Who's the bigger asshole, Mitch McConnell or Jon Voight?

[marmar]

:freak: :freak:



McConnell ‘really enjoyed’ Voight’s speech that claimed Obama might allow ‘a new Holocaust.’

In a speech at the Republican Senate-House fundraising dinner last night, actor Jon Voight criticized President Obama at length, calling him a “false prophet” who causing “oppression” in America. But Voight saved his harshest attack on Obama for issues relating to Israel’s security. After claiming that the “only agenda” of all the Palestinian people is “to wipe Israel off the Earth,” Voight complained about Obama’s approach to Iran. “Are we supposed to be sitting and waiting, watching for the possibility of a new Holocaust?” Watch it: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/09/mcconnell-voight-enjoyed/



According to Bloomberg’s Heidi Przybyla, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) took the stage after Voight and offered praise for the speech. “I really enjoyed that,” said McConnell.

Transcript:

VOIGHT: My most pressing concern at this hour is the safety of Israel. I think Obama has no idea that Israel was built on the blood and sweat of the Jewish people. Every blade of grass, every tree, has been a successful effort because the Jewish people understanding they would have a safe homeland forever. He could not possibly understand this or he would know that the Jewish people are tried time and time again to give the Palestinians land and bring a peaceful solution. But every attempt, every attempt, was returned with violence. The Palestinians used Gaza to attack Israel. As far as I’m concerned, their only agenda is to wipe Israel off the Earth. And he reprimands the Israeli people, Obama. Like he’s a professor and they’re the school children. I was embarrassed to watch his press conference with the great war hero, Benjamin Netanyahu, who has helped keep his country safe for many years. Obama sat there with complete arrogance that he is the new American power, that he is able to dictate what he thinks is best for Israel. So how worried are we supposed to be now? Was I hearing things when he said that Iran might have the right to nuclear power? Are we supposed to be sitting and waiting, watching for the possibility of a new Holocaust? Who’s going to take the responsibility to keep Ameri — Israel safe?

I’ll tell you why this really scares the hell out of me. Because everything Obama has recommended has turned out to be disasterous. His so-called stimulus package and his budgets will leave our grandchildren with great burdens and great debts. The government is now owning car companies and banks and we’re losing job after job. Our unemployment rate is an astronomic 9.4. And of course they send out Joe Biden, one of the great double-talkers of our time, to tell us the unemployment rate is getting better. The government wants to run health care and tell people what doctors they can see. How much they can make. What cars to drive. And they’re killing off the entrepreneurs who are the backbone of our economy. It’s no wonder that the Russian newspaper Pravda, the former house organ for the former Soviet Communist regime, has said the American descent into Marxism is happening with breath-taking speed. We can blame Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Chris Dodd, George Soros, David Axelrod and their ilk for the downfall of this country. It saddens me greatly to think we were the great power for good in the world. We as Americans knew America to be strong. And we were the liberators of the entire world. We are becoming a weak nation. Obama really thinks that he is a soft-spoken Julius Ceaser. He thinks he’s going to conquer the world with his soft-spoken sweet talk. And really thinks he’s going to bring all the enemies of the world into a little playground where they’ll swing each other back and forth. We and we alone are the right frame of mind to free this nation from this Obama oppression.

And let’s give thanks to all the great people like Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, William Bennett, Glenn Beck, Hugh Hewitt, Dennis Prager, Michael Medved, Dennis Miller, Dick Morris, Ann Coulter, John Kasich, Michael Steele, Karl Rove, Newt Gingrich, Thomas Sowell, Victor Davis Hanson, Shelby Steele, Charles Krauthammer, Michelle Malkin, Fred Barnes and so many others. Let’s give thanks to them for not giving up and staying the course to bring an end to this false prophet Obama.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/09/mcconnell-voight-enjoyed/

[MADem]

1. No one elected Jon Voight to represent a constituency. Jon Voight represents Jon Voight.

So if we have to "pick," I'd say the elected official bears the greater responsibility, and also the greater degree of "assholiness," if there is such a thing.

[Greyhound]

6. That's what I was going to say. They're both walking anal orifices,

But Voight has no power (unless you're in the biz), while McConnell can and does ruin lives.

[WVRICK13]

22. Same Thing I Always Think

when a celebrity is taken seriously when they make political statements. WHO GIVES A FLYING FUCK what they think?

[Dappleganger]

2. McConnell, because he's elected

by an entire group of asshole voters.

Voight is just an actor.

[louis-t]

12. Maybe he's just 'acting' like an asshole.

Fred Barnes???? His hero is Fred frickin' Barnes???

[karynnj]

3. Mitch McConnell because he has far more power and is a complete creep

[NC_Nurse]

4. Tough choice. They both get a gold star for effort.

[T Wolf]

5. Neither one of them are good actors, though Mitchie gets more practice than the

alcoholic, out-of-work never-was.

Angelina must be so embarrassed to have that piece of shit for a father. Though, if reports are to be believed, he was never much of a father, either.

[emulatorloo]

7. Good lord, that man is mainlining the Kool-Aid isn't he?

McConnell is the bigger asshole though.

[get the red out]

8. I vote Mitch McConnell

He represents my state (unfortunately). The man is a wretched excuse for a human life form.

Jon Voight is obviously disturbed.

[sui generis]

9. what is Israel?

seriously. Historically, it's just another patch of land occupied by self-important people who believe their rights override anyone else's rights by eminent domain, or for kicks, by being the "chosen people". Get in line.

I suppose the same can be said of Israeli hating Palestinians, but that hate wasn't born out of whole cloth. There is a time when both sides need to be accountable to the fact that they're going to have to learn to live together or one side will HAVE to destroy the other. There is no other outcome. Oh and as usual, the moderates in the middle of both sides have to deal with excesses of the extremists.

Voight is a crack-head crackpot. He does belong in the same gallery of human ugliness as emu-foot gal-pal Coulter, little sour-kimshi Malkin and the rest of their prattle-pack.

[paulsby]

21. malkin

is filipino fwiw. kimchi (i make my own frequently) is korean

[sui generis]

23. sorry

:blush:

guess I'm a self-victim of generic asian (:P)

:hi:

thanks for the note

[hfojvt]

10. Jon Voight needs to be deported or charged with treason

"My most pressing concern at this hour is the safety of Israel."

Uh, hello, aren't you an American citizen? Why do you put the safety of Israel as more important than the USA? Here's the oath of citizenship (which, of course, Jon Voight did not have to take, since he was born in Jersey)

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=931696981298d010VgnVCM10000048f3d6a1RCRD

"I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; ..."

Yet apparently Voight's allegiance is with Israel.

"My most pressing concern ..." Here in Kansas, I have other things to worry about.

[ControlledDemolition]

24. Off to Guantanamo with that fifth columnest! n/t

[Rebubula]

11. I choose...

...Ben Richards....he is one mean motherfarker.

Sorry...Running Man ref...

They are both assholes.

[JenniferJuniper]

13. Jon Voight will always be a redneck male prostitute

in my heart.

[Bonhomme Richard]

14. I sure am going to stay away from whatever Voight is smoking. n/t

[VOX]

15. My best guess: Voight has Alzheimer's. Remember the photos of Chuck Heston with MLK in 1963?

Heston was once a liberal, and took part in the March on Washington with Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1963. But by the time he died from Alzheimer's Disease, Heston had become near-reactionary in his political views.

I don't know for certain, but it seems like the shift in Voight's perspective has been severe, to the extent he doesn't even bother to (or can't) explain any "intellectial" process that brought him to where he is now. He was once a fine actor ("Midnight Cowboy," "Deliverance," "Coming Home," etc.), but now he's relegated to being trotted out by right-wing suits -- like some sort of wind-up chattering monkey -- to regurgitate turgid and cliche-ridden fringe tirades.

It's actually quite sad, and it's now very apparent why his daughter has no contact with him.

[WI_DEM]

18. Yeah, but Heston began his switch to the right by the late 60's nearly 40 years before he died.

Also not all Republicans opposed civil rights. It wouldn't have passed in 1964 without GOP votes, remember it was at that time Southern DEMOCRATS who were the major opponents of civil rights for most of the century.

[Old and In the Way]

19. What makes them turn?

It's usually either taxes (when they start making the big dough like Ron Reagan) or to get some attention because, as liberals, they'd be part of a crowd.

[spanone]

16. i love how the thugs snuggle up to their own 'hollywood heroes'....who cares what voight thinks?

ps. they are both BIG assholes

[WI_DEM]

17. Well, Mitch has been asshole longer than Voight, so I guess Mitch.

[ControlledDemolition]

25. But Voight's 'assholery' is more offensive. n/t

[Catshrink]

20. Yertle, hands down.