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What a shame Voight's made a 100% turn-around


The arch-conservative we see today has barely a remote semblance to the Jon Voight of Conrack where his physical resemblance and similarities of weltanschauung were to Robert Redford were so striking. Gone is the soft-spoken humanist and what we have left is a distasteful right-wing idiot, even if his thespian skills are so well honed.

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Gee, don't get choked on that arrogance! But, your arrogance and ugly condescension does make you a good far left idiot. Voight was an 'actor' playing a liberal although I realize, in the liberal world, you don't deal in facts.

"If I don't suit chu, you kin cut mah thoat!"

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Be fair. I ran into a conservative on IMDB that claimed that James Stewart would never have played the role of George Bailey on "It's a Wonderful Life", if the character of George were a Liberal. Yes, he actually said that. Yes, actually ridiculous as hell. Same as what you said about Voight--Stewart was acting.

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'Voight was an 'actor' playing a liberal although I realize, in the liberal world, you don't deal in facts.'

Voight was not playing a liberal. He was an arch liberal himself in real life.

He also did too much drugs during that time which screwed his brains up and hence he has become a conservative!

It's that man again!!

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He's still a fine actor. Political views did not change his physical appearance. Perhaps you're a bit too politically biased yourself that you can't appreciate the craft of acting?

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Yeah Voight would even admit he was a liberal. He's changed drastically to a person his old friends and kids don't recognize.

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It kind of makes sense of his strained relationship with his daughter now.

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That's sad, because usually, people lighten up and get softer with old age.

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I do not know Jon Voigt personally. I think that in his role he was basically a southern white man who was trying to do his best and teach the kids lesson about how to survive in a changing World. He was hardly a hippy. In addition, I think there are a lot of people who are not right wing conservatives who think that the direction this Nation is going is not the same as what it was claimed to be decades ago. There has been an incredible loss in moral imperatives, and in its place political partisanship and narrow mindedness. Many intelligent people have gotten sick and tired of phony "political correctness", and that does not make us right wing conservatives.

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You do understand the Republican party is the party of Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, equal rights, freeing the slaves, supporting civil rights, etc. I know you have spoon fed the lie by teachers and Hollywood that the Democrat party are the ones for equal rights and anti slavery but that is wrong. The Democrat party was the party of the KKK and slavery and were often against civil rights, Democrats changed to pander much more to minorities and have gov take care of them for lifelong votes and while it has worked for the votes it has not worked out well for minorities to be so dependent on gov/Democrats. The men who shot JFK and Martin Luther Kind were communist Democrats. Jon Voight being a conservative would be the likely party for that character.

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It's like you weren't even alive in 1964, and/or have never read about what happened when our Democratic president, Lyndon B. Johnson, signed the Civil Rights Act. Up until John F. Kennedy became president, what you said was true. After Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, the stupid racist Democrats in that party, left it in droves and joined the Republican party. In return, Liberal Republicans left their own party in droves, and joined the Democratic party.
PS. Martin Luther King Jr never claimed either the Republican or Democratic Parties. He voted for the candidates he felt were most effective, and they were usually Democrats. He said that black people had been betrayed by both the Republican and Democratic parties.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.#Politics

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The Democrats threw the racists out of their party from about 1960-70.

The Republicans were happy to take them in and make them feel at home.



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4) You ever seen Superman $#$# his pants? Case closed.

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The arch-conservative we see today has barely a remote semblance to the Jon Voight of Conrack where his physical resemblance and similarities of weltanschauung were to Robert Redford were so striking. Gone is the soft-spoken humanist and what we have left is a distasteful right-wing idiot, even if his thespian skills are so well honed.


I was saying basically the same thing to a friend the other day. She didn't agree with me. It's good to know someone else sees it.

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I would have to do a little reading on this, but he may be just an independent minded who doesn't necessarily vote the party line like much of Hollywood. Doesn't mean he's a racist. He was very convincing as a good hearted teacher and human being in this movie. He did leave his family, including his infant daughter, Angelina, within a couple of years after this movie was made. Sad. He has been trying to reconcile with her for years though.

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There is nothing independent minded about Voight. He was liberal with a capital L. He hung around with liberal radicals. He admits to it. He made Coming Home with Jane Fonda when she was a pariah to some because of her stance on Vietnam.

Voight was also a fervent environmentalist as well. A guy known in Hollywood as a bit of a do-gooder.

He also did reconcile with his daughter Jolie but it did not last long. The catalyst seems to be his switch to be a right winger which seemed to be so sudden.

It's that man again!!

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