Robert Gibbs: 'Jon Voight joke in here': The Swamp
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Chicago Tribune
Posted November 5, 2009 3:25 PM
The Swamp

by Mark Silva

The White House today was asked for comment on a crowd that assembled on Capitol Hill to protest health-care legislation.

"I'm sure there's a Jon Voight joke in here somewhere, given he was one of the featured speakers,'' White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said of the activist actor who had a few choice words for the White House this week.

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"You're not even going to try and make it?'' a reporter asked.

"No,'' Gibbs said. "My father always told me my mouth would get me in trouble... And I have a feeling if I acted on the line that (I'd like to give) you, I'm almost positive that it would surely...''

The crowd of protesters, rallied by Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, wasn't the massive march that some had anticipated. Americans United for Change, the union-backed group backing health-care reform, said the anti-crowd could have filled Ford's Theater. "Pathetic,'' they gloated.

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The Academy Award-winning actor and activist Voight had launched a broadside against the president in Minnesota this week, saying that, "We're becoming a socialist nation, and Obama is causing civil unrest in this country. ... I say that they're taking away God's first gift to man: our free will." He said so at a fundraiser for Gov. Tim Pawlenty's new Freedom First PAC in Minneapolis, part of an exploratory presidential bid.

But Gibbs wasn't biting on his own set-up today.

"Wait a minute, what have you got against Jon Voight?'' the press pressed, with someone volunteering this offer in the press briefing room of the West Wing:

"Off-the-record!''

"Off-the-record,'' mused Gibbs. "I like that.''

(Actor Jon Actor Jon Voight, center above, is pictured at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., last summer. Photo by Chuck Kennedy / MCT. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is pictured waiting his turn as President Barack Obama addressed the press briefing today. Photo by Ron Sachs-Pool/Getty Images)

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The real joke is you, Baghdad Bob Gibbs.


Now I know why Angelina Jolie ignores her dad, what a moron.


Voight is a Raygun-wannabe. He should stick to what he knows best: pretend !! He may be getting his realities mixed up. Let him get out here, in the real world and put in an honest day's work, by the sweat of his brow, for an honest day's wage. He couldn't handle it and I don't mean for a week, or a month, I mean for the rest of his adult life. That is what this economy is demanding of 50-65 year olds, today !! That is your wonderful, benevolent capitalistic system !! Come on out, boys and girls, come out to the workplace and earn your pay, by the sweat of your brow !! I know, if your were honest, you would be whistling a different tune, after the experience !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.


Just another nut job this one. ''Becoming a Socialist country'' In what respect may I ask? Social Security? Public Schools? Medicare? Public Librarys? Veterans pension funds? Interstate Highways, National Parks, etc etc.
The problem with Americans (especially on the right) is they have no idea what socialism actually is. They confuse new government programs with socialism.! Ironically, the Bush Administration, through its own ineptitude, moved us closer to real socialism than anything that has happened yet during Obama's. In a true socialist state, the government controls the means of production. If we had socialism in the United States, there would be no GM, Ford or Chrysler. Instead, we would have the ''Agency for Automobile and Truck Production''


Jon Voight is an idiot, I have no doubt whatsoever that he's also a Teabbager moron. His recent statements suggest that the guy has lost what little mind he ever had. Coongratulations to him for his sudden newfound mind reading talents. How else does he portend to know what Obama thinks. Perhaps with his new vocation, he can attain the success that has eluded him as either an actor or as a parent.


The funniest part of this is that Steele and the rest of the Republican leadership probably think that this eleventh hour come-to-Jesus moment is going to appease the Teabagger morons. And if they're dumb enough to think that, Steele and Company may want to get off the tracks.
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http://www.dailykos.com/tv/w/002253/
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Jon Voight and Michael Steele...two buffoons. Like big circus elephants paraded out on stage for all to see. But elephants are much more intelligent. More intelligent that both put together.


Voight is no more an idiot than George Clooney, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Barbra Streisand or (insert Entertainment "star" cum left wing looney) here. He is an entitled to his opinion.


Jon Voight is lucky that the White House response was so mild. Usual the Obama White House and its Religious Cult of Supporters are very thin skinned to any criticism and call critics as being part of Fox News, Wingnuts and Racists.


the Obama White House and its Religious Cult of Supporters are very thin skinned to any criticism and call critics as being part of Fox News, Wingnuts and Racists.

Posted by: Depot- Jim | November 5, 2009 5:04 PM
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Hey Jimmy,


You mean "mild criticism".....like this?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDR47EKTrCQ
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Yep, the Loony Leffies know just what is right for America. Their convoluted. unreadable, heath care "reform" doc just got bigger. Just what we need right?
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That 1,990-page Democratic health care bill? It's longer now; includes new government controls
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http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/That-1990-page-Democratic-health-care-bill--Its-longer-now-includes-new-government-controls--69278647.html


Voight is no more an idiot than Chuck Norris, Wilford Brimley, The Mailman from Cheers, Scott Baio, Stephen Baldwin, Pat Boone or (insert Entertainment "star" cum right wing looney) here....uh...wait a minute....what am I saying?.....yes, they're all idiots.


Well, Mark, about 20,000 showed up for somethig that was coordinated less than a week ago. I would say that it was a pretty good success.

Robert Fibbs, er Gibbs, FINALLY said a truth today: "My father always told me my mouth would get me in trouble."
Boy, daddy sure called that one


The fact that Jon Voight was a Seinfeld joke pretty much says it all.


Jon Voight has all the Republican traits down pat - cheat on your spouse then abandon your wife and children for the new model, write a few big checks to make it all better.
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http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2009/06/sex_scandal_flow_chart.php
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Watched the presser on C-Span today and he doesn't seem to get the laughs from the press that he use to get a few months ago. Perhaps the press is getting a little weary of Mr. Gibbs sense of humor.


This rally is like the Superbowl for Old White Stupid people carrying signs that read "Obama is a soshalist".
They're freaking out that everyone having access to health care will lead to stuff like 6 weeks of paid vacation - like they have in those backward, primitive countries like Norway and Sweden.


Scottie,

Refund all my taxes that I have paid into Social Security and Medicare and I won't take any proceeds. Get me out of this generational ponzi scheme.

Keep my library card to Scottie and refund my taxes. Also, can I have my taxes back for everything I paid to public education? - I didn't send them there, I cared about their education.


How come the 'Cons can only get 'failed movie actors' to hang out with them. The names Ronald Reagan (who can ever forget his Boraxo commercials?), George Murphy (a tap dancer), Sonny Bono (a bone-head with a wooly vest), and now John Voight (a guy who 'played' a soldier once). GOD...THANK HEAVEN ANGELINA JOLIE KNOWS WHAT HE IS AND IGNORES THE HELL OUT OF HIM IN PUBLIC.


Next Voight (along with Sarah Palin), aka Joe Buck, aka Papa Jolie, will lecture us on family values.


Posted by: Terry | November 5, 2009 7:37 PM

Is that all you have to offer on this subject? What's your point man? All you ever do is patronize and mock me. Your obsession with me is flattering but so 3 months ago.

This nut job is screaming Socialism as if we were back in the 50's. He's obviously played too many bad guys in his time. Obama hasn't moved our country any closer to Socialism than Bush did with some of his programs. So stick to the issues if it's possible.


Yes, iijones, Jon Voight is a failed actor. A failed actor who won an Oscar and appeared in movies such as Deliverance, Coming Home, Midnight Cowboy, Mission Impossible, Heat, Enemy of the State, The Champ, Varsity Blues, Pearl Harbor and most recently in 24. And those are the ones just off the top of my head.

The Loony Left: Worthless Trash.


I've been saying for a long time that we have to take away the Republicans' favorite lie: that the media's biased against them.


What would a media that really was on the Democrats side say about the "60 Vote" mantra? They would not act as though there was a new Constitutional Amendment I hadn't heard about. They would not treat Republican threats of a filibuster like an act of God, with no more reasoning than a hurricane.


A media on the Democrats side--even a truly neutral media--would take apart the "60 Vote" argument and show that the Republicans who whined about Democratic filibusters of the partisan hacks and ideological extremists that Republicans nominated for the Federal bench were now being the obstuctionists themselves.


They would say that Republicans who whined 4 years ago should, if they have the slightest regard for consistency, allow an Up or Down vote on the Health Care Bill; and as they aren't, that shows that either they know their red faced "Liberal media" rants are a lie, or they're masochistically begging to be humiliated.



The left forgets how quickly they represent Teddy Kennedy letting Mary Jo drown, and how they protested the war in downtown chicago 19 months ago, but now they don't protest, because the loser Obama is in power, and nothing has changed over in Iraq, or the middle east. Why not protest now and tell the President how unhappy you are with his change and no hope of ever coming out of this tailspin of depression. The one world government can now begin, because Obama has ruined America and he CANNOT Blame this on anyone else, but his sorry self.


If America wasn't bogged down in the two misguided George Bush wars, all the money that we've blown there could easily pay for health insurance reform for all Americans each year.


Afghanistan is a country that has never had a central government, and to try and force one down their throats is never going to work.



The role of Voight's that comes closest to republican values is when he portrayed racist basketball coach Adolph Rupp.


How come libs get pro-communist actors who adore those who ate the US, but strangely enough don't want to share with others here?

How come Libs get all the bigoted actors who hate devout Christians and Jews, but adore Muslims who stone women to death for the crime of talking to a westerner?

How come Libs get all the hypocritical actors who claim to care about the environment while driving around with 4 stretch SUVs carrying their entourage to their private jet for their weekend in Taos?

How come Libs get actors that complain about how evil the US is while making millions that they then stash off-shore, hidden from taxes?


To Don Fitzgerald

So what you are saying is Jon Voight couldn't handle it in the real world but all of the other faux people in hollywood, that support what ever you think, can?
Please, share your wisdom with us.


Americans United for Change, the union-backed group backing health-care reform, said the anti-crowd could have filled Ford's Theater. "Pathetic,'' they gloated.

I saw Ford's Theater and it must be very big on the inside.

Posted by: Julia | November 5, 2009 7:16 PM

This rally is like the Superbowl for Old White Stupid people carrying signs that read "Obama is a soshalist".
They're freaking out that everyone having access to health care will lead to stuff like 6 weeks of paid vacation - like they have in those backward, primitive countries like Norway and Sweden.

REALLY Julia. And just take a good hard look at Norway and Sweden. And now the AP is reporting that the Democrat want illegals to have Obamacare too. We are not Norway or Sweden, we have states that have more people then both of them. And if you feel they are better then here you know what to do.

And YES I have been to a lot of places the left likes to say are better then the USA but, I have not found one I want to move to. And YES I will call you out and tell you to go because I have the DD-214 to back it up.


How thin skinned of Barry's empty suited minions. Sure can dish it out but not able to take it. The true mantra of the left "Do as I say not as I do".. It goes for every thing from paying taxes to personal responsibility.


Hey, Jonny Voight, I knew Ronnie Raygun and you aren't as bad an actor as he was, but you sure have your politics as screwed up, as his !! They are almost as bad as the Grand Appeaser, Ronnie Raygun !! Stick with the movies, you are liable to regain a sense of reality !! I sure hope so, because I used to be a fan of yours !! Unfortunately, like a lot of your over-payed, non-working, fat cats, you don't know what it means to have to work by the sweat of your brow and to get short changed, every time you deal with one Corporation or another. You wouldn't know that, given your privileged status, gained by being being a better pretender than other people. Shame on you, for accusing President Obama, of socialistic policies, when all he wants, is to make all Americans' lives a little easier, more dignified and to be treated fairer. You don't see that because, you are to busy getting paid exhorbitant amounts for pretending !! America may be damn good for you, but there are too many Americans, that do not agree with you !! We know that President Obama is trying to help all of us, not just you privileged few !! Where was your concern when Bush&Cheney was out there, acting fascistic and undemocratic ? Were you counting all of your money? You have done America a great disservice with your ill-informed opinions !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.


"Shame on you, for accusing President Obama, of socialistic policies, when all he wants, is to make all Americans' lives a little easier, more dignified and to be treated fairer."

Obamacare as it currently stands would increase medical costs, and Cap-n-Trade would definitely increase energy costs for an average American family. Whether that would make "all Americans' lives easier" I leave for the reader to determine.



"They are almost as bad as the Grand Appeaser, Ronnie Raygun !! "

Whom did Reagan appease? Maybe you're thinking of Jimmy Carter.

The Soviet Union fell under Reagan. May we have more appeasers like that in the White House.

Barack Obama seems to be appeasing socialist tyrants like Castro and Chavez, the theocrats in Iran, and the dictator in Syria.

Why do you love tyranny so much?


I love it... right on the money with this one:
"Jon Voight has all the Republican traits down pat - cheat on your spouse then abandon your wife and children for the new model, write a few big checks to make it all better."

The man's own daughter wants nothing to do with him. Maybe he pals around on the Appalachian Trail with Mark Sanford discussing "family values" and how all those Christian values are serving the Republican party so well. Delusional. How can you take any of these windbags seriously. They are clearly out of touch with reality - their own! Hey Rush Limbaugh how is that drug rehab coming?

Would you want any of these low-life men to date your daughter? Then why would you pay any attention to anything these low-life's have to say?


Obamacare as it currently stands would increase medical costs, and Cap-n-Trade would definitely increase energy costs for an average American family. Whether that would make "all Americans' lives easier" I leave for the reader to determine.
Posted by: JB | November 6, 2009 7:18 PM

I think both will make my life better.


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