The Confusing World of George Clooney

 by Ben-Peter Terpstra  

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George Clooney is on the wrong side of history with one too many jet tickets.

Sure, they want us to worry about “global warming” but are they walking the walk or just talking the talk? And are their positions on terrorists as morally consistent as their agents would like us to believe? Put simply, do our self-praising celebrities take us for fools?

Exhibit 1: George Clooney, the Global Warming Expert

You don’t have to be a scholar to see how closely the big Hollywood stars – Barbara Streisand, Julia Roberts, Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon – resemble chardonnay socialists.  George Clooney, however, is a very special case.

Digging into the liberal activists' travel records, TMZ, a film buffs’ website, uncovered some alarming facts. Their reporters found, for example, that although George Clooney drives an “environmentally friendly” car, he also likes to travel on jets too.

Thankfully, the story was also carried by The Times (10/29/06), London. Translation: Hollywood is under the microscope again. 

Clooney, the influential British paper reports, “owns an electric minicar called a Tango [a glorified golf-cart]” but “he recently took a private jet to Tokyo, a 5,500-mile trip which consumed 7,000 gallons of fuel.” You do the math.

Amazingly, the Hollywood star’s spin doctor advances the position that Clooney has “no control” over his busy schedule. But is that a poor excuse or just a crazy argument? Is Clooney’s schedule really dictated by big studio commitments and more important than “saving the planet?”

On the bright side, at least Clooney’s spokesperson unwittingly acknowledges that he is a corporate tool. Yes, blame the studios. They must be sending NRA hit men with guns and forcing George to take expensive foreign trips abroad. Wait until Moore hears about this.

One symptom of narcissism run amuck is the acceptance of double standards – travelling, often long distances, for vanity projects, acting like God’s gift to women and the earth. You get the picture. But how does one also deal with offers from automobile giants?

Notably, Fiat, Italy’s big automobile manufacturer, asked George Clooney to flog cars for them in their commercials. He accepted. Indeed, the Ocean’s Eleven actor, who works to promote the evils of “global warming,” was all too willing to change his views for euros.
 
In the confusing world of George Clonney, nothing succeeds like hypocrisy. Now I am not criticizing the star’s artistic abilities. In point of fact, Clooney played a very good homosexual dog on South Park’s socially aware show.  The guy’s a star. But working for car giants reminds us that overpaid actors are corporate tools. Forget the planet.

Exhibit 2: George Clooney, Therapist-in-Chief

It gets worse. In December, 11, 2005, when The Times (London) was unaware of Clooney’s green hypocrisies, he was busily whining about Bush’s foreign policy.

Fortunately, Britain’s Tony Blair disagreed. Yet, the Ocean Eleven’s star was also playing the victim card. He was pretending, like actors do, to be a defender of free speech, albeit a very rich one, of course, and complaining about vicious conservatives.

“All I had done at that point was say, ‘Well, I think we have some questions to ask before we send 150,000 kids to get shot at,” said Clooney. “All I had done at that point?”   

Sadly, Clooney, after all these years, still doesn’t get it. Bush was not sending “kids” to fight the tooth fairy. Indeed, such condescending labels speak volumes. A 25-year-old man is not a kid. A 35-year-old woman is not a kid. A 45-year old is not a kid, George.

While Hollywood men were wearing makeup, playing dress-ups and casually referring to brave black military men as “kids,” Islamic terrorists, like the red fascists before them, were celebrating Clooney’s pro-appeasement stratagems. 

Hollywood is mad. The terrorists, it turns out, also like to patronize American soldiers. But Clooney was also, consciously or unconsciously, helping the Islamo-facists in other ways too. Enter: Syriana, the movie. 

As Syriana shows, there aren’t black or white truths, just politically correct shades of  grey. Ignore history. History is history. George Clooney is introducing you to a world in which cultural relativism trumps truth . . . what?

“We have a storyline about two Pakistani boys, who slowly, bit by bit, become suicide bombers. I thought it was important to say you can’t just call them evil, you need to understand what creates those elements and what parts we are responsible for,” Clooney said. Yes, blame ourselves. So “you can’t just call them evil?” Try me. 

Just to show that history is a really complex field, Clooney also made a less sympathetic film about the “bad” Senator Joseph McCarthy. Unfortunately, Good Night and Good Luck never entertains the possibility that communists were “slowly, bit by bit” trying to hurt America. The Senator was a “bad” man for speaking out. If only he shut his pie-hole.

Hollywood trends change quickly, so it is often worth asking the “wrong” questions from the right. It is also worth holding stars to account. Why does Clooney, for example, want to “understand” the terrorists but demonize Senator McCarthy through editing tricks?  
 
Just for the record, Senator Joseph McCarthy was right. The declassified Venona transcripts exposed Soviet espionage and America’s traitors. Just for the record, today’s terrorists don’t need to be understood. They need to be incarcerated. Just for the record, George Clooney is on the wrong side of history with one too many jet tickets.

Culture: Hollywood, Entertainment

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