Is He Really That Crazy? Why Would Mickey Rourke Defend George W. Bush?

After years of suffering the downside of a career in an industry that is famously vicious and unforgiving, Mickey Rourke is now back near the top. Last night he won the Golden Globe for “best actor in a drama” in “The Wrestler.” (Guess that means I gotta go see it.)

But would the Euro-waiters, otherwise known as The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, who vote for Oscar’s overinflated pre-cursor take back their votes knowing that Rourke is guilty of filmdom’s ultimate sin: Defending the President of the United States, George W. Bush?

And will Hollywood’s partisans pull back their forthcoming Oscar votes for not toeing the “Bush is Evil” line?

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