Jon Voight: Yet Another Persecuted Hollywood Conservative

So apparently we're all supposed to hate Jon Voight, all us pinkos. Hope you got the memo. I'd missed it and so thank K-Lo for the heads-up. As she intones, "It's tough to be conservative in Hollywood." Apparently Jon Voight is a conservative and therefore has suffered worse than anyone HUAC ever went after back in the day. See, look at Voight's IMDB page. It is a record of indescribable human suffering. Waterboarding would be kinder.

Though, on the other hand, the man was in Anaconda of his own free will. So I have no sympathy. None.

This all seems to have some damn thing to do with Voight's recent op-ed in the Washington Times, which really is awesome and excellent all-around, but this brief extract gives the full flavor:

If Mr. Obama had his way, he would have pulled our troops from Iraq years ago and initiated an unprecedented bloodbath, turning over that country to the barbarianism of our enemies.

So he's a gin-soaked elderly grouchy right-wing lunatic. Fair enough. I bear no grudges. At least he won't show up at my family reunions, has an Academy Award, and probably can afford to have someone trundle him home after he passes out on the couch after scaring the piss out of the toddlers. And anyway that's better writing than usually appears at the Washington Times. I think he would make an excellent ass-kickin' Horshack in Return of the Kotter: The Kottering. Blacklists be darned!