Poor Donald Trump!

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 21:03:00 +0000

Donald Trump, a television character in a 1980s-era satirical dystopian future SciFi movie, was supposed to have a big "surprise" on Monday at this week's RNC, which he wasn't invited to (he says otherwise but he is delusional), but then the Republicans were "forced" to cancel because of Hurricane Isaac. And they didn't reschedule it.

What they did make time for at the convention included a song by the guy your grandma liked on "American Idol" a few years back, a speech by former Hooters promoter Connie Mack and an old man yelling at a chair.

The old man yelling at the chair was, of course, legendary American actor and director Clint Eastwood, who was invited because I think the organizers assumed he wasn't as crazy as every single other Republican celebrity, but then he went and did the craziest thing of the week. (I don't think Eastwood is crazy, actually. He's just ... eccentric.)

That had to be particularly galling, for Donald. This totally unvetted rambling piece of absurdist theater got prime billing right before the nominee, but the dumb video he made was just ignored completely.

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Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:56:00 +0000

According to The Washington Post, Jon Voight has replaced Charlton Heston as the dean of Hollywood Republicans. The 73-year-old Oscar winner describes himself as a party "cheerleader," after being an ardent conservative for most of his life. Voight told The Post:

“The Hollywood community is historically conservative,” he said. “All the people that I so admired growing up were very patriotic and loved the country.” But then came the left-wing “nonsense” of the 1960’s, which Voight admits he also got caught up in it. “I’m quite ashamed of it, actually. . . I know as much as anybody about this stuff and I know how poisonous it is.”

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Poor Donald Trump!

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