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Jon Voight Slams "False Prophet" Obama At GOP Dinner, Salutes Entire Ranks Of Right-Wing Pundits

Take a look at Jon Voight's speech last night at the big Republican dinner last night, at which he was the celebrity M.C., denouncing President Obama as a dangerous radical who is a threat to Israel and the United States. And he paid tribute to the whole who's who of right-wing punditry and their efforts to stop the "false prophet" Obama:

"We and we alone are the right frame of mind to free this nation from this Obama oppression," said Voight. "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."


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And let's give thanks to all the great people like...

...Am I correct that he didn't name one single elected official there?

The Republican Party, folks.

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I thought the same thing too.

Does Michael Steele count?

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Depends upon your definition of elected. He was elected by the party but not a constituency.

So, that's 0 out of 23 names. Wow. So this is the fake Republican Party. Or the shadow GOP. Or, let's just call it the GOP Oligarchs. .

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It was the same when the Virginia Repub Party had their recent convention. The keynote speaker was none other than Sean Hannity! They are so laughable! Not only does that show how weak the party is but it just proves that Fox and Hannity are just RNC pawns.

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Virginia's Republican Party may be laughable, but there are still enough Republicans in Virginia to elect a member of their own as governor, if Democrats are caught sleeping. McDonnell still leads every one of the Democratic candidates in the polls.

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No elected officials, but a whole lot of wingnut welfare recipients.

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If you want proof that the conservatives are operated and controlled by wealthy oligarchs, look at who is funding this crew. That's the primary characteristic of wingnut welfare - support those who are committed to spreading the word.

It's clear why the Republicans - under the control of the conservatives - have been so adamant about removing the inheritance tax. That and the destruction of organized labor are two key issues to the wealthy oligarchs. Both issues are perceived as threats to their family wealth.

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Dear Republicans,

More of this. It's a great strategy.

Thanks!

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Great actor turned certifiable whack job. A shame.

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He always plays a great and convincing democrat in the movies.

I had no idea that he was such a wing-nut-wack-job.

I wonder how his daughter is aligned on things. Because if she's a democrat, then she has similar issues with her father that I have.

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I thought he'd died

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He did.

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Unhinged.

It really is a psychosis I think. To be so divorced from reality but to swear up and down (and firmly believe) that you are in the right and everyone else is wrong. It's not that these people don't believe what they are saying. Or that they don't love their country. They are just nuts. Seriously nuts.

I read that Gaffney article in the Washington Times today and at some point (probably the point immediately after I asked myself the question 'And even if he was a practicing Muslim?'), it just clicked with me. This guy honestly believes that the nation is under siege from a never-ending crush of Scary Brown People (TM) and our way of life is only days away from ending. And now we have a President that is one of them.

They have a term for people like this - Paranoid Delusional. Defined as "A type of serious mental illness called a 'psychosis' in which a person cannot tell what is real from what is imagined." They prescribe medicine for this behavior. If I worked for the Washington Times and a member of my editorial staff exhibited this behavior, I would recommend that he see an MD. NOT publish articles. Publishing articles that people like Voight read which causes them to spiral down and take more people with them.

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Kinda explains Angelina's problems....

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I thought the same thing.

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Yep. Me too.

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"This guy honestly believes that the nation is under siege from a never-ending crush of Scary Brown People ..."

Or this guy believes in good old fashion character assassination. Gaffney's neocon brotherhood requires that he do whatever he can too align neocons with the ring-wing wackjobs.

And this time the boys have cried “wolf” once too often. It is not working. As Kaus notes, Kaplan’s own New Republic carries

Harvard professor Stanley Hoffman wrote in the March 24, 2003 Issue of the New Republic that

"... finally, there is a loose collection of friends of Israel, who believe in the identity of interests between the Jewish state and the United States. … These analysts look on foreign policy through the lens of one dominant concern: Is it good or bad for Israel? Since that nation’s founding in 1948, these thinkers have never been in very good odor at the State Department, but now they are well ensconced in the Pentagon, around such strategists as Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and Douglas Feith."

Unfortunately, this is what we have had to contend with.

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Life imitates art! Mr. Voight appears to be channeling the recent crypto-fascist role he played on “24” --- where he was a take off on the real-life Erik Prince the CEO/founder of Blackwater.

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Glad he got Marine-Iguana-lookalike Charles Krauthammer on the list!

Did he leave Bible Spice off the list because she's elected or because she's such an ignoramus?

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It's clear from that list that being an ignoramus* is necessary to be on the list, not a reason to be left off the list, so one can only presume it's because she's elected.

*Apologies to any ignoramus who is insulted by this comparison.

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No wonder his daughter wants nothing to do with him. She says he "frightens her," not that Angelina is the picture of stability.

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I didn't really know why she became estranged from him (nor did I care), but I have to say Angelina turned out pretty well. She currently seems to be doing what she wants, her charity work is actually helping people in the world, and considering what I've just read and seen from her dad, she could have turned out a whole lot worse.

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I have to agree with you. The ends justify the means in this case. She does good things. And, I actually thought she was pretty good in "Changeling." Her father accused her of being mentally ill. As the sibling of someone who actually is mentally ill, I find his public pronouncement unforgivable.

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Yeah, I used to feel sorry for him. But now I'm going to have to go with Angelina on this one.

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CHECK OUT THIS NUGGET BY DICK MORRIS WHO VOIGHT CELEBRATES!

All I can remember about Morris is him always saying Bush was right about everything, and since history shows the latter was right about nothing, I tried Googling and quickly turned this up!

Here's Morris saying it was a genius play to abandon the guilty party Bin Laden and march on to Iraq which had no connection: "Voters recognize that Bush is right when he says that this is a war against nation-states that sponsor terror, not a hunt for criminal bands in the mountains." http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x433456

Dick Morris, you are such a NOTHING!!!

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Wow that's some list. They should make a reality show about them all on a uncharted desert isle and then drop the satellite feed to them for about five years and see what becomes of them.

I'd imagine they will ingeniously find a way to drill for oil and produce coal and poison the water surrounding the island for 50 miles and exterminating themselves. I mean, that is their goal here in the U.S. right?

I always image Hannity's America a land filled with oil rigs both on and offshore, no wildlife left because all industry is allowed to self regulate, and a few wealthy controlling the Govn't with their too big to fail status, shooting all trespassers on their land looking for edible food.

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Good idea, but more like Lord of the Flies. Hmmm, who would be Piggy?

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who would be Piggy?

Not to be an opportunistic stereotyper, but who among them most closely resembles a beached albino sperm whale?

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poor whale

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Hello, Mike. I changed my avatar 3 or 4 times since our last exchange BTW. I just wanted to say, *what a list of kooks,* eh?

That people can get their heads in an idea that *this* group of loonies has anything positive to offer, it's just very weird to me. Ann Coulter? What has she got besides anger, deceitfulness, a superiority complex, and a mocking way? I'm serious -- WHAT HAS ANN GOT?! WHAT COULD ANYBODY THINK THAT THE SHRIKE HAS GOT?!

It's so bizarre to me.

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"We and we alone are the right frame of mind to free this nation from this Obama oppression,"

I wonder what these jerkoffs would say if you asked them just exactly how Obama has "oppressed" them and kept them from doing anything that they want to do on a day-to-day basis. Name one thing. Anything. Seriously.

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This is another byproduct of that whole Left Behind nonsense. The scary thing is those loons truly believe that crap! They see all events in terms of a battle between good and evil, and those media movers listed know precisely what buttons to push to rile that crowd up -- Voight included.

I'm afraid we're in for a long period of extreme wacky-hood. I just hope Obama's secret service guys stay really, really alert....

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I thought we weren't supposed to care what actors think. Heh.

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The worrisome sub-text of the term "false prophet" is that it's aimed at convincing some brain dead religious zealot that God is on his side so go ahead with that assassination attempt. Call me crazy but I see/hear it all over the right-wing media. This is no accident of vernacular, ultra conservatives are very frightened of Obama.

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False Prophets = Entire Ranks of Right-Wing Pundits

Project much?

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I agree wholeheartedly with those who've identified the fundementally racist element driving a lot of this hysteria. Obama personifies and crystalizes the anxiety over the browning of America that's been growing among conservative whites for the last couple of decades. It's been clear that that's one of the things driving them around the bend since the election. The way the collective effect of decisions at hundreds of delegate selection meetings combined to produce the whitest Repbulican convention in decades, all that hateful craziness that kept flaring up at Palin's rallies, the birth certificate insanity. All of that has made made it perfectly clear that at some level, whether consciously or unconsciously, a lot of whites really do believe that race means something other than a random twist of DNA controlling melanin production. They think that that that something is somehow inextricably linked to their conception of "Americanism" and that that's all under assault from a rising horde of dangerous, inferior colored people. And the image of Barack Obama introducing a Latina nominee to the Supreme Court just absolutely terrifies them.

All that's true. But we should not underestimate the extent to which all this vitriol is about nothing more than the rage of rich people facing the prospect of having their taxes increased a few percent.

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Steve, I agree with you, but your remarks are important on a far more sinister level.
Have you considered that the rage of "rich" people (which can be taken to mean well-to-do Republicans) can be seen as fear of the whole ball of wax, i.e. tax restructuring, equal economic and social opportunity, the increase in Latinos and people of color in America, and the prospect of being out of power as a result of a resurgence of populist and left-leaning ideology? And that it is this very fear of loss of dominance by the formerly very powerful and well-heeled that is powering the paranoia and blind fury of the less intelligent and more susceptible? Fox News is fueled by hard cash and business interests as much as vitriol, character assassination and ad hominem screeds against the democrats. At the risk of sounding paranoid, there ARE men and women with their hands on the levers of the public's right-wing-nuttery.

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Actually, I agree with all of that.

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Many are thinking it, I'll say it out loud: this bunch sees their mission as necessary to convince as many deranged 'party' members as possible to 'solve' the Obama problem. It is based on their hatred for his skin color. They are calling for a lynching. John Voight did good people a favor by listing the co-conspirators. "Rile up the base," means a full court press of the real southern strategy! Not sure what we can do in the face of this kind of thing. They are serious.

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Which makes it doubly ironic that he played the lead role in the 1974 film Conrack:

http://powertolearn.com/spotlights/black_history_month_2004/conrack.html

- FTF

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Is it worth pointing out the the term "false prophet" is a Christianist code phrase for Satan.

Voigt is calling out our President as Satan at a GOP fundraiser! How is this different than what Hugo Chavez had to say about GWB at the UN? It isn't. All that was missing was Voigt alluding to the lingering sulfur aroma.

And, once again the GOP base shows its hypocrisy by allowing a sitting War President to be called Satan at a high profile party sponsored event with no sign of embarrassment. Indeed it was followed by effusive praise!

Oh yeah--IOKIYR.

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Is it worth pointing out the the term "false prophet" is a Christianist code phrase for Satan.

Voigt is calling out our President as Satan at a GOP fundraiser! How is this different than what Hugo Chavez had to say about GWB at the UN? It isn't. All that was missing was Voigt alluding to the lingering sulfur aroma.

And, once again the GOP base shows its hypocrisy by allowing a sitting War President to be called Satan at a high profile party sponsored event with no sign of embarrassment. Indeed it was followed by effusive praise!

Oh yeah--IOKIYR.

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But this is how REAL AMERICA thinks.

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Thanks for the Satan context. Classy. I knew it had an odd ring to it, but I didn't know what the heck he was referring to. Real nutjob.

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He also compared Obama to Julius Caesar, which is pretty much code speak to rally for the assassination of our President.

I love how the right is constantly comparing Obama to God or Jesus when they are the ones who had so much blind faith in their own god, George Bush, that they let our country go to hell.

I'd like to say "to hell to all of them," but unfortunately, radicalized calls for the death of the president can only lead to the worse. I live every day fearing for Obama's life.

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Am I the only one who thinks it's weird that the Republicans are cheering a Hollywood type who's appeared in movies showing gay sex (Midnight Cowboy) and anal sex (Deliverance)?

Just sayin'.

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Squeal like a pig!

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Not much of a stretch after his portrayals of a racist basketball coach and a sleazy insurance company lawyer, though.

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Actually, both of those performances were so well done that you had to suspect that, at some level, he held the characters he played in utter contempt. Yet here he is, himself the caricature he so savagely portrayed in those films.

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Bush was destroyed by the liberal media and "the Hollywood crowd." Check. His huge unpopularity couldn't possibly have had anything to do with the things that happened in and to this country during his presidency.

And then Obama's "false holistic presence" took over and the young people were hypnotized. Or something.

Oh, and I loved this part:

Obama as a candidate portrayed himself as a moderate, but turned out to be wildly radical.

This only makes since if "wildly radical" is the same thing as "solidly centrist to the point of being conservative" who is pissing off his radical leftist "base." In other words, he's exactly as he portrayed himself: a moderate. And anyone who feels like he abandoned some kind of radical-liberal agenda weren't paying close enough attention.

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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

What is this, the Wingnut Hall of Fame?

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The Cheneys didn't make the list? Rove? And, the batting order seems a bit skewed. Plus, Palin the disser, got dissed.
Tancredos' going to have to up his game I guess. What a slacker!
Why not just summarize & say Fox news & it's paid pundits.
There must have been time restrictions because the list is much, much longer.
Obama came back with a strong slam of his own. John who? Midnight what? Delivered where?

BTW, the main course at this dinner was, CROW.

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I can't help but remember Voight's appearance on behalf of George McGovern at Cal Poly Pomona in October of 1972, his extemporaneous remarks on why he abhorred Nixon and all that the latter represented. Jon, you've certainly come home.
I remember acutely how you looked at me in the lobby of the theater in Century City and as well, the power in your words, your characterization of the wounded vet in the movie with Jane Fonda.

Until last year when I first read of your switch to right wing lunacy, I'd always resented Sheila Benson, how she savaged you and veritably crushed your career in her famous review of your first big failure. That was following the Oscar night at which you'd made a fool of yourself. But now I must admitt that she was right to begin with.

Apparently, the late Ms. Benson had recognized a lunatic when all of the rest of us thought you were a genius. I don't recognize your voice at all. You've lost your ability to extemporize.

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P.S. Thanks for the handy reference list.
When unsure of wack-o status, just check list.
Thanks again.

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I thought Republicans sneered at actors who presume to speak on matters political.

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Well, isn't Chuck Norris an actor? What? Oh...

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Only the wrong actors. Reagan, Schwarzenegger, Willis, et al. are cool. They're "Real America." Most of the rest are "Hollywood" and therefore "Not Real America" and therefore French, gay, socialist America-haters.

Hope that clears things up.

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I bought John Voight's LeBaron. I can prove it.

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It great to know that wack jobs like Jon Voight can bring up wonderful liberal children. Legally that is!

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