Well, check out the below excerpt from [http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,1706303,00.html|a February 10, 2006 article] at http://film.guardian.co.uk and maybe you'll think he rocks, too:
Clooney is sufficiently battle-hardened these days to shrug it off when people have a go at him. "I was at a party the other night and it was all these hardcore Republicans and these guys are like, 'Why do you hate your country?' I said, 'I love my country.' They said, 'Why, at a time of war, would you criticise it then?' And I said, 'My country right or wrong means women don't vote, black people sit in the back of buses and we're still in Vietnam. My country right or wrong means we don't have the New Deal.' I mean, what, are you crazy? My country, right or wrong? It's not your right, it's your duty. And then I said, 'Where was I wrong, schmuck?' In 2003 I was saying, where are the ties [between Iraq] and al-Qaida? Where are the ties to 9/11? I knew it; where the fuck were these Democrats who said, 'We were misled'? That's the kind of thing that drives me crazy: 'We were misled.' Fuck you, you weren't misled. You were afraid of being called unpatriotic."
That rocks.
I wish he would say that kind of thing more loudly so people in this country could hear him.
The article ends with:
He hopes that both it and Good Night, and Good Luck will nudge him into the tradition of the great campaigning film-makers of the 1960s and 1970s - "Sidney Lumet, Alan Pakula, Hal Ashby, Kubrick." He is having the time of his life now; everything that came before was just prologue. "I've taken on my dad's battles. I'm fighting the fights that he fought. Oh, it's trouble," he grins. "Trouble big-time."
Hey George, I got a script or eight for ya if you're interested! ;)
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