10, 2008 at 3:15 PM
no, none of these people have that much influence on my life. I am FREE. We live in a FREE country so that nobody in power can make me ‘not free’. I just don’t want to have to work to pay them to ‘allow me to be free’.
I’m not ‘scared’, I’m just looking out for my pocketbook (future kids’ inheritance). . . which will certainly be lighter in an Obama administration.
ThackerAgency on September 10, 2008 at 3:15 PM
What an elitist jerk. Such an idiot.
I have never understood why he’s such a popular actor—he can’t really act—but I suppose he can be a good actor if he wants to be (as in this stupid little interview clip). What does he know about anything?
As Katharine Hepburn said, “Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.”
Lady Jane on September 10, 2008 at 3:16 PM
What Executive experience qualified Al Gore for the Vice Presidency under Bill Clinton?
eaglewingz08 on September 10, 2008 at 3:16 PM
Nailed that one.
null on September 10, 2008 at 3:16 PM
Desperate Panic!
Griz on September 10, 2008 at 3:16 PM
“Do the actuary tables,” says Damon, as if he would know how to do that. Mattie, this isn’t Good Will Hunting, you’re just an elf-looking knucklehead who gets paid to pretend.
Golden Boy on September 10, 2008 at 3:16 PM
Matt, get your bitch-ass over to the studio and make me a movie!
jaime on September 10, 2008 at 3:17 PM
Wow, Matt, maybe you should go back to doing Sarah Silverman.
john1schn on September 10, 2008 at 3:17 PM
Endorsed by Matt Damon…that’s it, pack up your bags McCain/Palin, you don’t have a chance…
right2bright on September 10, 2008 at 3:17 PM
I’m lacking the bad words I need to describe my dislike of this guy. So I will try sarcasm:
How good it is that wise people like this young, eloquent and handsome hero of Hollywood are with us to tell us about their feelings about the republican VP nominee. It helps us to understand our own feelings better. We would be really at a loss without the help of higher creatures like Matt Damon. And it might just be decisive to how we will be casting our votes this November, n’est-ce pas?
evenfarer on September 10, 2008 at 3:17 PM
Allah:
If you are there
Drudge has linked to a longish but fascinating Camille Paglia article from Salon.com. It is amazingly laudatory toward Sarah and really comes down hard on the feminazis on the left.
It is really really good and you ought to put it up and let folks here comment on it.
Always Right on September 10, 2008 at 3:17 PM
No wonder he looks like a wuss in movies. He almost manages to spoil Bourne. No wonder he needs other ppl. to tell him what adult ppl. can research by themselves.
Great actor he is, talks almost as poorly as his idol Hussein. And Matt’s name just fits perfectly to the Anti-Messiah, must run in the family. Facing down Putin? With a harlekin mask, maybe?
starfighter on September 10, 2008 at 3:17 PM
Stuck on continuous loop…
Reminds me of Saddam cartoon I saw during the first Gulf War. Saddam shakes his fist at the sky with bombs exploding all around him and yells, “I’ll never give up… and you missed a spot!”
Mr_Magoo on September 10, 2008 at 3:17 PM
Lassie did it at 18 months, but those were dog years.
Cicero43 on September 10, 2008 at 3:17 PM
Guys and gals, you aren’t getting it. We should hang on this guy’s words because he went to Harvard.
I mean, he didn’t graduate, but he attended Harvard.
Come on. Get with the program, for O’s sake.
Y-not on September 10, 2008 at 3:18 PM
Matt Damon deserved Sarah ( Silverman, that is)
yeeech!!
syncrodude on September 10, 2008 at 3:18 PM
I wish Barack Obama picked Matt Damon for Veep. Because he is wicked smart (did you see Good Will Hunting, no reporter could ever pin down Matt Damon on the facts). And Matt Damon kicked butt in those Bourne movies. He was wicked smart there too and they put some Joe Biden stem cells in his head or something to make him that way.
Mr. Joe on September 10, 2008 at 3:18 PM
What experience did JFK have, and that was during the freakin’ Cold War. Of course electing him did harm us greatly, as USSR viewed it as a sign of weakness and preceeded to play JFK like a fiddle.
anyway, Palin is VP. McCain has by far the most experience to be CinC and he leads by 30 points on polls on that quesiton
jp on September 10, 2008 at 3:18 PM
Find me ten people from the People’s Republic of Cambridge who aren’t and I’ll give you a prize.
TheBigOldDog on September 10, 2008 at 3:18 PM
Matt Damon is one of these current Hollyweird-types who is totally, and I mean totally unclear on the concept. You honestly have to wonder what it is about the mindset of today’s actors like Damon out there in La-La Land that makes what could kindly be called their philosophy on how the real world works so diametrically opposed to what the great actors from the Golden Era felt about their country and politics as a whole.
pilamaye on September 10, 2008 at 3:18 PM
Of course Palin was picked “for political purposes”–it’s POLITICS, moron.
Stick to playing Jason Bourne, Matty, no one cares what you think about…well…pretty much anything else.
gemchick on September 10, 2008 at 3:18 PM
Thank God Matt has weighed in on this!! Can you imagine an election without his input????
/sarc
Tim Zank on September 10, 2008 at 3:18 PM
Every time one of these mental midgets sticks his head up to expound on their ill-informed opinions, I console my self with the knowledge that in 20 to 30 years, computers will make all of them obsolete.
Makes me want to invest in Industrial Light and Magic.
MarkTheGreat on September 10, 2008 at 3:18 PM
All liberals are horrified by Palin.
Now I’m sure McCain made the right choice!
Conservative_SAHM on September 10, 2008 at 3:19 PM
Always Right on September 10, 2008 at 3:17 PM
already a blog posting today on that piece
jp on September 10, 2008 at 3:19 PM
C’mon Matt, you’re an English student who dropped out to become an actor. What do you know, other than where do stand for your closeup?
john1schn on September 10, 2008 at 3:19 PM
Please tell me he’s promising to leave if McCain wins. Seriously, why does he think people cares what his opinions are? STFU.
changer1701 on September 10, 2008 at 3:19 PM
Mr_Magoo on September 10, 2008 at 3:17 PM
What are you talking about?
ThackerAgency on September 10, 2008 at 3:19 PM
**wonders what Johnny Depp thinks**
That could be the deal breaker come decision time. /sarc
…and dang you all for putting that Team America song back into my head. It was stuck there all yesterday because of the Kim Jong Il news. F-yeah!
tehd on September 10, 2008 at 3:20 PM
Dinosaurs and nuclear codes? Is he saying something about the theory that the dinos were all killed off in a Martian big-game hunt?
Tommygun on September 10, 2008 at 3:20 PM
Oh so typical.
It’s our fault that Putin wants to control everything.
In your world, Russia can do no wrong. And Catholics can do nothing write.
MarkTheGreat on September 10, 2008 at 3:20 PM
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/09/quote-of-the-day-356/
Mr_Magoo on September 10, 2008 at 3:20 PM
And I was horrified by the crapstorms that were Oceans Twelve and Oceans Thirteen. Thanks, Matt Damon et al!! That’s four hours of my life I ain’t never getting back.
mjk on September 10, 2008 at 3:20 PM
Actually, SDarchitect, the Bourne movies are some of the best out there.
Anyway…isn’t it a bit disturbing that everyone is talking (indirectly) about the death of an old guy??? Like McCain is some odd pariah. Somebody call them out on the “ageism” please.
Mommypundit on September 10, 2008 at 3:20 PM
Ummm, Matt. They’re already done.
Maybe you mean for us to look at the tables, or perhaps analyze them.
BacaDog on September 10, 2008 at 3:21 PM
McCain = Bush
Bush = Burning the Constitution
Burning Bush = The Bible
The Bible = The Word
The Living Word = The Messiah
The Messiah = Obama
Obama = McCain
Logic!
Loxodonta on September 10, 2008 at 3:21 PM
Matt Damon’s best role yet, and he wasn’t even there…
Linky
john1schn on September 10, 2008 at 3:21 PM
And you actually believe that the only reason for objecting to Russia’s invasion and occupation of a neighboring country would be if you had relatives there.
As Magoo said of you, continuous loop, still stuck on stupid
MarkTheGreat on September 10, 2008 at 3:21 PM
Do you realize that someone actually sat down and conducted an interview with Matt Damon to ask his opinions on politics?
I’m far more worried about the mental well-being of a society that would actually consider Matt Damon’s political views worthy of serious discussion than I am about Sarah Palin’s opinions on dinosaurs.
morganfrost on September 10, 2008 at 3:21 PM
Will fault matter when 10′s of millions of Americans are dead? Will it make you feel better to kill 10′s of millions of Russians?
Oh, I see now, you are a disgruntled Catholic. Don’t worry, I won’t be in heaven anyway so you can just be smug in that knowledge of eternity.
ThackerAgency on September 10, 2008 at 3:22 PM
Well, I dunno, like, I mean, he IS a good lookin’ guy and all, like maybe he’s right, and stuff.
Tony737 on September 10, 2008 at 3:22 PM
Can someone remind me matt damon’s background?
/I thought so.
Sir Napsalot on September 10, 2008 at 3:22 PM
I just wonder who his girlfriend, Ben Afleck will be voting for?
carbon_footprint on September 10, 2008 at 3:22 PM
It’s only a matter of time before this blockbuster celebrity
crosses over.
GulfCoastBamaFan on September 10, 2008 at 3:22 PM
Team America
***Matt Damon***
‘Nuff said.
Montana on September 10, 2008 at 3:22 PM
“O” Dumby is a Terroist.
Cause the thought of him winning has me Terrified
Rick007 on September 10, 2008 at 3:23 PM
that’s hilarious. You thought I meant you actually had relatives there. . . AND you call me stupid. Great? hardly.
ThackerAgency on September 10, 2008 at 3:23 PM
Yup – love it. Haven’t had this much fun since Reagan drove ‘em nuts.
T J Green on September 10, 2008 at 3:23 PM
Matt who?
Wyznowski on September 10, 2008 at 3:23 PM
Has there ever been a really bad Disney movie? I thought they all had happy endings and made a gazillion dollars.
Blake on September 10, 2008 at 3:24 PM
Isn’t that pretty much how it is supposed to work? A running mate that adds to the ticket and attracts voters is generally a better idea than opting for, oh say, another Dan Quayle.
For those who keep claiming that this is a non-issue, sorry, but that isn’t a realistic defense and citing McCain’s mother’s age as evidence McCain’s health couldn’t possible be an issue is really, really, really lame. McCain’s mom hasn’t had repeated issues with cancer and didn’t spend time in a POW camp. The left’s deathwatch is a little goulish but, at the same time, McCain defenders need to come up with a better line of reasoning that age isn’t a critical factor than pointing out that Mom is 90.
highhopes on September 10, 2008 at 3:24 PM
Note to Matt: Remember your Bourne character? Well, Sarah Palin is the closest thing to your ‘Pamela Landy’. She’s a straight-shooter who roots out corruption and isn’t afraid to stand up for what’s right – old boy network be damned.
Obama & Biden are nothing more than slick versions of your silver-screen enemies.
I would take a lesson from your alter-ego and rethink your vote.
jrlingreenbay on September 10, 2008 at 3:25 PM
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