When did Jon Voight go insane?

[PlanetBev]

Was he always like this? Any history on his derangement, people?

The dangerous rhetoric he spewed out last night could easily drive another religious nut to try to take out Obama. They're already out there, this could add more.

By the way, Mr. Voight, don't lecture to me about Israel. As a Jew, I've got a way bigger dog in this fight than you do.

[HelenWheels]

1. He went there a long time ago

He's been a right wing whack a long time.

[DJ13]

2. As a young man Voight's political views were liberal

As a young man Voight's political views were liberal and he supported both John F. Kennedy and George McGovern. During the Nixon administration Voight actively protested against the Vietnam War. However, in a July 28, 2008, op-ed in The Washington Times he wrote that he regrets his youthful anti-war activism, calling it the result of "Marxist propaganda."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Voight
Jon Voight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I think he did too many drugs over the years.

[maxsolomon]

4. i think he never really was liberal

and pretended to be so to be successful in hollywood, and score chicks.

if too many drugs made you conservative i'd be a kristol.

[Cha]

7. Touche!

:patriot:

[DJ13]

9. if too many drugs made you conservative i'd be a kristol.

Hell, I'd be Dick Cheney.

But seriously, his thinking is so scrambled he has either had some bad drugs in his past or he's on medication now.

[Drunken Irishman]

11. Hell, I'd be Attila the Hun.

[maxsolomon]

19. i'll buy "on medication now" - far more likely.

by "bad drugs" do you mean like he smoked PCP? i think that makes you literally crazy, not a funtioning hollywood conservative.

[PatSeg]

6. I remember discussing this a while back

What a shock it was to see him sitting behind Rudy Giuliani during the primaries. The Jon Voight I remembered was a political activist and somewhere along the way he turned into an ultra conservative. Something got rewired in his brain. Maybe you're right, it could have been the drugs.

[PlanetBev]

8. Thanks for that, DJ

That's what I was afraid of. I always wonder what would make a person go from one political extreme to the other. My political views have stayed the same since I was 16, 42 years ago.

Liberal yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

[pink-o]

34. Me, too, Bev! I've only modified my perspective to fit with changing times, but

my moral compass has been stuck in the same place since I first realized what was going on in Vietnam at aged 12 in 1967.

There is a Jewish stereotype of the left-wing firebrand who fights for liberal causes. I think they (we) are the real Jews: we are scholarly, encouraged to question the Status Quo, feel compassion for those with less--probably because we've been the lowest of the low ourselves. These Bill Kristol Paul Wolfowitz, Ben Stein, David Horowitz, Jonah Goldberg types are Manichevitz-drinking idiots! It is 100 kindz of wrong for Jews to be Repugs.

[Doremus]

39. Listening to his hateful rant, I'd say fear for his own hide changed him.

Like a lot of repukes, the guy is a chickenshit. Listen to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK2XyMYZ4T4

[goclark]

47. Maybe that's why his daughter Angelina doesn't speak to him...

[tavalon]

42. I was told when I was young that my views would become more

conservative as I got older. I was told everyone gets more conservative. I was told a lot of stupid ass things when I was young.

[glitch]

26. Marxist propaganda huh? Sounds like he's got a binary problem.

He only toggles between extremes.

[Cha]

3. jon voight is embarrassingly insane and needs

to meet this gentleman from Kentucky..Jim Cornette

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[Towlie]

5. No, he wasn't always like that.

At least, not according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Voight">Wikipedia:

As a young man Voight's political views were liberal and he supported both John F. Kennedy and George McGovern. During the Nixon administration Voight actively protested against the Vietnam War. However, in a July 28, 2008, op-ed in The Washington Times he wrote that he regrets his youthful anti-war activism, calling it the result of "Marxist propaganda."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Voight">more

Edit: Four minutes too late. DJ13 beat me to it.

[jaksavage]

10. Like my sister

they go liberul for a couple elections just to piss the parents off.
Then fall into the fold and push repuke-ism to new heights.

Funny how, I now feel more spiritual and more conservative(in the true sense) than my christian repuke sister will ever be.

[Duer 157099]

12. He's been eccentric his whole life

It's just taken different forms over the years.

[tridim]

13. I blame the Chrysler LeBaron, George Constanza and Kramer.

[Raine]

28. Voight went rabid on that one and

bit Kramer on the arm. :crazy:

[alterfurz]

43. and "Runaway Train"

more's the pity...

[Ikonoklast]

14. Old, scared, white man who sees a different America from the one he

grew up in.

Fear of the inevitable, fear of change. As some of these people age they cling to a past where they felt safer, were more certain of themselves, and had more of life before them than behind them.

When you are getting to the end of the string, any change is usually a bad thing.

[Cha]

16. Wonder what Dustin Hoffman thinks

of his raving & rantings?

[PlanetBev]

17. As they say....

The only constant in the universe is change. Most of us understand that reality and learn to deal with it. It is what it is.

These sick, sad, sorry people long for the days of Mayberry, the Good Humor Man, Winky Dink and kicking around women, Mexicans and Black people. Those days aren't coming back anytime soon, thank God.

[rurallib]

15. IIRC he and daughter Angelina Jolie are irreconcilably split?

[Cha]

18. I had to look up "IIRC"..

The last I heard they were talking over the kids..maybe that's true, I don't know.

[Ikonoklast]

21. Yeah, I think they came to some sort of uneasy truce.

But, I think the lot of them have 'issues', to a greater or lesser degree.

I always take whatever a 'celebrity' says about politics, on the right or left, with a grain of salt.

It's just a personal opinion, like any other, neither better or worse because of the fame of the person, so I attach just as much weight to it as the guy two bar stools down blathering on.

[babylonsister]

20. I think they are, too. nt

[izquierdista]

22. From Midnight Cowboy

Took the part a little too literally and ended up with syphilis. Third stage many years later makes you :crazy:

[Canuckistanian]

31. Ah, so he's syphilitic

That would explain the dementia.

[AllentownJake]

23. Probably when he cheated on his wife than left her with the kids

start womanizing all over the place publicly and is now wondering why his kids hate him because he gave his ex some cash?

:shrug:

John screams Republican Family Values!

[PopSixSquish]

24. Well Ron Silver Went Off the Rails After 9-11

so I guess it happens...I'm understanding Angelina a bit more though...

[jberryhill]

25. It was that river canoe trip that put him over the edge....

[invictus]

29. LOL!

Deliverance

[jberryhill]

32. Not "LOL"..... WLAP!

(wee like a pig)

[Enthusiast]

38. Purty mouth

:rofl:

[Bombtrack]

27. Anaconda, it can all be blamed on that big snake

god damn big ass snake.

[MadBadger]

33. Ugh...You stole my joke

[Butch350]

30. When his momma cut him loose him from the tit milk.

[Honeycombe8]

35. I can see why Angelina doesn't speak to him. He's a bitter, mean, hateful man who has issues

with just about everything, and just about anyone who thinks differently or has a different take on things. Yuk.

[rug]

36. When he sold his car.

[old mark]

37. Good actor, not a good person. nt

[GTurck]

40. Jolie...

what's her name is his daughter and although I am not a celebrity watcher I know enough about her to know she is a nut too.

[alcibiades_mystery]

41. At the end of Midnight Cowboy?

:rofl:

[gauguin57]

44. I think he is unbalanced ... I've thought so when I've seen him blubbering about Angelina on TeeVee

... sobbing over how worried he is about his daughter (who hates his guts and who could, no doubt, buy and sell him seven times over).

[madmom]

45. I think it may be the drug commonly know as MONEY.

[GivePeaceAchance]

46. ...