I would have found it hard to believe that there was any
other public figure as vile and mean spirited as Donald Trump, but James Woods'
recent and not so recent tweets have me wondering.
I have a friend who from time to time will send me politically oriented things which are from his Far Right point of view, and recently among them was a (forwarded, as always, never original) meme of Woods replete with some of his more pungent statements, almost all extremely derogatory to our President, Barack Obama. (Boy I love to write that!) The conclusion was that 1: Because Woods was studying Political Science when he dropped out of college, he's pretty smart, and 2: That (I guess) studying Poly Sci makes one an authority on matters political, regardless of one's eventual occupation.
Without my bothering to actually cite much of them, the gist is : Woods bitches about taxes and what really seemed to trigger his bile was the 2013 government shutdown, which apparently only Woods and Ted Cruz think was Obama's fault. Moreover his rants re: taxes seem misadvised because while Reagan (a Woods icon) was in the Oval Office, tax rates were higher than at present, even after the lapsing of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy! Add to that Woods' apparent efforts to make himself an object of pity by stating, as if he were St. Stephen facing rock throwers, that he'd "probably never work in Hollywood again", notwithstanding the fact that he's a truly unattractive 66 year old man in a young man's business for the most part.
So let's judge him in his own words. In 2008 and 2009, Woods managed just one minor movie role in each year, actually being billed below Gary Coleman in 2008's "American Carol" (Obama was just a candidate then, so....?.) in 2009, his sole industry effort was an uncredited cameo as a security guard in one episode of iCarly (It is worth mentioning that this was already shot before Obama took the oath of office). So, he'd have to sink pretty fast to fare worse than he already was!
In 2013, after 4 years of Obama (not) jinxing his career, Woods was in 4 films and was a semi regular on a TV series, Ray Donovan . Get this clear; he worked five times as often in 2013 than 2008 or 9! In 2013 he also began trolling the President on a semi daily basis spewing vile and racist comments at will, claiming that "he wouldn't be able to work anymore", presumably because "they" (liberals in Hollywood, I assume) wouldn't hire him. In 2014 Woods had a starring role (first since 2006) in "Jamesy Boy", a highly regarded Indy film. Throughout this period he has also done lots of voice acting roles. Woods currently has one animated feature in the can and is a regular voice actor in a new series in production. Apparently "they" haven't heard. Or perhaps more likely, "they" just don't care in the same way that progressives didn't boycott Eastwood after his RNC empty chair performance. Can you say Paranoid?
Oh, but wait
how about the outcry over Bradley Cooper attending the DNC? How could he do that,
after portraying everyone's favorite decorated
hero and pathological liar, Chris Kyle? Now, let's be honest here. who's
objective and who succumbs to railing sycophants spewing hatred and venom? It sure
isn't "them" in Hollywood.
Woods just seems to get more bitter as his
face sags further. As for my friend's claim that we should consider Woods
credible "because he studied Political Science," I would caution,
after I stop laughing, that the following also studied Political Science:
Both Clintons, President Obama, Vice President Biden, Condoleeza Rice, Christopher
Hitchens, Woodrow Wilson and many
others who actually completed their degrees vice dropping out. But lest we pull a Trump and use labels indiscriminately,
here are some more Poly Sci majors: Jerry Springer, Rupert Murdoch, Bernie
Maddoff, Alec Baldwin, Mia Hamm, Larry (toe tapper) Craig (ex- Senator),Riz
Ahmad (comedian), Vinny Guadagnino (cast of Jersey Shore), Elizabeth Shue, and
others. So, my friend, if a Poly Sci major makes anyone an authority or someone to be
admired, why not pick Bernie Maddoff? At least we know where he is all the time.
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