Jon Voight just made me laugh

[MrScorpio]

Apparently, the Canadians, Europeans and Australians are dying from their health care systems.

I bet that that's news to them.

[malaise]

1. He's a fugging idiot

:puke:

[Mari333]

2. I cannot watch it. Besides, he looks unhealthy to me

I kind of think hes an alcoholic. He has that look. Kind of a bloated goutish look.

[Mist]

3. Decent enough actor--total idjit politicallly. nt

[Lerkfish]

6. he has always been a bit unstable

although I tried to google it unsucessfully, I recall a bizarre press conference Voight called a couple of decades ago (before his daughter rose to celebrity) where he wanted to say something about the plight of the american indian. He invited Elizabeth Taylor, as I recall, and some other celebrity whose identity escapes me.
He called all the press together, and then refused to say anything except to introduce his friends and say something about the Hopi indians or the Dahli Lama or something to that effect and that the news would come out soon. Then he stormed off and I recall Taylor looking completely flummoxed and lost.

I wish I could find reference to it, because it was completely bizarre.

[joeybee12]

4. I hate the fact that he's a good actor...

...wish he were talentless like Dennis Miller.

[Lerkfish]

8. well, runaway train was his last good effort, frankly.

since then he's been phoning it in IMHO

not that that has anything to do with this.

[joeybee12]

9. He's become a character actor now...

still he has presence, like in Tropical Thunder, his cameo at the end when he loses the Oscar, he was, unfortunately, hilarious.

[rucky]

5. Death is the number one killer in those countries.

it's shameful.

[Whisp]

12. There's a 100% death rate in Canada. ;)

and it's all due to that commie socialistic thing we have going here.

the US corporatist country, otoh, have some blood sucking vampires that live forever on the blood of the people.

[dana_b]

7. Hey Jon! American are dying from a lack of any

available health care system!

[Joe Chi Minh]

10. It's odd how actors ted to be drawn to the political positions they perceive

as consonant with the roles they have been called to play that they like.

In later years, I think Voigt has been cast as a General, a CEO, that sort of person. Others have taken to a liberal role they were cast in too enthusiastically for the powers that be, and got themselves in trouble, work-wise, for a number of years.

[girl gone mad]

11. It seemed like he was reading from "Teabagger Madlibs"

His speech didn't make any sense at all, but he got all of the code words in.

[Canuckistanian]

13. We are?

Well, it must be a very slow death, because we have a longer life expectancy than America.