Tom Hanks: Our wise, calm president is doing a spectacular job
posted at 9:04 pm on March 5, 2010 by Allahpundit
The best bits come right at the beginning and at around six minutes in. Don’t be too hard on him, though: No one responsible for “Band of Brothers” can be all wrong, and needless to say, if he was hard left he’d be calling The One some sort of insurance-industry sellout at this point rather than clapping him on the back. Even so, pay attention at around 3:45 to his nostalgia for an age when the president could walk into Congress, declare something a national priority, and expect both parties to hammer out an effectuating compromise. Does that mean Hanks was for social security reform when Bush pursued it in 2005? We’ll check back with him about the glories of presidential leadership circa 2013, I guess.
Here’s the latest take on unemployment from our wise, calm White House, by the way. Spectacular.
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You had to put this up right as I’m watching ‘The Green Mile’, didn’t you?
Lanceman on March 5, 2010 at 9:06 PM
“Insert Forrest Gump Joke Here”
russcote on March 5, 2010 at 9:07 PM
Tom Hanks makes some really great movies…he should stick with that and stay out of politics. He’s as bad in his political judgments as he is good in making movies. Of course, we all knew that.
AUINSC on March 5, 2010 at 9:07 PM
“Houston, we have a problem.” Tom Hanks is out of touch with the real, working-folk world.
indypat on March 5, 2010 at 9:08 PM
Vomit.
JellyToast on March 5, 2010 at 9:10 PM
After all, he was responsible for “The Oneders”.
jamie gumm on March 5, 2010 at 9:10 PM
Definitely spectacular. Spectacular success? Not so much. Plummet? Spectacular.
Spirit of 1776 on March 5, 2010 at 9:11 PM
Well since HE said it …
Tony737 on March 5, 2010 at 9:11 PM
I think actors get paid too much.
Probably should pass a law.
That would be getting something done.
JellyToast on March 5, 2010 at 9:11 PM
Reminds me of that bit in the Simpson’s movie where Tom Hanks says “Hello, I’m Tom Hanks. The US Government has lost its credibility so it’s borrowing some of mine”.
Or in this case: “Hello, I’m Tom Hanks. President Obama has lost his credibility so he is borrowing some of mine”.
Hellrider on March 5, 2010 at 9:12 PM
Thanks for you input Buffy.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080202/
thomasaur on March 5, 2010 at 9:12 PM
I’m sure those 36,000 people are just glad they could contribute in some small way to Obama’s daily need of encouragement.
Weight of Glory on March 5, 2010 at 9:13 PM
He think’s Obama is a wise and calm man because this $hitty economy isn’t touching him.
RWLA on March 5, 2010 at 9:13 PM
Tom Hanks makes some really great movies…he should stick with that and stay out of politics. – AUINSC
So true. ”Apollo 13” and ”Pvt. Ryan” are way up there near the top of the list.
Tom, shut up and act.
Tony737 on March 5, 2010 at 9:14 PM
I have never understood why anyone cares what actors think about politics. Asking a taxi driver makes more sense!
sharrukin on March 5, 2010 at 9:15 PM
Just shut up and act!
PatMac on March 5, 2010 at 9:15 PM
Maybe he was being ‘Totally Sarcastic’…
… and the idiots around the table were too stupid to catch on.
I like him as an actor, and maybe he was acting…
… Maybe I just still want to like him?
Seven Percent Solution on March 5, 2010 at 9:16 PM
I love all this talk about how horrible it would be if nothing gets done. If I am drowning in quicksand, someone throwing a few alligators in there with me is getting something done also. That doesn’t mean its improving my situation. It’s like the whole “change”mantra. Simpletons like Hanks probably don’t even realize that “change” can also mean for the worse.
Kataklysmic on March 5, 2010 at 9:17 PM
Thanks for you input Buffy. – Thomasaurus Rex
Man that was one of the best shows ever!
”Sonny, Sonny, Sonny”
Tony737 on March 5, 2010 at 9:17 PM
He should talk to Clint Eastwood. Clint said something like they don’t pay me to talk about politics they pay me to make good movies.
RobD on March 5, 2010 at 9:17 PM
He’s so proud – only 36K lost…. I heard on Megyn Kelly’s show that if the Census wasn’t hiring it would be closer to 50K.
Heckuva job, PeeBHO.
As for Tom Hanks….. pfft. Another case of “who cares what he says about anything….shut up and act”.
tru2tx on March 5, 2010 at 9:18 PM
Run, America! Run!
SouthernGent on March 5, 2010 at 9:18 PM
WILSON!
Lanceman on March 5, 2010 at 9:19 PM
A+
Actors: People who get paid a lot to pretend to be important people on TV and in the movies.
There haven’t been any stars in Hollywood in quite some time.
All there are now are high paid actors. All the real stars have long since died.
JellyToast on March 5, 2010 at 9:19 PM
oh my heart breaks…
no Tom I don’t want ANYTHING DONE TO MY COUNTRY. I love her just like she is, I want the Government to secure our Land and continue to make small and well thought out improvements.
Our calm and wise President has the common man sh*&&ing bricks.
I loved Private Ryan and enjoyed so many of his movies, and it PAINS me to say, Mr. Hanks you are now on my don’t watch list.
Ouch.
seesalrun on March 5, 2010 at 9:19 PM
This makes me ill. Think I will like Clint vs Tom.
wi farmgirl on March 5, 2010 at 9:19 PM
What a sad and pathetic JOKE this once fine man has become.
Open your F*&%ing eyes, Tommy!
You would NEVER cut a Republican the slack you are cutting this worthless sack of shit “President” we have now!
Hanks…I will NEVER watch another thing you are associated with.
Justrand on March 5, 2010 at 9:19 PM
Someone can be a great actor and producer and still be absolutely clueless about politicians..
GarandFan on March 5, 2010 at 9:19 PM
Ach! I guess I like Hanks too much to care about his politics. Now, Sean Penn? Another story entirely.
John the Libertarian on March 5, 2010 at 9:19 PM
Right Hanks, as Forrest’s mama said . . . “Stupid is as stupid does”.
rplat on March 5, 2010 at 9:19 PM
If he isn’t diddling kids or hacking people up then honestly who cares what he thinks? He should play the fiddle, or dance, or whatever it is they do.
sharrukin on March 5, 2010 at 9:20 PM
Tom, STFU and make a movie.
Claypigeon on March 5, 2010 at 9:20 PM
Why do libs think that the only way things “get done” is if government does them?
Y-not on March 5, 2010 at 9:20 PM
Well, to be honest, I wouldn’t expect him to say anything mean or bad about the President.
El_Terrible on March 5, 2010 at 9:21 PM
Mega dittos
wi farmgirl on March 5, 2010 at 9:21 PM
Spectacular Fail.
Why is Hanks an authority on the what is happening in this country anymore so than anyone of us commentators?
His last film that I saw was Private Ryan. He just keeps drifting leftward with every project. Sorry Tom, but you’ve lost a fan.
Mallard T. Drake on March 5, 2010 at 9:21 PM
“I’ve got my millions in the bank. I can afford the taxes. Listen, this will be good for the little people, and I can feel like my vote really changed something in this rotten country.”
AshleyTKing on March 5, 2010 at 9:22 PM
… and I was so looking forward to “The Pacific”.
Seven Percent Solution on March 5, 2010 at 9:22 PM
When you get your news from Olbermann and Huffpo what would you expect.
redridinghood on March 5, 2010 at 9:22 PM
I am going to watch “Band of Brothers” “From the Earth to the Moon” and “John Adams” and pretend this didnt happen.
Squid Shark on March 5, 2010 at 9:23 PM
When Bush was president, 5% unemployment was unacceptably high and he was labeled a failure. Oba-mao is barely keeping it under 10% and he is doing spectacular. O.kay.
Mallard T. Drake on March 5, 2010 at 9:24 PM
Gee now they can make a movie called the life of Tom Hanks staring Forrest Gump in the lead role.After all stupid is as stupid does.
thmcbb on March 5, 2010 at 9:24 PM
I still say that when I see an attractive lady.
thomasaur on March 5, 2010 at 9:25 PM
Oh well. Stupid is as stupid does.
ncborn on March 5, 2010 at 9:26 PM
You beat me to it.
ncborn on March 5, 2010 at 9:27 PM
Love Tom Hanks. Don’t have to agree with him.
Ted Torgerson on March 5, 2010 at 9:27 PM
It’s beyond me why “celebrities” imagine we give a flying fig about what they think about anything outside of films, and then in doing so, they lose 1/2 of their audience.
Real smart.
tru2tx on March 5, 2010 at 9:27 PM
Nobody cares what Tom Hanks thinks.
tx2654 on March 5, 2010 at 9:28 PM
Best Tom Hanks movie…wait for it… Bachelor Party! Guns, firetrucks and strippers! Oh yes and Tawny Kitaen when she was hot!
RobD on March 5, 2010 at 9:29 PM
And there it is…
:)
Diane on March 5, 2010 at 9:30 PM
Can we cap what actors make at $500,000 per movie. I’m sure they’d be fine with that.
txag92 on March 5, 2010 at 9:31 PM
Hanks sounds like a real moron when it comes to his politics.
He should give Morning Joe a wide berth and stick to movies.
I can’t bring myself to hate him–I have fond memories of Bosom Buddies, Batchelor Party, Apollo 13 and Saving Private Ryan, but otherwise, his movies are out at my house, especially those Da Vinci codes ones.
Jenfidel on March 5, 2010 at 9:31 PM
Absolutely. But we just go out and do it, not depend on government to do it.
David Shane on March 5, 2010 at 9:32 PM
I think he’s just reliving his character from Mazes and Monsters.
malclave on March 5, 2010 at 9:33 PM
More great jobs news from the AP:
txag92 on March 5, 2010 at 9:33 PM
Best Tom Hanks movie…wait for it… Bachelor Party! Guns, firetrucks and strippers!
The line is “drugs and hookers and fire trucks”, isn’t it? I only know because I use it all the time.
RWLA on March 5, 2010 at 9:34 PM
Nonsense! The ‘Burbs. Hands down.
“Look! One of the Huns came out of the cave!”
russcote on March 5, 2010 at 9:34 PM
It just amazes me that someone who has come along and became one of the finest talent in decades for making great movies, is also a total illiterate.
Rovin on March 5, 2010 at 9:36 PM
Wise?
The guy thinks like an impetuous 14 year old.
jjrakman on March 5, 2010 at 9:36 PM
We don’t call it “Hollyweird” for nothing, folks.
It is, after all, to be expected from the entire movie industry. It should only be a surprise when they DON’T spew liberal, Socialist ideology.
I’m not a movie buff, so Tom Hanks is a totally unimportant person to me. I could care less what he thinks or says.
GoldenEagle4444 on March 5, 2010 at 9:38 PM
Poor Hanks get his ‘news’ from watching ABC/NBC/CBS and reading WaPo & NYT?
TN Mom on March 5, 2010 at 9:38 PM
What’s wrong with Tom Hanks does he like own a lot of GE Stock? Wind turbine stock? So Big Love pusher is like a Big Wind pusher too? I give up, he can’t be humping this wise clam schtick out of boredom?
Dr Evil on March 5, 2010 at 9:38 PM
I like this movie, too, and I’m a girl!
It’s hilarious.
R.I.P. Wendy Jo Sperber, star of Batchelor Party and Bosom Buddies
Jenfidel on March 5, 2010 at 9:39 PM
A few days after the 2008 election I was working out at a Chicago women’s only circuit gym and this woman who must have been trying for the Olivia Newton John in ‘Physical’ look started blathering on about how a good description of the pres. elec. would be strong and calm.
I promptly got ‘hit’ with a coughing fit-which brought all political chit-chat to an abrupt end.
I never had to listen to politics after that.
annoyinglittletwerp on March 5, 2010 at 9:41 PM
Remember Forest Gump? He weren’t acting.
BDavis on March 5, 2010 at 9:41 PM
Well, at least someone’s happy with Obama.
-Aslan’s Girl
Aslans Girl on March 5, 2010 at 9:41 PM
The same can be said about The One.
Do you love Tom because of what he does or who he is? I don’t think you can separate the two.
Electrongod on March 5, 2010 at 9:41 PM
This is from the same guy that thought Kelly Ripa was Kathy Lee Gifford on “Regis and Kelly” Thursday, and also congratulated Regis on his daughter’s upcoming nuptuals, even though they occurred 2 years ago.
Who’s taking bets Ojebus gets an Oscar on Sunday night…or at least shows up on the telecast?
Michele’s getting one for her work on “Star Wars”. Wait….
HAnthonyWayne on March 5, 2010 at 9:42 PM
This is Tom Hanks making a fool of himself on Regis and Kathee Lee( haha) today
http://tv.yahoo.com/daytime/video/regis-kelly-ellen-the-price-is-right/18332196
macncheez on March 5, 2010 at 9:43 PM
O/T:
Pat Caddell, (former democratic strategist and pollster), just now on Hannity: “If the Democrats and Stupak fold on their stand against this bill and it passes, it will be a total massacre in November”
DRINK!
Rovin on March 5, 2010 at 9:43 PM
I’m pretty sure it was “Guns, firetrucks and strippers or hookers” but I could be wrong about that. Oh yes, “is that a foot long? Yes and then some”.
RobD on March 5, 2010 at 9:44 PM
The ultimate hypocrisy:
An 20 million dollar a movie actor who still has not given all their money to socialist government to spread the wealth but claim they are doing a spectacular job spreading other peoples money.
tjexcite on March 5, 2010 at 9:46 PM
“wilson”
/if anyone else has already said this:
please umspect my apologies on behalf of the … oh baybay buh bub bub babay white house. oh, yeah! @Wait! Umcheelle is .. OMG. she sashayin’.. OMG. Cawl Beyonce. OMG he he he he he.
/Back to Robert Gibbs: “The time to pass Health Care is Now”.
Justanotherdayindahouse
Key West Reader on March 5, 2010 at 9:46 PM
I wish they’d all just shut up. Not because I don’t want them to have free speech. It’s because I hate thinking about their idiotic political views when I’m trying to watch a movie they’re in. Ruins it.
I used to think Hanks was a normal grown-up.
misterpeasea on March 5, 2010 at 9:46 PM
I love Pat Cadell!
(He’s one of the few Democrats I can think of who doesn’t make me retch!)
He’s always right and usually very funny.
Jenfidel on March 5, 2010 at 9:47 PM
Pat Cadell is great but he really needs to wash his hair.
RobD on March 5, 2010 at 9:48 PM
Total, undeniable win.
HAnthonyWayne on March 5, 2010 at 9:49 PM
Forrest Gump really wasn’t that good.
Asher on March 5, 2010 at 9:53 PM
Ok her is the quote for IMDb “Let’s have a bachelor party with chicks and guns and fire trucks and hookers and drugs and booze! ” so we were both in the ball park.
RobD on March 5, 2010 at 9:55 PM
Maybe that’s why he was so good in Big . . .
Someone needs to sock this guy in the stomach three more times . . .
Ingenue on March 5, 2010 at 9:58 PM
SHH everyone!
Bosom Buddies is on and it’s the one where Kip and Henry almost get caught impersonating women in the apartment. Ha Ha, Kip just made a fool of himself making a pass at Sonny when he forgot he was still dressed as Buffy.
GENIUS!
rihar on March 5, 2010 at 9:59 PM
It is scary to think how much influence this clueless moron has over the sheeple in the USA!
Reality Checker on March 5, 2010 at 10:04 PM
Celebrities truly are idiots. Don’t they realize that keeping their traps shut when it comes to politics and other polarizing topics is the best career move evah?
Obviously not. They would rather risk alienating their paying fans. All they’ve got to trade on is their talent and their likeability. Tom may have talent, but at the moment, I don’t find him very likeable.
Meredith on March 5, 2010 at 10:06 PM
No, No, No!!!! Don’t cap what they make, cap what they net!
That’ll learn’em!
As for me, I love Tom Hanks in his roles, but I think he has the intellegence of, well, rolls. When he –or the rest of them–mouth off like this, they just show their blathering idiocy. Honestly! Hollywood types aren’t paid to think, so they, um don’t.
Chewy the Lab on March 5, 2010 at 10:06 PM
I just have a message for Allahpundit. I get sick and tired of if people have done one good thing they get a moral superiority card for everything else they do. Doesn’t Malkin have one of those for Cindy Sheehan she puts on her site for instances like this? Who cares if he does one thing the right might agree with him on it doesn’t give him pass on all his leftist views. When he says let’s go back and in a time machine and elect McCain and it would all be hunky-doury. I want to saw “Listen you punk if you understood economics the actions taken by the President ARE WHAT are causing the economic crisis we are experiencing being so long and deep so YEAH EVEN MCCAIN JUST NOT PUSHING HEALTHCARE, CAP AND TRADE,NO WASTED 1 TRILLION STIMULUS, ETC WE WOULD BE IN A RECOVERY NOW!!!
Conan on March 5, 2010 at 10:07 PM
… “I am not a smart man”
glennbo on March 5, 2010 at 10:08 PM
I used to like Tom Hanks. Now I just wish he’d go away.
jimmy2shoes on March 5, 2010 at 10:12 PM
What a shame.
Another voluntary idiot.
Ragspierre on March 5, 2010 at 10:13 PM
Ya know, Hanks and Speilberg (however you spell it) make movies/cable shows extolling the heroism of our greatest generation, but their beliefs, Marxism and Totalitarianism are exactly what our WWII heroes fought against.
ernie on March 5, 2010 at 10:17 PM
No wonder Barbara Walters is giving up her Academy night interviews.
Hollywoods gone loco, and she’s lived far to long to be a victim of a loon now.
capejasmine on March 5, 2010 at 10:23 PM
Exactly!!! I don’t go to movies anymore, and rarely watch them, or television. I don’t begrudge actors having their politics, and opinions, but I do begrudge them for using their status to voice them, and belittle what they don’t agree with, when the rest of us don’t get the same chance at rebuttal, or to voice ourselves.
capejasmine on March 5, 2010 at 10:26 PM
It was like watching a bunch of Gumps sitting around a table in a Forest.
Kini on March 5, 2010 at 10:32 PM
Best Tom Hanks movie…wait for it… Bachelor Party! – Rob
Yeah man, that’s a classic!
“Is that the footlong?”
“And THEN some.”
hahaha
Tony737 on March 5, 2010 at 10:36 PM
final thought before beddy-bye:
I think he looks Uber old…and that depresses me as I’m pretty sure we’re close to the same age.
Clean livin’, riteous thoughts and all that…Oh, rats! That wouldn’t describe me…but I still look a whole swap younger…and I ain’t got no budget for no botox er’ nuttin!
Chewy the Lab on March 5, 2010 at 10:37 PM
*sigh*
Hawkins1701 on March 5, 2010 at 10:38 PM
Obama and the US goverment own’s GM Tom Hanks.
N15PCA on March 5, 2010 at 10:38 PM
What a fool. I work in Hollywood and love actors but many of them shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
But did you ever think how weirdly therapeutic Obama might end up being? His presidency is drawing out and exposing fatuousness, idiocy, hypocrisy and bias in more areas of rotted American culture than ever before. This is good.
rrpjr on March 5, 2010 at 10:40 PM
I thought Pat Cadell’s hair looked decent tonight. It had a shine to the top and I believe he is coloring it.
Oh well back to Tom Hanks. He played Forrest Gump so much that I think he has turned into him. I am not impressed with him anymore.
KCinLV on March 5, 2010 at 10:43 PM
Poor Tom Hanks. He’s in such denial.
SoulGlo on March 5, 2010 at 10:47 PM
Yes, and as soon as we get the commies out of the way we’ll do it.
single stack on March 5, 2010 at 10:57 PM
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