Video: Jon Voight goes thermonuclear on “false prophet” Obama
posted at 4:32 pm on June 9, 2009 by Allahpundit
Alternate title: “Jon Voight begs to never work in Hollywood again.” He’s no Daniel Hannan but he ain’t bad: Ten full minutes of rhetorical roundhouses here, from Obama’s fraudulent posturing as a “pragmatist” during the campaign to the perils of his Israel policy to the “oppression” of his economic blueprint to the pure polemic of referring to him as a “soft-spoken Julius Caesar.” He’s unfair when he describes our new foreign policy as getting together with enemies in a little playground — The One did, after all, double down against the Taliban in Afghanistan — but if this new Rasmussen poll is accurate, Captain Diplomacy’s willingness to meet rogue regimes “without preconditions” is already wearing thin with a huge majority of the public. Smart power or soft power?
If you need an extra incentive to watch to the very end, the boss gets a shout out. Exit question: Voight in 2012?
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John Voight is a hoss. I want to shake his hand and simply thank him for bringing the noise in a way that no one else can.
V15J on June 9, 2009 at 4:34 PM
WHOA!
Is this cow still Alive? I think the meat is mooing!
upinak on June 9, 2009 at 4:34 PM
John Voight rules because he’s smart, and respected. Double whammi.
Geronimo on June 9, 2009 at 4:34 PM
So true and just plain awesome. You have a gift, my friend.
ThePrez on June 9, 2009 at 4:35 PM
Can’t wait to get home to read this one.
ladyingray on June 9, 2009 at 4:35 PM
I love how he gave other great patriots credit…
A class act
izoneguy on June 9, 2009 at 4:35 PM
Celebrities seem to be winning presidencies lately. Why not?
Pair him with Fred, and we’re talking meat so rare, the arrow is still in it.
MadisonConservative on June 9, 2009 at 4:35 PM
too bad Angelina Jolie didn’t get John’s smarts.
upinak on June 9, 2009 at 4:35 PM
Voight/Sinise in ’12, baby.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on June 9, 2009 at 4:35 PM
John Voight- run for office, please! Angelina Jolie could stump for him.
hawksruleva on June 9, 2009 at 4:36 PM
I said it first!
Yeah, he’s awesome…
Need to check that headlines thread on Hannan…I’m not sure Daniel Hannan is a Hannan, if you know what I mean. Not everybody is what they appear to be these days.
AUINSC on June 9, 2009 at 4:36 PM
Hmmmmm…….
ThePrez on June 9, 2009 at 4:36 PM
I love it! Cavuto just compared Obama to Wimpy.
John the Libertarian on June 9, 2009 at 4:36 PM
Not unfair, at all. The Precedent is, clearly, on the other side. You’d have to be hopelessly deluded not to see that.
Big whoop. “Double down”? Hardly. He continued policy that would have caused a major uproar, had he changed it. The Precedent was too busy taking America apart in other spheres to let this situation put a crimp in his style.
progressoverpeace on June 9, 2009 at 4:38 PM
She’s pretty smart. You may not agree with some of her choices, but she strongly believes in individual liberty, and exercises that freedom. And there’s worse things to do than adopting orphans from the wreckage of failed African states.
hawksruleva on June 9, 2009 at 4:38 PM
Not only the best actor in Hollywood, but the only one not on crack, apparently.
RepubChica on June 9, 2009 at 4:38 PM
Oh no, Allahpundit encounters an alpha male.
BigD on June 9, 2009 at 4:39 PM
True… but she could have done so much better.
upinak on June 9, 2009 at 4:40 PM
I hope he’s in the position to work when he wants to. Hollyweird is not going to like this speech.
kingsjester on June 9, 2009 at 4:40 PM
What arrow?
Don’t you know….
Fred’s gaze can kill small animals.
There are only three things that can kill Superman: silly “rocks”, Fred Thompson and Jon Voight
Fred Thompson once stood on our south border and glared at Mexico. Jon Voight once stood on our northern border and peaked in on Canada. There population of the United States dropped to 250 million for a month.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on June 9, 2009 at 4:41 PM
Voight sucked in Midnight Cowboy…but he has redeemed himself many times since, this is just yet another bit of redemption.
Damn nice daughter, too. :-)
coldwarrior on June 9, 2009 at 4:41 PM
Palin/Voight 2012!!!
jencab on June 9, 2009 at 4:41 PM
I read an interview where she said that a common misconception about her was that she was a registered democrat when in reality she’s an independent and that she had more in common with Clint Eastwood than people thought. I wouldn’t rule her out yet.
Savrielle on June 9, 2009 at 4:42 PM
When terrorists get to the afterlife, they’ll find that none of their seventy-two women are still virgins. Why? Because of Fred Thompson and Jon Voight.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on June 9, 2009 at 4:42 PM
He hasn’t had any big parts in Hollywood for many years now…I’m pretty sure his views were known long before now.
AUINSC on June 9, 2009 at 4:42 PM
I thought he was great in ‘Runaway Train’.
AUINSC on June 9, 2009 at 4:43 PM
All those republicans in Washington should listen up and take notes on how to speak frankly and articulate conservatism. Voight is a classy guy and tells it like it is.
I love his shout out at the end to Levin, Limbaugh, Hannity, VDH, Michelle Malkin, Dennis Miller, Hugh Hewitt, etc.
jencab on June 9, 2009 at 4:44 PM
In a time where Hollywood has gone mad!
Jon Voight has stayed sane and consistent!
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Old school Hollywood,like Reagan,John Wayne,Bob Hope,
Jimmy Stewart,and many,many more!
canopfor on June 9, 2009 at 4:44 PM
I especially liked the part where he talked about seeing if we can imitate Obama’s campaign methods – LEGALLY.
There was a long pause after that. Let it sink in. He called Obama out for his illegal campaign.
We need more talk like that. If we don’t stop this now we will never have a fair and free election again in this country.
justincase on June 9, 2009 at 4:44 PM
AUINSC on June 9, 2009 at 4:43 PM
He had a major role in the 2 National Treasure movies with Nicholas Cage. They did pretty well.
kingsjester on June 9, 2009 at 4:45 PM
I never said she was a democrat. I have known she was indi for a while. Just wish she would go more towards her father.
upinak on June 9, 2009 at 4:46 PM
Damn…who didn’t he name?
Oh yeah. David Frum, George Will, or Peggy Noonan. Wonder why?
MadisonConservative on June 9, 2009 at 4:46 PM
I doubt he has to worry about that. His name brings people to the theaters.
She didn’t do bad. She supports the Second Amendment (she says Brad is too), thought we should remain in Iraq through the end, and is apparently a fan of Ayn Rand. She insists she’s an independent and not a liberal.
amerpundit on June 9, 2009 at 4:46 PM
please oh please hollywood follow john as an axample
pocha on June 9, 2009 at 4:46 PM
Sarah Palin/Jon Voight/2012
Use Jon Voight as the muscle,er
pitbull,against the Lefty’s!
Let SarahCuda straighten out the country!
canopfor on June 9, 2009 at 4:46 PM
She gave a nice little tidbit on the Second Amendment. Something about people coming in to her house to hurt her family leaving with holes in them.
amerpundit on June 9, 2009 at 4:47 PM
Awesome!
8starsnorth on June 9, 2009 at 4:47 PM
I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.
Daggett on June 9, 2009 at 4:48 PM
Wow! Amazing. I can’t believe this comes from an entertainer. Voigt tells it like it is.
Not bad for a guy who bit Cosmo Kramer on the arm.
UltimateBob on June 9, 2009 at 4:49 PM
great video! i got to meet jon voight when he came to visit with local volunteers from the McCain campaign, and he was really cool! great actor 2.
dee150586 on June 9, 2009 at 4:49 PM
This is so not fair! Voight, the way cool conservative, met a really bad end on 24…while The Skank got off with just one chewing out from Jack–who then apologized. Would love to know what Jon and Janeane talked about between takes…
Dee2008 on June 9, 2009 at 4:51 PM
Wow! That was powerful. Hit a grand slam. Now can the Republican Party get their act together and act like conservatives.
WileECoyote1952 on June 9, 2009 at 4:51 PM
I just watched this speech. WOW!
It could not have been said better than that, and I am so proud to be on the right side of this fight.
Geronimo on June 9, 2009 at 4:51 PM
He spoke at Westwood Cemetary on Memorial Day- read a letter sent home by a soldier in WW2. Absolutely awesome.
Chuck Schick on June 9, 2009 at 4:51 PM
Jon Voight’s the real deal. I’m impressed with his candor here, as in times past when he’s been this candid about national security and the hypocrisies of the Left about our military (among other things).
Lourdes on June 9, 2009 at 4:52 PM
Oh my. It’s cruel to tease me like this.
TheUnrepentantGeek on June 9, 2009 at 4:52 PM
DITTO and DITTO!
Lourdes on June 9, 2009 at 4:53 PM
I think it mighta’ been due to drugs, damage and such.
Lourdes on June 9, 2009 at 4:54 PM
The last time we had an actor become president, we didn’t do too badly… makes ya think huh…
ChristianRock on June 9, 2009 at 4:55 PM
Wow!
Lourdes on June 9, 2009 at 4:55 PM
I read that amer. LOL, I guess we are all different. Sometimes you wonder where some people get their mannerisms and thoughts.
upinak on June 9, 2009 at 4:55 PM
I think he should run for governor of California.
lavell12 on June 9, 2009 at 4:55 PM
Nice!
the time is comming!!!!
openeye on June 9, 2009 at 4:56 PM
I forgot. He was also in the first Transformer movie. I wonder if he and Ms. Fox had any conversations.
kingsjester on June 9, 2009 at 4:57 PM
Fred/Palin 2012 with Voight nominated for some cabinet position. You pick.
shick on June 9, 2009 at 4:58 PM
Yeahhhh, you like that?
Come here, let me whisper in your ear.
Secretary of State John Bolton
MadisonConservative on June 9, 2009 at 4:58 PM
Voight made no secret of his feelings, and beliefs politically. He did speak at the RNC, and gave a few interviews, during the campaign.
In my opinion, he’s to be praised. Someone from Hollywood being this vocal, and this passionate about their beliefs, knowing full well it goes against the majority grain in Hollyweird, is great.
Thank you Jon, it won’t be forgotten. As cliche as this may sound, He is, a great American!!!
capejasmine on June 9, 2009 at 4:58 PM
I think he should run for governor of California.
THAT IS JUST TOO GOOD TO DREAM ABOUT….NOPE, we will get Mr.San Fransicko Newsome….
SDarchitect on June 9, 2009 at 4:58 PM
Yeah, that statement by Angelina Jolie was a keeper, and a rarely transparent statement at that. I also think she looks great with Eastwood, the two of them have obvious chemistry together (it shows, no doubt about that).
Lourdes on June 9, 2009 at 4:59 PM
You’re rotten. As rotten as teas’n a boy to try his first gun.
shick on June 9, 2009 at 4:59 PM
Are they on speaking terms now? There was a time when she had cut him out of her life.
AZCoyote on June 9, 2009 at 5:00 PM
This audience was either drunk, half asleep or full of RINOS. They were not made up of those CPAC types. I for one would have been standing on a chair! This was an incredible speech and one which should be repeated!
I liked the playground analogy and thought it fitting.
freeus on June 9, 2009 at 5:00 PM
VERY well said.
Benjamin9 on June 9, 2009 at 5:00 PM
It’s criminal that he didn’t get the best actor Oscar for that. Rebecca De Mornay was also great, as was Eric Roberts.
But the real stars of that movie were the train itself. And the scenery. The locomotive is still in service on the Alaska Railroad.
Del Dolemonte on June 9, 2009 at 5:01 PM
“My most pressing concern at this hour is the safety of Israel”….
(04:31-O4:37) –Jon Voight.
—————————–
I can’t agree more,so far North Korea,has done everything,
short of sinking an Aircraft Carrier,and yet Washington is
silent!
So,Iran is no doubt watching with great interest,as to how
Washinton is handling this!
canopfor on June 9, 2009 at 5:01 PM
When terrorists get to the afterlife, they’ll find that none of their seventy-two women are still virgins. Why? Because Fred Thompson and Jon Voight took them all to Heaven.
Lourdes on June 9, 2009 at 5:01 PM
Maybe he shouldn’t sugarcoat it so much and tell us how he really feels.
He just b#tch-slapped the left. They ain’t gonna like that.
Fantastic!
av8tr on June 9, 2009 at 5:01 PM
I second that motion. He’s a better actor than Arnold and obviously a better Republican, too.
Disturb the Universe on June 9, 2009 at 5:02 PM
Quite a few people came through Sacramento during the campaign but he was the only one I would have liked to have met…too bad it was a lunch gig and I have to work.
But…yeah. He rocks.
Bob's Kid on June 9, 2009 at 5:02 PM
Who cares what celebrities think about politics.
Isn’t that the usual response on here anytime a hollywood lefty speaks out?
cornfedbubba on June 9, 2009 at 5:02 PM
Wouldn’t ya just love him to tear into the govinator as well?
shick on June 9, 2009 at 5:03 PM
Once again… Jon Voight gets tons of gratitude for speaking out and speaking so eloquently. In an industry filled with vultures who parrot the party line for work, he’s a true patriot. (For brainless poseurs see: Megan Fox)
Voight’s articulate explanations are a stand for conservatism. I very much appreciate what he’s doing. Thanks also to Andrew Brietbart, Gary Sinise, the Zucker Bros, Lionel Chetwynd and Gary Graham. They have the talent to deliver fierce counter punches at a time when Hollywood’s ‘other voice’ has to hit back, and hard.
Vermont Neighbor on June 9, 2009 at 5:03 PM
I sensed caution in the room when it came to reactions, and that’s why I don’t trust Republicans anymore. Americans need to clean house and bring in responsible, elected officials that follow what is mandated by the people while dissolving the beast that the government has become.
Hening on June 9, 2009 at 5:04 PM
Awesome flick deserving of a cult revival.
My favorite exchange (Voight plays “Manny”):
Sara: You’re an animal!
Manny: No, worse! Human! Human!
CK MacLeod on June 9, 2009 at 5:05 PM
If there’s a better patriot in Hollywood today (aside from Sinise) than Voight, I can’t think of him.
Calvin Freiburger on June 9, 2009 at 5:05 PM
Dear Mr. Voight, thank you so much for that speech.
Loxodonta on June 9, 2009 at 5:05 PM
He spoke his heart, and opinions, he didn’t call people on the left hicks, hillbillys, bible beating , religous, clinging to their guns, people. It makes a difference in what you say, and how you say it. Name calling will get rebuttal. By the same token, if he espoused praise for the left, and trashed the right….I’m sure you wouldn’t have commented!?
capejasmine on June 9, 2009 at 5:06 PM
If Voight runs for national office, all we’ll hear about from the libs is Midnight Cowboy and his “purty mouth,” and he’s toast.
Sorry – we have to face facts.
greggriffith on June 9, 2009 at 5:06 PM
Frum/Will/Noonan 3012 baby! woot woot!!
moonbatkiller on June 9, 2009 at 5:07 PM
Oh, yes baby, say it again!
/fans face
Bob's Kid on June 9, 2009 at 5:07 PM
Unlike that low rent version of his daughter (Megan Fox), Voight isn’t talking down to a group of voters, but a wolf politician dressed in sheep’s clothing ;)
Savrielle on June 9, 2009 at 5:08 PM
What I once read her remark was about that was that she hadn’t forgiven her father for cheating, so she said, on her mother. Jolie’s sympathies were with her mother, who’d since passed away, and left her with resentments about her father for hurting her mother due to infidelity, so I read her having said.
It’s an entirely understandable human series of emotional issues, hardly unique to them among the vast numbers of families, so because of that, I say it’s understandable (not that I’d approve or such, but that the episodes are understandable).
Lourdes on June 9, 2009 at 5:08 PM
Libs get a little weak-kneed when they actually have to defend their positions face-to-face. I’m sure she fumed in the corner with someone she considered “safe” to talk to. I was more intrigued by the fact that almost every scene she was in was with Chloe – Limbaugh’s ex-GF.
slug on June 9, 2009 at 5:09 PM
You are BAD Mad! You are sooo BAD!
ArkCon on June 9, 2009 at 5:09 PM
Maybe Jerry Bruckheimer.
Lourdes on June 9, 2009 at 5:11 PM
When they bring their politics into non-political events and force everyone to sit through it, yeah its annoying.
This was a political speech at a closed political event.
Do you see the difference or do you need me to get the therapy puppets?
Chuck Schick on June 9, 2009 at 5:11 PM
*snicker*
Disturb the Universe on June 9, 2009 at 5:11 PM
“False Prophet” Hammer time… Bumper sticker quote… Right next to the one that says “
Kind’a like a god“RalphyBoy on June 9, 2009 at 5:11 PM
Great great stuff. I salute you Mr.Voight.
Voight/Nugent 2012!
Dino64 on June 9, 2009 at 5:12 PM
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Nice smack down.
RalphyBoy on June 9, 2009 at 5:13 PM
Not president. The Senate or House? Definitely! Any Cali folks: When do Feinstein and Boxer have to run again?
either orr on June 9, 2009 at 5:13 PM
And done without a teleprompter……amazing.
Though I will say that I have a major problem with this statement…
“We can blame Nancy Peloisi, Harry Reid, Chris Dodd, George Soros, David Axlerod and their ilk for the downfall of this country.”
…in that, when referencing our current economic situation, he managed to leave off quite a few Republican names on that list.
I mean let’s be honest here…the Democrats haven’t accomplish this on their own.
Those Republicans should held accountable as well.
The Ugly American on June 9, 2009 at 5:14 PM
please oh please hollywood follow john as an axample
pocha on June 9, 2009 at 4:46 PM
Screw Hollywood, let them go off the cliff like the lemmings they are with Obama.
booter on June 9, 2009 at 5:15 PM
Hmmm…I think Angelina is more like her dad than y’all might think. She is genuinely committed to the adoption of third-world babies, and improving conditions for poor children within their birth families, and I’ve never heard her make a peep about “helping” those poor dear women just abort. So I would venture a guess that’s she fairly pro-life.
And honestly, some of the girls who are the most wild, punk-rock, blood-in-a-vial-on-my-necklace crazy turn out to be awesome conservative or libertarian women, especially after they get the incredible “personal responsibility” experience of raising a baby.
If you get my handle, you might be one of us.
Sheena_is_a_Conservative_Now on June 9, 2009 at 5:15 PM
Ramones!!!!! Sheena, you rock!
either orr on June 9, 2009 at 5:16 PM
If there’s a better patriot in Hollywood today (aside from Sinise) than Voight, I can’t think of him.
Calvin Freiburger on June 9, 2009 at 5:05 PM
Michael Moore comes first to mind.
Bishop on June 9, 2009 at 5:16 PM
Feinstein’s up — I think — next year but it’s said she’s running for CA Governor (either/or, I can’t recall).
Either way, CA would be more ruined. I really would like to see Feinstein sent into retirement, as also Boxer (who I don’t know about as to her next ‘need’ for another election).
It would truly be wonderful if CA could elect a Senator, at least one, from among Republicans. Nothing in the state will ever change until that happens — the state legislature is saturated with far left (very far left) Democrats and Feinstein and the DNC control all that money from the CA public workers’ union/s, it’s madness there until or unless the Senate seats change party. Even a RINO from CA would be an improvment and it pains me to even think as much.
Lourdes on June 9, 2009 at 5:17 PM
Americans have seen adversity before and recovered. We can recover from the economic disaster Obama’s policies are making. We can come back from another terrorist attack that Obama’s policies seem to be inviting. But how would Israel come back from a successful nuclear strike from Iran?
Israel is such a geographically tiny country. Several nuclear strikes could kill most of its population and destroy most of its infrastructure. It would be another holocaust.
Such an attack is something the United States and the world have a moral obligation to ensure never happens. Yet, Obama seems willing to gamble with Israel’s very existence. Of all the dangerous policies he is pursuing, this is the most morally repugnant.
Loxodonta on June 9, 2009 at 5:18 PM
Larry David is probably horrified right now that he had Jon Voight on his show. And I don’t mean John Voight the periodontist.
keep the change on June 9, 2009 at 5:18 PM
Bishop, the new trolls may think you’re serious and think your handle is that you’re a Bishop in the First Church of St. Barack.
either orr on June 9, 2009 at 5:18 PM
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