Jon Voight

[[File:Jon Voight 20061212173130.jpg|thumb|right|165px|Jon Voight, 2006. "...anal retentive with what looks like a serious Vitamin-D deficiency." Daniel Leon Zavitz (Jason Lee) in the film <i>Enemy of the State</i> describing the face of Thomas Brian Reynolds (Jon Voight). Spot-on description Zavitz!]]{{film}}{{cquote|<p>Voight was the master of ceremonies at the GOP fundraising dinner last night. And they may not have raised all the money they wanted, but they were strong on Obama-hating. Listen to Voight. </p><blockquote><p>Obama really thinks he is a soft-spoken Julius Caesar.  He thinks he‘s going to conquer the world with his soft-spoken sweet talk and really thinks he‘s going to bring all the enemies of the world into a little playground where they‘ll swing each other back and forth.</p><p>We and we alone are the right frame of mind to free this nation from this Obama oppression.  Let‘s give thanks to them for not giving up and staying the course, to bring an end to this false prophet, Obama.</p></blockquote><p>Even their lines of attack are old. Obama has built a cult-like following? <b>We’ve got a president dealing with health care, a crisis on banking and auto and housing, and working to get the economy going again. Six hundred thousand jobs in the next three months to get Americans back to work by the end of the summer. And this is what they’ve got? That’s how they raise money. More Obama bashing and hating. They hate the man.</b> Let me say this one more time.  Question mark. Where are the ideas? Now they’re playing the Bible card on us again. That’s “Psycho Talk.”</p>|||Ed Schultz in the "Psycho Talk" segment of the June 10, 2009, edition of MSNBC's <i>The Ed Show</i><ref>[https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna31205888 'The Ed Show' for Tuesday, June 9]. ''NBC News'', 10 July 2009.</ref>}}

'''Jon Voight''' (b. December 29, 1938 in Yonkers, New York) is an American Academy Award-winning actor. At the age of 30, he got his big break acting alongside Dustin Hoffman in the 1969 classic film ''Midnight Cowboy''. His next big films were ''Deliverance'' in 1972, ''Conrack'' in 1974, ''Coming Home'' in 1978 and ''Runaway Train'' in 1985. He later appeared in ''Heat'' (1995), ''Mission Impossible'' (1996), ''Anaconda'' (1997), ''Enemy of the State'' (1998), ''Varsity Blues'' (1999) and ''Ali'' (2001).<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000685/ IMDB on Voight]</ref> He is the estranged father of actress and U.N. Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie.

==Political antics==
{{cquote|"Well, you think about it, Ethan (Hunt), it was inevitable. No more cold war. No more secrets you keep from everyone but yourself. Operations you answer to no one but yourself. Then one day, you wake up and find out the President of The United States is running the country without your permission. The son of a bitch, how dare he. Then you realize, it's over. You are an obsolete piece of hardware, not worth upgrading, you got a lousy marriage, and 62 grand a year."|||Voight's character Jim Phelps in 1996's ''Mission: Impossible''. He's obviously no longer just playing a part.....}}
Although his acting skills cannot be disputed, Voight is one of the dumbest celebrities there is. An anti-war, counter-cultural lefty in the sixties and seventies, he later converted to [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholicism]] and joined the [[Wingnut|Dark Side of the Force]]. In 2007, on [[Bill O'Reilly]]'s laughable excuse for a show, he chastised anyone with enough brainpower to see [[George W. Bush]] as the abysmal failure that he was. Voight defended the inept President, saying he he had a heavy heart to hear people say "quite unthinkable" things about Bush. You know, things like Bush's insistence on driving up the national debt, his using [[9/11]] as pretext to start a war in an oil-rich nation, his blind eye to America's crumbling healthcare system, his inability to catch Bin Laden, his ignorance to the reality of [[climate change]], his refusal to contribute much-needed funds for stem-cell research, etc. In other words, Voight must have had his head up his ass the whole time, not only for chastising people because they were exercising their democratic right to free speech, but for defending the most incompetent President since [[James Buchanan]]. But Voight wasn't done there. After defending Bush, he turned to slandering [[Nancy Pelosi]] and slandering the Democratic presidential candidate [[Barack Obama]].<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/09/voight-obama-bringing-us_n_213531.html HuffPost: Jon Voight: Obama "Bringing Us To Chaos And Socialism"]</ref>

In a screed published in a [[Neoconservatism|neocon]] rag ''[[The Washington Times]]'' in July 2008, Voight went on a paranoid nonsensical rant about [[Red-baiting|anti-war activists in his youth]] led to the [[Khmer Rouge]], how [[Barack Obama]] would create a socialist nation and that America would be made weaker with his election. Not only did Voight provide no basis for these outrageous claims, he again failed to acknowledge the fact that Bush had already made America weaker and unpopular around the world. Voight continued his whining and bitching, complaining that [[CNN]] (that's right, ''CNN'') was being partisan in their reporting of the 2008 Vice Presidential debate between [[Joe Biden]] and [[Sarah Palin]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/28/voight/ |newspaper=The Washington Times |title=My Concerns for America |date=July 28, 2008 |access-date=July 30, 2008}}</ref>

In 2009, with his acting career in the toilet, he clearly became the GOP's unofficial spokesman, slandering Obama wherever he went, while singing the praises of [[Ann Coulter]], [[Glenn Beck]], [[Michelle Malkin]], [[Sean Hannity]] and blowhard [[Bill O'Reilly]]. In August, he said President Obama was taking away "[[Argumentum ex culo|God's first gift to man, our free will]]" simply because Obama wanted to insure the uninsured. In November he asked a crowd of knuckle-dragging [[Tea Party|teabaggers]] a question about whether Barack Obama had received "20 years of subconscious programming by Reverend Wright to 'damn America'". ABC's Cokie Roberts called Voight's performance "cringemaking". She was absolutely right. Even conservative columnist George Will condemned Voight's disgraceful actions. One certainly cannot blame Angelina for wanting nothing to do with this clown.

In 2016, the inevitable happened and Voight has gone on a Super PAC bus tour in support of [[Donald Trump]]. Following Trump's loss at the 2020 presidential elections, Voight repeated the [[big lie]] that Biden stole the election, that the USA is engaged in "our greatest fight since the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] – the battle of righteousness versus [[Satan]], because these [[Fun:Liberal boogeyman|leftists are evil]], corrupt, and they want to tear down this nation," and called for his supporters to stop the certification of Biden as President-elect. [[2021 U.S. coup attempt|Oops!]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/525454-jon-voight-says-fighting-lie-biden-won-is-greatest-fight-since |title=Jon Voight says fighting 'lie' Biden won is 'greatest fight since the Civil War' |first=Sarah |last=Polus |work=The Hill |date=November 11, 2020 |access-date=November 28, 2020}}</ref>

In 2022, Voight experience a rare [[stopped clock]] moment, calling for greater [[gun control]] legislation and background checks following the Robb Elementary School shooting.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kika |first1=Thomas |title=Trump ally Jon Voight calls for "proper qualifications for gun ownership" |url=https://www.newsweek.com/trump-ally-jon-voight-calls-proper-qualifications-gun-ownership-1711141 |website=Newsweek |access-date=29 May 2022 |language=en |date=28 May 2022}}</ref>

==External links==
*[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000685/ Jon Voight on IMDb]
*[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/JonVoight Jon Voight] on [[TV Tropes]]
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