Robert Downey Jr.'s Conservative Beliefs Need No Explanation Says Robert Downey Jr.
David Carr's profile of Robert Downey Jr. in the New York Times featured a gold medal winning anecdote about Downey showing up two hours late for a meeting with a director, barefoot and carrying a shotgun. ROBERT DOWNEY JR. FOR PRESIDENT OF CRAZY. So good. I wish Robert Downey Jr. was my dad. But it also included a small side note on Robert Downey Jr.'s politics that I have spent the past day trying to parse out, with no success.
"I have a really interesting political point of view, and it's not always something I say too loud at dinner tables here, but you can't go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary and really understand it and come out a liberal. You can't. I wouldn't wish that experience on anyone else, but it was very, very, very educational for me and has informed my proclivities and politics every since."
Wait, what? Why can't you? Because of the Nation of Islam?
As someone who hasn't spent any time in either La Mirage or a penitentiary, I guess I have to defer to President Shotgun, but I do love when people present their political choices as inevitabilities beyond their control. "Obviously, if you had experienced the things that I have as a wealthy celebrity forced to suffer the legal consequences of my untreated drug addiction, you too would realize that it's impossible to have a progressive fiscal policy geared towards helping the nation's poor rather than just benefiting the rich, and of course the 30-foot-wall along the Mexican border wouldn't even be up for fucking discussion. Open your eyes, hippies! I'm Iron Man!"
Posted by Gabe at 10:36 AM in Politics
Tags: Estate Tax | Iron Man | Robert Downey Jr.
Haven't you ever heard "A conservative is a liberal that's been mugged"? Now substitute prison stuff for mugged. Presto.
He's just looking for attention, btw. Pay no attention to his Chuck Norris-ish-ness.
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this is unrelated, but did you guys hear they are making the Iron Man trailer into a movie? I'm worried...
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this is unrelated, but did you guys hear they are making the Iron Man trailer into a movie? I'm worried...
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He's a victim of circumstance! See here you're pulling the CLASSIC libtard move of blaming the victim for his or her personal choices.
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Can a convicted felon legally carry a weapon?
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i have seen your movie and, it was the best i like it, also Downey is the best actress in his movie LOL !!!!
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All this liberal compassion is leaving a taste in my mouth.
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Downey may have left prison no longer a liberal, but he apparently was still willing to donate to the Democratic National Committee in 2004.
http://images.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/fecimg/?24981630900
(Two different "write to a celebrity" websites identify that New York address as Robert Downey Jr.'s. Possibly they have him confused with Robert Downey Sr.)
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Downey may have left prison no longer a liberal, but he apparently was still willing to donate to the Democratic National Committee in 2004.
http://images.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/fecimg/?24981630900
(Two different "write to a celebrity" websites identify that New York address as Robert Downey Jr.'s. Possibly they have him confused with Robert Downey Sr.)
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Gabe,
I agree, I don't see the connection Downey is trying to make. But if it somehow makes sense in his little mind, and keeps him off the hooch, that's great. I just hope he does not believe he can hang out with a bunch of conservatives. I think his "Jewish-Buddhist" religious beliefs are what would have to worry about saying too loud at dinner tables. Maybe he can find a group of "Jewish-Buddist" conservatives! Good luck to him.
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