Iraq War Showdown: Bill Kristol Agrees to Debate Matt Damon After Actor’s “Idiot” Slam
by Andrew BreitbartOn Sunday afternoon Weekly Standard editor and New York Times columnist Bill Kristol — in an email exchange with Big Hollywood — agreed to debate Matt Damon on his Hollywood home turf after being informed the 38-year old actor ridiculed Kristol in an interview in the Miami Herald.
“He’s an idiot — he wrote that we should be grateful to George Bush because he won the Iraq war. We! Won! The! War!”
As the sponsor of the event, Big Hollywood is offering $100,000 to Damon (or to the charity or carbon credit of his choice) to publicly debate Kristol at a mutually agreed upon time, date and venue.
During the last election cycle the liberal activist Damon — who briefly attended Harvard University — also heaped scorn on John McCain’s vice presidential pick, Sarah Palin:
“You do the actuary tables, there’s a one out of three chance, if not more, that McCain doesn’t survive his first term, and it’ll be President Palin…. It’s like a really bad Disney movie, ‘The Hockey Mom.’ Oh, I’m just a hockey mom from Alaska, and she’s president. She’s facing down Vladimir Putin and using the folksy stuff she learned at the hockey rink. It’s absurd.”
Damon is no stranger to left-wing politics. His Oscar-nominated screenplay, “Good Will Hunting,” co-written with Ben Affleck, was inspired by anarchist Boston University historian, Howard Zinn.
According to Wikipedia:
Damon included a reference to A People’s History in his film Good Will Hunting. In a confrontation with his psychologist, played by Robin Williams, Damon’s character tells him: “If you want to read a real history book, read Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. That book will knock you on your ass.” Damon also read the latter half of People’s History for an audiobook released February 1, 2003.
If Damon agrees to participate, Big Hollywood will work with both parties to secure mutually agreed upon parameters for the debate (e.g., Did We Win the War in Iraq?)
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Kristol will embarrass him
It’s hard enough to take Damon serious as an actor, let alone as an expert on foreign policy. Trey Parker and Matt Stone be proud.
Wow–we just found out Matt Damon is an imbecilic ass. What a surprise.
Damon never agree’s to this as he would get his butt kicked. Right or wrong, he would get his butt kicked.
C’mon, Damon! You’ve been called out!
That would be great. But it won’t happen Damon has no GUTS.
He knows he would be beaten at every corner.
I love to see it happen.
Damon will be a no show.
He just likes taking cheap shots.
He can’t take rebuttal.
(Oooops, that’s most liberals)
Matt,
You are a meat puppet, not a thinker. Shut up and act. If you keep running your yap, I will not be opening my wallet for your work.
And yes Matt, you do have the right to free speach. This is not about your right.
Citizen Soldier
It will never happen. Liberals will only debate other liberals about their ideals, and even then it is only to reinforce them.
C’mon now! Who in there right mind (and in all honesty) wouldn’t want Sarah Palin to be President over Joe (Make It Up As You Go Along) Biden?
Damon will never show up. Hollywood celebutards never follow thru on stuff like that, if it’s a debate, or promissing to move to Canada, they never follow thru.
Bill Kristol forgot rule #4: Never argue with an idiot–people watching may not be able to tell the difference.
Unlike the nightmare film that a corrupt in-experienced politician from Chicago becoming president? It’s a tough choice.
It’s really amazing that dopes like Damon make anti-government movies and yet want the government to take care of everyone?
Wow, talk about a mis-match! Bill Kristol will pulvarize the little boy with a big mouth (Matt Damon)- can’t miss this one!! This will be like taking candy from a baby…LOL!
Another Hollyweird loudmouth that has no clue about the world. Who gives a F what Matt Demented thinks?.
Maybe Damon should get the new “Duh! Moment” on planetconfusion.com, but then it’s hard to be Pelosi. Damon has shown what an ass he is by calling people idiots when he knows nothing about them. The guy is not very smart if he can’t allow someone else to have an opinion opposite of his own. I feel for his wife and offspring. Maybe he shouldn’t be reproducing.
Matt Damon lives in a world of fantasy. He opens his mouth before he turns on his brain. Bush has forever changed the middle east by freeing millions of Iraqis from murder, torture, rape, and genocide. If we’d done this years ago in Iran and Syria as well, maybe, just maybe, the middle east would be a better section of the world. If we’d done the same thing prior to WWII we wouldn’t have had the “holocaust.”
Damon would rather sit in his Hollywood mansion drinking the liberal’s favorite Kool-aid flavor — ignorance.
Sounds great! I would love to see Matt Damon rip this guy apart. I respect Bill Kristol, but I honestly think in a debate Matt would win. Also, we have a long way to go before we declare victory. I think next we should have Dick Cheny vs. Bono.
Kristol IS an idiot. If you really want a debate that sizzles, have Damon debate Rush Limbaugh. THAT would be a debate Damon doesn’t want to get near!!!
Damon, you got served!!!
There is no way he’ll show. Actors, by definition, pretend to be other people and spew other peoples words…that is their skill. If Damon showed up, he could only go so far on lib talking points and sarcasm. Kristol would EMBARRASS him.
Matt Damon shamed, I’d pay to see that.
C’mon Damon step up to the challenge… don’t be a sound-bite wussy.
This should be interesting to see – since Bill will knock Damon a latch or two. Ignorance is no excuse for Damon – but then again he’s an actor and maybe he has his roles confused.
Damon the disgrace will wimp out. Bet on it.
I would prefer these Hollywood celiberals to keep their opinions to themselves ON subjects they know very little of or nothing at all.
If one know certain subjects well, opine away.
If this actually happens it will be something I want to get a permanent copy of. It won’t happen of course. Matt Damon will never agree to this. I doubt his courage extends beyond a movie script. Matt, prove us wrong.
…ian ferguson…
i don’t know anyone in this town who thinks he really wrote good will hunting.
apparently i keep posting comments too fast?
There is no way in hell that Damon will ever show up. Celebutards never follow thru on stuff like that, if it’s debating, or threatening to move to Canada, if their candidate dosn’t win, they never follow thru.
Maybe someday one of them will, it would be great for the rest of us.
Kristol will be embarrassed debating ANYONE informed. He is another right wing chickenhawk who lies like a rug
Bill Kristol may have a pedigree, but he has no balls. It is hilarious to watch Kriston beat his little girlie-man chest when he talks about America winning the war in Iraq!
None of Kristol’s children signed up to fight in either Afghanistan or Iraw.
My two son’s are fighting in Iraq and one will be shipping out to Kabul shortly.
From what my son’s tell me, all American troops are totally PUMPED about President Obama! They all hated GWBush, America’s first truly pansie POTUS!
I would love to see Bill Kristol rip out his tongue, and beat him over the head with it!
Kristol will take ‘lil Matt to the woodshed the same way Cheney slaped around that colmpete moron John Edwards in their debate.
Damon’s statement on Mr. Kristol is carried in The Miami Herald interview. Inevitably, the quote will be picked up as a common narrative in news outlets plugged into the AP and Reuters. Our job is to make sure that this debate challenge receives corresponding media exposure. My bet is that Matt Damon will never have the guts to acknowledge this challenge.
Damon has proved that he can act as a sniper from afar. Let’s see if he can handle the close-quarters combat as well. Where his skills and knowledge will truly be tested.
Hmm… Someone better let Kristol know the old addage…
“Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level – and then beat you with experience.”
I hope they do debate and I hope they do show it on TV. Then all the brainwashed, people-worshipping liberals can see the difference between fantasy and reality.
Matt Damon won’t know what hit him, will never know what hit him; but will FEEL that he won the debate because he be more smarter activister with adoring fans.
Damon won’t debate. His mouth is bigger than his brain.
Matt Damon is a sad, uneducated, poorly informed Hollywood Communist. The poor imbecile will get eaten alive by Bill Kristol.
Only a fool would promote Howard Zinn’s anti-American, pro-Communist “history” book.
Poor Matt Damon, he does not know that Communism has murdered many more millions of people than any other ideology in the world!
Matt, what do you say to Mao Tsung’s revolution, the communist revolution in Russia, etc? The Nazis, an equally evil ideology, murdered about 20 million human beings. Communism has caused the death of over 100 million human beings.
and yes we won the Iraq War!
It is time to boycott imbeciles like Matt Damon and the rest of the uneducated, poorly informed, hate America Hollyweirds.
Matt Damon will get beat down so hard that Sarah Silverman keels over. Maaaaaaaaaaaaaat Daaaaaaaaaamon!
In a real-world debate between pretend-smart and actually-smart, Damon would be like the Texas girl’s basketball game where the coach got fired for winning 100-0.
It would be like me playing chess against Kasparov.
Sandy
How about matt “the midget brain” damon vs. Sarah Palin?
Since when is Howard Zinn an anarchist?
Damon is a determined, gifted, and well trained leftist agitator who is, unlike Kristol, totally and deeply devoted to his “cause”. If Damon lived in a country like Soviet Union, he would be in their Politburo by now (if it still existed).
Failed lefto-socialist ideologies survived for so long, hurting tens of millions of innocent people, because of people of Matt Damon’s mentality.
So, beware of Matt Damons.
Good god, I got directed to this propaganda page by Drudge again. I have to be more careful which ridiculous right-wing bloviation he links to on his “news” page.
On topic, I would like to see Kristol and Damon debate. It’s a bad time for right-wingers in general, so the enormous non-conservative majority of this nation needs to see you people crawl out from under your rocks and defend your ideas. Like Bush’s tremendous “win” in Iraq.
Matt should stay in his tiny world of make believe, and leave reality to those who can deal with it.
This should be good.
Let’s stop supporting these obnoxious juveniles and hypocrites. It has been years since our family saw a movie in the theater (other than the United flight movie) and we ONLY rent from Family Video, $1.00 for a week. I help at the night shelter, while they spend thousands of $$s on stuff for their dogs. Unthinking hypocrites.
And yes, I’ll take Sarah Palin (PTA/City Council/Mayor/Governor) over Joe Biden (a national hair-plugging, plagerizing joke for 30 years who is “saving” his Senate seat for his son) any day.
LOL. This is like bringing a knife to a gun fight. Per usual, Hollywood comes to the table with no facts, just vitriole. Time waster for Kristol.
Damon’s another celebretard, Kristol will eat his lunch and dinner.
That’s all these uneducated entertainers (I use that term loosely)can do is traffic in ad hominum attacks. They don’t live in reality, they have no integrity. Really, who cares what they think. In the end, the only thing that makes any impression on them is box office numbers. Stay away from their “product.”
Get a grip Bill…you’re wasting your time with these leftist idiots like Matt Damon!! Matt’s just like the rest of those Hollyweird nut-jobs.
I can understand you wanting to make him look like a fool, but come on Bill, get a grip… dont waste your time!! Go tell Matt to “sit on it and spin” and go debate someone with real intellectual “cahones” and not this stupid weirdo leftist dud!!!!
Acting is so easy even a child can act! Imagine if you came to work to find a 5 year old in the desk next to you. Hey, who’s the guy with the sippy cup?!?! This would be fun to watch.
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I’d also pay good money to see this interview. Matt Damon would stammer more than Obama does. But, alas, I doubt Damon will do it.
HAHAHAH!
If Matt doesn’t chicken out (99% he will due to “not being able to agree on parameters) then this will be Hollywood’s great awakening.
Just because you are rich and play politicians and government agents in movies doesn’t mean you have a damn clue about what is going on.
Please Matt – don’t weasel out. Prove to us all that Left Hollywood is as dumb as we thought.
I will pay $100 pay per view to watch this. Maybe he can have Alec and Tina there too? I am sure Bill would go 3 on 1 with no objection.
Hey Matt this is what you were BOURNE to do! You are living in a fantasy world. Time for a reality check. I bet you are too intellectually weak to accept the invitation.
You act/memorize lines for a living, why does that give you the right to dictate policies to us? The Palin statement was absurd. You want a REAL person to lead you, only if they are in YOUR party. I am so tired of stage clowns/entertainers ACTing like they matter! Shut UP dude, entertain us or move along, IDIOT…….
Sorry, but my perception of MMMMMatt Daymonnnnnn is forever warped after viewing an excellent character representation of him on TEAM AMERICA.
It would be a waste of Mr. Kristol’s time, but it would be so deliciously enjoyable to watch Damon’s head melt from the sheer intellectual capacity of Kristol’s genius, mixed oh so much more with his tonsorial prowess.
The true winner would be if Damon actually picks a real charity, like Toys for Tots, instead of some worthless garbage bag carbon BS program, like $’s to Gore or something like that.
I would give Damon about four or five minutes before he gets a mental lashing and an in-depth lesson in geopolitical studies. Kristol should charge him for that, unless he feels sorry for reducing Damon into a puddle of fecal-like waste.
Hopefully the rest of the turgid lefty hollywoodheads will not be at the debate. If so, could I attend? If I can attend, will you be inspecting my trenchcoat for rotten tomatoes or cabbages?
I sure hope Damon agrees to this. If it means catching a flight to Siberia, I want to see it in person. Kristol will own that obnoxious little wuss.
a chimpanzee could defeat kristol in a debate bush’s record over the past 8 years speaks for itself…. an utter shambles and you idiotic tunnel visioned right wing republicans should be ashamed of yourselves and deported you’re scum!
Matt would win. Kristol has been wrong about EVERY prediction he has ever made. Maybe he will make an accurate prediction in the future though.
Maybe Bill should get down on Matt’s level and “triple dog dare” him…
Damon will not debate. He is nothing without the security of not being challenged. Just like the other “idiot” liberal “actors” who fool the masses with their ability to pretend to be intelligent people.
I am not interested in the opinions of people who play, “Let’s pretend,” for a living.
Look, I say stupid things often and I consider myself of above average intelligence. But I don’t have the audience that Matt Damon has. If I did I’d watch what I say a bit more.
I’m a huge Bourne fan. But Matt should just apologize and eats some humble pie. He is probably smarter than the average bear but he’d be no match for Kristol. Count me in that crowd that is tired of celebrities spouting off as if the rest of us should care. Their opinions mean nothing to me. Kristol’s opinion doesn’t mean a lot to me either but it certainly means more than any celebrity.
The real insult from these celebrities is that they asssume any of us care what they think. And the real fear I have is that a few people actually do care what celebrities think.
Kristol just got whacked by the NY Times… appears he isn’t good enough to write there any more. Bring it on Damon…!
“I think next we should have Dick Cheny vs. Bono.”
Don’t know if that’d go off- Bono is on record saying that Bush has done more for Africa (a major cause of St. Bono of Dublin) than any other president in history.
“Damon went to Harvard? Heh! You are joking, right?”
Don’t know if I believe it either, unless working as a public services employee on campus constitutes “going” to a school.
Assuming though that this empty skulled dolt did attend Harvard at some point, it immediately degrades the intellectual creds of the empty suit infesting the white house. And for el damon del stupido – they already did that movie- it was called “A Face in the Crowd”.
MAAAAT DAAAAAY-MON.
Bill will kick his puck ass. Bet he won’t agreet to the debate.
It’s going to be interesting to watch an liberal actor take on a Conservative journalist. I think many here are underestimating just how quick/witty an actor can be in front of an audience. Damon will win not because of his answers but how eloquently he answers questions and how cool he looks while answering the questions. If you only listen to the debate on the radio you will likely think Kristol wins, but that will not be the case, it will be viewed on TV and you tube. If Damon loses, he is just a liberal actor, if Kristol loses, the conservative movement takes another beating. I think this was an ill advised endeavor by the Kristol folks.
Seriously? I am Matt Damon debating Bill Krisol? Is this some kind of joke? I mean, not to demean Matt Damon, well, actually, yes, to demean Matt Damon, Bill Kristol is a policy nut who’s been on the inside of many major decisions (not making the decisions, getting the facts of them) and has logged thousands of hours of thought, time, effort and research into the Iraq war as well as many other policies. Matt Damon, as far as I can remember, ran through the Bourne trilogy followed by an epileptic camera man. I have trouble watching embarrassing moments, even from people I don’t like. I will be hard pressed to make it through this one, but we must persevere.
Bill would make a point and wait for Damon’s reply. Being an actor Damon would wait for his line, and then ask what his motivation should be in his response.
This would be like sending out a Saturday afternoon slo-pitch team to take on the New York Yankees.
Most of the comments on here are more idiotic than anything Matt Damon has ever said. Are people actually in a position to defend the success of George Bush or the intelligence of Sarah Palin? You people are the real idiots with your us vs. them mentality. Fearmongering about ‘liberals’ and what they want.
I can see it now, Mr Kristol hands Damon his tail and finishes with…. how ya like them apples??? too funny
Damon is exactly right. Kristol is an ass, with followers who are fools.
Like others here have said, Damon won’t show up. Even his egomaniacal equal, Ben Affleck, only shows up for debate when he is guaranteed that the playing field is tilted mightily, like the times Affleck played the “big man”, by being invited by the inveterate coward and hypocrite Bill Maher to help beat up on and ridicule the religious guest Christine O’Donnell on Maher’s old show Politically Incorrect. Maher is famous for stacking three of the four seat guest deck against invitees that he is too intellectually dishonest and cowardly to debate one-on-one, and people like Affleck and even Dana Carvey are only too willing to berate Christians for daring to have beliefs that oppose theirs. People like Damon are just oversexed husks – they have no clue about anything but incessant self-promotion, narcissism and hedonism. Arrogant big mouths like Damon and Affleck and Maher are the very types of people that make the rest of the world hate Americans for having no modesty or humility. If Damon has the guts to show and attempts to debate like a grown-up at all, Kristol will mop the floor with him.
Irony:Idiots call other idiots;islamo-fascists call israeli a nazi;democrats call themselves liberals/progressives;hollywood parrots call themselves an actors…
None of these liberal Hollywood bozos, from Robert Redfort to Sean Penn to Mr. Damon here, will ever agree to debate any conservative in a truly fair and open manner. These people cannot begin to support their views with actual reason and facts; this is why they choose the “drive-by” style of debate, and that is usually in front of a friendly audience. History is against them; facts are against them; logic is against them. How exactly would they suppor their case?! “Bush lied, people died” only goes so far.
Matt is gonna look dumber than he really is if he goes through with this…(actually, he probably can’t look dumber than he really is.)
So everyone has thier opinions about Matt Damon…awesome. I think it is fun to watch an “idiot” actor incite so much rage…
So answer the question people…”Did we win the war in Iraq?”
Yeah. Thought so. Being narrow-minded has never helped anyone. I voted for Bush twice and opted for Obama this term. I feel confident in my choice because my mind is not already made-up before even hearing the issues.
Peace.
Seattleliberal, perhaps you actually do have a child in the military, if so I honor his service. But, for you to say that the soldiers serving their country at this moment hated Bush and love Obama is a complete lie. It is impossible for someone to be mistaken about this, it is obvious if you merely pay attention. I’m sure there are those who do feel this way, but that number is maybe 10 percent. So, the claim you are making is not merely a mistake it is a lie. Which makes you a liar.
But, what do you expect from a liberal, it is the liberal standard to tell the lies that further your agenda regardless of the outcome.
Perhaps we will discover that MattDamon is actually a $30 Million dollar Democrat Party debating machine. Years ago, a young MattDamon was plucked from the set of Field of Dreams (he was a spectator in the stands @ Fenway Park) by democrat operatives, brainwashed, broken down and rebuilt into a finely-tuned, radical, big-Government liberal. Hopefully, Bill Kristol will slap him upside the head, with enough facts, that MattDamon’s memory and personality will begin to return and, after this debate, he will break into the bowels of the DNC and retrieve TOP SECRET files pertaining to his surreptitious reprogramming. Before long, former DNC chairman, Terry McAuliffe will be ‘frog-marched’ before TV cameras worldwide and poor MattDamon can return to his former sane self. The End.
The only way Matt could win is if he blacked out like Will Ferrell in “Old School” when he was debating James Carville.
The moment Matty began spewing his liberal talking points, he lost a fan. I (like many other conservatives) will never pay to see another Damon movie. Kristol will mop the floor with this d-bag.
I would pay to watch Kristol take Damon apart live on National TV
Sarah Palin would take his punk ass apart as well.
Damon is nothing but a left-wing bomb-thrower.
I bet a week’s pay Damon backs out.
Give me a break, more Hollyweird “community activists” letting the less informed and ignorant mortals know what our country needs. Time will tell all with regard to how Obama and W will have handled the war on terror. Maybe Matt, Ben, Barbra, Sean and all those other liberal weirdos from never never land can form a circle and reach to the left. I hope other Americans stand up and understand how much money these freaks put behind the chosen ones in Washington. Hopefully we can salvage what is left after the debacle, I just really loved Michelle’s dress didn’t you, give me a break, who gives a flip, I want to go back to WORK!
I saw Bill Kristol speak when I was at Hillsdale College. He’s bright, and as Mr Obama said of Sean Hannity of Fox News – “he’ll tear him up”. The outcome of this should be a fantastic re-appropriation of our attention away from Hollywood’s mental midgets and towards those seeking to positively affect our society through sound policy.
Jason Bourne will cream the NEOCON zionist FAUX Noise punk. Kristol thrives on FAUX Noise/Repuglican talking points bounced off his co-talking heads on FAUX Noise. Without R.Murdock NEOCON co-horts, he would not have a job/career. His daddy is the “godfather” of Neoconservatism and he has been brainwashed with Israli, AIPAC, AEI, PNAC disinformation throughout his life. He hardly holds his own with his FAUX Noise co-horts. Damon is intelligent, a fast thinker and will clean Kristol’s clock since everything Kristol says is a lie, including “Bush won the war in Iraq”, we have not, it’s not over, it’s in limbo with the Sunnis being paid $300 per month, over 100,000 and the Shia with an imposed truce from Al Sadr, that stupid war for personal agenda and israel is nowhere near over. The Kurds want their own nation, the Shia are aliegned with Iran and the US troops are restricted to the Green Zone, as is the “Iraqi Government” made up of CIA “informants/defectors”. As “W” said, “Bring It On” Mr. Chickenhawk Kristol!
Sure, Matt Damon has the same rights as any other citizen to express his opinion. Unfortunately he, along with many other famous people, use their celebrity status as a bully pulpit from which to shove their opinions down our throats. Most of us “regular” folk don’t have the media asking our opinions about important issues on-camera. But Matt needs to understand something – just because some of the fawning media cares to hear his opinion, doesn’t mean the rest of us do.
Typical Hollywood babble…all talk no action.
I thought many lib actors in Hollywood were going to leave the country if Bush got elected? Wait, maybe they are back, now. I am SURE they left.
Kristol will hammer him with valid point, after valid point. Damon will stike back with quasi related talking points and personal attacks against Republicans. In the true spirit of a debate, Damon will score zero points and be soundly defeated but neither he, nor his “fans” who also enjoy Stewart, Maher, Letterman et al, will know it, they’ll believe he won……..And yes, Trey Parker and Matt Stone are visionaries.
will you debate paul krugman andrew ?
I can’t really understand what Damon’s saying. Is he questioning that we’ve won the war at all, or that Bush is getting the credit?
the worst of the right, and the worst of the left. i’ll pass.
Attention Jimmy Kimmel. Bill Kristol will be f-ing Matt Damon too!
Not a fan of Kristol, but Damon is too big of a joke to waste one’s time with.
And if Damon declines, the self-styled genius can only sound smart when he’s got a script to read from.
How ya like dem apples, etc.
Damon will back out…..all mouth…no guts.
Like most of the self anointed intelligentsia in Hollywood, I doubt Damon even graduated high school.
Damon could bring all the wacky left lib Hollywood freak show and Kristol would embarrass them all. In fact Kristol need not even open his mouth the Hollywood morons would take care to that themselves. That is already been well proven. Kristol would spank their pasty smarmy spoiled butts.
Man up Damon. Pull up that skirt of yours and let the world see if you actually have any balls.
It is virtually impossible for a lib to thank President Bush for anything that he did during his tenure. Like being the BIGGEST contributor to Africa in the fight against AIDS, like keeping his family safe for any further terrorist attacks on American soil. But, that is not going to happen. Would Damon ever put his ass on the front lines like our heroic military to keep this country safe? Not in this or any other life time. GOD BLESS AMERICA, PRESIDENT BUSH AND OUR MILITARY!!
That Damon references Howard Zinn’s famous work “Why I Hate America and Why You Should, Too” is a dead giveaway. Matty’s just another self-hating actor who takes his frustration out by blaming the society that made him instead of doing the world a favor and swimming out to sea.
Maybe Matt Damon will just hire William Goldman to debate for him.
Typical liberal dialogue, as evidenced by everyone from David Letterman to Joy Behar to Mika Brzezinski to Jessica Alba and on and on and on:
Q: Why don’t you watch Fox News or Bill O’Reilly?
A: Because they’re liars and racists.
Q: Can you give me just ONE example of that to support that claim?
A: Oh, I’ve never watched Fox News/Bill O’Reilly! I wouldn’t watch that crap!
Q: Then how can you make your first statement?
A: People have told me about it! And c’mon, EVERYBODY knows it anyway!
THIS is the sort of intelligence, logic and discernment we are seeing repeatedly from the masses today, so why does anyone expect Damon to know anything that he didn’t have to be told by someone else? These Hollywood idiots don’t even realize how stupid they sound when they make comments like the above to people who have the evidence at hand to refute their garbage!
WES & SEATTLELIBERAL:
I love the chicken-hawk argument as if it is something clever and cutting when in truth it is a bottom of the barrel ad hominem argument used by people that CANNONT REFUTE A POSITION. If you dont have a military service background or families currently serving, your opinion on the war is invalid. Typical of the free speech, dissent is the highest form of patriotism, fairness doctrine crowd. That logic, if you can call it that, would actually be in favor of the hawks. I’m comfortable letting the 82nd Airborne decide what to do about anti-American rouge states, are you? Considering who is in favor of rigorous CIVILIAN control of the military it is amazing the left so often repeats these arguments. The war was arrived at through representatives who, this is how it works, get to decide on all sorts of questions even if they are not experts or don’t have personal experience with whatever is at issue be it the war, economics, or the environment. Think we should help fight AIDS in Africa? Sorry, until you work a clinic in Swaziland I don’t want to hear it. Does that make sense? I’m sure Ben Franklin and Abe Lincoln, neither of which had military service, would disagree with the chicken-hawk argument. Idiots.
What is “kristol” clear to me is that Matt is out of his league with this one. Matt will be the blubbering idiot with no script.
Kristol has been wrong about so many things, he should be easy pickings.
Kristol is not an ‘idiot’-he is a delusional neocom who has been absolutely wrong with most of his pompous prognostications since before Bushster became Pres.
I watched Damon a few times on cable news discuss some issues – comes across as generally informed and can make intelligent points to support his point of view whether you agree with him or not.
Kristol generally avoids forums where he must vigorously defend his views. He usually limits himself to friendly outlets like Fox where he generally gets hosannas to all his neocon blather or merely opines to fellow traveler neocons in his vacuous columns.
$50 says Damon won’t show up! Damon’s agent must be scrambling big time to get him out of this! Damon’s going to be embarrassed and this may change the way anyone ever sees him again. As yet another stupid actor who uses their status to voice stupid thoughts.
When will they learn, we really don’t care about their opinions. We just want to watch their movies.
But I’ll enjoy seeing Damon go down in flames… I’ll be watching.
I think Bill Kristol should make a YouTube video… “I’m debating Matt Damon”.
If all 100k of charity money is set to go to abortion clinics in Mexico City and Africa…Matt Damon wouldn’t hesitate since THE Annointed ONE has opened the flood gates for funding for foreign abortion clinics.
Kristol is far from a conservative. All he cares about is Israel – he should be deported there.
Wes: What does Kristol’s history have anything to do with this debate that will not happen between himself and an insignificant actor with no talent? The fact that Damon called him an idiot called him to the debate table.
SeattleLiberal: As a Senior Noncommissioned Officer, I can assure you from personal knowledge that your sons do not speak for the majority of how the troops feel about Presidents Bush and Obama, and I find it humorous that your sons would make such statements.
Don’t you mean “ex-New York Times columnist” Bill Kristol? Maybe you missed the news that Bill got laid off today. Bush’s economy is tough for everyone, even right-wing hacks.
Spare us! Like I could give a flip what Matt Damon has to say!
Pass the popcorn! This will be sweet – Kristol will wipe the floor with Damon.
And now; we as a society have just granted the idiot savant Damon a smidgeon of credibility by even suffering his “opinions”. Our media has long been little more than an exercise in mindless novelty. Combine that with the increasing lack of thinking by the public. And here you are.
Who is Matt Damon?
I’m aware of Kristols Bio, but never read anything by this Matt Damon fellow.
Does he have any current articles, books ?
Matt Damon is a no-talent ass clown.
This is silly. For you neo-cons: Have you not seen Kristol have his clock cleaned and reality-adjusted by John Stewart every time Bill appears, Kristols is a sucker for losing debates.
Bill is Irving Kristol without the brains.
Actors don’t think or even work. They speak words others have written. When they mess up, they get infinite do-overs. They are not tough, so they have stuntmen do all the hard work. They are not skilled, so they get hand-models or fast-motion camera to make them look skilled. Hell, their only “skill” is looking good…and most use body doubles because they don’t look that good naked.
Damon wouldn’t even debate a nobody like me in public, let alone a great thinker like Kristol. Don’t get your hopes up, people.
Despite what you want to think of Damon.. He pays a bunch of taxes
What, the blind leading the blind? Kristol IS an idiot. He got EVERYTHING WRONG! The war, the “victory,” Dan Quayle, the economy…he’s notorious for getting it wrong. And Damon? oy!
No matter how this comes out, CNN/MSNBC & Co will claim Matt Damon on……So in response to matt damon donating to his favorite carbon credit of his choice I’ll be running my car on a full tank of gas all night
What do you want to bet, Damon won’t do it? He is too much of a little twit….with a big mouth. It’s like a bad Disney movie where some little weird looking dude with no skills actually becomes and actor and then automatically thinks he is THE voice of leftist Hollywood and actually believes people care what he thinks! Hey, Damon; if you don’t debate, don’t ever open your mouth again! P.S. Not that I ever have, but certainly now I, for sure, won’t be purchasing a ticket to anything your in!
“Team America” was spot-on in its presentation of this moronic actor. Wasn’t he the President of F.A.G. (”Film Actors Guild”) in that movie, or something like that?
It’s pretty hilarious when these college dropouts that migrate to Hollyweird only to read the lines (with passion) that other college dropouts write, think that they can lecture the rest of us on the correct way to live! And then, when they are so correctly called out (”I thought you said you would move to France or Canada if Bush won a second term ..”) they fail to measure up!
Thus, I have spent less and less time watching movies (I saw one movie last year .. and I used to love movies), television, or other idiotic “entertainment” that spews from the Left Coast! And I haven’t missed it AT ALL!
Your bluff has been called “Mattdamon” and I suspect you’ll be a limp-wristed no-show!
Typical Hollywood flunky idiot. Most of Hollywood actors are high school drop outs, at least Damon is a college drop out. It’s our own faults for putting these idiot actors on a pedestal. Give them guns instead of words, at least we would get one or two to keep their mouth shut.
Hahah! Bill Kristol will wipe the floor with Damon. I’m 27 years old and, like most of my generation, Matt Damon likes to talk A LOT with no substance behind his arguments.
This debate better happen, because I’m sick of people like Damon taking pot shots with no consequences.
Damon is someone who makes his living pretending to be someone else. I guess because you can pretend to be someone else that it makes you qualified to pretend that you know what you are talking about. Damon is a punk kid who needs his ass kicked by an elder. Don’t any of these pinheads have someone close to them to tell them how stupid they look when they do this crap? Damon should go get drunk and punch a photographer and leave the intellectual stuff to others.
Damon will NEVER agree to debate Bill. He knows he’d get his butt kicked and won’t embarrass himself in front of all his looney friends. First we get 8 years of hearing the Hollyweirds bash GW unmercifully now we’re gonna get 4 years of butt-kissing this Obamanation. Will this nightmare ever end?????
…Mmmaaaatt Daaay-mmuunn….
DAMON WILL BE GREAT as long as he doesn’t argure past his nose. Liberal idots can only see nose legenth and because they were not born with reasoning capabilities. They fail to see the big picture or event want to. They do better with little drive by snipets because they think that have made a good point.
Its ok to think this way because these people do not believe in God. God only allows certain people to receive actual common sense to make their point. Damon has neither………Don’t be mad at him…………feel sorry for him.
Most of us played dress-up and make-believe when we were little kids. Most of us grew out of it. Damon’s claim to fame is that he got good at it.
Damon is a good actor but your typical liberal, no common sense or logic, IDIOT.
Why is Krystol or any other talking head more qualified, to comment on current or world affairs, than anyone else who follows and studies the issues?
Bill Kristol will go on and on about the surge. That’s his whole argument. Who cares is Bush helped win a war we should have never been in?
For one thing we definitely place too much stock in what these knuckleheads have to say. They live in the land of make believe, they truly have NO IDEA what the real world is like. I’m not talking about the trips he takes to third world countries and his charitable work, he gets props for that. He know nothing about the working people in this country. Damon has proven he has absolutely no business discussing politics. His remark about “doing the actuarial tables” when discussing McCain’s health and the probability of Palin becoming President were laughable at best. He doesn’t have a degree in ANYTHING, much less in Actuarial Sciences, and he didn’t study it in the short amount of time he bothered going to school. These clowns all think that what they say has more meaning because they are famous. I’d pay big money to watch that debate, but I’m afraid Damon is a no show because he knows he’d get clobbered.
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Pattie B: Bush was kicking and screaming when he was finally convinced to give AIDS relief…He opposed it for YEARS. And he did NOT keep up safe from further terror attacks on US soil. Or does mailing deadly chemicals all over the east coast not merit a mention from you? Brighten up though, with Bill Kristol on your team, you can foist up another pack of lies to feed your delusion
I had never heard of this site before and fully expected yet another liberal freak blog. Then I started reading the story with its biased viewpoint and syntax – and realized I was in yet another echo chamber, but of the right-wing sort.
Somehow I don’t think a WWF type smack down debate is going to solve anything and not only serve to divide the country further but diminishes both Damon and Kristol.
Drudgereport traffic, anyone? I find the comments more entertaining than the actual premise of Damon battling Kristol. It’s absolutely hilarious how you guys are getting so defensive about an inane debate proposal set up by Big Hollywood!!
The fact of the matter is that anyone who claims the War in Iraq is “won” is sincerely disillusioned. And I think any rational human being will be able to debate that – whether he’s a Hollywood punk who needs a script(Oh wait, didn’t he co-write the Goodwill Hunting screenplay? Damn, that guy has no skill or vision whatsoever) – or a person running a non-partisan think tank.
You Drudgereporters: why don’t you stop wasting your time on making yourselves feel better (and look like absolute imbeciles) by arguing so vehemently the fact that KRISTOL would destroy MATT DAMON(and don’t bother retorting to my post because I actually have nothing better to do than surf these comments) and try surfing other news sources just to see if there are more important things happening in the world. (I hear there’s an economic crisis and recessionary prices around the world, turmoil in the Middle East ranging from Palestine all the way through India, totalitarian regimes in Central Africa that use rape as a weapon, and a new President who’s making moves as we speak that probably include more essential/meaningful debating points… but screw that, YEAAAAHHH BILL KRISTOL YEAAAAAAH. Rethink your sorry conservative lives, but by all means PLEASE continue to comment on such articles because it makes my day. I hope Matt Damon does actually do this for no other reason but to excite you people out of sheer humor because that’s exactly what he would do while simultaneously making Kristol look like a lobbyist prick. See you in 8 years when you might have a chance of mattering.)
I will say that the guy who posted Kristol handing Damon his tail and finishing off with ‘how ya like them apples’ was brilliant. Sadly, however, you miss the whole point of that line.
Matt Damon is an idiot that guy should just shut up and improve his acting skills what a loser.
Damon is the idiot & moron. He and Affleck would stand NO chance of being stars at any time except for this period and the late 1960s. Otherwise, these guys would be doing community theater…at best.
Now, the moron thinks he knows more then Kristol; Kristol would wipe the bum out, so I predict that Matty will ignore, turn down the invite for a debate. Too easy to make Bollywood Boy look like the idiot he is.
Matt…it’s time for YOU to play a gay cowboy or mayor. Stop playing Soldiers and Heroes – you have NO CLUE what they are like.
Is there any way to short sell Bill Kristol?
I would have made a fortune in 2008…but I have a sneaking suspicion there is plenty more money left in this trade.
Thanks in advance.
Go get ‘im, Bill.
Damon is the idiot. this is just an attempt to stay in the limelight. as he is pretty much washed up as the bad actor he is. but I will say this. I have been disappointed at Kristol for sometime. he seems to be moving to the center lately. if Damon wants to debate a true conservative he should debate Mark Levine . then he would get his butt kicked !
Hey “Ben” ..
In case you haven’t gotten the memo ..
The ‘Rats have been firmly in control of the economy since 2006. Precisely the time that the economy started to take a dump! But I guess you’re a college dropout just like your ass-clown buddy “Mattdamuhn” and didn’t learn that CONGRESS is in charge of the economy! Has been for over 200 years!
Try and keep up, will ya?!
Oh .. and HOW is the New Yecch Slimes .. the “great” liberal scum rag .. demise Bill Kristol’s fault?! He was just their “token” semi-Conservative whipping boy! Maybe nobody wants to read that birdcage-liner anymore.
Matt Damon is an idiot. Too full of himself, too Hollywood, too elitist…honestly, I don’t care what he thinks or says and I do not go to his (or his buddies: Afflack, (C)Loony, and (S)Pitt) movies either. These guys are just…well….just plain old blah. What they do means nothing.
Yet another Hollywood moron with a high school diploma who thinks his opinion matters. Hopefully someday they can transplant the brain of a chicken into Matt Damon’s head and improve his I.Q.
SeatleLiberal is a LIAR! He will never make me believe that he ever would allow any of his offsping to fight for our Country…nope. It’s kinda like the so-called “Republicans” who say thety voted for Barry, and then reveal themselves with terms like “neo-cons” or “religious right”. 1. If you voted for this jackass – you’re NOT a Republican. 2. If you commonly use terms like “neo-cons” anywhere within the context of your post – again, you’re NOT a Republican. I ain’t buying it. These idiots tell these blatant lies about their party affiliation so as to make all of the other fence-riders feel ok with not having a backbone. SeatleLiberal has NO backbone by definition: he’s a liberal…
….Matt Damon….
i predict damon will NEVER agree to a debate that is held in a truly “neutral” location with a mutually agreed upon moderator. like most suedo intellectuals, he would never jepordize his carefully crafted reputation by real, intellectually honest, debate.
bud
Maybe we can get Karl Malden to call him out. “You’re yella!” and “You haven’t got the guts!”. Then he might show up.
Matt Damon is just a blowhard like most liberal bostonians, he wont do it.
(carbon credit of his choice) HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!
Demon must still think he’s smart since playing Good Will Hunting but his intellect is obviously closer to that of SIMPLE JACK. “This brain moovie makes mah eyes rrr-rain”.
Hey “Matt” ..
What’s wrong? Jealous that Drudge gets more traffic than any other news site on the DubyaDubyaDubya?
And WHY are you here on Breitbart’s site? .. Breitbart, who happens to be Drudge’s editor?
OH .. THAT’S RIGHT! You lefties just don’t seem to very successful at “news” sources, are ya? So .. suck up. You’re in for a very long, disappointing life!
Matt Damon is the idiot. Kristol will run circles around this sheltered egomaniac who doesn’t understand anything going on in this world. He is a joke and you sycophants that are heaping praise on him are the starstruck drones that this society relies on so that no real action or growth takes place. Go back to your People magazine.
Wow Matt!
I true hater in true lib form! Not surprised. Where do you suggest we get “real news” from? The New York Times, MSNBC, CNN, Chris Matthews or Keith Olbermann???? Livin’ in the land of Make Believe???? Must be nice. Come back when you feel like a little reality.
I would love to see Kristol eat this punk alive.
Who in the Hell is Matt Damon speaking for? He should stick with the Sham-Wow commercials and nothing else.
Angry, Angry, Angry!! Waaa Waaa Waaa!! Liberal This!! Rush Rulz!!
Get back to work, you lazy bloggers!!
Dumb and dumber
Celebrities are such fools.
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The Bourne Idiocy! Hope it’s televised
Finally!
I am so sick of people getting berated by elitists via cheap shots because they know that the other side will “stay above the argument.” This is exactly what we need. Someone to force these idiots to actually prove their statements or look like complete morons. I know that it will never happen, but if the debate did occur, maybe the rest of the ultralibs would be more carefull about the statements they make because people might actually start pushing back. Go Bill!
I think Matt’s a little bit of a tard, besides Matt, Palin would fair far better with the Valad Mr. Putin because Putin would look across the table at Obama with dead cold stare in his eyes and ask.. “did the Rev JaHacksooon really get your nutz?? Girlieboy your afraid she Palin would beat you like a soggy sausage
Bill Kristol debated at UCSB and I never was so disappointed in anyone.
He let the left wingers run all over him. I guess if he debates in a liberal environment he will do the same thing.
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Typical Hollywierd. They are soo out of touch with reality. They get paid their whole life to be something that they aren’t and they then begin to think they are important, which they aren’t.
They can’t tell the truth from fiction and don’t have a concept of what money is or what real life costs.
Put the L on his forehead and censor him like the left wing cencors everyone else.
i dont have to work Obama is going to pay for it.. he promised he would…
No dispute that Kristol is smart–but he’s still oppressed by the overwhelming shadow of his father–whose influence stifles any good sense Kristol may exhibit. In other words, he’s become a talented conservative thinker hack because of personal and political pressures that take place outside of his intellect. This whole agreeing all the time in favor of the rich and powerful thing has absolutely decimated our party. Damon, just some actor. Comeon.
I submit that members of the WGA should hold an informational picket at this event reminding viewers/listeners that actors, contrary to this idiot’s delusions, do not write their own words…and there’s a good REASON for that.
Perhaps, considering, and in spite of its small size, the proper venue for this battle should be The Improv?
P.S. Here’s what will happen at this debate, btw. Kristol will provide facts, figures, and real and verifiable confirmation of HIS opinions. Damon will offer only a “Well, everybody KNOWS Bush is an idiot/moron/criminal-mastermind/Cheney-stooge!” position–because he lives in the echo-chamber of lefty Hollywood and when you’re preaching to the choir, you don’t have to actually offer PROOF. Damon will be utterly flabbergasted that he’s not just taken at his “word” on his positions. It will not wake him up, of course, because then all of his synchophants, yes-flacks, and “personal assistants” will tell him how brilliant he was, how devastating his points were, and, of course, how good he looked. And then, of course, media outlets like the L.A. Times who might cover this will confirm that “analysis” for him.
We who work in Hollywod know too many utterly incompetent directors, writers, actors, producers, and execs who basically think they are geniuses because, hey, somebody is paying them a fortune so they MUST be that good, right? Right. Case closed.
Damon’s hubris is less a lesson in lefty nonsense behavior and more an example of what happens when a system presumed to be a meritocracy is exposed for what it really is—all about cliques, contacts, ass-kissing, and luck.
Matt Damon is an intellectual pygmy and so are all his liberal Hollyweird celeb pals, including idiots like Tom Hanks. Seems the more money you have that you didn’t “earn” the hard way, your brain seems to shrivel to the size of a pea and you become anti-American, baby killers and supporters of perverted lifestyles. Does that pretty much cover every liberal celeb in Hollyweird?
Bill Kristol would thoroughly embarass Matt Damon in this arena.
Awesome. I think Damon is probably wishing he had kept his mouth shut about now.
Damon won’t respond. He’s not man enough. He’s all mouth, no spine. “All hat, no cattle”
He’s a p u s s y.
Based on the abundance of childish insults in most of these responses, its no wonder the Republican party got its a$$ kicked in this past election. The majority of you are hateful and out of touch. You offer nothing in the way of hope or optimism for a positive future in this great country. You sound like a bunch of dinosaurs with your hateful mob mentality. STOP LISTENING TO RUSH, HE IS POISONING YOUR MIND!!! Matt Damon has a right to his opinion as much as you or I and last time i checked, Harvard University isnt in the practice of admitting “idiots.”
Matt Damon thinks Howard Zinn is a reliable historian (and that Chomsky is some kind of an insightful visionary).
Put another way, Matt Damon’s politics never advanced much beyond that of a pimply post-adolescent boy. Only hormonal males aged 19-21 think Chomsky is anything but a sophist, or are so ignorant not to know that everything in Zinn’s little polemical ‘history’ tome has been debunked. Thoroughly. A long time ago.
Intellectually, Damon is a child. Combine this puerility with the malignant narcissism of post-modern liberalism AND Hollywood and you have a toxic brew of stupidity and immaturity.
But hey, to him that’s all ‘conservative talk’, with lots of syllables and big words and stuff. I must be incorrect, then. Maybe I should just add some footnotes. An idiot like Damon obviously thinks that anything written with lots of footnotes is correct ….
SeattleLiberal wrote:
Bill Kristol may have a pedigree, but he has no balls. It is hilarious to watch Kriston beat his little girlie-man chest when he talks about America winning the war in Iraq!
None of Kristol’s children signed up to fight in either Afghanistan or Iraw.
My two son’s are fighting in Iraq and one will be shipping out to Kabul shortly.
From what my son’s tell me, all American troops are totally PUMPED about President Obama! They all hated GWBush, America’s first truly pansie POTUS!
Really? That’s interesting, because my sons’ (yes that’s plural) units are terrified that the new President will make our having to return to Iraq a foregone conclusion. But what do I know, I’m not a t Seatle Liberal.
If Damon debating points are as hysterical as the liberals who’ve been leaving comments, then he should just stay home. Name calling may score points on Huffpo, but not in the real world.
Damon’s a puss like most liberals.. He can dish it out but he would cry like the baby he is if he had to take. Hit em hard Kristol !
Why would anybody value Matt Damon’s opinion enough to debate him, never mind pay him for it? Who would watch it?
Are they even aware that, by paying such rapt attention to these empty-headed celebrities, they have convinced the latter that their opinion must have some magical important quality?
How long do you suppose it will be before glue-sniffing, pea-witted actors are actively involved in policymaking?
I blame YOU for creating Matt Damon and Cameron Diaz and giving them power, America! You’re doomed!
If I may paraphrase Frank Zappa: “Hollywood columnists are people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read.”
And yes, I’m aware that I’m a total hypocrite for posting this here, but I don’t care.
Tell you what. I’m a self-educated stay at home mom. I will would be happy to debate Matt on the topic of the Iraq war. Any day of the week! When I win though he has to donate the 100k to program of my choice.
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Matt Damon did not “BRIEFLY” attend Harvard University. He attended this university from 1988 to 1991 and dropped out his Junior year to pursue acting. That’s hardly “briefly.”
SEATTLELIBERAL:
The military guys are pumped about President Obama???????????? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.. Must be why only a handful of them voted for him. Perhaps you and Damon are sharing the precious few neurons you have left. Unbelievable!
PS: Rob, Damon studied about how to put on little girls’ plays at Harvard, not anything substantive. Besides, a collegiate pedigree means very little. Al Gore went to Yale and Harvard (posting worse grades than W. Bush)and he’s about as dumb as Damon.
Hannibal
MATT DAAAMMMON !
Not sure if Damon is an idiot, he is probably more of a product of his social surroundings than a true idiot. I do know that Damon is ill-informed and would get crushed in a debate.
Mediocre actor, sub-par thinker. Go get him, Bill!
He should debate, Damon, looney Klooney, Streisand, and Jane Fonda all at the same time. That would be pay per view TV there.
Damon is one of these effeminate Hollywood types who can act tough on screen with the propoer special effects, but cowers in fear from challenges such as Kristol’s.
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“His first movie(which was amazingly good) that he wrote was all him. Grow up you bunch of whiners. MY lord. How about you wait for the debate then spew your idiocy then.”
This is why Obama is president, and why this Damon even guy has a job in Hollywood…mostly stupidity. Matt Damon DID NOT write “Good Will Hunting”. A man named William Goldman actually wrote that script, hired as a ghost writer. Get a clue “Jay”. Matt Damon is far from a genius, and he’s just pretending like most actors do who think their salaries equal their intelligence. Okay, He’s average at best. I’ll admit that. But I think Jay must be Matt’s agent or some fag stalking him.
If Damon wrote that script and ‘it’s all him’, why did they give Ben Affleck one of them homosexual’s trophies (that’s an Oscar for those of you who are clueless)? Show me one other script that Damon wrote!!!! In fact, Affleck just wrote his second screenplay, which was pretty bad. Where’s Matt’s other original scripts if he’s so friggin talented?!? Some of you are so eager to kiss Damon’s feet because he’s a celebrity, and you do so without the guy showing any evidence he can even write a sentence. Many people knew at the time that Goldman wrote that script. But Hollywood is what it is, so all of you think Damon has a brain in his head, and is a truly oscar-winning talent.
PALIN IS ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL LEADERS IN THIS COUNTRY IN RECENT TIME, AND DAMON PAINTS HER OUT TO BE ‘JUST’A HOCKEY MOM AFTER SHE USES THAT TERM ONCE IN A SPEECH. PALIN IS ONE OF A FEW GOVERNORS WHO DIDN’T BANKRUPT HER STATE WITH ILLEGAL MEXICAN VOTERS, AND ALL DAMON CAN DO IS CRITICIZE HER. MIND YOU, DAMON IS AN OBAMA FANATIC. THAT SHOULD EXPLAIN HIS PSYCHE ISSUES RIGHT OFF THE BAT. RALLYING BEHIND A SOCIALIST MAN WHO SEALED HIS PAST IN ORDER TO BECOME PRESIDENT. SINCE LAST WEEK, IT’S BEEN A CIRCUS AND OBAMA’S THE RINGLEADER. WHAT WILL MATT SAY WHEN HIS HOLLYWOOD HILLS ENCLAVE IS ATTACKED BY A MUSlIM USING RUSSIAN NUKES? DOES HE THINK OBAMA’S GONNA RACE TO SAVE MATT DAMON?
I really hate this guy!
Oh please God, let this happen. Just this one time. Pleaaaaaaase. I promise never to cuss again if you just let this one thing happen. Amen
Zinn is not an anarchist. He is a totalitarian Leftist.
It will be great to see a Hollywood actor in action. Playing a role and actually knowing what you are talking about is a different story, but everyone has opinions. It is a shame that we did not have a real debate between the new President and Kristol before the election and not the controled and mostly love fests that they called debates. I respect that Damon has opinions, but his heros at Harvard are not the best ones to follow and admire, in my opinion. Kristol will mop the floor with this actor.
Funny! Don’t you get it? EVERY conservative voice on here is guffawing at MDs brilliant ‘message’. (and you want him to, what, talk MORE?!?? Goody!)
That’s because Matt, like all celebutards, typically utter mindless crap that is totally devoid of intellect or thoughtful reasoning.
So, seeing MD debate with an EDUCATED opponent will be delightful to watch, because he will MELT under a withering attack of the facts.
Liberals will NEVER win an honest debate with a conservative (see “Hannity & Colmes”) — that’s why they prefer the ‘drive by’ method for spouting their insipid stupidity.
And… noooooooooooo… this is NOT “a bad time for right-wingers”: Au contraire!
Now is the perfect time to be a conservative because EVERY DAY you can point out to your kids how idiotic liberals are — like Maaaaaaaaat Daaaaaaaaamon!
Matt Damon is a typical Hollywood lib. You can play smart in a movie, but you get your arse kicked in any debate for liberal vs. conservative policies and values. He is definitely too scared to do this. Chicken *hit.
I wonder how many other of you right-wing sycophants ever spent time studying at Harvard? Damon is not dumb, let’s give him a shot. The arrogance of you people is amazing.
I agree that Damon isn’t inherently dumb. But you can’t just halt your intellectual development at age 19 or 20, nurse stupid conspiracy theories and “America is All Bad, All The Time” historical/contemporary narratives for decades, then expect to have a clue about something as complex as geo-politics. The man is too ignorant now in his thought processes even to recognize that the Iraq War is over, and won, and that we’ll be keeping troops over there for a long time if we’re able because it is strategically advantageous to do so.
It’s not rocket science. But it is to Damon and his ilk, because he lets his anti-conservative, anti-Christian bigotries guide his every political thought, even when the whole liberal-conservative, Democrat-Republican thing has nothing to do with an issue (e.g., Is the war won or not?).
Partisanship can turn one into a blithering idiot, and since there is no such thing as a liberal anymore* — only anti-conservative bigots — I’d say our society has become supersaturated with blithering idiots.
* A true liberal would welcome the opportunity to remove a brutal, murderous dictator and replace him with a duly elected government. Those who call themselves liberals, whatever their native temperament, are now nothing more than paragons of hate, resentment, and bigotry.
These and other threads attest to this fact.
Matt Damon’s intent /engagement with the human condition is commendable,we need more people like him. thanks
I’d love to see it! Kristol IS an idiot – I wasn’t aware that the Iraq war had been won… it’s another “mission accomplished” gaffe. It offends those soldiers still on the ground, in danger every day, to hear such nonsense. And another thing Kristol is fond of saying is that old saw that conservatives point to as Bush’s main legacy – that he kept us safe. Wait. Bush was elected in 2000, and 9/11 occurred in 2001. Safe? Not so much.
Sorry if this has been addressed before, but “Jack Bauer” – on what planet is Kristol a liberal of any kind, moderate or otherwise? He’s about as neocon as they get. He met Palin in Juneau a couple of years ago, fell in love over one of her homey lunches, and raved about her. If you’ve ever met Palin (and as a resident of Alaska, I have) you’d know she is an empty vessel, full only of her own dreams and aspirations, and she has no place in national politics. Her empty-headed responses to questions raised by legitimate news anchors SHOULD have proven her lack of qualifications for the vice-presidency, but unfortunately, she appealed to the less-educated, more-conservative base of the GOP (Kristol?) and she continues to be touted as the messiah of the party. I say turn Damon loose on Kristol – it’ll be fun to watch.
Matt Damon’s ‘genius’ character in Good Will Hunting has obviously gone to his head. This should be child’s play for Kristol.
Wes wrote:
Here’s your hero:
One must ask themselves what kind of military background such a hawkish “patriot” with so much American and international blood now on his hands, must have? How many years of selfless service did Kristol devote? Is he a decorated Vietnam veteran like Sen. John Kerry (D-MA)? The answers are none and no. William Kristol graduated in 1970 from The Collegiate School, a Manhattan prep school for the sons of the rich. He took full advantage of a college deferment and avoided military service, while working and middle-class families were forced to send their sons to die or become gravely mutilated in the jungles of Vietnam. In 1973, he received a B.A. from Harvard, and in 1979, a Ph.D. in government. Obviously, his experience in the Real World is null and void, unless you call frat house hi-jinks and all-night binges within the comforts of your dorm room, reality.
Kristol is one of a long list of neo-cons with no military service whatsoever. He was a career student, funded by his wealthy father, and has spent his entire life hopping from one think-tank to another and one academic post to another. After the Republican sweep of both houses of Congress in 1994, Kristol established, along with fellow neo-con John Podhoretz and with financing from Rupert Murdoch, the conservative periodical The Weekly Standard
If I take you meaning there Wes, then only those who have served in the military should have a say in how we run our country? Bravo!! I am writing my Senators and Congressmen today to insist that the Constitution be amended. I’m willing to live with their decisions, are you?
Anyone who has been in Hollywood for five minutes knows that Rob Reiner (yes, another liberal fanatic) is the actual writer of “Good Will Hunting.”
Affleck and Damon’s version had car chases and explosions, etc. Just the kind of thing you would expect from someone with an 8th grade mentality.
He’s been living a lie for 13 years and it’s eating him up inside!
Listening to actors anytime they’re not reading a script, is the same as listening to them in the special features section of any DVD. They sound like self absorbed “idiots”…going on and on about how this was the most important role they ever played and what an impact making the movie had on their life and how great the director is and every other actor in the movie was. It’s almost like getting a free comedy show in every DVD. It’s hilarious to watch this group always blow their own horn, obsess about themselves and fall all over how great they all are…not to mention, giving themselves awards all the time (Golden Globes, Oscars, Screen Actors Guild). I’ve never seen such an eccentric narcissistic elitist group in all the world, they can’t seem to separate reality from fiction most the time. I feel sorry for them and their pitiful lives (i.e., Brittney Spears). Fame and fortune have a terrible way of destroying people’s lives without them even knowing it! Ignorance is bliss, until reality wakes you up by throwing a cold bucket of water on your head!!!
I guess carbon credits are charities now.
Matt Damon will kick Kristol’s butt in a debate on whether we won the war in Iraq b/c we lost. If facts matter, Damon wins. Kristol is a flat out liar doing Israel’s bidding and Damon is a tell-it-like-it-is guy who went to Harvard. Smart money on Damon. Go Matt!
Not sure why the media gives so much credence to a Hollywood blow-hard like Damon. He makes himself look like an idiot with his comments. If one looks at the actuarial table (not actuary) provided by the Social Security Administration, it shows that McCain would presently need to be 90 years old to statistically not be expected to live through his first term in office. Damon obviously didn’t excel in statistics at Harvard… Next, we’ll hear him say how he could be a UFC champion because he fights so well in all of his Bourne movies!
JORDAN77 wrote; Matt Damon did not “BRIEFLY” attend Harvard University. He attended this university from 1988 to 1991 and dropped out his Junior year to pursue acting. That’s hardly “briefly.”
Folks? I think this statement explains it all. Damon chose to drop his education at Harvard to become an actor. LOL. I swear, America has turned into a bunch of care bears sliding down rainbows. Let’s take a poll, shall we Jordan…
You are one year away from earning a Harvard degree, and what do you do?
1. earn a Harvard degree and start applying for grad school.
2. earn a Harvard degree and study cures for cancer.
3. earn a Harvard degree and start a foundation to change America for the better.
4. Screw the Harvard degree, quit school, go to Hollywood and become a movie star, and back some black guy politician just because he’s black…And have a rainbow installed in my backyard.
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People of America… I implore you. Save yourself from these kinds of people. How many Oscars have to go to Gay films that used to be delegated to the red-light districts until you guys realize it;s all a hoax. High school Version 2.1.
Be sure and notify the Big Hollywood subscribers so I can watch Matt look like the ignorant blowhard that he is. What would be great is if you could get Sarah Palin to give a comment in response to his COMPLETELY OFFENSIVE, SEXIST comment he made about her. I hate to think Damon would see this debate as acknowledgement of his opinion, instead of the public spanking he and all of the other Hollywood libs deserve. Let him be the BEGINNING! Maybe Matt could call Tom Cruise and see how well his opinions (on Scientology) helped his career?!
Who is Matt Damon? A historian? I know diddly about acting and mattdamon knows less about history.
It counfounds me as to how ANYONE can take seriously someone who earns a living pretending to be someone else!
Damon is an idiot, but thankfully for him, he’s not alone in Hollywood. Kristol will run circles around this mental midget! I pray that this debate comes off so that we can see what an ignorant fool Damon truly is. It’s amazing how being an actor in Hollywood emboldens people like him. If someone wants to make a fool of themself, by all means, get out of their way and let it happen!
Well Phil, by that logic, why are we still in Japan and Germany? Want to question who won WWII? Maybe you do along with who plowed the planes into the WTC too I suppose right?
I’ve met Matt personally, and he’s a lot smarter than you people think.
Watch out, old-ass Kristol may have something coming to him.
Matt Damon is a leftist Hollyweird freak who thinks he’s an “intellectual.” LMAO!!! I would pay to see the debate between Kristol and the screw-loose Mr. Damon. Oh, and he SUCKS as an actor too!
I actually wouldn’t be surprised to see Damon give try this. I agree that he doesn’t have the stones to stand up to the whoopin’ Bill would put on him, but remember he is a victim of the law of group polarization. No one in his safe little world has ever disagreed with him so he probably believes that all of that Howard Zinn “revisionist” nonsense is correct. I think Matt believes he would win in a walk. While I would love to see this drubbing, the debate I’d prefer to see is Matt Damon or his mentor Howard Zinn against a real Professor of history like Dr. Newt Gingrich.
I, for one, have come to realize there are better things to do with my time and money than watch “movies.” Don’t get me wrong, I like a thriller, action, or drama as much as the next person but I now can take it or leave it. That being said, I think it’s time for the American public to start using their wallets provide their personal commentary on some of these nut-case Holliwood actors. Just how much do you think Damon would command of the production houses if 55% of the population refused to watch any of his movies. Come on, stop giving lipservice to this problem and start voting with your pocketbooks. Matt, Spike and Suzie weren’t elected to jack-crap, what makes them think they can impose their warped and ungrounded ideals on the rest of us.
Kristol is a brainsick cur.
To Seattleliberal,
Quiet! Adults are talking here! And don’t think making up a story about your sons gives your goofy statement about troops being pumped about obama any credence. By the way, IF you had a son and he IS going to ‘Kabul’ he should be reminded that any info about any future troop movement is classified. Divulging this, even to your dad, is taken seriously. Ok. I’m done with THIS guy.
Regarding Damon’s remarks about Palin….it sounds like that instead of the POSSIBILITY of someone with limited executive experience in the White House he would rather have the CERTAINTY of someone with no executive experience as president. You’re brilliant darling. Perfect for Hollywood.
Matt Damon….Chaaahaaaahaaaaa! Mr. Science.
I say we make it a pay per view TV or Internet video debate! I’d pay good money to see Kristol/ Damon match, and that could be put to good charity… Let’s face it, Matt is a wimp, and would never do it…
absolutely awesome… it’s time the left fringe nutjobs get called out and have to hide because they can’t intelligently defend their irrational blubbering declaratory statements of ignorance.
went to harvard? briefly, in their special ed extension program maybe…
To anyone with a brain, Matt Damon comes off as a fool, unfortunately no matter what is said, Damon will be considered the winner of this debate by the masses.
“He’s an idiot — he wrote that we should be grateful to George Bush because he won the Iraq war. We! Won! The! War!”
Why is Matt saying, “We”? Wasn’t he against the war? Now that the war has been successful, he wants to take credit for it? Go get um, Bill! No scripts, no notes, just brainpower.
“You do the actuary tables, there’s a one out of three chance, . . . .” Okay, Matt, the word is “actuarial” not actuary, which is a person. If you are indeed “Harvard educated,” you would know this.
No matter what you think, does anyone disagree that Bush won the Iraq War is an idiotic statement?
This left wing elitist twit couldn’t touch Kristol in a debate. Stick with acting Damon at least it’s voicing other people’s words and not that of a far left wing ding bat.
Matt Damon is part of the “enemy within” this country as Dr Michael Savage has warned us. As is 90% of the insane liberals in Hollywood. Let’s put the Gitmo prisoners in Hollywood so the liberals can look after them……..Liberalism is destroying this country. You useful idiots elected a “Community Organizer” for President? And you stupid fools said I am not qualified? At least I have executive experience, and all Barry has done is campaign……..he is the affirmnative action President. Hope you stupid liberals feel better about your pathetic lives now……freaks! Liberalism is a mental disorder!
I bet you Damon didn’t even write Good Will Hunting.
If he WERE such a capable writer, what has he written since?
The guy probably took someone else’s script and passed as his own.
Another unattractive thing about the Democratic Party in recent years: actors who use their celebrity to ram their opinions about subjects they are not well informed about down everyone’s throat. The ignorance displayed by Damon in his comment about Kristol is very telling about him both intellectually and socially.
KY – while I agree with most points in your post, I offer two points of clarification. Kristol is, in fact, well educated. He, too, attended Harvard University – ultimately receiving a PhD in government. His father Irving, incidentally, is considered the father of the neoconservative movement. Kristol served as chief of staff to two questionable brain trusts – William Bennett in the Reagan administration and Dan Quayle in the Bush administration. While Kristol’s credentials may stand up to criticism, his opinions still rankle. One wonders why the NYT chose to dismiss him – his last column appears today, and left me scratching my head…
Second, to add to your criticism that Bush kept us safe during his reign, I would add that many folks in New Orleans would also question that claim.
Kristol won’t embarass him, because Damon won’t show up. He’s probably cowering in the shower as we speak.
So you’re a genius, Matt Damon, like you scripted into your self-worshipful movie?
Here’s your chance to prove it. To America.
Off-script.
Cricket (AKA PESTILENCE):
1. You say left Matt Damon have his say…but you say don’t want Rush Limbaughg to have an opinion? Typical Communist dilectics…(look it up moron).
2. Obama got in power by the Demoncraps colluding with TV and Newspaper reporters to smear Bush. Yes, they actually had a plan to push his popularity num,bers down. Funny how they were nto able to get his numbers below the worst numbers in history for the Senate and Congress run by Pelosi and Reid!!
3. Now Obama wants everyone to get along? The Demoncraps used every dirty trick including smear, lies, and fraud (ACORN) to get Obama in and Republicans out.
4. Obama said that he will give hope? He chose a racist for a speaker at his Inauguration (White embrace what is right?), A racist for a public supporter ((“I have a whaite woman cleaning my house”), and unleashed the avowed enemy of America onto America (Guantanamo Terroists).
5. Three days into his Presidency, Americans see that they were lied to, as usual, by the communists (AKA Liberals, Democrats).
KY- I’ve completed three combat tours in Iraq and I can tell you that this war, at with regards to the military, is all wrapped up. There are still dangers and there are still areas that need to be cleaned up but the sheer reduction in violence and attacks is amazing. Those of us in the military have done a great job over there. have there been mistakes? Yes. However, the surge, along with other counter-insurgency operations has been a god send.
-Attacks on US forces are at an extreme low, just a tiny fraction of what they were just a few short years ago.
-Displaced civilians are coming back to their cities.
-Markets are opening up.
-People whom have never voted have voted their own government in.
-Saddam is dead, as are his horrible sons.
-The economy is growing.
-The vast majority of every province has been turned over to the Iraqis.
-The media is even pulling out because there is no more story, at least to them.
-Battalion after battalion of marines and soldiers are rotating in and out without having fired one shot in anger.
-There is a reason the Commandant of the Marines wants out of Iraq in order to go into Afghanistan; the fight is no longer Iraq.
-Our forces are being drawn down because we have won, not because of a white flag.
Oh hey Obama voters. Feel free to google military recruiting websites. Since you voted for Obama I’m sure you are willing to enlist, or get your commission, in the Marines or Army. He’s sending an additional 20,000 to Afghanistan so maybe you can go. I wonder if Obama’s daughters will enlist once they are old enough.
It’s funny how everyone here is railing on Matt Damon when Kristol said we should thainkm Bush for winning Iraq. That is very dishonest and pretty stupid, I give Kristol the idiot award too, and the chicken wawk neo-con, Big corporate phony American award as well
Oh, I’m just a hockey mom from Alaska, and she’s president. She’s facing down Vladimir Putin and using the folksy stuff she learned at the hockey rink. It’s absurd.”
Damon is a true idiot. Remind me, because I can’t recall, what experience does Obama have that Palin did not have? Oh that’s right, he was in charge of the community bake sale.
Matt,
It would be better if you kept your mouth shut! I liked your movies up until now, but it’s hard to take you seriouly now.
Rick Dew
Well his Palin remarks weren’t just wrong, they were sexist. They disregarded her experience intentionally in order to demean her intelligence as just a mom (which does imply, of course that he thinks not very highly of motherhood). Because she considers herself a hockey mom in no way means that that’s the only experience she brings to the job of Governor of Alaska every day. Obama and Damon and the rest of them just wanted to make it seem that way.
I love how you Republicans diss on the ‘Hollywood Elite’ every time they try to talk politics, and then as soon as one of them is on your side, you embrace them. FOX had on virtually every one of the actors of that comedy movie that came out recently(and bombed) with the Michael Moore look-alike that had some conservative views. I’m sure everyone on this stupid thread pre-ordered the DVD as soon as Production was announced.
Palin and McCain didn’t seem to mind Hank Williams Jr. speaking his mind either when they had him on every campaign stop towards the end.
Hypocrites.
I have heard Damon speak and answer questions. He is very bright and very fast. His mind works extremly fast. I think he will win this debate. You don’t get accepted to harvard when you are dumb.
Matt Damon. He “briefly attended Harvard”. Was that when he drove past it one time with his shower buddy, Ben Dover Affleck? The original first two “metro-sexuals”, light on the “hetero” please.
Who CARES what this pasty, dough faced dummy thinks about anything? He’s a “face” people, an “actor imago”. He’s not real, he has no education, and he has no true identity, beyond that which is written for him by some coke sniffing screen RE-WRITER, because I can guarantee you that the scripts he and Ben Dover turn in looked like they were written by a fifth grade intellectually challenged Montessori class.
Wonder what Jason Bourne would say…
matt damon vs gary graham
Matt Damon needs to realize that no one outside of Hollywood respects or gives a damn about his political views especially given the acerbic manner in which he chooses to express himself. Damon is too full of himself to ever publicly debate someone of differing political philosophies. He would be too afraid of people seeing the fallacies in his rhetoric. An actor’s ego is as fragile as the manufactured pedestal on which it sits.
Damon will be the ultimate girly-man actor who will keep lobbing his cheap shots standing behind the protective apron of the entertainment media.
Bill Kristol debating Matt Damon is violating several laws that preclude making fun of the handicapped. Damon is, like most Hollywood Elite clueless and should stick to their uninspiring lives that attract the mindless uneducated that go to movies.
Jason Bourne, this debate is your mission. You must accept it!
Why can’t the morons in Hollywood keep their mouths shut and stick to acting? I guess when you make $40 million in 3 months on a movie, you have a lot of time on your hands to make a fool of yourself. I was a huge fan of Matt before this. I haven’t watched a movie with Ben Affleck in it (even on TV with a minor support role) since the 2000. Before I take the time to watch a movie, I check the Internet Movie Database to see if there are any of the actors on my personal blacklist. I hate to add Matt to the list. He is getting kinda fat, maybe they’ll replace him for any future Bourne movies.
I would pay to see Bill mop the floor with Matt. There would have to be rules in place so that Matt, like other liberals, can not try to make his point by shouting down his opponent. Both parties should be able to speak without interference.
Self loathing, self hating liberals are destroying this great country……fight back against liberalism!!! Save the country from these Barry Osama-Obama loving useful idiots……
I love how Matt Damon slams Sarah Palin for her accent as if that made her some type of embecile. It’s not like he didn’t play an extremely intelligent person with an annoying accent or anything. Also, I do love the Bourne Identity movies, but this is one sparring match he will lose. I’d really like to see it…talk about entertaining.
Fan of some of Matt’s movies, but not his silly ideology.
SeattleLiberal – I’m not sure whose military your son is in but the US military is in mourning because of the election of a socialist who hates the military and the country.
Like all neocons, krystol is a draft dodging cowardly asswipe. What did we win in iraq, 4200 American corpses killed for no reason except to see if bush could grow testicles? I am a vietnam vet, another stupid war, and my son served two army tours in iraq. Is the stupidity of the republican due to the fact that their core constituency is brain dead redneck jesus freaks who don’t even believe in evolution.
No Alice. I thought that perhaps our liberal friends who criticize anyone who hasnt served, would be more comfortable if we only allowed those who have served to be our elected officials.
Matt,
I can’t wait to see you get your butt, I mean brain handed to you.
You can’t yell “cut” after you mess up a line in the debate! Going to Harvard for acting isn’t the same as going to Harvard for Medicine. Please Matt, accept the fact that you are a dumb liberal piece of crap with no facts!!!
Kristol’s boy last the last fight – now it is his turn.
It is about time Kristol has been forced to face the truth.
To all the republican low lifes, get your head out of GW’s culo.
We didnt win the war, we killed a leader because he tried to Kill Bush’s Daddy.
All this did was Kill thousands of our soldiers, waste billions of dollars, create astronomical gas prices, and kill our reputation around the world.
Win the war? This guy is high!
Win the war? You can only win a war when you make those fighting you surrender, or wipe them out and those bastards are still fighting.
Win the war? How when our economy has gone into the toilet? When thanks to the Prez, we now are bailing out the rich on wall street!
You republicans are all sheep
The left-wing actors always make these idiot statements, but back down when challenged to a debate. I could see Matty Damon crying during this debate and running out of the room(That is if he has the guts to face Kristol!)
Breaking News for All Conservatives:
YOU LOST THE ELECTION! Straight up, no recount, no hanging Chads.
Debate that!
I love Bill Kristol. I can just see his smiling face right now. He has to be so amused by this!! Go get him, Bill. lol
Oh….here we go again, we get to be subjected to the ‘all knowing’ Hollywood crowd. I say take all their money away and make them look for a REAL job, which they will never find due to our economy tanking (thanks dem. congress) and let them live the way the rest of us are TRYING to live. I haven’t watched a movie in so long because I am so disgusted with these freaks from Hollyweird….to live the extravagant life would be a dream to all of us REAL people. To abuse that position in life is disgusting. Nouveau rich people are pompous a$$es. Quit ‘acting’ like you know what is going on, you live in a pampered, gilded bubble of a life. Go away and mingle among yourselves where you belong and leave the rest of us hard working Americans alone and let us do our jobs and protect our beautiful country and our hard earned freedoms. Oh, and enjoy your red carpet walk tonight in your fancy clothes and botoxed faces. Smile pretty.
I just wonder who ol’ Matt will pretend to be in this debate… for that is his only talent!
Now THIS will be fun… for conservative logic WILL prevail over liberal emotion ! ! ! ! !
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Matt Damon is a very good actor; nevertheless, I will not pay a dime to see him in anything. At some point, you have to draw a line in the sand and stop supporting liberal fascists.
GWBush’s real parents are Kristol and Coulter.
In Hollywood, they think money = intelligence.
I would pay to see this; HBO should pick it up and market it like boxing.
Team America was actually secret video footage of Mr. Damon.
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These actors always make these idiotic comments and run away when challenged to a debate. I doubt Damon will show. If he does, I can see him crying and running off stage. He’ll probably ask for more money to debate Kristol. What a weasel! He needs to shut up and stick to bad acting.
Why does what Matt Damon thinks matter to anyone? Being a movie star and celebrity doesn’t make your opinions worth any more than any of us “normal” people. Considering Hollywood is a land of fantasy where people try to escape reality and pretend to be someone or something they’re not, if anything, opinions of (especially) movie star celebrities should carry less weight than the opinions of us “normal” people. Just because their name and face is recognized more widely than mine doesn’t make them any more of an “expert” on anything. At the end of the day, they’re humans, just like all the rest of us. They put their pants on one leg at a time. Stop feeding the hype and hysteria that comes whenever a celebrity opens their mouth and spouts off an opinion about something and withdraw the offer! Or…give me $50k and donate $50k to the charity of my choice…and I’ll present a much more informed and educated opinion in a debate than some ignorant Hollywood liberal…
I have 3 sons in Afghansitan and one in Iraq 90% of the troops supported McCain and Palin. Matt DEMON is a spineless jellyfish with the brain of a SCARECROW .
So did we win the war? You people need help
Hey, Liberal Nonbeliever–
Do you actually REMEMBER anything about your tour in ‘Nam, because it appears you were one of the jerk draftee pot heads that were more dangerous to the rest of us REAL soldiers than the fr*gging VC were. A lot of you stumbling pot heads were fragged for endangering your brothers. How did you make it through? Or were you a REMF Pogue like Al Gore was, not even within hearing of actual fire?
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Matt Damon is a middling successful actor with delusions of intellectual prowess. Mr. Kristol will wipe the floor with him if he adopts the polemic approach of Zinn in his “A People’s History of the United States”. These pseudo-intellectuals who adopt this contrarian approach to history are like the proverbial dog who bites the hand that feeds it. The freedoms and liberty that allows them to be as ludicrous and idiotic as they choose to be are what they rail on about. Let the games begin!!
And Phil, as to your comment to why we are still in Iraq; no respected army in the history of the world has won a war and then immediately retired from the field of battle. That would be an affront to civilized behavior by not staying to help correct some of the political problems that precipitated the war. No one wants to return to fight the same battles in the near future. That is one of the reasons why we still occupy bases in Europe and in the Far East. There is responsibility that comes to a civilized nation when a war is won. We should not wish the same battles to be fought again by our grandchildren.
Communism in the 1930’s was very popular, especially with professors, intellectuals, journalists, writers, actors. After communism was established in those countries thanks to Stalin (Poland, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, East Germany, Albania, etc.) these same professors, intellectuals, journalists, writers, actors, etc. were the first to be shot dead. Well, perhaps with that community organizer Abu Hussein from Kenya in charge we may soon live through that nice development.
Damon,
MAN UP!!!!
NO SCRIPTWRITERS!!!!
My faith in American has been restored after ready the comments posted.
This is not about his “Freedom of speach”. This is name calling from the “Can’t we all get along” liberal crowd.
Maybe we’re onto something here. I can picture it now, a new TV series — hour long, Sunday nights, featuring conservative thinkers debating (and humiliating) the Hollywood liberal of the week.
Hey WarriorJason – Thanks for serving our country. I appreciate your sacrifice, I honestly do. I am curious, since you served three tours, why you enlisted and re-enlisted, knowing that the impetus for our attacking the country was to protect ourselves from the WMD’s, which were non-existent. You mentioned many points that indicate that the war is “over”, but most of them are simply matters of putting the country back together after we destroyed it (sorry – after we “liberated” it). The real war never WAS in Iraq – Osama bin Laden was hiding out in Pakistan or Afghanistan. Please don’t misunderstand; I’m not attacking you. I’m STILL angry that Bush et al led us into a war that had nothing to do with the attack on our country by alluding that it did. I know too many guys who enlisted thinking they were avenging 9/11.
Matt Damon must stay with Barney Frank when he visits Mass. Everything liberals do is upside down and backwards. They say the poor Gitmo rats in dirty nightshirts that are trying to kill us deserve the same rights as Americans? Why dont they just put them up in the Four Seasons and serve them milk and cookies for the new improved liberal interrogation techniques? And Barry tells us that we are safer now than before? After all, world opinion is what’s important for a President of the US. What kind of insanity is this??? Liberalism is a mental disorder….how else can you explain it?
Damon debating Crystal is akin to him taking a knife to a gunfight. What a joke. Just because young girls swoon, Matt, doesn’t mean you know your butt from first base, which you don’t. Go bebate your leftist buddies, George Clooney and Ben Affleck, who would also bring knives to a gunfight.
Damon is such a tool. This would be funny as heck to watch. Little Matthew will learn really quickly that playing a wise-cracking smart-azz in a film is much different than being intelligent. Too bad that Sean Penn can’t sit there with him.
My two son’s are fighting in Iraq and one will be shipping out to Kabul shortly.
From what my son’s tell me, all American troops are totally PUMPED about President Obama! They all hated GWBush, America’s first truly pansie POTUS!
I believe every word of this. It rings so true.
Btw, please lose the “grocer’s apostrophe.” Your reference should be to your “sons,” who probably don’t exist in any case, not to “son’s.” Thanks.
so what do ben affleck and sarah silverman have in common? you know its true.
SEATTLELIBERAL,
Don’t speak for all US Troops, You dont know what all of us were thinking. You have no right to speak for me. GW had the guts to do the right thing when it counted and not be a pansie. The liberal president before had that distinction. Timee will tell if President Obama was the FDR/Lincoln of our time.
Iraq never asked to be invaded.
Iraq never asked to be occupied.
Bush turned a not-good situation into the world’s worst hell hole.
And,I wonder why Bill Kristol isn’t personally leading men patrolling the streets of Baghdad?
My mother-in-law was in the business from the 1930s, most of the time working for Howard Hughes at 7000 Romaine in Hollywood. One thing she taught me was that actors were considered “talent” and nothing more. Of course, that was the old studio days but we’ve seen a few recent examples of what happens when they try to conduct business, as opposed to acting. Ask Kim Basinger about it.
Matt Damon should stick to his only skill, acting.
LMAO. Another millionaire left wing actor who thinks his money makes him smart. Please… please… please show up for this debate and get your head handed back to you on a platter. BTW… Good Will Hunting was one of the worst movies I have ever seen. B-O-R-I-N-G! Why don’t you bring Sean Penn and Alec Baldwin and title the debate “The Three Stooges vs. Kristol”
Looking for someone who like to clear brush on my ranch. Must enjoy clearing brush and always believe they do the right thing. Retired alcholic, born-again Christians are encouraged to apply.
Is that you, Obama? I thought you were a recovering cigarette/ganja smoker, not an alcoholic? Oh, right, you liked doing coke in college, my bad. Also, Obama, aren’t you a Christian? Your supporters would be rather upset if they knew you attended church.
Then again, you didn’t REALLY attend a Christian church, did you? Black Liberation Theology is more about race hate and Marxism than Jesus, isn’t it? I know your wife really eats all that stuff up, but still ….
Ah, NOW I get why anti-conservative/Christian bigots support you. It’s all about the hate.
(What sweet little progressive cherubs your supporters truly are ….)
Hollywierd does not get it,we dont care what they think,Kristol will bury him,the little Clown,hes lucky anybody watches his movies.
Take your elitist views and put them where the sun dont shine….
We need MORE actors and people of celebrity-status to advise US, instead of politicians, on how politics should be handled and to give us their own brilliant insight on “What’s going to happen if”. Yeah… that’s exactly what we need.
Maaaattt Daaaaaammmonn! Indian name = “He who runs like a girl” (I mean have you seen the first five minutes of the Bourne Supremacy?)
Matt Damon will probably substitute volume and dramatic delivery for Kristol’s thoughtful and substantive responses – and with a little creative editing – the forte of network news these days – even the most foolish nonsense can be made to seem profound. (And vice versa.) And beware of a moderator that is clearly biased. (As Tom Brokaw was during the Presidential debate, only throwing “softball” questions to show you-know-who in the best possible light.) Kristol needs to be able to debate the man himself, as well as his positions.
I wouldn’t give Damon the platform to debate. He continually spews liberal talking points like the rest of them without basing any of it on fact. Damon already takes advantage of his inherent platform as a hollywood elitest, so there’s no reason to offer him more. I’d personally love to debate him, but apparently us common folk aren’t worthy of such an event.
[...] Vs. Good Will Posted on January 26, 2009 by Spag Bill Kristol has accepted a challenge to debate actor Matt Damon over Damon’s opinion of Bush and other political topics. Newsflash to Matt [...]
I look forward to it – Damon’s record on the Iraq War is every bit as solid if not more so than is Kristol’s. After all, Damon was right about the Iraq War, Kristol was wrong.
Matt’s a good actor but he’s in way over his head IMO.
I will not go see any movies of any celebrities that has bashed Bush, and also bashed republican’s. I take it very personal. I also beleive Bush has kept us saft. Hollywood will never get it. I hope Damon takes the invite from Kristol, Kristol is a very intelligent man, which no one has every accused Damon of being intelligent. Celebrities can say anything they want to say and never have to prove it or back up their statments. Is time Damon should have to back up his statement, Go get him Bill.
If Matt plays the role of a spy in a movie,is he really a spy? NO
If Matt plays the role of a siamese twin in a movie,is he really a siamese twin? NO
If Matt plays the role of an A-HOLE in a movie, is he really an A-HOLE? YEP
OCCAM’S Beard is a lefty-nutcase…
Your sons are either made-up, or embarrassed by you, DAD.
President Bush has ALL my Respect and Prayers. I pray for Barry-O because I’m supposed to. I won’t rip on the “Messiah of the United States” because I’m not supposed to do that. I haven’t been more embarrassed in referring to my Commander-In-Chief since BUBBA was there.
AmericanSoldier
Who actually listens to or cares what opinion a “celebrity” has.
Thank you President Bush for keeping this country safe since 9/11.
Democrats will sell us into slavery as long as they are retained as taskmaster and tax collector.
Has Matt Damon started a preemptive war against a nation that did not attack us that has cost 4000+ American and thousands of Iraqi lives?
Hi my name is Matt and I am a mouthpiece for Obama. I want fellow liberals Charlie Rose or Chrissy Matthews to be the moderator for this debate.
Bill Kristol is an idiot.
Meg – you should be ashamed of yourself. Joe Biden did nothing of the sort. He cared for his surviving sons, taking the train home each and every night to spend time with them. Look it up, and wash your mouth out with soap. You want some real a-hole behavior? Look up what McCain did to his wife upon his return from VietNam. A former model, Carol McCain, was horribly disfigured in an accident. McCain returned from VietNam, and almost immediately began to cheat on her, finally leaving her for his much-younger current wife, Cindy – whose father is wealthy and well-connected in Arizona. That’s a selfish pig.
why does anyone here think that Bill Kristol would have any debate skills? Every word out of his mouth for the past 5 years has been a self-serving lie. The youtube of Damon was perhaps the most spot-on indictment of the entire Palin phenomenon.
It is a well known fact that the majority of Hollywood actors are High School drop outs. It is also a fact that they read and act the way someone else tells them. That’s the way movies are done. Now, please explain to me how a probable drop out with no original thinking processes can be considered an expert on toilet training let alone foreign policy or national politics. They have all proven this by acting as the sheep they are and saying what the dems told/tell them to say. Not one of them had the original thought to actually investigate on their own the lack of experience and illegal activities that bought Obama mama the presidency.
I’m not so sure Matt Damon would be a good debater, but I also doubt Kristol’s ability. There is simple no logically valid defense for a large majority of the last President’s policies, especially the torture (no, there is no defense for torture) and the Iraq war. That Kristol defends these things is a sign of a faithful ideologue, but not a particularly bright one.
Contrary to wishful thinking on the left, we did win the war in Iraq. We accomplished everything we went in there to do. We wanted to insure that Saddam was not stockpiling weapons of mass destruction. He wasn’t. We wanted to remove Saddam from power and try him for his crimes. We did. We wanted to give the Iraqi people a chance to form their own democratic government. They did. Iraq’s leader is dead, their government overthrown, their military crushed and now being reformed under U.S. guidance. That’s victory, folks. The left only thinks we lost the war because they basically surrendered it years ago. As long as Kristol sticks to the facts and doesn’t let Damon take the debate off on tangents like Abu Ghraib or waterboarding, he’ll win it hands down.
Matt Damon is a douche for sure, however who is Bill Kristol? As people have pointed out this guy is nothing but a psuedo-conservative whose life has been focused around think tanks and study hall. Get a real conservative to debate Damon.
Sure, I get sick of hearing celebs lecture about the way things are… but that doesnt make them wrong.
FACT – Bill Kristol is a mouthpiece for the republican party.
FACT – The guy can’t even spell his last name correctly.
FACT – Sara Palin as the president of the United States would be absolutely laughable if it wasnt so utterly embarrassing and horrifying.
I dont care if Damon went to Harvard (hell, Bush went to Yale), I don’t care if he’s a journalist or an expert or whatever. At the very least, we can assume he isnt a paid propagandist which is more than we can say for Kristol or any other Party member working for a Newscorp rag. This means you too, Wall Street Journal.
Matt Damon is an idiot. Once again we have a movie star who thinks of himself as an expert. All that fame and fortune really go to these Hollywood actors heads.
When will the liberal hollywood bunch get the hint that we DON’T CARE what they think. Most of them don’t even have a GED. They act in movies. They are NOT intellectuals. They are NOT political scholars. They portray politicians in the movies.
You fools elected a COMMUNITY ORGANIZER!!! He helped radicals get govt $ in Chicago……..which are good credentials for liberals……..FREAKS
Duhmon is a puppet spokesperson for the Hollywood leftists that promote 1% of the populations agenda!!
Let me ask a question?
How many soldiers died in Iraq in Dec of 2008? (Goggling it?)
3 years ago, we all would have all known that number!!! Yahoo reported it every single day up to the elections!!
When HAMAS (Iranian Gang) was being eliminated, the news on Iraq was nowhere to be found, why? Not enough U.S. soldiers were being killed?
Because HAMAS was running around filming babies burned by those nasty Jews?
The citizens of Iraq go to the voting booths again on January 31st. Did you know that? More voting…. or did you miss that one.
One word: PERSPECTIVE!!!!
Stop the hysteria, stop the panic, the sky is not falling!!
Hi Matt again. I also think Jay-Z is an american hero for stating his racist beliefs in support of the democrat that I luv. My booo Obama.
Irregardless of whether Damon agrees to debate, my family will never again attend a movie he is in. Matt, if you can’t at least show basic human respect for those you disagree with politically you do not deserve to make a dime from my family’s attendance at your movies. Consider yourself banned. You want respect? Give it!!!
Enough! No you don’t get accepted to Harvard if you are dumb, but choosing to drop out when you almost have your degree… is. Look, just because he went to Harvard doesn’t mean he knows jack regarding any of the politcal/world view. His immature, childish, and quite frankly offensive statements about Sarah Palin prove that. If the interview had bothered to call him on that statement, as to why he would someone who had NO experience as opposed to someone who had some experience, he could not have intelligently answered. There was no intellect behind those statements, he would cave under Kristol, make no mistake Kristol life IS politics. I’m not entirely a fan, but I believe he knows far more than Damon.
Here are my Conservative Positive Hopes for The Future: That all Bill Ayers types are removed from any influence whatsoever on the University Campus’ around the country and around the world. That Saul Alinsky’s work be given the true respect and direction it deserves: The Garbage Can and a lighter.
That All “Hollywood Types” or “Entertainment Celebrities” are forced and mandated to actually read something on the subject or subjects they so frequently love to spout about. Read a thorough background on George W. Bush. Actually find out what our ALL volunteer military REALLY think of our former Commander in Chief and exactly what has happened these last 8 years to protect this country and achieve success in two theatres of war.
To learn something, anything truthful and indepth in background about Sarah Palin before attacking her in the most vicious and specious manner ever.
In other words actually KNOW something before speaking and removing all doubt of their ignorance.
Thereby saving themselves from the acute embarassment of being “Dixie Chicked” ( My term for any celebrity types who open their mouths and say something so offensive as to ensure their own financial decline and then whine about it for years and years!!) Celebrities should remember that their success hinges on the ‘good will’ of the buying public. When they go over the line they pay the price because pocket books close and sometimes for good.
Matt Damon and many other celebrities have made statements that are offensive to not only our country and a decent , honorable leader, our military and the actual intelligence of their buying public.
I know many make a list and when they get on it the money dries up.
I have been a huge fan of Matt’s. Of George and the whole Ocean’s movies cast. The Bourne trilogy we especially enjoyed. And now?
I hope this debate takes place. Bill will clean Matt’s clock and I will cheer. It is enough and more that these people in Hollywood get their comeuppance in any venue and as publically as possible. And once that happens they find out they aren’t as important or popular as they thought they were.
I see Bill Kristol is not apparently upset about the two trillion Bush spent to kill 4,000+ US soldiers!
Matt. Damon.
Damon has been an idiot to discuss politics period. Now, he has the chance to put his money where is mouth is. Bring it on. My money is on Kristol. This might make some of the liberal loose lip celebrities shut up. And Don L. I will put $100 up also. ACORN is also disqualified.
How much do you want to bet Damon is rgretting opening his big stupid mouth. The guy probably wet his pants when he heard he would have to debate Kristol.
Bill will make a spectacle of this liberal fool and expose him as the real “idiot”
Wow, you guys are hard on Damon and maybe rightly so, however, I will leave that debate up to you. But who is the real idiot here? Kritol says the war has been won? What hole did he just crawl out of? Tell that to the men who are still in a combat zone (like my son who is serving a second tour). Tell that to the next widow you idiots! I do not like big money brats spouting off as if they have a brain either, but please do not forget the point being made. You really think the war has been won?
Bill Kristol is an unrepentant Neo-Con and there’s little he and I would agree on. But Damon is a damn fool to debate him. Matt, you will be outclassed and embarrassed. This is akin to Al Gore accepting an invitation to debate a scientist on Global Warming. But, Matt go ahead and do it. I’m so tired of politicians and “activists” making up declarative statements and calling them “facts” without ever being challenged to defend their opinions. This will actually be fun to watch.
This would be like Sean Hannity debating Ron Paul – Slamdown – Sean loses.
Hey Bill, Tell Matt that you thought he was over shadowed by Clooney & Pitt
Smart moms don’t let their children die for their country. You’d never catch Bill Kristol’s mother making a bonehead mistake like that.
Now that all the constipated conservatives have had their shot at the Damon pinata lets go back to the real question. Bill Kristol thinks George Bush was a great President. Now who is delusional? Anybody want to debate how much damage Bush has done to this country? Please don’t tdell me he kept us safe for the past 7 years. We sent 150,000 Americans to Iraq for what, target practice.
Hey Liberal Nonbeliever, I probably shouldn’t respond to you because the very fact you admit you are a liberal means you are stupid. In poll after poll, 66% of scientist profess a belief in God. 76% of doctors profess a belief in God. It is idiots like you and Matt Damon who think only redneck “jesus freaks” profess a belief in God. You must not be much of a parent either. Your son obviously has no respect for you. I mean you must have uttered your USA hating, military hating drivel the whole time this boy grew up. You must have complained and whined about Vietnam the whole time this boy grew up and he went and served two tours in Iraq. I bet if I spoke to your son, he probably doesn’t have a lot of respect for you, lol. Kristol would absolutely destroy Damon. Liberal views never win debates. All liberals including Obama have to debate moderate to conservative to get anyone to listen to them. Then they go and do something different. Obama literally sprinted from his liberal past in the campaign. Intelligent people are not liberal. Liberal equals lazy, stupid, and coward. I am sure you are all 3.
I’m sick of these people saying “Bush Kept us safe” and “there’s been no terrorist attack since 9/11″.
Are people THAT friggin stupid? WHY in the heck would they bother coming HERE
when they can kill Americans at will in their front yard? If I were back in the Infantry I sure as hell wouldn’t feel “safe”.
Notice all the “useful idiots” that supported the COMMUNITY ORGANIZER for President sticking up for Matt Gaymon!
Matt Damon sure becomes rather unattractive very quickly, doesn’t he? I wouldn’t waste MY time on the fellow unless there was money involved
Kristol is an Idiot! The War has been the biggest mistake ever & for anyone to support it, they would be more of an Idiot than Kristol! The sheep must follow – follow the flock – right off the cliff – right into the bushes..Go Matt!
Ironic that another news item is the high school girls basketball match in which the special needs kids were smoked 100 to nothing.
Another Al Franken? The problem is that poeople vote for celebrity, not cerebral aptitude
I say, let’s have Bill and Matt have a fist fight. Anyone here want to place a bet on Kristol?
Damon has already proven he can’t have a civilized debate, his sophomoric name calling got this whole thing started, didn’t it? His response to a person who made a statement that he did not agree with immediately got called a name. Instead of making intelligent statements in argument, he just went kindergarten and called him a name. Please.
If you have more intelligence than you do pride, you will apologize for the attacks on conservatives and try to save some of your fan base before this gets out of control… Why would any celebrity want to polarize people and have millions of individuals hate them? Just so other left wing radicals can cheer for you..? If your agents/advisors haven’t already told you this, you should consider firing them.
Will Burns is obviously a homosexual……
Um, Cowboyup… I think you may be confused. It’s William Kristol, not Billy Crystal, and they’re debating, not bebating… duh.
No, Damon will embarrass HIMSELF…
Poor Matt! He was born with a Silver Spoon imbedded in his small brain!!!
A man with the IQ of his shoe size should keep his fat mouth closed.
BTW, DON’T BUY HIS CRAPPY DVD TRILOGY COLLECTION! $65.00 OF WHITE TRASH————SHEEZE!
Kristol has been perpetuately wrong about most everythng which is why the NY Times dumped him. They had to run 4 corrections of little Billy’s column in just one year.
Have Kristol debate Eric Alterman
Thank you Bill,
It is about time that someone calls for these Hollywood know it alls to defend what they are spueing.
After less than a month with Bidon as Vice President maybe Matt is rethinking his critisism of Gov Palin.
Hollywood wants Bush’s “Security Codes changed from:
GREEN, YELLOW, ORANGE, and RED
to Obama’s security codes of:
RUN, HIDE, SURRENDER AND COLLORABATE.
Some are asking about Kristol – What is Damon’s military history? It is not like Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable, Charles Durning, Robert Montgomery and the rest during WW II.
Yeah, I’m a vet. RVN – combat in Tet-68 and Easter-72 in Quang-Tri)
look at all the conservative cry babies whining away about an actor, whaa whaa! Truth is Kristol is an arogant a$$ that will probably LOSE to an actor. Get over it cry babies!
and
Get used to saying President Obama for 8 years
SeattleLiberal:
You are a phoney……..the troops overwhelmingly loved George W. Every poll ever conducted showed this. Come up from the basement and ask your mom’s permission to use email in the future……your embarrassing your family and the rest of the trailer park.
Rush is now kicking Barry “the community organizer’s” butt in the press……giving that boy a lesson in politics!!!
Sounds like Matt Damon hitched a ride on the Kool Aid train.
For someone who got rich off of pretending to kill people it cracks me up that he would consider himself a serious person.
I guess playing someone who thinks the govt is out to get him has affected his real life outlook. Kind of like an actor with the last name of Ledger? Hopefully it wont take him down. Hopefully he will grow up, wake up and come to reality that no one takes him seriously.
How can they have a debate about whether we won a war that is still going on? Soldiers are still dying in Iraq, in case we’ve forgotten.
Debate ? ? What debate ? ? This debate has about as much chance of happening as the leaders of Hamas and Hezbo turning themselves into B.B. Netanyahu. Go ahead and dream, it’s not against the law to dream.
Oh yeah…..in case you’re among the disillusioned……Bill Kristol is not a conservative……….repeat……not a conservative. He’s an interior beltway elitist who thinks all who reside between the Sierra’s and Appalachian’s were extras in the movie “Deliverance”……….
Hollywood is disfunctional do you not know that Matt? That means you know nothing about anything. Gov. Sarah Palin isn’t unexperienced like lets say Pres. Obama who isn’t black but “Green” with no brain, just like Matt.
History is what it is…..history. Can we unite now as Americans and get on with the business of defeating Islam. Let’s not sugar coat it….they want us all converted or dead. Your history is now….look in front of you and don’t blame anyone in the past.
We all read a distorted view of history and try to make sense of the absurd. I for one don’t really care what my ancestors did or did not do. I only want to do whats right now.
What’s more disturbing, Joe Biden’s false teeth or bad hairplugs?
Thank you Bill,
It is about time that someone calls the Hollywood elite to task for some off the wall commentary.
I would also ask Matt if he is rethinking his criticism of Gov. Palin after seeing how the Vice Idiot Biden has been performing.
Are you kidding? Even thoroughly drugged into a coma, Mr. Kristol could thoroughly wipe the floor with Mr. Damon’s butt, and not even break a sweat doing it! The absolute dumbest thing Mr. Damon could do would be to agree to this debate, because he’d be immediately and thoroughly embarassed.
It’s a lose-lose for Krystol. If he wins, he defeats an idiot actor. If he loses, he loses to an idiot actor.
Damon attended Harvard briefly, as if that proves he has a brain to speak about ANY subject? Seems to me that Caroline, you know, Kennedy, Al Gore, and even the Messiah himself attended Ivy League schools. Does not mean they are intelligent to speak on all subjects. Damon is just an overpaid, talentless actor who thinks people care what he says. Newsflash: we don’t.
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We sent 150,000 Americans to Iraq for what, target practice.
And yet the majority of troops supported Bush and the VAST majority support the mission.
Oh well. It’s not like the opinion of people who are actually there matters.
All that matters is what people on TV think.
And Matt Damon.
p.s. Historians don’t use CNN, MSNBC, NPR, PBS, or any other television/radio show as actual historical documents. Nor do they use HuffingtonPost, the DailyKos, or Olbermann.com. You shouldn’t either. Big explosions and stuff on TV three years ago has little to do with what’s going on in Iraq now. At least TRY not to be such an ignorant monkey.
I agree with most of the comments posted here. Damon doesn’t have the “cojones” to agree to a debate. Like most of the liberal elite, he is simply making baseless statements and taking cheap shots in a “safe” arena. If he knew that he’d have to defend his statements and demonstrate that he knew what he was talking about, he’d probably be smart enough to keep his mouth shut. Like most of the effete liberal elite, he will only have an actual debate with people who agree with him.
Will the $100k cover lip reduction surgery for both lips or just one?
Nice publicity stunt for Big Hollywood, but Kristol showing up for such an event only degrades him further than his own inability as a pundit to call anything about the Iraq war correctly. Guess the NY Times finally wised up on that, as looks like he was let go today as a columnist. I mean really, imagine how stupid Damon would look calling out Kristol to engage in an acting contest. Kristol just looks embarassing even consenting to this charade.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are at war with liberals for the sake of our country! We need to get rid of the community organizer in 2012! Stop this insanity!
Well gee WIL BURNS, the whole point IS to fight them in THEIR front yard with soldiers that are equipped to at least fight back and inflict heavy damages on them. Let’s see, Sept 11, 3000 Americans killed and what?, 15-20 terrorist killed? Since then 4200 Americans killed and we stopped counting at hundreds of thousands of terrorists killed. You ARE the idiot! Bush always said he wanted to fight them over there with soldiers instead of over here with women and children and that is EXACTLY what has happened! That is what I would expect from a president. Bush has kept us safe since 911. Hopefully, Obama will be able to do the same. As far as not feeling safe in the infantry, it is an infantry. It is all volunteer. If you don’t feel safe as an infantryman, then don’t join the military as an infantryman, DUH. The military is volunteer. They serve at the leisure of the president. If anyone wishes to not do that, they do have a choice.
As hard as it might be to take Matt Damon seriously on foreign policy, it’s even harder to take Bill Kristol seriously. I mean… seriously?
David and Kevin Steel are obviously lovers…….
It was USA vs Iraq, it’s tough to screw that up.
Although Bush tried to do so by ignoring the advice of the Army Chief of Staff.
Liberalism is a mental disorder!!!
Kristol will make Damon look like the idiot he is, stick to making movies Matt. No one cares about your uninformed comments.
Damon is a great example why my family and I do NOT spend any money on movies. These foolish Hollyweirdo’s relentlessly trash our Military without fail and all that which give us Freedom. And they do it behind their glass walls. Most are under educated and lack the brain function to understand what they are trying to articulate. They spend so much time PRETENDING that they cannot tell fantasy from reality.
Danom is a great example of that and he is a great example of why I don’t have any intentions of him seeing a single dime of mine. I do NOT believe he has the hair around his balls, if he has any, to debate Kristol. He is a lightweight that has a platform to spew his hate and has no intention of actually answering for any of his words. Kristol would make him look so foolish he would have to take the Hollyweird out, pills.
I hope Matt can “man up” and do the debate, but I’m sure he won’t. Like most brainless libs, he spouts talking points without reference to facts or reality. Yes, Matt you witless tool, we have Won the war in Iraq. It can still be lost by your liberal friends, and by your new messiah, but that’s one victory handed to him on a platter.
Matt if you come, please wear Depends. In the face of informed and intelligent debate you will surely soil your self…
We can only pray that liberals continue to get more abortions, and become gay……then the problem of liberlism will eventually take care of itself!
Kevin and others that mock the drudge following are just a neanderthalish as Damon and Obama. Just to inform you dweddle dees, only 52% of America voted this joker in and I am going to guess that the average IQ is well below 100. The average Liberal democrat is uneducated, silver spoon fed, or totally misinformed. Damon will lose. But not as bad as America is going to lose by electing the least qualified most inexperienced president in history during one of the top 5 worst recessions in Modern American history.
It will never happen. I do not understand, including myself who clicked on the link, why we care what actors think, say or do. There opinion should count the same as everyone else in the county; however, we seem to place their pretty faces and personalities on a pedestal. The loudest ones have no sense of what the “Common” man or woman does or the challenges we face with our families. My prediction is that Damon won’t debate because he won’t take on any challenge where he could not win. Me may be ignorant, but he is not dumb. In regards to the “Angry” folks who think that the “Right Wingers” burried the country, who has been in control of the legistative branch for the past four years? What ever happend to the 100 day plan of Speaker Pelosi? Let’s talk in four years and see the progress, if nothing has changed, what will the excuse be then? And there will be excuses, because no politician or political party takes any responsibility. Because I have conservative values and beliefs does not make me a “Right Winger.” I still manage to have some manner of decorum.I wish our new President and his team the best of luck, they will need it.
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Damon debating Kristol is exactly like Andy Dick debating Einstein; Bill Maher debating God; chicken little fighting the Hulk; Al Gore doing anything intelligent, ever; Biden saying anything intelligent, ever; Madonna, Sharon Stone or Susan Sarandon thinking they have talent other than between their . . . you get the picture; and expecting Obama to actually to something good for America. Damon pertended to be a genius in one movie, and believes it. This was a typical liberal elitist’s drive-by personal attack and there’s no way Damon will have the guts to go face to face against an actual man.
My money is on Damon wimping out and not showing up. He is a leftwing, new castrati mental midget. Kristol would annihilate him in a debate. Most lefties live in an alternative universe comprised of their own self-serving, adolescent narcissism. And Damon leads the pack of these leftwing lemmings. Nevertheless, I’d love to lose my bet and watch Kristol devastate Damon. It definitely would be worth the money.
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Oh David Steele, YOU elected a Kenyan. Most of the Conservatives stayed at home rather than participate in a farce that pitted an illegal Kenyan against a Left wing RHINO. A lose lose situation. You and your Socialist ilk fell prey to the old Socialist tactic of ‘elect me and I’ll give you all the rich peoples money’. Which while you are unable to comprehend that it was a lie, it was. So you wasted your vote hoping for a gift of other peoples money, which you will never receive, at the cost of electing a Kenyan that does not have the United States best interests in heart.
Nice one.
Liberals sound great when their opinions are not opposed. Newspapers, television and movies are great way for liberals to spread their agenda. Liberals don’t do well on talk radio because most of their ideas do not hold water when scrutinized. Kristol will politely eat this guy for lunch.
As hard as it might be to take Matt Damon seriously on foreign policy, it’s even harder to take Bill Kristol seriously. I mean … seriously?
Well then, I guess it should be no problem for Damon (or you) to win a debate with Kristol.
And hey, I’m not all that enamored of Kristol, either, but the man can rally facts, at least, in support of an argument. Damon (and people such as yourself) can only rally assertions (and the opinions of people like Damon) masquerading as fact.
And hey, you could probably win an argument with someone like me, who didn’t even graduate from Harvard. Why don’t you demonstate your scholarly command of the facts by telling us why all of the following have been shown to be complete nonsense:
1) A million Iraqi civilians have been killed since 2003.
2) The war cost $3 trillion.
3) WMDs were the only argument the administration used to justify the war.
4) The war was unilateral
5) By historical standards, 4200 military personnel killed over a six-year period is monumentally costly in terms of human lives.
Come on, professor, lay it on us. Lay it on me. Show us how people like Damon would make their ‘case’. A whiz at foreign policy such as yourself shouldn’t have any trouble ….
If Damon has the courage to show, I guess he’ll be getting a crash course on the Iraq war. They certainly will not be his “educated” thoughts.
What these self absorbed actors can’t understand is that REAL AMERICANS don’t associate with them. This is why their movies are failing. They can have all the awards shows they want giving each other awards and patting each other on the back, but the fact remains, they are spending more to make films than they are bringing in from the box office.
Show me (1) Anti-Bush or Anti-War movie that did well at the box office.
I wish Hollywood would just stick to sleeping with each and giving each other awards … That’s about all they are good at.
The fact that Matt Damon has the nerve to call anyone an “idiot” is halarious. See what happens when they try to play in the real world ???
Now wonder nobody goes to the movies anymore.
Let me get this straight: Matt Damon was knocking Palin because she talks a little different? This is a man with a BOSTON accent LOL.
Such ignorance
The funny thing is Bill Kristol is not even a true conservative. he is a moderate who leans right at best.
Matt has a right to his opinion. From what I’ve seen of Kristol, he’s a reasonable guy. I would ask Matt if he thinks Saddam was a reasonable guy, if the world is better off with or without him, and if he’s toked any nerve gas lately. You know, the WMD stuff the late dictator nebulized the Kurds (civilian men, women, children – oh those pesky children!) with.
Just remember Bill we know longer have a place for terrorist so take know prisoners.
Well gee GENE, Iraq & Afghanistan had nothing to do with 9-1, so why did Bush decide to attack those countries? BTW, If Bush wanted to keep us safe, he would have acted before the 9-11 attack, but he didn’t!
Bill Kristol will be in a battle of wits with an unarmed man. Damon is the typical Hollywood liberal blowhard who thinks that what he says matters. Somehow these actors think that making a living pretending to be someone else is an adequate substitute for a formal education or working one’s way up through the ranks. When you make millions for doing virtually nothing difficult, it is easy to support higher taxes and more social spending. During Saving Private Ryan, Mr. Damon refused to take part in the mini-military boot camp to learn the role. Not only is he a left wing, tax and spend, liberal blowhard, he is also a wuss and a disgrace to his gender.
If Damon would do it, he would spend more time attacking Kristol as a person than actually talk about the topic at hand. That is how a liberal debates. Lots of personal attacks and roundabout answers that have nothing to do with the topic at hand. Facts are a liberal’s worst enemy, especially when involving economics.
Kristol is a Neocon, and he is remarkably bright. But he’s a political hack who led the charge in Iraq. He wrote the blue print for the Iraq invasion in 1998. Why? Oil… look up his writings.
Bob in MASS wrote:
Abe Lincoln lied and conived his way into the presidency. When the rich northern industrialists refused to pay out of their pockets to get needed supplies, he insisted the south foot the bill. This was what the war of northern agression was about. Slavery was an afterthought.
Actually Bob, you are very wrong. You sound like Matt…Did you briefly attend college too? What REALLY happened was that the South wanted slavery to be permitted into the new territories (west of the Mississippi river) and the North did not want slavery to be allowed there. South Carolina seceeded the union claiming that Lincoln and the conservative congress were trampling states rights. But, the only thing they mentioned about states rights were directly linked to slavery. In short, the left the union because they feared the govt would end slavery. Lincoln did not want the union split and thus began the civil war.
Perhaps you were reffering to the emmancipation proclamation. That did occur later. What happened was that the Brittish were considering joining the South to protect their cotton interests. But, the Brittish had stated their hatred of slavery long before this. So, Lincoln proclaimed all slaves free and then the Brittish could not join the South because the Brittish people were so anti-slavery.
By the way, conservatives have historically been the ones trying to end racism in this country from Lincoln on up to today. Dems lead the South in the civil war, and then tried (successfully for a while) to block civil rights legislation through the 1950s and 1960s. Now the try to enslave minorities by making them dependent on the govt for everything. Obama fully supports these tactics. This man is no Abe Lincoln. He supports legislation that keeps blacks dependent on the govt and thus forces them to vote for Dems. If Obama wants to be like Lincoln he should object to this type of legislation and leave the party that has been trying to keep African-Americans ‘in their place’ for 200 years.
I have total confidence in Damon winning the debate.
Let Damon choose 10 other liberal Hollywood actors to form a team and then let him go at Kristol with this one stipulation…..
If Kristol beats Damon’s team, liberal Hollywood actors keep their mouths shut regarding politics forever!!!
When you really are out of bounds and not very smart about the subject he attacks the person -personally. Example what he did to Palin and calling Kristol an idiot. Just not to smart!
“or carbon credit of his choice”
that statement alone is laughable…
I’m not going to debate you neocons who hold fast to the belief that Bush did all he could do to save the victims of Katrina (by virtue of one fly-over and a speech on a specially fixed up just for the occasion Jackson Square) but I will remind you that he was personally responsible for hiring heckuva job Brownie for the job as head of FEMA in the first place.
Barry freed up our American tax dollars for foreign abortions so that we can pay for them……too bad Barry’s Mom didnt have an abortion!
Kristol, you’ve been drinking the grape KoolAide too long. or you’ve set in your office at the Old Gay Lady too long. Maybe it’s just that you have believed the munchkins that feed the masses of Liberal minds their numb-skull drugs for too long. You know nothing about “W” Bush except the “BrainDrain Gobbledegook” of the KoolAifde, numb-skull drugs and othrerstuff
A funny fact about this story is that Damon can’t win an argument about Santa Claus with his 10 year old daughter. Can you all imagine what his kids will be like in 20 years? Remember,…all these nutcases in Hollywood have kids. And they are indoctrinating these kids with their deranged beliefs. And these kids will be taking over Hollywood and the establishment as soon as they can learn how to memorize lines.
The biggest joke about Damon is that he put himself on the line for Obama over the past 2 years, and he wasn’t even allowed to go to the inauguration. Obama’s people laughed at him when he asked for front row seats. They offered him $25k a piece bleacher seats instead. How’s the Obama train working for you now, Mr. Damon?
I think it speaks a thousand words about both Obama and Damon, when they work hard on a fraudulent campaign for two years and denounce each other when they fight for the spotlight. Matt Damon has an Affleck complex. Look it up, it’s an actual mental illness. You know you have it when you cry every night because you’re not Ben Affleck.
Why work when you can act?
Why think when you can rant?
Sure, I’d pay to see another Bourne movie – loved
each one. Would also pay to see the Kristol Supremacy.
Kristol will intellectually sodomize poor Matt.
Won’t matter though – the liberal mind creates its own
reality in which Kristol, et. al., speak only hateful
right-wing gibberish. And Kristol isn’t even that far right.
Oh well, back to working for a living.
Mat Damon is the walking embodiment of sound bite intellect and the Dumbed-Down America that is the lament of any true Patriot or Libertarian.
What should we have done with Hussein, Al Quaeda and the Taliban? Taught them to recycle? Encouraged them to embrace green technology? Given them sensitivity and equal opportunity training?
These are the left field views of Damon, and the (sadly) many many people who are as out to lunch on reality as he is.
Kristol need only talk about the real world to send this babbling retard back to kindergarten. The world is an ugly place. GWB, misguided as he was at times, nonetheless understood this reality. Spewing rhetoric to earn the favor of your audience, and making hard decisions necessitated by reality, are two totally different things. At the end of the day only one is worth a crap.
Damon is apparently the idiot. Too stupid to see beyond his own juvenile posturing for popularity to understand how the real world works.
Sarah Barracuda – January 26th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Will Burns is obviously a homosexual……
You think?
That “celebutard,” AKA as Matt Damon, is going down! This will be a good laugh for all of us on the Right. See you in the funnies Damon!
There’s no way Damon will agree to a debate. Just like the rest of his ilk, they like to spew their opinions in a nice, safe environment with no chance of any rebuttle.
It’s a shame, though, maybe seeing one of their poster boys get embarrassed on a national stage would be enough to convince Hollywood that their opinions aren’t worth anything more than yours or mine.
Change??? You’d think Hillary won the election with all the Clintonistas Barry selected. Barry Sotero lied to us already!
[...] Breibart at BigHollywood reports: After disparaging Bill Kristol in an interview in last Sunday’s Miami Herald, Matt [...]
Hey Hobbes. I think perhaps you need Calvin to speak for you. Perhaps he doesn’t subscribe to the ‘poor me’ attitude of you Leftist/Socialists who just want everyone else to take care of them from cradle to grave.
Drew and Dax, you guys must be smoking from the same pipe bros. 2 outta how many responses thinking dumbass Damon will win?
LouAnn – Saddam never asked to be taken out>>
So, LouAnn, you’re okay with having 4000+ of our soldiers killed to get one man?
I hope Matt Damon wins. His comment about Pail was hilarious yet true, and if that is the way the debate will go, I think it could put a good satirical spin on some boring topics that people are deeply divided on. I don’t see logically how one could be confused about the results of the Iraq war at this point in time, but then again some people voted Bush in twice. Some people probably don’t even know the reasons we actually went into Iraq…. and have opinions on this matter. Just because hes a smart “liberal” and wealthy, doesn’t mean you have to become ignorant to the message, which is seen as an obvious truth in just about any country, but the US. THE IRAQ WAR WAS A FAILURE.
Inquiring about the very necessity of such a debate might be a better topic. Do we debate the fact that the world is round? Do we debate the fact that President G.W. Bush served two terms as a US President? Didn’t think so.
Saddam is gone. Thousands of terrorists killed, fled and out of business. Deomcracy and freedom are in full force as US troops go home.
Uhh..Yeah. That’s called victory.
[...] Matt Damon: “He’s [Kristol] an idiot — he wrote that we should be grateful to George Bush because he won the Iraq war. We! Won! The! War!” —LINK [...]
Damon is a sniper with no ammo……….
Since it’s the New Hollywood where thinking is not a requirement, Matt The Punk Damon will fit right in.
Then you better sign up Derek D, they need you. Don’t forget to get the kids involved too. They would have fun over in Iraq. 115+ daily, getting shot at, and blown up. I mean if it is so urgent, and important, then it is your patriotic duty to serve, and make sure you family serves as well. Otherwise the Islamofacsists win.
It’s been years since I’ve actually paid to see these people pretend to be other people. When Julia Roberts so pompously announced that the word ‘republican’ in the dictionary is between repugnant and repulsive, I started making a list of celebrities I would never pay to see. Matt Damon’s name is now on the list between Alec Baldwin and Julia Roberts.
I’ve had a subscription to The Weekly Standard for some time now. It’s not exactly light reading. Bill Kristol is one of the very best. If you’ve watched him on the round table discussions on Brit/Bret, you know this guy will completely destroy Matt Damon.
I enjoy Matt Damon’s movies —- but his politics leave me thinking that he’s am airhead and a blabbermouth. Here I thought we might have a reasonable replacement for Clint Eastwood in a few years —- and instead he turns out to be a typical Hollywood bimbo.
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…This ain’t Good Will Hunting… Bill Kristol is “wicked Smart” matt Damon is an actor… Bill have forgotten more than Damon knows about politics… Now they will probably stack the audience with 99.99% loud activist Liberals… so the perception is that Matt made a point… But on neutral turn… Its a really good High School team Against the Pittsburgh Steelers…
Damn will NEVER agree to this. He can’t. He’ll be mauled and humiliated and he knows it.
He’ll play the “Baldwin Defense” and claim to be too busy with movie projects. Bank on it.
The debate is a great premise for a movie. Bill Kristol, the heavy favorite, much like the Soviet hockey team at the 1980 Olympics, takes on the underdog Damon, in the roll of the USA team made up of college players.
It would be another great American story where the ordinary underdog perseveres over the overrated professional gadfly. But the story should have a twist. Kristol finds his life after the debate much like the Columbia goal keeper who kicked the ball into the net he was defending at the World Cup. The conservatives blame him for losing the debate and kill him much like they have done to John McCain.
Terrorism is a crime. A mosquito bite on the arm of the greatest country on earth and you all treat it like we’ve had our arms and legs shot off. C’mon! Paranoia is the breeding ground of the terrorist. It’s where they thrive. For every one terrorist out there you guys imagine a million. Wipe the foam off your mouths and calm down.
Dingaling damon dropped out of Harvard to go pretend he’s smart in that toad of a clueless movie he puked up. He needs to be able to actually count more then his fingers and toes; (reflects his IQ) to have any hope of a sane response in this debate. And we care for a pretentious simpleton’s opinion, how?
Timothy Paine…This is for you.
Buckley and Chomsky (take notice of the cover of Time magazine and who’s on it…)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEIrZO069Kg
Here’s Buckley describing what a president should be and shouldn’t be… Take it out of context and pretend he’s talking about Obama… It;s a perfect match.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXLTDUPJqsU&feature=PlayList&p=EEA1D998899856E5&playnext=1&index=14
Wake up America!
it will be interesting. Stick to the facts tho so it should be categorized as a debate. I think bill will eventually lose. The statement matt uttered is months old and hes just now responding? clever clever typical right wing response.
What if the one guy is Hitler? If a regiment of paratroopers dropped into Berlin in November, 1944, could have got to Hitler, would it have mattered if most of them had been wasted?
Funny how you call the Iraqi war a failure, Ali. I imagine that is easy to do from a nice warm safe home. Not worrying about any from the Saddam regime stopping by your house at any moment, to kill you, perhaps to rape your wife and/or daughter. So it’s easy for you to sit back and whine.
I don’t understand why the Leftists of the world today scream ‘Human Rights’, but don’t afford them to anyone who really needs them. You are a great example of why some people need to be herded around and have other people looking out for their best interests, usually against their will.
Trust me. Damon will find an ‘out’. He has no chance to debate a knowledgeable person like Kristol. I can out-debate him as well but that is besides the point…They just better not have the venue lined up with 99% liberals like Bill Maher’s show. Every incorrect point by Damon gets a rousing applause making it appear he is correct, even though he isn’t, just like Bill Maher’s show. Pendeja, above, said “Damon looks better on paper” LOL!!
Ho ya like them apples…asshat…???
Damon is a fine actor who, like the rest of his colleagues, thinks the world is as cute as the movies they create. Fact is that Putin would have more respect for the war hero and moose shooting hockey mom than he would for organizer and the gaffer.
Sorry Matt: I love your movies, but you have drunk the Hollywood Kookaid.
It will be disappointing. Damon will rant and Kristol will let him look like a fool and Damon will think he’s doing well.
El Gordo – I do not think you had any idea what to do about our sworn enemy Saddam and I do not believe you care about the Iraqis, the money or our soldiers.>>
Saddam was Bush’s sworn enemy, not mine. I would not have sacrificed 4000+ of our soldiers, to get Saddam.
It’s funny. Is he going to bash him for his cowardice when Damon doesn’t call?
What is he, Bill Oreily?
celebuTARD!
[...] Matt Damon: “He’s [Kristol] an idiot — he wrote that we should be grateful to George Bush because he won the Iraq war. We! Won! The! War!” —LINK [...]
[...] Matt Damon: “He’s [Kristol] an idiot — he wrote that we should be grateful to George Bush because he won the Iraq war. We! Won! The! War!” —LINK [...]
[...] Matt Damon: “He’s [Kristol] an idiot — he wrote that we should be grateful to George Bush because he won the Iraq war. We! Won! The! War!” —LINK [...]
**ML – January 26th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Hey, my money’s Damon. He’s a lot smarter than you’d think.**
Obviously a lot smarter than YOU………….. Not a GOOD thing, if you know what I mean………
JUST ONE QUESTION… WHY WOULD ANYONE LISTEN TO HOLLYWOOD FOR POLITICAL ADVICE?….COME ON AMERICA… I THOUGHT YOU HAD MORE BRAINS THAT THAT….NO ONE REALLY CARES WHAT ANYONE IN HOLLYWOOD THINKS.. THEY SHOULD JUST STICK TO MAKING MOVIES… THE MEDIA MAKES YOU THINK THAT HOLLYWOOD VOICES ARE REALLY IMPORTANT.. BUT IN THE REAL WORLD , WE JUST SIT BACK A LAUGH.. AFTER ALL THEY CAN’T STAY MARRIED FOR TO LONG… AND THEY SURE CAN’T STAY OUR OF REHAB CENTERS… BUT YES LET’S LISTEN TO THEM ON POLITICAL MATTERS……LMAO NOW THAT’S PRICELESS
Hi folks Matt again. I just wanted to express my luv sum mo fo my #1 President Barack. I luv him soo much that I will try to deny a fellow American (Gov Palin) her right under the Constitution to Freedom of Religion. She should not be allowed worship as she chooses. She can only exercise her freedoms according to what I says is ok. I will make another youtube video with the help of my hollywood pals to explain what I deem to be appropriate. fistbump to ya Barack
Matt Damon.
F*G
he will never do it. i would be astounded if he did…why would anyone in hollywood give up their bully pulpit on E! entertainment news where they can spew political BS and come down to the level of us mere mortals…constrained by those pesky little details like facts and reason???
oh how beneath them.
Damon is just another proud to be coward idiot liberal. He’s a little sissy, and a horrible actor. Just watch Team America World Police, and that is the real Matt Damon.
So, what will Mr Krystal be paid if the Hollywood butt boy gets his paycheck. Matt is harldy a man of his convictions if he needs a paycheck.
Being a famous actor is like being on welfare except you get millions of dollars worth of food stamps instead of $100 bucks. You read the script, you talk to the camera, and then you get a fat paycheck you don’t really deserve. The scripts tend to be loaded with evil, so the movies end up being a bad influence on the public. Hollywood is an over inflated shallow communist joke for the elite celebs, and a sorrowful dump for millions of non-actors living in the L.A. area.
Repent of your sins, no more evil, start doing good. Be filled with the HOLY SPIRIT, be Holy like GOD is, don’t be full of sin, be full of good. There’s much I can say, but I don’t always feel like expressing my views, it gets old telling stubborn bad people to be good. It’s not every moment that I feel like convincing stupid-sinners to become wise&behaved. Perhaps I will return to offer a more comprehensive comment when feel better about helping bad folks become good folks.
I do still watch hollywood films which I should not, I did however boycott alot of trips to the theatre in 2008 due to celebs manipulating American elections with their lame sinful views. I should switch from film watching to book reading even though books tend to be just as bad as movies if u are not a great selecter. Holy Bible is the best book for certain, I should read it more often. America was founded and built upon Christian principles, no disputing that, GOD Bless America, IN GOD WE TRUST, a merciful GOD, a wise GOD, the only GOD, go read the 10 Commandments and then act accordingly, Treat Others As You Would Want To Be Treated.
Happy Trails To U Until We Meet Again
Trinity Broadcasting Network TBN TBN TBN !!! Christian Television is the best television there is, a good influence as opposed to a negative influence.
I would much rather see Damon debate Sara Palin live on national TV — all channels — (plus FOX to make sure we get to see what is really happening) I don’t trust those liberal cameras and microphones. The “hockey mom” will kick his overpaid butt. I think “President” Palin is going to look mighty good after four years of Obama.
So, LouAnn, you’re okay with having 4000+ of our soldiers killed to get one man?
Sure, if it’s the right man. After all, people like you were OK with keeping 25 million people in Iraq living under a brutal, murderous dictatorship to ‘get’ one man: Bush. You obviously agree that violence is worth it to ‘get’ one man. You’re anything but a hero, or a progressive.
After all, would it have been worth 4000 soldiers to kill a Hitler or Mussolini? How many American servicemen and -women were saved from having to fight in a war Saddam or his sons would undoubtedly begin at some later date?
Oh well. Go back to reading Kos and watching Olbermann. It’ll turn you into an historian in no time flat …. Won’t it?
[...] other news, let’s hope Matt Damon agrees to face Bill Kristol in a debate. I’m hoping to televise this and make it a three part series. I know I’d [...]
Ben Dover – January 26th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Funny how you call the Iraqi war a failure, Ali. I imagine that is easy to do from a nice warm safe home. Not worrying about any from the Saddam regime stopping by your house at any moment, to kill you, perhaps to rape your wife and/or daughter. So it’s easy for you to sit back and whine.>>
Saddam was never a threat to us. How afraid you must be!
Damon will not have the stones to accept this offer. Not even if it were for a million dollars.
MATT – I CHALLENGE YOU TAKE ON RUSH LIMBAUGH – A REAL CONSERVATIVE
Ben Dover, you just keep being afraid, very afraid. You know your Lord Bush is your savior.
Don’t forget to take a blanket under your bed tonight.
If I were you I wouldn’t leave my house anymore.
BTW, I’m thinking about going into the bomb shelter building business. Do you want to order one?
I might even give you a discount.
[...] do hope Damon accepts the following invitation As the sponsor of the event, Big Hollywood is offering $100,000 to Damon (or to the charity or carbon credit of his choice) to publicly debate [...]
Damon will NOT show. Kristol will own him and he knows it.
**The conservatives blame him for losing the debate and kill him much like they have done to John McCain.**
Oh Marvin, conservatives don’t blame McSame for losing. Conservatives didn’t vote for him, we stayed home to let your ‘Messiah’ wreak his Socialist vision upon America so perhaps others can see how utterly wrong the Leftists are. Starting in 2010 perhaps there will be a resurgence in CONSERVATISM instead of just ‘Democrat lite’ which the Repubs bring anymore.
Bambi vs Godzilla. They should sell tickets and put it on pay per veiw then donate the money to charity. Damon and his ilk are used to pontificating to sycophants, it would be funny watching him reduced to a blithering idiot in public.
He will not do it of course, but will come up with a great excuse. This is what happens when the court jester tries to be king.
Damon’s a liberal junkie and needs to be put in his place by common FACTS
Easy Wil Burns. Bush has never been and never will be my Savior. While ‘The Messiah’ may be yours (PBUH), Bush only gave me 2 things in 8 years I agreed with. Alito and Roberts.
now THAT would be funny. I’m afraid that poor Damon fellow would be completely wasted by Kristol. I love Damon’s movie, though…Team America…best acting he’s ever done..Penn too.
Kristol regularly gets beat up and embarassed on the Daily Show. I’d expect more of the same here. Kristol does a very poor job of articulating his positions.
Apparently no one posting here reads Kristol’s work. I am not sure why you think the man is so smart when he has been wrong about everything. I can’t think of one thing he has ever been right about.
Maybe Kristol could get Spielberg to do a movie on the attack on the USS Liberty.
Hey Seattleliberal…YOU are a friggen idiot and so is your son if he thinks the troops all hated Bush and LOVE OBAMA! Hopefully youre son will end up on the wrong end over there and have his eyes opened up cause hes ssure as hell has them closed as do you. Oh and before you go off on me about wether or not I served, well buddy I happen to come from a military family and did 20 years myself.
I wonder what Gnat Daemon is going to do when Sarah is President … hopefully move to France and take the left coasties with him.
Bill Kristol?
The same guy who said there was no difference between Sunnis and Shiite Muslims?
This’ll be fun . . .
Oh BUT WIl Burns! You and your Socialist Left like to scream to the world about Freedom for all! I guess just you and your ilk are ‘the all’.
Freedom for YOU. To hell with everyone else.
I bet you don’t really like looking at yourself in the mirror. Do you.
Hollywood celebrities continue to think, because they’re famous, they have some unique and remarkable insight into American politics. Unfortunately so does the MSM. William Kristol writes OP ed pieces for the NY Times, the left’s paper of record, which should extend him at least the courtesy of not being called an “Idiot.”
I hope Damon takes Big Hollywood’s offer, Kristol will clean his clock.
MB Snow
I have to agree with Scott that Kristol’s columns are rubbish. He’s no more expert in matters of war, economics or foreign policy than Matt Damon. He’s an opinion peddler with celebrity…not too far removed from Damon.
LouAnn – January 26th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
We don’t have a draft, dude. You can sleep peacefully tonight knowing that you never have to serve anyone but yourself. Well, that is, unless Rangel gets his wishes. I believe he’s reintroducing legislation on the matter.>>
Already served, how about you? Interested?
Talk about coming to a gun fight with a cap gun, Matt Damon doesn’t possess the intellect of my cat, not to mention of someone able to debate a well informed human. Watch how fast he turns to name calling in the debate.
I hope the parameters of the debate are bigger than “we won the Iraq war.” Because Mr. Damon, as, I think, a non-idiot, will have to concede that after 30 seconds. We then should move into the more hateful “sons of the rich” stuff that Wes puts forth above. This will be you-tubed no?
Just wondering…What has Bill Kristol ever accomplished in his career? Anyone know?
It’s okay, Mr. Burns. I respect your willingness to own your opinion publicly.
Just don’t, you know, pretend that we don’t all have blood on our hands for what we do AND for what we don’t do… for those things we allow to continue. And that might be the right choice to make, but it’s a choice with moral consequence. Saddam may not have been your enemy, but he was engaged in ongoing genocide. The decision to *do* something about him is a separate matter because the guilt exists either way… guilty for the consequences of stopping Saddam, and every bit as guilty for the consequences if we did nothing at all.
Are you innocent if someone who is not your enemy continues genocide unopposed?
It’s a good thing to publicly own your own opinion.
ryan is an assclown
LouAnn – January 26th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Wil Burns (re: USS Liberty): Do you have ties to the USS Liberty?>>
Family member killed. Is that enough?
[...] dropout Matt Damon is blasting William Kristol on public policy….so Kristol agrees to debate Damon? Methinks Matt doesn’t know what he’s getting [...]
The only reason Kritol [sec] would even suggest it is because he knows Matt would never do it.
And the only reason Damon feels free to spout his nonsense is because he knows nobody will ever challenge him on it.
Till now.
Kristol regularly gets beat up and embarassed on the Daily Show.
I LOVE the Daily Show. As a hard-news outfit full to the brim with historians and scholars, I feel it’s one of the best places to get useful, accurate information on what’s going on in the world, indeed with how the world actually works.
I hear that one of their writers actually read a non-fiction book once after college. Could you find another, better-informed outfit than the crew at The Daily Show (or the people who watch it)?
Steeler Nation Guy: you will suffer an embarassing loss to the Cards, enjoy the Super Bowl.
Why did Matt Damon only attend Harvard briefly while Barack Obama
got through law school? Affirmative action…
Takes one (idiot) to know one.
Why is there so much hate speech towards my BFF matt when I won ?
I want to know what Jessica Simpson thinks too. seriously, just another air head to add to my personal blacklist. Let’s see… Roseanne Barr, Sean Penn, Robert Redford, Jack Black, Carmen Diaz, Rosie O’Donell, and now Matt! I see you – I grab the remote – I delete you!! Go live with your friend Chavez.
What will the venue be ? How about a spelling bee ?
If you have read this many comments, and you’re not passed out from the massive success of your blog, place a flag in the flowerpot on the patio tonight.
Synova -Are you innocent if someone who is not your enemy continues genocide unopposed?>>
Wasn’t Africa’s genocide not important to Bush?…and you!
Wow. That’s great. Damon will eat that inverted nitwit’s lunch. Kristol is a petrified moron.
MATT! DAMON!
Wow, reading this comment thread, you’d almost think Bill Kristol’s Trotskyite brand of conservatism hadn’t been completely and utterly annihilated by reality over the past eight years.
Matt Damon’s at least been in a couple good movies. Bill Kristol’s just a privileged elitist prick who’ll defend any war you put in front of him.
Although I would love to see this, Mr. Kristol needs to be careful. My Dad used to tell us to never argue with an idiot. “They will drag you down to their lever, and beat you to death with experience.”
Matt Damon is a highly experienced professional idiot.
Quite frankly, it would be a waste of Damon’s time to debate Kristol. Why would anyone him? Conservatives are irrelevant. You had eight years to show the country the brilliance of your ideas — and look where that brought us. Personally, I’ll stick to philosophies that don’t damage America’s international standing, decay our moral high ground and lead to recession and financial ruin.
Grover – January 26th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
To those who call Kristol out on his military service….when and where did Matt Damon serve?>>
Kristol is the warmonger, not Damon!
Lots of trolls out today, I see. Anyone who thinks Matt could beat Kristol in a debate is definitely too close to the magic mushrooms.
I’ll even donate to Matt’s charity to watch this. Lets see if he’ll put his money where his mouth is…
(Charities – don’t get your hopes up, this guy is gutless, you’ll see!)
Already served, how about you? Interested?
That you, Thomas Beauchamp? You demonstrate Private Beauchamp’s grasp of military history, and compunction for truthfulness, thought you might be he, or perhaps an editor at TNR ….
Maybe you could tell us about the time you made a Humvee take a sudden turn to run over a dog ….
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If you openly disagree with me verbally I will have my workers cut out your tongue because my name is SADDAMie, If you write something critical about me I will have your hand cut off because my name is SaddamonMaaaaaaatDamoooooooonnnnnn.
My son drives countless high end import cars and stops his cars at weddings to rape the new bride because my name is Dictator Saddam Hussein.
Then, one day, President George W. Bush strode into town(Baghdad) like William Wallace, and started kicking ass to no end, because evil remains in the world till the end of the world, it aint over till it’s over. We will fight you in the air, we will fight you in the non-landmass liquidy stuff, we will fight you on the beaches with our umbrellas, will squirt suntan lotion in your eyes on the beaches, will chase you off snapping you in your asses with our beach towels. We will not surrender, Iraq can and will be a permanent bastion of Peace&Freedom, an untiring Democracy.
GOD Bless America, Land That I Love, STAND BESIDE HER, AND GUIDE HER…
Matt Damon will certainly call Kristol’s bluff!
Afer all Damon played a genius and a poker player on the big screen!
This should be fun!
Damon will will say oh yeah? Well how do you like dem Apples?
Damon, another Hollywood blowhard with no balz or brains!
Don’t know about Damon but Kristol certainly is a neocon moron. Whatever is best for Israel, works for him.
Well Mr. Damon arn’t you the lucky one that the men & women who fought in Iraq and all the other wars gave you this freedom to bash America. Also, you are so blessed that President Bush kept you safe all these years.
Watching the Republicans flail in their ignominy is truly entertaining.
Listening to them pretend that they have so much as a whit of credibility left with voters is even more fun.
How does it go? Anger, denial, something?
And, yes; Kristol is an idiot, followed by idiots.
Now we know why Pelosi wants to give out free birth control. Too late for the idiotic Damon family.
Two questions:
1) What is the subject of the debate? Shouldn’t that be made clear before everyone claims that Bill will “own” Matt. If the subject is whether Bush was correct in leading us to war, a third grader could destroy Kristol on that subject.
2) Are any of you actually familiar with how wrong Kristol is about stuff? Let’s review:
April 2003: “There’s been a certain amount of pop sociology in America … that the Shia can’t get along with the Sunni and the Shia in Iraq just want to establish some kind of Islamic fundamentalist regime. There’s almost no evidence of that at all. Iraq’s always been very secular.”
March, 2005: “In the new era in which we now live, 1/30/05 could be a key moment–perhaps the key moment so far–in vindicating the Bush Doctrine as the right response to 9/11.”
July 2004: “What the Bush administration did say–and what so many reporters seem to have trouble understanding–is that Iraq and al Qaeda had a relationship that, by its very existence, posed a potential threat to the United States.”
Matt, let this website put their money where their mouth is and have the cash go to moveon.org or another liberal group. That would be awesome!
Soneone needs to tell Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Sean Penn, Goerge”Looney” Clooney and the rest of their Hollywood pals, that they play make believe for a living. While the rest of us actually build the country, they are just pretending to be other people. And most of us don’t give a crap what they think!
Do Y’all actually believe that we have won the war??????????
You had eight years to show the country the brilliance of your ideas — and look where that brought us.
Actually, it was six years. For the last two years the Congress has been in the hands of the Democrats*.
And look where that brought us.
* In case you don’t know, and appears you don’t, the President and the Congress are two different government entities, with different roles and responsibilities. Neither of them, by the way, controls the economy, although they try their damndest.
Not that it matters, the
PresidentDear Leader will solve all issues, cure all illnesses, and turn ignorant TV watchers into insightful geniuses overnight (OK, well, in a week or so all this will come to pass). All you had to do was vote for Obama and suddenly all that nonsense you get from TV transmogrified into The Truth(tm).Hey Breitbart,
Can we please, PLEASE have Greg Gutfeld as the moderator?! Puh-lease?
Hey, this is cool. Maybe they can get Barbra Steisand to moderate.
Hak – January 26th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Well Mr. Damon arn’t you the lucky one that the men & women who fought in Iraq and all the other wars gave you this freedom to bash America. Also, you are so blessed that President Bush kept you safe all these years.
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I’m sick of these people saying “Bush Kept us safe” and “there’s been no terrorist attack since 9/11″. Are people THAT friggin stupid? WHY in the heck would they bother coming HERE
when they can kill Americans at will in their front yard? If I were back in the Infantry I sure as hell wouldn’t feel “safe”.
P.S. Bush didn’t protect us on 9-11, now did he!
It will be a little comical to see how shallow a thinker Matt Damon really is. Celebutards tend to look at things through their emotions rather than reason. No matter, it will be funny to see.
MAAAATTTT DAAAAMMOOOONN
Matt Damon is a tard. He doesn’t have the courage to show up in a debate, although I hope he does so the audience can marvel in this clowns stupidity. Why is it these Hollywood types think they have it all figured out? Yet most don’t even have formal educations, go figure.
See, Damon has everything to gain and nothing to lose.
Not true. If Damon were to accept, he would become proxy for all of Hollywood, and all of the ditzy liberal jigglers who watch TV (on which Hollywood is completely dependent) and use it (unwittingly) for intellectual and social cues. If Damon were to lose, Hollywood, ditzy jiggly Obama voters, and liberalism would lose.
Aureliano – January 26th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
You had eight years to show the country the brilliance of your ideas — and look where that brought us.
Actually, it was six years. For the last two years the Congress has been in the hands of the Democrats*.
And look where that brought us.
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Yeah, with the republicans fighting them all the time. Most fiibuster ever!
Damon won’t show, he’ll get ‘rhoids or something that day.
Sure, Matt Damon is a mental midget but he’s at least intelligent enough to realize he’s in no position to debate Kristol let alone a 4 year old!
Kristol is a MORON- whether or not damon can defeat him in debate is irrelevant-this pussified neocon enjoys sending other’s children into harm’s way in order to achieve the PNAC agenda of privatizing Iraq’s oil reserves for Western multinational oil companies (sorry billyboy- the Chinese will be the chief beneficiary of our police action)….if any right-wing fools doubt that the Iraqui invasion was an outright oil grab, read the Project for a New American Century document (PNAC) sent to clinton by the American Enterprise Institute (a conservative “think” tank- I know an oxymoron)…sent in 1998 it predates 9/11 and its singatories are found throughout the Bush Administration (evil dickie cheney, cRummy, Wolfowitz, libby,…..) you American fools have been tooled by the military-industrial complex….wake up, your empire is gutted and dying!
This is a joke! Bill Kristol should not demean himself to Damon’s level. I am sure that even Gov. Palin would destroy this little twit Damon in a debate about anything of any substance. He is a typical twit from the entertainment industry who thinks he is an expert on all subjects known to man. Maybe he can take his expertise and combine it with the biggest jerk from the music industry, Bruce Springstein, and write the complete book of history. The combined intelligence of those two idiots wouldn’t produce much more than a comic book.
Way to go Matt. Volunteering to be the ant that asks the sledgehammer to “step outside, we’ll settle this”. This will give everyone the opportunity to hear you expound on so many issues and here your solutions, so don’t cancel. Millions of us dumb conservatives are depending on you. By the way…loved your work in Team America.
“Ian Ferguson – January 26th, 2009 at 9:13 am
I hope Damon gets a good script writer. Doesn’t seem like he can say anything intelligent on his own. Odds are he dosn’t accept the offer.”
Matt Damon wrote the script of “Good Will Hunting.” And won an Oscar for it.
I could not have said it better myself.
“It’s a pretty straight forward argument:
1. Dictator regime toppled, dictator and heirs killed
2. WMD not found/ area secured
3. Democracy installed, voted leaders legitimately elected and running the country for several years now.
4. Militant attacks way down, bombings down, infrastructure being rebuilt, oil still flowing
5. Al Qauda In Iraq leader(s) killed and imprisoned
6. US Troop levels decreasing
Yeah, sounds like a victory to me.”
Case closed!
So everyone is trash talking matt damon….makes sense, he is a hollywood actor, not a politician. But in the same regard, what qualifications does bill kristol have, I mean, he did actually say we owe G.W. a thanks…..so his opinion seems to be just as hard to add value to. I think it could actually be a decent debate.
Bill Clay: I’m a clown because I don’t think Bill Kristol is a good spokesperson for conservatism? I don’t claim to be a movement conservative, but I’d do a better job defending conservative positions in a debate against Damon than Kristol. He may mean well but he gas so far proved to be very very poor at column writing and debate. Give me Irving Kristol any day over his joke of a son. Same goes for William F. Buckley and his kin.
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I think we know the name of the illness infecting all of hollywood, liberals, socialists, fascists; its called BDS (bush derangement syndrome).
Kristol is just a smirking chickenhawk who wants American dying in the Middle East for the benefit of his Israel.
Georgie bush is more akin to Longhank’s bisexual son than William Wallace…Wallace stood for freedom and kicking out the occupying force…georgie was always a puss who avoided military service (and drug testing)
Got a better idea. Have Damnon debate Sarah Palin.
She will have him stuffed and hanging on the wall in no time.
Hey, Damnon doesn’t know as much about politics as Caroline the Kennedy does. And we KNOW how much political experience she has.
Ya Know??
His best work was Team America.
[...] Easily breaking our old record of three Bill Kristol posts in one day, post #4 about Mr. Kristol is filled with awesome: [...]
O’mgawd!! Matt also probably thinks Carolyn Schlossberg didn’t use a ghostwriter for her concession sentence to withdraw from the Ny senate selection. And both he and Carolyn went to that same school that’s like just for really, really smart people y’know. Matt, like own the shame!!
Dennis – January 26th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
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Dennis,
Thank you for your service–all 29 years.
Matt the punk-ass mistaking his celebrity for relevence. Go get him Bill
Bill will handle Damon like the proverbial rented mule. After about 10 minutes, Damon will storm of the stage shouting “WHAT ABOUT NIXON; WHAT ABOUT WATERGATE!!!”
This issue is not whether Damon can hold his own against Krystol, (which I’m sure he could), but in a debate, it’s who has the strongest facts to backup their arguments. If Krystol continues to argue, Bush was good, we won the war, etc, then he will lose the debate. The facts speak for themselves, whether they come from Matt Damon or the man from mars. No one can honestly argue that the United States won the war with Iraq, because we didn’t. Had we won, we wouldn’t still have 150,000 soldiers over, (not to mention nearly 5000 dead and tens of thousands wounded). You call that winning…? I’d hate to see what you call losing.
Yeah, with the republicans fighting them all the time.
Oh no, Mr. Bill! The political opposition actually … opposed their politics.
Will the madness never stop! Why can’t we all just get along!
… was always a puss who avoided military service …
When did we start talking about Obama? And Bill Clinton? And Hillary Clinton? And Joe Biden? And Rahm Emanuel? And Nancy Pelosi? And Harry Reid? And … ah hell, you get the point.
And when did flying jets morph into ‘avoiding military service’. Oh wait. Forget I asked. Somewhere about the time community organizing morphed into adequate experience for being Commander-in-Chief.
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Hollywood celebs can dish it out, but I guarantee they can’t take it! Especially when it comes to a real debate. They’re actors! Actors are like parrots — they repeat — and don’t think for themselves. In fact, that goes for most Liberals as well. I hope this happens because it will be great to see Matt Damon get spanked.
Kristol is a disgusting warmongering vermin. Send him and Damon to Iraq MY bet Damon survives Kristol kills himself.
First of all, Hollywood liberals like Damon will not debate anyone in a straightforward manner. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about, and any debate involving him would quickly descent into name-calling and innuendo. Hollywood liberals, like some of their east coast brethren, seem to think that something is true merely because they believe it is true. They have no coneptual understanding of evidence or support for an argument. It is all about their feelings. Bush is bad just because they don’t like him; they think that alone is a crime. The war was “lost” because they never favored it to begin with; actual facts do not matter. Debating these people is eqivalent to pushing a 100 foot strand of wet dental floss up a hill–not only is it impossible, it is pointless.
Matt Damon needs to remember that he only once played a genius. I hope that more of these elitists continue to feel emboldoned by the big O’s preisdency, as only this type of exposure will guarantee that he will be a one term President. Most of these actors, and probably quite a few of our congressmen, would be waiting tables at a truck stop if they weren’t actors or playing political games in Washington.
I hope Matt has a bucket to carry home his behind after it is handed to him by Kristol.
I agree with most people here, Damon won’t show. Remember the ‘Nightline’ with George Will and Alan Alda? Alda whined and cried the whole show that he wouldn’t debate Will and that he’d been assured he wouldn’t have to. Even in that ‘non-debate,’ Will completely humiliated Alda.
The same would happen here, but I doubt it will ever take place.
So all of you who are heaping scorn on Matt Damon…are you actually saying that he’s wrong? That we should be grateful to George Bush for the Iraq war?
Go ahead and whine about the liberal media all you want, but please explain specifically why you think Iraq was a good idea.
Kristol: “Iraq holds more than 112 billion barrels of oil – the world’s second largest proven reserves. Iraq also contains 110 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, and is a focal point for regional and international security issues. By U.S. estimates, Iraq should become a stable nation in only a relatively short time. Of course, that would be a dramatic change from the prior dictatorship which kept nearly 95% of Iraqi’s living in squalor.”
Damon: Tumbles out of chair and rolls onto stage; pulls out a paint pistol from his little man’s suit coat and aims it at Kristol.
Kristol: “Matt, what are you doing?”
Damon: “What I should have done for America a long time ago!”
Producer: “Matt, we’re trying to have a debate.”
Damon: “I’m Jason Bourne!”
Kristol: “You’re an idiot.”
Damon: “And, you’re a repulsive, imperialist, misogynist, sociopath who goes around bedding women and swilling martinis and killing people, James Bond!”
Kristol: “Please, put the paint pistol down.”
Damon: “More contraceptives to stimulate the economy!”
Producer: “Cut to commercial!”
Damon: “I can kick Bonnaduce’s ass!”
It depends on Matt’s writers and the DNC handlers. If the writers can create responses to enough argumants, and Damon can absorb the information, then he might not come off too badly. Krystal already knows the material inside out, so it’s just a matter of showing up sober for a change.
If the debate is held at a cocktail party Damon will win hands down.
Deport Kristol to Israel
What continues to amaze me — Damon, Penn, Cruise, Diaz, Ford, etc. the list goes on and on. I listen to them when they get interviewed and its scary — none of them can speak with any ability to cogently articulate a thought having any substance (I swear Penn thinks the word “umm” is an important transitional term to proceed from one thought to another); most sound as dumb as mud; and most honestly think that people care about their views. They are spoiled children whose job in life is to look good and memorize words written for them by others. I am sure they are all nice people and have the ability to be somehwat smart, but Cruise talking about pharmaceuticals? Please. Now I am sure Cruise can speak very well on plastic and cosmetic surgery (come on Tom, we can see the different shape in your face!!!) It was beyond difficult to take him seriously when he steps out of promoting his latest flop, I mean movie. I would LOVE to see more of these morons do what I actually do respect Damon for doing — debate someone with half a brain. Nothing would be funnier than to see Cruise debate lets say Sean Hannity over prescription drug policy, or Harrison Ford debate Rush Limbuagh over global warming…actors! Its so f*8king pathetic when they have to speak without 50 handlers who primp their hair, get them the latest $25 bottled water, and cut their food into bite sized bits so their $6000 white teeth dont get bits caught between them. Oh well Mr. Damon, be prepared to blush and look foolish…William will I am sure be a gentleman but he will do to you what Bourne did the bad guys. Stupid move, Matt. Stick to reading the words written by others…and if you want to get into politics, why not run for office…you can afford it.
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SeattleLiberal, Hate to break the news to you and hurt your poor whiny liberal heart, but a huge majority of the military vote Republican. The difference is that the people who join the military actually love their country. A direct contrast to liberals who consistently berate it, while living off the bounty that it provides them. They constantly put down corporations while running to the banks to cash the checks that they are paid with, from them. Obama barely made it out of the primary, but that the media and morons, like Myatt Dyamon, were essentially giving a free ride to. Even Hillary was thrown under the bus for this guy. So live in your little cacoon in Seattle with the rest of the whiney class. Kristol can sit part of the debate out and still beat Myatt Dyamon!
I’m gettin’ goosebumps just waitin’ for this one. I’d also like the idea of Rosie O’Donnell and Ann Coulter goin’ toe to toe. Wow, that’d be nasty!
Wow, I can only assume that this is a Right-wing Republican news site. Seeing as most of the comments seem to bash anyone with a liberal view. I hope Matt takes the challenge and shows up with Ben Affleck so we can watch this “idiot” stumble over himself trying to prove that Bush has done anything good and prove that the war has been won.
Hey Matty Boy – you are an idiot. I double dog dare you to point the finger at the Political Jews who orchestrated the war – and then watch you crumble as the Hollywood Jews destroy you – you stupid Goy! You are a douche bag and I hope your career is destroyed like your communist mind.
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Had we won, we wouldn’t still have 150,000 soldiers over …
Listen up, professor. We still have troops in Germany and Japan. Under your logic, we therefore ‘lost’ WWII.
Good God these people are ignorant. Seriously, you’ve got to be mind-numbingly dumb even to come within a mile of making a statement like that.
And yet they make it. Again. And again. And again.
Do these people do more than just text message and watch The Daily Show?* Is this their first time on the Internet?* Have they ever read a book about anything remotely serious in the last decade?* For Crissakes, haven’t they ever even watched the History Channel?*
Sheesh.
* Has Matt Damon?
I guess you make a movie it makes you smarter then everyone else.
Poor ole Matt this boy is dumber than a bag of hammers.
For anyone who thinks spending $500 billion on a war in the desert to depose a tinpot third world dictator for no clear reason is a sound investment, I have some great real estate in northern Siberia you may want to consider investing in…
TheUnsilentMajority – Bill Clinton, John Kerry, Al Gore and other gutless liberals said nearly the exact same thing George Bush said about what to do with Saddam Hussien. Get rid of him. The difference being, liberal=gutless, spineless, cowards. Bush went in on the assessment of Clinton’s CIA director. If you want something done and are tired of hand-wringing and moral equivalences, get a conservative. Not saying Bush is a full-fledged conservative, but he doesn’t have an organization like the Commie DailyKos or MoveOn running his administration.
Maybe if you adjust the lights on the debate stage just right, Damon will think he’s accepting an Oscar. Otherwise, Kristol will pulverize him.
It looks like a betting man could get pretty good odds on Damon from this crowd. But I would want to know who is going to keep score. Hopefully not the people on this thread who think George Bush was a good president, all evidence to the contrary. Trying to get a fair debate with this thread in charge would be like an American figure skater hoping the Eastern Bloc Olympic judges would be fair during the Cold War Era.
matt damon is the left’s ronald reagan! i hope he runs for office someday. i think he would do better in politics and maybe actuallyuse his acting skills for good once! go matt go!
Just sing, dance and make us smile pretty boy.
DARE DAMON TO DEBATE PALIN!!! How could he refuse, what with his brilliance and manliness and millions of dollars, he must be a genius, right? I’d love to see it. HEY LTRAIN LTRAIN LTRAIN – Drug testing refusal by Bush in the military??? You have no clue as to what you are talking about. I’ll bet you didn’t even know Obama’s middle name until a week before the election. I’ll also wager that you think good old Barry is an African-American. Can you spell research? Obama is 7.5% AFRICAN, 42.5% Arab, and 50% WHITE, and 99% con-man. Go get your free gasoline LTRAIN. Barry sent you a voucher.
Texas T-Sip
He’ll probably (after realizing he’s being schooled) have a hissy fit, like he did on Jimmy Kimmel’s show, and storm off like the little bitch he is.
Matt is a douche, only an evil, bitter, angry person could think that ending Saddams regime and bringing freedom and democracy to 25 million people in the heart of the Middle East was not worth it. Only a boob of the first degree thinks that removing a dictator with a history of using WMD, with the resources and desire to make wmd and strong ties to al-Qaeda is a bad thing. It begs the question, where was the dope on 9/11?
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U.S. President Barack H. Obama!
’nuff said!
For anyone who thinks spending $500 billion on a war in the desert to depose a tinpot third world dictator for no clear reason is a sound investment, I have some great real estate in northern Siberia you may want to consider investing in ….
The U.S. economy generates 14 trillion per year. It has been six years since the start of the Iraq War. That’s 84 trillion. $500 billion divided by $84 trillion equals approximately 0.006%, a percentage that is decreasing as every month goes by.
Using your data, yes, I’d say it’s been worth 6/10 of one percent of our economy to hit ‘reset’ in the Middle East. Using your numbers, we’re spending much more than that just to prop up politically connected unions, businesses, and other contributors to the pr*cks up in Washington. Why don’t you go protest that.
Oh right, Obama’s in charge. Guess that’s all OK now, even though you claim that money badly spent is such an issue.
Also, tell me again why you’re a hero for not wanting to remove Saddam? Tell me what a transcendant little Democrat progressive you are for working hard to leave 25 million people to be gassed, brutalized, raped, murdered, and terrified in perpetuity? Tell me, o sweet little cherub.
Kristol should tear him a new one but Damon may come off better than many think if he does his homework and uses his limited acting skills effectively. Unlike many of Hollywood’s lefties he’s not downright stupid. Not downright.
He is plumb silly, though, if he thinks Howard Zinn is a font of historical wisdom. Zinn is a desciple of my-country-always-wrong prophet, Noam Chomsky. They both appear to think they deserve a country as free of human imperfections as they are.
Can anyone think of another great civilization, besides the modern West, which has flogged itself so relentlessly for its supposed shortcomings and injustices? Which has so downgraded its accomplishments and played up its failures? I can’t, but I would love to hear of any other cases.
Liberals don’t debate. They state their beliefs and if you don’t agree, they call you nasty names. Never been able to find a liberal to debate. Damon is a weenie and doesn’t have the guts to stand behind his words.
Aureliano – January 26th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Had we won, we wouldn’t still have 150,000 soldiers over …
Listen up, professor. We still have troops in Germany and Japan. Under your logic, we therefore ‘lost’ WWII.
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Bring them all home!
Dear Matt,
Should you need I warm-up debate, I offer myself. I’m an unknown 65 year Old Guy. But understand, because I will rely on facts, not feelings I will clean your clock. I have only one requirement – no name calling.
Finally, I do enjoy your movies. They’re good yarns.
U.S. President Barack H. Obama!
ONE-TERM U.S. president Barack Huseein Obama!
’nuff said.
Aureliano, Also, tell me again why you’re a hero for not wanting to remove Saddam? Tell me what a transcendant little Democrat progressive you are for working hard to leave 25 million people to be gassed, brutalized, raped, murdered, and terrified in perpetuity?
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Not my problem and not worth the life of one US soldier! Were you willing to die for the above cause? Oh nevermind!
Taking on actors to prove your toughness. Too funny.
Citing Paul Krugman and Rachael Maddow as formidable debate partners. Too funny.
Are you aware of how often Krugman has been wrong about economic issues?Are you aware that awarding Krugman the Nobel prize in economics was a bit like rewarding Yassir Arafat the Nobel prize for peace?
Paul Krugman = The Milli Vanilli of the Nobel prize for economics.
JVILL = Random Intenet commentator and fan of Milli Vanilli.
Bill Kristol can eat a big load of truck nutz.
Aureliano, Not in my lifetime can the damage Bush has done our nation in the last 8 years ever be undone. But, the blame is not altogether on your shoulders. Though not a majority in 2000 or 2004, millions of stupid, flag-waving, self-centered, greedy, shallow, Americans had to vote for Bush to permit this disaster to occur.
I will never forgive them nor you for the grave harm that has been done the United States of America.
The reason why liberals are having such a hard time accepting Americas victory in Iraq is that the became emotionally attached to the idea of a Bush loss, now they have to accept that he will be remembered as on of the best presidents for winning in Iraq despite democrat/liberal opposition. Who can forget Harry Reids infamous “this war is lost speech”.
Matt Damon father made over 400 million in Boston real estate and investment. He is from west cambridge area where all the rich irish took over before WWII. This is the same area where Tip the drunk O’Neil lived. Matt went to Harvard, his parents were divorced , his step mom was an anchor on the local Boston News show. Her Agent was William Morris. Little Matty wanted to be an actor and Mommy made a phone call and he had his agent without any major film work. He gets a role in Mystic Pizza under 5 lines in case he can’t talk and chew gun at the same time. He is buddies with Arflek and they both have done commercials in the Boston area and new york. The come to LA and these guys don’t have to get a job to support themselves because Damon’s rich and Daddy is footing the bill. This means they have 24/7 to focus on their careers. They write this script called GOOD WILL HUNTING and the script they submit does not have the Robin Williams character in it. Marimax picks up the script and these guys want to star in it. Now, the world doesn’t know this but one of the greatest writers in hollywood is under retainer for Marimax at least in those days. I don’t know about know. That writer is william goldman, the film we all saw was his script. DO you have any idea the amount of money they had to pay Goldman after these two jack offs won the oscar. No one in their right mind thought they would get nominated let alone win. Then the rest is history. this town promotes people with mediocre talent and put millions to promote them and the public eat it all up as they are great actors and writers. Why do you all think these two haven’t written another script and made it???? A deal was struck, no more writing but they can act. Now this punk Damon has all this money and reputation and following but he is still that brain dead rich kid who had it all handed to him. He is politically inept and he is a typical boston liberal with no clue on reality. Now all these movie stars think they are all Daniel Websters and Henry Clays and they aren’t even good actors. This is what the media does, market and package. We choose to eat it or ignore it.
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Aureliano, The only reason for a Republican Party, is to cut the taxes of the very wealthy. Everything else, is window dressing!
Let’s see…Bill Kristol is an intellectual and Matt Damon is an actor. They both have opinions, and Damon has probably been right more often than Kristol. Still, Kristol has to come up with something noteworthy every column cycle whereas Damon just needs to opine when the feeling takes him.
Kristol seems like a nice guy, but he comes off a little stiff, a little self-conscious, and so would probably not be a very good actor. Damon also seems like a nice guy, he kills me in those Bourne movies, and I also liked him in a few other things, so I vote for Damon.
And Breitbart, don’t sound so outraged that a smart-ass movie character touts a Howard Zinn book. If he didn’t you’d be disappointed, your premise (for living?) would be blown, and you’d worry yourself that the bias was subliminal. By the way, the next time you run into Howard Zinn, thank him for his service. When are you posting your army pictures on the website?
Well, you guys go back to blustering amongst yourselves. The rest of us have a country to fix.
“QCDUDE3 – January 26th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
Actuarial Tables are those used by Insurance companies that predict life span based in this case upon current age. They suggest that at McCain’s current age there is a 1 in 3 chance he will not survive 4 years. The nuclear football is the communication device that is constantly close to the president that allows them to immediately go to nuclear war should he feel the necessity. Maybe repukes should get an education.”
what are the stats on a smoker in his late 40s who’s mother died in her early 50s of cancer?
and what is the logic of giving control of the nuclear button to a guy in his 60s who’s had two aneurysms?
the democrats picked a couple of winners there.
jack marino,
the joke at the time was that the biggest single expense in the good will hunting budget was paying the real screenwriter to keep his mouth shut.
Matt Daa-Mon.
Quit your trolling. You never served and you never lost a loved one in the military. Your argument, ad nauseum, is typical of the liberal troll – cite the 4000 American lives lost as the answer for every argument – and every time you lose an argument, you do what all trolls do – use the juvenile “well if you like war so much why don’t you go and serve”.
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You are a fool!
MATT-Just because Saddam didnt french kiss osama on “The View” dosnt mean he wouldnt have given him WMD. Look at how fast the Iranians and al-qaeda established an alliance in Iraq (despite claims that they were mortal enemies and would never ever work together). The “osama wouldnt work with saddam” myth is the same sort of short sighted thinking that lead Clinton to sit on his thumb as al-qaeda grew from nothing to the organization that killed 3000 Americans on 9/11.
http://www.nysun.com/foreign/report-details-saddams-terrorist-ties/72906/
“WASHINGTON A Pentagon review of about 600,000 documents captured in the Iraq war attests to Saddam Hussein’s willingness to use terrorism to target Americans and work closely with jihadist organizations throughout the Middle East.
The report, released this week by the Institute for Defense Analyses, says it found no “smoking gun” linking Iraq operationally to Al Qaeda. But it does say Saddam collaborated with known Al Qaeda affiliates and a wider constellation of Islamist terror groups.”
4000+ American lives lost mean nothing to the conservative warmongers!
ATTENTION CONSERVATIVES! Say nothing more about this issue until you have received further instructions from Rush Limbaugh. The Great, Thrice-Divorced, Drug Addict has been planning his next sex vacation to the Dominican and has not yet had time to tell you what to think.
Aureliano, Not in my lifetime can the damage Bush has done our nation in the last 8 years ever be undone.
Oh never! Never ever in a hundred trillion years can this ‘damage’ be undone! The No Child Left Behind Act! Disaster! The Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit! Terrible! A war that is already won cannot be, er, unwon …! 6/10 of 1% of our economy over the last six years was spent on a war! An economy that generates 14 trillion a year can never make up for that! (well, in a month or two it can, but anyway …) 4000 VOLUNTEER military personnel killed! (for comparison, 5-6 MILLION soldiers would have died in the Civil War if the U.S. had the same population it has today). Oh, the horror! The Trajedy! O Cruel Fate! Sob!
But, the blame is not altogether on your shoulders.
Oh thanks. That’s very progressive of you, considering I voted for Nader in 2000 ….
Though not a majority in 2000 or 2004 …
Bush won over 51% of the vote in 2004. Out here in not-liberal land, that constitutes a ‘majority’.
… millions of stupid …
I’d say not knowing what a majority is counts as stupid, but anyway …
Why don’t you break down the demographic make-up of those who voted for Obama and get back to me. There are at least a few demographic groups in particular who voted for Obama in super-supermajorities that score rather low on IQ tests. Why don’t you tell us who they are, o great demographer of cyberspace? I dare ya. I double-dare ya.
… flag-waving …
Egads! Flag-waving! The horror! The injustice! We must must arise in protest to protest the … horror and injustice of flag-waving! In protestation! Egads! Zoinks! Gaaadzoooks! It’s the 1950s, all over again I say!
… self-centered …
Er, those people who vote themselves other people’s money — again, a gigantic consituency of the Democratic party — can hardly be described as ‘generous’, especially since ALL the data shows that conservatives and Republicans contribute a far greater percentage of their income (and time) to charity — especially those dastardly Christians.
Just ask Obama, who didn’t contribute much to charity until he was running for the Presidency.
… greedy …
You don’t really want to go there, do you? I’ll leave it to others to compile and ENDLESS list of greedy Democrats and liberals.
… shallow …
You mean like the deep-thinking Hollywood and TV types? Or the idiots posting on this thread who can’t even get fundamental 3rd grade history correct?
Americans had to vote for Bush to permit this disaster to occur.
What disaster is that? An economic downturn, which occurs every ten years or so? A severe downturn, which occurs every 20-30 years or so? A war that was more difficult than anticipated but not especially expensive historically in terms of money or lives? Pray tell.
I will never forgive them nor you for the grave harm that has been done the United States of America.
Oh please. You’re using Bush and the War as an excuse to hate your countrymen. The hate and bigotry, however, were already there. If you want to be real insightful, in the sense that you want to enlighten people you don’t know, you should tell us what it is that you hate about yourself, because that is from whence such irrational positions ultimately stem.
You’re not a progressive, Wil. Not by a long shot.
WIL BURNS,
25 million freed Iraqis mean nothing to the ignorant, racist, liberal fascists of blue state America.
Damon will never agree to it, he is a liberal and they shout, sput and spew but know they and the ideas the espouse are childish and stupid. Debatin a man like Kristol would bring that to light and idiot as he is, Damon would not subject himself or his ideas to that
I will debate Bill Kristol. Not that I disagree with him, but I can play devil’s advocate for a while. $100,000 is a lot of money and my junk is getting expensive.
Tom Guinan,
thank you for your service; I am glad you are still with us today. As a writer, have you ever written about your service?
I was going to interview a member of my extended family on Christmas 2007; he took ill a few days before, and we lost him before I was ever able to write his story.
The men of your generation are incredible; thank you!
And I would love to see you debate Damon; as you pointed out, the rules of debate would have him stuttering in seconds, when attacking and vilification were firmly disallowed.
Liberals resort to invect because they don’t have an argument.
PLEASE define what “winning a war” means to you.
Then define how Bush won the war in Iraq… which – incidentally – is still going on… OR if it isn’t, why do we have combat troops actively engaged there?
Maybe for less coin you could get Billy Crystal to debate Damon Wayans instead, but they have to be dressed as Morty the Mime from Spinal Tap and the Banana Man from Beverly Hills Cop respectively, or the performance art value is lost. Or Crystal Gayle versus Damon Dash on “Country or Rap: Which is the Real American Music?” Include these in the dumb ideas bin along with yours.
mike e – January 26th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
WIL BURNS,
25 million freed Iraqis mean nothing to the ignorant, racist, liberal fascists of blue state America.
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Free to do what? Millions have died and been displaced.Thousands of children are orphans. If that free, then I don’t want it!
WIL BURNS Why don’t you use your time to solve the crisis in Mexico? You focus on the 4000 lives lost in the Iraq war. Over 5,000 Mexicans have been murdered by the drug cartels in just one year. Certainly they could use your help. If not, just wait a few years and you can elect one of their relatives as your Senator.
Wow!! we won the Iraq war?? Someone better tell all of those troops that are still over there. Just look in the mirror and tell yourself, Wow we won the war!! and if you still have a straight face then your as stupid as Bush and co. Damon did a great job putting Palin in her place. I hope he does take on this debate.
Repeat after me in the mirror, We won the Iraq War!! Bush was a great president!!
You get the point.
Matt Damon is too smart to take up this offer b/c he knows he’d get OWNED! He knows deep in his shallow, hardened, liberal heart that he’s a moron when it comes to political issues and that the real reason he made those comments is because the media eats it up. He can say things like this and get away with it because NO ONE ever asks him to explain anything or back up why he feels the way he does. A debate with Kristol would leave him whimpering in a fetal position, babbling like the idiot he is. And since that would not be good for his large ego or his reputation as a bad-ass Hollywood elite who really cares about justice for all the people our government keeps holding down, he’ll never agree. He should just shut up. If he really wants to make a difference in this world, instead of taking home millions for doing something he was lucky to fall into, he should take home only what he really needs and spread the wealth to other Americans who work far more hours than he does at thankless jobs just so they can provide food, clothing and shelter for their families.
$100,000! You guys have that kind of money to give to Matt Damon?!?
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Damon is a wuss, he would NEVER agree to debate anybody but a camera. I guarantee this poor excuse for a man will not come out from behind the camera to actually debate his utopian ideals.
People’s History is a Joke…Damon is a Joke.
Sorry folks, you may think Matt Damon isn’t too bright…but he will look like a genius next to “mumbles” Kristol.
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Enough of the chicken-hawk argument, it is just stupid. If you have to serve in the military to have a political opinion then anyone who didn’t serve cannot be in politics, bye bye Obama, and they cannot vote either.
You mean there are people who actually believe Damon and Affleck penned Good Will Hunting without help from a famous gay screen writer . That’s the scuttlebutt I’ve heard for the past decade. Emphasize butt of scuttlebutt and you’ll get my drift.
Shut up and sing !!!!!!!!
Please Matt Damon your my favorite Bourne actor…….stop your liberal rantings.
Your out of your league….Bill Crystal is a first class guy and you Matt couldn’t debate yourself out of a paper bag.
Stop believing your own movies and try to think for yourself……
[...] Big Hollywood: Matt Damon calls Kristol an idiot for saying we should be grateful to George Bush. Kristol wants [...]
So wait… did Fox post this link or is this just Kristol posting over and over again? These comments are laughably loyal to Kristol and ring of crazy Repulcanism. What a joke. I was unaware that Repubs knew how to use the internet until now. Someone is teaching a computer class at the AARP meetings!
That boring lame movie “The Good Shepherd”, in the movie matt damon dresses up like a girl, well matt damon should make a biopic movie about Governor Sarah Palin, then mr. damon would have to say Patriotic things for a change, it’s a strech i know, but he would when in Oscar though, cuz it’s hard pretending to be Patriotic when you are a quasi-traitor. Sin destroys America, matt damon are you a friend or foe of sin?!
Kristol is a tool. Friggin chicken-hawks. all of you. but then again that is the republican way. cry, cry, cry. i am the victim!! fear, fear, fear. so sick of it. you don’t like the country, then leave it!
“The Good Shepherd” was one of the most boring stupidest wimp movies ever made. Made the CIA look like dimwits. JESUS CHRIST is the GooD ShepherD, that movie was an insult to JESUS CHRIST and to the C.I.A. . Atleast we all learned that Matt Damon is an unashamed crossdresser if the film director asks’em to. Which character did you want to get departed the most in the film “The Departed” fuhgettaboutit ? Nasty sinful hollywood slime, movies that corrupt and corrupt until people don’t know up from down. Itching ears, swept away by strange doctrines.
The Departed is wellmade, inscructive, and entertaining by hollywood’s low standards, but the movie is still loaded with sin, people don’t need hollywood teaching them or entertaining them, GOD and HIS Holy Angels provide plenty of help thankU very much.
GOD Bless America
Saddle up tough guys; American Generals know what a crock Iraq was! Now is time for all the Israeli first Kristols to enlist and fight fight like hell for Israel. Nobody else is that stupid anymore. Go Bill Kristol JOIN JOIN NOW!!! Hurry!!
I love the liberal fools who are praising Damon’s intelligence and calling Kristol an idiot – yeah, a Harvard dropout vs. a Harvard PhD. As for Kristol getting canned by the NY Times: who’s reading the NY Times anyway? Their stock price is approaching junk bond status. Kristol still has his magazine – which no liberal seems to have ever read.
To those who think Kristol would be degrading himself by debating such a clueless doofus, I disagree. I think it’s high time these Hollywood dolts are actually asked to put up or shut up.
We need to play exactly the same game the left has played over the last 8 years: offense (actually liberals played “oaf-fense”.) Only we’ll battle them with facts instead of their mindless insults and slogans (”Chickenhawk!” “Chimpy!” What are you all, 10?) I agree with this poster:
Maybe we’re onto something here. I can picture it now, a new TV series — hour long, Sunday nights, featuring conservative thinkers debating (and humiliating) the Hollywood liberal of the week.
I doubt Damon will actually debate – he’s too much of a wuss. But this is a brilliant idea. Let’s start challenging the brain dead statements of the addled Kos Kiddies. I intend to buy popcorn and laugh at these santimonous, ignorant jackasses for the next 4 years. Being in the opposition will be fun!
Oh, all of you cretins who think “Chickenhawk” is some sort of devastating come-back – tell me, how do you account for the fact that the men and women who ACTUALLY are fighting the war voted for Bush in ‘04 and McCain in ‘08? The people whose butts are actually on the line want to finish the job, so spare me your fake tears about “the troops.” Like you know any troops.
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Bill Kristol see if you can leave your shredded leg or arm in Iraq for Israel! You disgusting bastard.
Advice to Damon; Sock that wimp right in the puss see Billy, CRY Then sock him again for me and AMERICA right in the teeth! bust him up but GOOD! No need to talk!
It seems the mad dog leftist have found BIG HOLLYWOOD and are dropping their poop all over this site. Get the air fresher and spray the stink out of here.
It is amazing that all these mad dog regurgitate the swill from the Huff post, Kos, Move on.arg Pelosi, Dean I hope you mad dogs are writing down exactly what the fascist traitors called democrats. I can’t wait to see the narcissistic messiah screws the pouch as all democrats do and blame republicans. It is amazing how the kool aid drinkers will follow the dumbest democratic leaders and convince themselves their pick is brilliant? The messiah had to asked his advisors what he was signing on those exec orders… ‘What is this one Duh” This clown is going to be dumber then Jimma carter 4 years. Democrats are going to run this country into the ground and i hope and pray they do. It will be the only way to end this crap with all the moonbats.
Brian wrote “so sick of it. you don’t like the country, then leave it!”
Ohhhh, you’re sick of it,poor little baby boy! Let’s see, The One has only been in office a few days and already your panties are in a twist because we don’t all kneel and adore him? After 8 years of abusing Bush, Brian the candy a** just can’t take the criticism! Man, oh man, this is going to be fun!!
Brian, don’t you know that “dissent is patriotic?” That’s what the jackass party has been saying the past 8 years. Well, it’s our turn now. I know you’d really like to stick us all into camps, exactly what you were so afraid big bad Bush was going to do that you whined and peed your pants. Sorry, Brian we’re here to stay and we are going to mock and make fun you and your fake Messiah every step of the way.
“Chickenhawks” – my, how original. Did you think of that all by yourself or did mom help you?
The round-heeled ‘Chicken Doves’ in this thread projecting their weak-minded (hypocritical) “Chicken Hawk” memes should (a) realize that unless they’ve served in the military themselves (Bwah!) their bullying meme disqualifies themselves from opining on matters of war and peace, and (b) review Orwell:
“Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side you automatically help that of the other.” — George Orwell, 1942
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“[T]here is a minority of intellectual pacifists whose real though unadmitted motive appears to be hatred of western democracy and admiration of totalitarianism. Pacifist propaganda usually boils down to saying that one side is as bad as the other, but if one looks closely at the writings of younger intellectual pacifists, one finds that they do not by any means express impartial disapproval but are directed almost entirely against Britain and the United States.” — George Orwell, 1945
As a Ivy League alum (Penn), I fail to understand the presumption that anyone who attends these schools is de facto brilliant; Far from it, I am afraid!
I don’t know Matt Damon, so I will not comment on his intelligence. However, I view Kristol as the real deal.
As Mills Lane used to say, “let’s get it on!”
Hey Jack I love Pat Buchanan; Pat hates scumbags like Kristol…Now go to the enlistment office and raise your hand for Israel!
From the Herald article:
The Weiners discovered just how political when Damon started arguing with them about some lines he was supposed to read in one episode, which said rising Chinese soybean consumption was leading to slash-and-burn farming in the Brazilian Amazon.
He’s evidently clueless about this otherwise well-known earth-imperiling development, but the story twists it to his advantage, saying how “intensely” political he must be to question it.
Lol.
My answer to all who trot out the cretinous “Chickenhawks!” argument: why is it, exactly, that a majority of the people who are the ones who actually DO THE FIGHTING voted for Bush in ‘04 and McCain in ‘08? They’re the ones with their butts on the line, and they want to complete the job. All of the fake tears “for the troops” by leftists turns my stomach. Like most liberals actually know any troops. Why do you want them home, so you can scream “babykillers” at them and try them for war crimes?
I doubt very much that Damon has the cojones to debate Kristol. But I think it’s a great ploy – these Hollyweird sock puppets might actually start zipping their lips a little if someone actually challenges them. If Damon accepts, Kristol will make mincemeat out of him. If he doesn’t, well, he’ll look like a wuss. I don’t see any downside here.
Does anyone know if the actor michael dunn is still alive (the actor who played the midget, dr. loveless on the wild wild west)? … hey if kristol gets sick or his limo is late I cant think of a better look alike replacement for kristol. Also sharper & more entertaining. See if you agree:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6001095
I am the dude in the bar with “Israel Sucks” on my tee. Come up to me and ask why. I will bury you. If you think you can handle me; we will see…I wouldn’t wear it if I was FRIGHTENED!
Mike E. great post. It will confuse leftists though – facts always do.
Another point: have you noticed how Iraq has all but vanished from the news? Well, people, it’s because we WON. The media couldn’t get enough of Iraq pre-surge, couldn’t wait to tell us the bad news. Now that things have quieted down (thanks to the surge and the hard work of our troops)well, they’ve pulled their news teams out. Do you really think, if we were losing, that the media would have left?
Think about it for a minute. It shouldn’t be that hard to figure out – even for MAAATTT DAAAAMMMOOON.
Come on wimps I got through with “FRIGHTENED” you think I am stupid? You freaks are afraid of POSTING! Get into the boxcar
Hey Donna V what foxholes were you in?
If Ben Blue doesn’t shut up, Kristol should call in the IDF to make a strike on him. ;-D
Ben, Ben, Ben, nobody’s afraid of you. They just think you’re a crazy Jew hatin’ loon is all and nobody wants to waste time on you. Hell, after this post, I’m gonna stop wasting time on you. Carry on, continue to rant and drool,…,
On my SUV I have a bumper sticker that says” With Bush it gets alot worse/before it gets worse” I had a miserable fat hog beep at me and drive slow in front of me giving me the finger….I pulled next to her and her passenger and spit into her window. They did nothing…I was ready.
I’LL BE BACK
Such a debate should not be allowed. It is like allowing a heavy-weight champion (Bill Kristol) to go against a new-born baby (which is the level of maturity of Matt Damon), just because the new-born baby can cry loudly and unintelligibly.
However, I would love to see the debate. A blowhard like Damon would be too stupid to even begin to understand some of the sarcasm of Bill Kristol. I am hoping Damon would accept- I am salivating at the prospect!
Matt Damon has no idea what he would be getting into by debating Bill Kristol. Damon will get whipped, just like any other Hollywood wannabee actor would. Matt would have as much a chance, as Keith Olbercrap would by debating a conservative. The Liberal Left are just plain useless!
Oh yes, please please PLEASE continue to humiliate Bill Kristol into ARGUING WITH AN ACTOR who made a one line insult in an interview. More hits for your pathetic little site, more humiliation for BK. Win win.
By the way, Damon “briefly attended Harvard” (College, not University) for nearly four years. He was 12 units short of graduating when he left.
Oh yes, please please PLEASE continue to humiliate Bill Kristol into ARGUING WITH AN ACTOR who made a one line insult in an interview. More hits for your pathetic little site, more humiliation for BK. Win win.
By the way, Damon “briefly attended Harvard” for nearly four years. He was 12 units short of graduating when he left.
All you have to do is turn on you TV and watch it for a few hours. This is how Mr. Damon makes his living. He does not have to think any deeper than that.
I just wish it was a century ago and this was a duel. I have had my fill of Mr. Damon and is fellow ingrates who don’t care about our brave soldiers.
Chose Long Knives Mr. Kristol…
Palin will prevail, and the world will burn about her ascendency. This world will explode like a hot air balloon containing as its essense a bit of phosforus. The bible will burn too. All life will be set free. Let us look forward to this day of ultimate joy.
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Singers, shut up and sing. Actors shut up and act. Both have free speach rights but why insult the intelligence of a huge if not majority of your audience. I once liked Ron Howard. now I can’t watch his movies. Same for Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Martin Sheen, Tim Robins, Susan Serandon the list is endless. I almost forgot the worst offender of all Jane Fonda. Donald Sutherland marched with her but wised up and shut up. I miss the old guy like Lee Marvin, Eddie Albert, Bob Keeshan and Jimmy Stewart. Heroes all that loved this country.
Kristol was just fireed, yet he has the strongfire in his guts to abominate any measly actor who gets in his way. What the hell. This is absurd. Words only count when they spill from the mouths of conservaives. Prove me right, shut out the tiresome voices of these lioncats. Only catholics shall prevail. The world is simple. Make things right, oh lord.
Bill Kristol may make no sense, but his ridiculous statements are ours. Matt Damon says things in movies that make sense in particular contexts. This is the key. Movies ARE NOT REAL. Embrace the nonsense of columnists. If we cast out all the great liberal movie actors we’ll be left with nothing but Mystery Science Theatre 3000. Torgo can not fufill me. We need a double life. Next youll be telling me tat Brad Pitt is a liberal, I will not go there. Live in the Lorp.
There were NO WMD’s in Iraq, because Clinton’s diplomacy and sanctions worked.
[...] The dumbest man on earth wants to debate Matt Damon. [...]
Straight-from-the-Republican-playbook argument was that we haven’t been “hit” in five years so Bush is obviously doing something right.” I though we were losing people EVERY SINGLE DAY. Our American soldiers are ‘us’!
Andrew, are you aware that Howard Zinn is a World War II veteran, received a Ph.D from Columbia University using the GI bill, and is one of America’s most important historians. Andrew, why don’t you and Bill Kristol debate Howard Zinn?
Wil, you’re high…or 12 years old.
Clinton’s diplomacy and sanctions worked?
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Oh man, this is going to be sad.
This ‘debate’ will never happen. Actors rely upon scripts and debates, by their very nature, are unscripted.
I guess people fail to see that Damon was right in his opinions. What’s to debate? Palin is an imbecile and Kristol is wrong about anyone winning a war? Does he watch the news? Not the Good Morning America or FoxNews version but the real news.
Damon will not accept because he’s all talk. Besides, the script doctors of “Goodwill Hunting” are not available to write his talking points. And on that point, you would think an Oscar winning screenplay writer would have written at least a couple decent films since his Academy win. I don’t think he has written any. Hmm, my WGA friends must be right, the “Goodwill Hunting” pic I saw on the big screen was actually written by a script doctor and not the two blow hards from Boston. Just like a true Hollywood liberal to take all the glory without having the guts to acknowledge those who helped them attain their status and wealth.
aahh..the sad consolations of poor losers still can’t accept the fact that the gop lost huh.GET OVER IT! Misinformed as always and.. fair & balanced. Who’s your hero here Limbaugh? Good night folks
damon won’t do it, you see…
Liberals lack that reasoning rational center of the brain
hence they can’t argue rationally …AT ALL.
….maybe he needs a telepromter like Obama
um…um…um… you see um…. socialism/marxism…. change…. um…
….spread the wealth….
My advice on the economy is this…. It’s going to get really really really bad sooon. …in about a year or two…. the intervention of government is what led to the last great depression – them taking trillions… to try to jumpstart the economy (like the say) ….did not work when Jimmy Carter was President.
It led to the a Great Depression….
want to know what actually got us out of that stoop?
…..World War II…. What People should be doing is IGNORING
Pelosi and Obama… who are too inexperienced and don’t seem to get their methods are going to worsen and deepen an already fragile economy
What people should be doing is saving and cutting back on lots of things
instead of wasting trillions… >.> Does he want it to worsen? …he cares nothign for the US military or the ones whom served or died for this country…. as apparent by the ball he missed wish was honoring them.
Obama is the 1st president in history to ever do that too. So that does speak volumes about his character …and where his priorities are set….
….and they aren’t in the best interests of the people, the USA, or it’s military. …who btw… died and fought for freedoms that most people take for granted of these days (like freedom of speech… etc.)
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Carolynm,
“A People’s History” was quite the sensation for awhile. It was one of the first popular avatars of a trend in academia: historical revisionism. And I don’t mean revisionism in the sense of revisiting topics with new information, I mean in the sense of revisiting topics with the same information, only with a different, grievance-mongering, explicitly left-wing narrative.
There isn’t necessarily anything wrong with that. We can view history from the perspective of the Indians, blacks, workers, etc., and address certain wrongdoings in our nation’s past. Setting aside the fact, however, that such ‘narratives’ are a getting a little creaky now that we’re almost into our second decade of the 21st century (they’ve been done to death already), the problem is that over the years — and this is the case with ALL left-wing, agenda-driven ‘history’ — most of Zinn’s work, and “A People’s History” in particular, has been shown to be horribly sourced, sparsely sourced, or completely unsourced (THE most unacceptable sin any historian can make).
He consistently tries to use anecdotes as actual data, and practically every cite he makes is taken out of context. It’s the Noam Chomsky school of academic research. It’s actually quite easy to debunk of nearly every single accusation he makes. For instance, 90% of the Indians in the New World died from smallpox and other diseases, not from any sort of systemic genocide. Zinn uses a few anecdotal stories of people throwing disease-infested blankets into Indian encampments, and a few ‘anti-Indian’ letters from people in power, and tries to tie it into some sort of official governmental policy related to biological warfare and genocide, which somehow gets perpetuated as a white man’s conspiracy for 500 years, in many cultures, over two continents. That whole line of reasoning has been completely debunked, especially when you consider how gleefully Indians slaughtered other Indians, when given the chance.
Howard Zinn is NOT an historian. He’s a political activist, and nothing more.
There’s nothing more disgusting than a propagandist masquerading as a scholar. The fact that he’s at Columbia University doesn’t speak well of Zinn, it speaks poorly of Columbia. And ‘Joe’, who lauds him, is a fool for supporting fake history from a fake historian. He should know better.
[...] First, Matt Damon called conservative commentator Bill Kristol an “idiot,” who responded by challenging the “Bourne Identity” star to a debate. [...]
Damon…open mouth..overload ass
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[...] few conservative voices and creator of breitbart.com (great site incidentally) has thrown down the gauntlet. Matt Doman, Hollywood icon and consummate liberal, made the following remark to a Miami Herald [...]
Sorry but Matt is better at his profession that Bill is at his and I also don’t buy this notion being circulated by people that somehow Bill would kick his butt!
Let’s not forget that Bill shilled for Sarah for as long as he could without disclosing that he is the one that put her up to be nominated so there is not a lot of honesty in what he does. I also agree with Matt that we have not yet won the Iraq war, contrary to what he and most of you in “real America” have been told by your loyal conservative leaders who have thrown this country under the bus…
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Howard Zinn… People’s History.
The stupefying of America.
To support Andrew’s project I have made a commitment to donate any money that comes in through my website (www.thescholarsforum.org) to the Wounded Warriors Project. Secondly, to see this debate get off the ground go to http://www.petitiononline.com/dvsk1/petition.html and sign the petition. I have the distinct feeling that Damon, like many of his Hollywood liberal cohorts, is more bluster than action. Given this, let’s use one of the Liberal’s favorite tools to help move this project forward – sign the petition urging Damon to debate Kristol. If, in the next several weeks we get a hundred thousand signatures I will forward this on to Breitbart. Perhaps this will place enough pressure on Damon to follow-up up on his diatribes.
Damon is a not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed.
How could anyone with half a brain think that our victory in Iraq, the liberation of 25 million people, the upcoming second Iraqi election cycle and the birth of democracy in the middle east was not worth it.
For an example of the spanking that Matty would take one need look no further than the spanking Hannity gave uber-lib (and my former, than god, mayor) rocky anderson when they debated the Iraq war.
Carol.
I’m sure you kids have heard a nice, calm, and irresponsible version of American history that ignores the plight of millions of Americans.
Carol, the Republicans and Conservatives in this country are now obsolete, their ideas are useless, their leaders inept, and their power eroded. How does that feel?
p.s. check out this link, oh, and Zinn had nothing to do with Good Will Hunting, Damon merely mentioned his national bestseller in a fantastic film.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Zinn
Yeh, “Go get him, Matt!” with all the “ums” and “ya, knows” at his disposal. What I can’t figure out is why this is happening in the first place? Barack Obama won the election, the Democrats have both houses of Congress; yet, let’s re-hash the last five years to score some points? Why not find someone a little bit more clever than Bill Kristol, Matt? – let’s say Christopher Hitchens.
Kristol would completely outclass Damon in any kind of intellectual contest. But I would love to watch!
Epic fail waiting to happen.
The Prince Of D’Oh debating an actor with an IQ over 100?
What could possibly go wrong?
If Kristol’s lucky, Damon will be busy. It’s obvious he doesn’t need the money – & I suspect he knows that beating someone like Kristol in a war of wits is pretty much like winning a kick-boxing match against a quadrapalegic.
The barometer of GOP intellectual bankruptcy – let me show you it.
Would somebody – or EVERYBODY – please please PLEASE print out this entire list of comments and send it to Damon’s house, or to his agent? That way he could see what everyone other than his mirror, his co-brownnosing buddy Ben Affleck, or whatever airheaded female Hollywood plaything-of-the-week he is looking for tonight think of his intelligence, his discernment, and his worth to humanity outside the Fantasyland box-office business.
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For what it’s worth, I’ve been told that “Good Will Hunting” started out as an action script that was optioned and dropped and eventually reworked by several uncredited script doctors.
Damon’s a fool, but I can’t bring myself to lionize Kristol.
Hey Matt,
Pull that Smoke-wagon, and see what happens.
Good Will Chicken
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I see Kristol as a ghoulish, nerdy, cheerleader. I would like to punch him hard right into his teeth. Funny how these gasbags do not join the military…either israel, or America. At least fleabag Rahm Emanuel joined IDF. We real Americans are done with debates…Time to hit the streets of N.Y Miami. and of course Hollywood.
I’m surprised people are surprised by the comments made by this Hollywood trash. You probably loose sight of reality when you live in a world of fantasy, where if you don’t like the script you can simply change it and create a happy ending. As most people know that’s not how things work in the real world. I’ve seen the comment about Kristol seeming like a nerd. Keep in mind he’s an intellectual and I don’t ever remember seeing him act like a tough guy. The people that “crack me up” are the actors who think just because they put on a military uniform for a movie they are some kind of a hero. From a guy who spent seven years in the Army it’s an insult to see the Hollywood garbage in a uniform they didn’t earn and don’t deserve to wear. The real comedy is when you see the Hollywood leftist like John Stewart, Bill Mauer, Colbert, Damon, Sean Penn and many others trying to talk like “tough guys”. It always makes me laugh because in reality the average high school kid could probably twist the heads off these little weasles without much effort. Don’t give Damon a hard time he’s probably too busy to make a debate anyway. I’m sure he’s busy with another of the hundreds of award shows that Hollywood has to honor themselves. It’s amazing to me that this small group of elitist can be so narcissistic that they constantly feel the need to pat themselves on the back for a job well done, what a JOKE. Finally, the thing that is most incredible to me is that the people who enjoy the fruits of this country more than anyone else are the ones who criticize it the most. I am committed to continue to love what this country gives me and to boycott HOLLYWOOD SCUM.
What exactly are they supposedly going to debate? That we won the Iraq war? Or we should be grateful to George W. Bush? Kristol being an idiot? All of the above? The blog doesn’t say what specifically they’ll debate, but shouldn’t that be addressed before challenging someone to a debate? Or speculating whether either party will show up?
Or how about you take that 100 grand and just make your own movie, without Matt Damon? That’ll show Hollywood! Yeah!
Can we hope for a prime time slot on this??? I can’t wait to see Damon get shut da F**k up, finally!
Mike Brown – January 26th, 2009 at 9:15 am
C’mon now! Who in there right mind (and in all honesty) wouldn’t want Sarah Palin to be President over Joe (Make It Up As You Go Along) Biden?
Um, Mike…gee, how do I say this…people who can spell “their”. And that made all the difference in November.
Liberal vs. conservative aside, Palin is not fit to run the country. And in all fairness, we didn’t win the Iraq war, which is what Damon was referring to with the “idiot” comment. So maybe Kristol could recind the “we won the war” comment, and Damon could recind the “idiot” comment and just state instead that Kristol was wrong–which he was–and we could get back down to fixing problems instead of this schoolyard showdown.
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I would be willing to debate as a Gold Star mother. Bring them on! If there is a cash price to be paid on winning the debate, I’ll use it to build our retreat for Families of the Fallen. As the mom of a Spec Ops Warrior I am ready and willing for this!
I don't care about the Matt bashing. I think he is smarter and would debate better than everyone thinks. I also quite agree with him, so, whatever.
What happened next? Anyone knows about it, do tell please.
bill kristol is conservative trash.
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