Harvard Dropout Matt Damon Slams Sarah Palin, Calls Her Rise to Fame a "Bad Disney Movie"

Harvard Dropout Matt Damon Slams Sarah Palin, Calls Her Rise to Fame a "Bad Disney Movie"

In a recent interview with the Associated Press, Matt Damon spoke out on the Republican Party’s decision to nominate Alaska Governor and self-proclaimed “hockey mom,” Sarah Palin, for Vice President.

 

Needless to say, the Academy Award-winning actor is not pleased.

 

For Damon, Palin’s inexperience, coupled with McCain’s age, present the greatest concern.

“I think there's a really good chance Sarah Palin could become president, and I think that's a really scary thing... Do the actuary tables and 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.”

If such a “nightmare” should arise, Damon believes Palin won’t be ready to handle the responsibility that comes with being commander-in-chief.

“She’s facing down Vladimir Putin… using the folksy stuff she learned at the hockey rink… I need to know if she really thinks dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago… because she’s going to have the nuclear codes.”

Good question, Mr. Damon. America -- nay, the World -- needs an answer to this question before the November election.

 

Then again -- does President Bush even know when dinosaurs existed? Probably not, which is proof positive that a person doesn't need a degree in history to become the leader of the United States.

 

Watch the full statement below:

 

 

 

[Via the Huffington Post]

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Anonymous
Thank you Matt. McCain is a lock. What an idiot. CT Posted 09/10/2008 3:44 PMReply
Anonymous
Mark, what a laugh that you think anyone would take you serious. You an ACTOR, go make movies. Posted 09/10/2008 4:04 PMReply
Anonymous
How refreshing an actor with a brain! Unliike Palin! Posted 09/10/2008 4:18 PMReply
Anonymous
this site has mccain ads everywhere and a terrible picture of damon, bias much Posted 09/10/2008 4:19 PMReply
Anonymous
Matt Damon ...you're rubbish Posted 09/10/2008 4:54 PMReply
Anonymous
Matt Damon...you are forgeting that Sarah Palin is more experienced than Obama and take note that Obama is running to be number 1 not number two...that is more scary than having Sarah Palin becoming President should McCain dies....

Just make movies mister and make movies about losers will you please
Posted 09/10/2008 4:57 PMReply
Anonymous
Thanks Mr. Damon. You've made the choice clear. If Palin can't be a heartbeat away form the Oval Office, Obama surely can't be sent to the same office. So, bad as it might be, McCain is the only choice. Maybe Obama can run for EU president and get some expeience over there. Or better yet, could you get him casted as presidient in a movie before the election. Then he would be qualified. By the way, what exactly are your qualifications as "advise giver." Posted 09/10/2008 5:11 PMReply
Anonymous
@ Anonymous:

Spoken like a true prodigy... <rolls eyes>
Posted 09/10/2008 5:13 PMReply
Anonymous
Hey Damon genius,

Obama is dangerous as hell.

Shut up and go to hell.
Posted 09/10/2008 5:25 PMReply
Anonymous
Damon as an actor is great. I really enjoy and own a number of his movies. As a political commentator his is so way out of the mainstream of Americans.

Me thinks the reason why liberals and socialists don't understand why the country will vote her into office in a few weeks is because she is a traditional American women. Traditional values just don't seem to fit into their world view.

People in "fly-over" country are great Americans and are friendlier and more tolerant that any Hollywood liberal.

Where's are the love from the left? As Austin Powers put it so well: "Show me love, baby. Show me love" :) I thought they were supposed to be the tolerant and accepting and understanding, and with Nobama, all-knowing omnipotent Messiah.

Yesterday Nobama seemingly forgot what which religion he was, speaking of his "Muslim faith". The liberal reporter had to stop him and remind him that he was a Christian.

See and hear for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BobGQTMhxf8

The terrorist organization Hamas has publicly endorsed Nobama. Hear it from the terrorist itself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_S7eiy_GI4


Liberals: Trust the government. Fear the people.
Conservatives: Trust the people. Fear the government.
Founding Fathers: Trust the people. Fear the government.

Go Sarah.
Posted 09/10/2008 5:29 PMReply
Anonymous
Matt, You live a life of "make believe". You seem like a nice guy, so pull your head out your hole and look at reality clearly for a change. Obama is the lightweight here, and Biden...well...do you really need a primer on this Yo-Yo? We will pray for your return to the real world. Posted 09/10/2008 5:31 PMReply
Anonymous
What does "Harvard Droput" have to do with the story, Hector? You need more journalism classes to ascertain the difference between tabloid and serious journalism. Your only alternative is a job with rupert murdoch. Hack. Posted 09/10/2008 5:52 PMReply
Anonymous
oh so because he is an actor means he has no rights? it makes a lot of sence. stop being a close minded moron and think. Stop letting them think for you and do it yourself for a change.@ Anonymous: Posted 09/10/2008 5:53 PMReply
Penny
@ Anonymous: This is a college website, if you haven't noticed. Posted 09/10/2008 5:54 PMReply
Anonymous
and as far as im concerned **** "mainstream" america. Mainstream america is why we have two ****in idiots running to take leadership for our country. I dig you matt. you make sence. Posted 09/10/2008 5:56 PMReply
Patrick Bateman
Uh, 1) Matt Damon's a really intelligent guy. You're forgetting he also wrote one of the best screenplays of the 90's.

And since he is an American citizen, he has the right to voice his views.

2) All the pro-Palin pro-McCain people: Your comments aren't helping your case.

3) Tradition obviously isn't working for America anymore.

If you truly want traditional, you'd be against Palin (as a woman) running in the first place. Women stay at home and push out kids and men go to work. That's traditional.

4) "Liberals: Trust the government. Fear the people.
Conservatives: Trust the people. Fear the government.
Founding Fathers: Trust the people. Fear the government."

Now it's more like--
Liberals: Trust the intellectuals and thinkers (and all their groupies), fear the Bible hicks who can't find America on the map.
Conservatives: Trust the Bible hicks who can't find America on the map, fear the intellectuals and thinkers (and all their groupies).
Founding Fathers: Lets rule this sh*t together somewhat equally and have our slaves work in the fields!!!!

Wee America.
Posted 09/10/2008 6:20 PMReply
Anonymous
Don't worry about, Mat! You think all women are like your wife. Posted 09/10/2008 6:46 PMReply
Anonymous
matt says we don't know anything about palin i say what do you know about obama who were his childhood friends who did he room with in college where did he go on spring break where did he work putting himself through college where are all those people he helped as a community organizer wouldnt it seem like a great idea to do a commercial with some of those many he helped from the welfare rolls to work matt face it you dont know jack and by the way cnn claimed he spent spring break in surprise surprise pakistan and his college roommates faces were blacked out in the pictures cnn ran why????? yeah im voting for him.......not Posted 09/10/2008 7:15 PMReply
Anonymous
What business does this hollywood nitwit have opening his mouth?? For the record, Sarah Palin would be facing down Dimitry Medvedev as he is now the President of Russia, and Vladimir Putin is now the prime minister, second-in-line. I suppose he is assuming that McCain and Medvedev would simultaneously die, leaving Palin & Putin "facing down". Posted 09/10/2008 7:19 PMReply
Anonymous
Matt, you are cute, but wrong. Palin isn't even a hockey mom. She WAS one for a year, but that was a while back.

All I can say is all you young, college Republicons better get your affairs in order..........McSame will have to bring back the DRAFT.........THERE'S NO MONEY LEFT TO PAY FOR THE PRIVATIZED ARM OF THE INVASION......BLACKWATER.

Of course, if all is done on the up and up, we will be good and rid of this corrupt-to-the-core crew.
Posted 09/10/2008 8:39 PMReply
Anonymous
anonymous, i'm not really left or right but you need to wise up. anyone informed knows that putin is still running the show in the ussr and medvedev is his puppet (and these guys are experienced, dangerous kgb players palin is not equipped to handle). this kind of naive thinking and lack of fact-checking is the problem with most voters in the US. for e.g. republican posters keep saying obama's gonna raise taxes when THE FACTS ARE he will cut taxes and costs for 90% of the population. i checked the facts. please, people, be patriotic and do a little bit of work, a bit of research before you mouth off and certainly before you vote DIRECTLY AGAINST YOUR OWN MIDDLE/WORKING CLASS INTERESTS!!!! Posted 09/10/2008 8:43 PMReply
Anonymous
McSame was at the bottom of his class in the naval academy.

He wouldn't have gotten near the five planes he crashed, if daddy hadn't been wiping his ass for him.

My brother died of multiple brain tumors from Agent Orange, but he NEVER USED HIS SERVICE FOR INFLUENCE OF ANY KIND PRIOR TO HIS DEATH.

IMHO......McCain is not up to the exhausting, endless task of CLEANING UP THE BUSH-RAVED GOV'T.

It's not a football game, it's a matter of sink or swim, and Obama and Biden are the best choice....just research, and immerse youself in some honesty, and objectivity.
Posted 09/10/2008 8:47 PMReply
Anonymous
we do know what obama's plans are though. what exactly are mccain palin's plans? make permanent tax breaks for corporations that outsource your jobs? free market for the people but corporate socialism for the greedy bankers who make millions off the financial misery of hardworking americans who may only have one shot at affording a home, never mind seven. good choice. Posted 09/10/2008 8:48 PMReply
Anonymous
Excuse......that's "ravaged." Posted 09/10/2008 8:49 PMReply
Anonymous
Wait. Matt's opinion is important! Now why won't the right wing media tell us what Emo Phillips thinks? Or Barbra? Or Gallagher? And when will Alec Baldwin move back from Canada? Posted 09/10/2008 8:54 PMReply
Anonymous
Matt's right; Let's vote for the smart guys over the dumb ones for a change. I think we all know where the Bush idiot got the country over the past 8 years. Posted 09/10/2008 9:15 PMReply
Anonymous
matt who? another celebrity? while you may be more qualified to be President that the community organizer,you arent even closed to having the experience and grace of ms palin. I agree with an earlier opinion. go make a movie and ill buy a ticket.Until then,I like nothing better than watching ms palin's heroic example of an American Life. Posted 09/10/2008 9:26 PMReply
Anonymous
Damon FTW

Palin FTL
Posted 09/10/2008 11:22 PMReply
Anonymous
Hey, at least Matt Damon's daughter didn't get knocked up. Posted 09/10/2008 11:37 PMReply
Anonymous
Hey Matt...still she's a lot better (hoter) than your waitress (turned interior designer) wife. You should at least show some respect when you mention "hocky mom". She's trying her best to be a good mother (I'm sure all mothers try their best) to work around between career and family. You don't redicule for that. Don't take advantage of Free Speech, you can say whatever you think but show respect. Posted 09/11/2008 12:03 AMReply
Anonymous
Matt Damon pretends to be other people for a living, Sarah Palin is the 4th most powerful governor in the US. I love that Damon and other libs are talking about Palins in-experience because it is really just Driving the point home that Obama isn't ready. It would be like the McCain camp making the argument that Obama is too old :) It's just funny to watch these guys chasing their tails around unable to figure it out. An Obama presidency would be like a bad 'B' movie where there's a killer (named Putin) chasing you thru the woods and everybody's following the "community organizer" trying to get away, but in the end, everyone dies, haha. So sad :( Posted 09/11/2008 12:04 AMReply
Anonymous
Sounds like Palin owes Damon an answer on dinosaurs. Damon, please note that if you don't know her record, it's public information. Any American is free to check the facts. Notice her record is about the same length as Obama's and is riddled with success stories and decisions that you can hold her accountable for! Oh well maybe math's not Damon's thing! But who cares, he seems to know it all anyway! Posted 09/11/2008 12:41 AMReply
Anonymous
@ Anonymous: That's hateful! Posted 09/11/2008 12:43 AMReply
Anonymous
The hateful comment was regarding the comment about Palin's daughter... anybody who wants to take a punch at someone's child is low class

@ Anonymous: Matt Damon takes some low blows and is afraid if he actually did know anything about Palin, he would have to admit, she is an Alaskan HERO and would shake up business as usual in Washington and that Good Old Boy club. Matt Damon, you are a pig!
Posted 09/11/2008 12:46 AMReply
Anonymous
Matt Damon is a smart guy, he wrote the forword to my book.

http://johnseita.com/
Posted 09/11/2008 09:40 AMReply
Anonymous
Who, even with only the slightest intelligence, cares what Matt Damon has to say about politics? Posted 09/11/2008 10:16 AMReply
Anonymous
You are absolutly right Matt. We know McCain is an insecure idiot who had to look hard but finally found someone with less intelligence than he has Posted 09/11/2008 5:21 PMReply
Anonymous
@ Anonymous:
The same people that care what you have to say, Anonymous.
Posted 09/11/2008 9:04 PMReply
Anonymous
at least he got into harvard. Palin went to five colleges in six years for a 4 year degree in journalism.From harvard to high paid Actor sounds good to me/ Posted 09/12/2008 04:04 AMReply
Anonymous
Damon is more in touch than most of us would give him credit it for.

Palin was chosen solely - and I mean ONLY for the fact that she's a "charismatic" Christian. The fact that sheâs a female was probably secondary to the decision as well. Thatâs it. Forget about all those arguments about experience and all the rest.

A bunch of men (no women) from the Council for National Policy AND the McCain staff almost certainly reached an agreement â McCain trades off his VP pick, Dobson endorses the republicans (he talks to 200+ million a DAY) and POOF the formerly dead race is âenergizedâ.

Just spend a few minutes looking at what the Pentecostals believe in and youâll see that the following questions would certainly be valid:

Were fossils deposited by Noahâs flood?
Do you think the earth is less than 10 thousand years old?
Do you believe youâll see the Rapture in your lifetime?
Do you think science in general and evolution specifically is the enemy of religion?
Is America a Christian nation?

Notice how Palin, in a recent interview, uses the word âworldviewâ which is common among Christians Of course no one will ask her these questions but if you could get honest answers to just a few telling questions you would have a good impression of what HER âworldviewâ really is.

Then you would be scared as well.
Posted 09/12/2008 11:57 AMReply
Anonymous
The rest of the world wants Obama to be President... For any responds to come, citizens from around the world aren't afraid of the United States and they don't want this nation to fail. Using god to commit atrocities is simply disgusting. I recommend to any middle class Americans to travel a bit and see people's face when they mention where they're from. The rest of the world wants you to make the right decision... Posted 09/15/2008 6:02 PMReply
Anonymous
Very sharp commentary. No matter the source. Does it bother you what Gov Palin believes about evolution? What should matter is how will a future president / vice president represent America as leader of the free nations?

I haven't seen actions or policy that help fix crumbling infrastructure, improve education, reduce poverty, help the sick, and end dependance on foreign oil. It's nothing more than investing in America First, before shipping the tax dollars around the world.

Like it or not, only the Republicans can present a viable female candidate, so they will choose someone who is electable by their supporters. This means she says the right things to get the votes, but at the end of the day, she is more clever than any of us think, and I believe we are talking about a future president.
Posted 09/15/2008 11:00 PMReply
Anonymous
Regarding evolution, please, you weren't there at the time of the start of the universe. Evolutionism or Creation are really the only two possibilities. It takes a certain amount of faith to believe either choice.

I do not have enough faith to believe in evolutionism. It goes against the second law of thermodynamics. Everything in the universe is moving from hot to cold, from order to chaos. The universe is winding down, not up.

One guy put it in very simple terms (always necessary for the elitists among us), Chuck Missler:

If I were to tell you that the digital watch on my wrist came from a store, which came from a manufacturer, which came from a number of natural materials, which was designed on a computer by an engineer you would say "that makes sense".

But, what if I told you that billions of years ago out of sheer chance that the digital watch happen to form by itself you would say "that's crazy". This is what evolutionism attempt to force us to accept.

The wrist on which this digital watch rests is many more times more complex than any digital watch. The body is created with self-replicating, self-healing organic cells. No amount of time can produce such a thing.

Another point he made was this: If theoretically time started running backwards (everything, including you) how would you know? If you were also going backwards in time with everything else is there any way possible that would alert you to this? Yes - a deck of cards.

When you first open a deck of cards it is in order. As you begin to shuffle the cards it loses it's order and becomes "shuffled" or chaotic. When time moves forward the cards become chaotic. When time moves backwards the cards become ordered. As time in the universe moves forward everything created moves from order to chaos.

If time is moving forward then, like a deck of cards, it is impossible for chaos to move into order.

Do you know that our DNA is a digital code? It is a three-out-of-four, error-correcting encryption system. Anything "digital" implies intelligence and a designer. Take for example our digital watch. We know that 8 is a little bit more than 7. Why? Because we all have agreed that it was. There is nothing that proves that the number 8 is more than the number 7, we (intelligence) have designed this.

Some intelligent designer, some call it God, some call it space aliens, or if you are a far-left liberal, Nobama, created this universe.

Me thinks that only by consuming a large quantity of illegal drugs or worshiping at the Church of Oprah can trick a human being into accepting the myth of evolutionism.

A partial bio of Missler:
Strategic corporate development projects for Rockwell International, Ford Motor Company, TRW, Western Digital Corporation, as well as U.S. and foreign governments. Senior participant in highly classified projects serving the intelligence community and the Department of Defense. (SAMCOM-USSR, DSL, JCS, USACADA, DOJ).
Posted 09/16/2008 08:29 AMReply
Anonymous
Matt- my wife said that she will make you a bet
If Obama wins she will shave her vagina
If McCain wins you have to shave yours
Posted 09/20/2008 10:38 PMReply
Anonymous
Thanks Mr. Damon for those lucid, factual and wise comments. Given the choice, on those comments alone you are more qualified to be VP than Mrs. Youbetchahockeymom. Amazing how little some people expect in terms of capability from their would-be leaders. And there's little in terms of opposing views among the posts that exceeds the maturity of a five-year-old.

TO be fair, however, I must add that for moose shooting, I'd take Plain over Damon any day.
Posted 10/29/2008 10:40 PMReply
Anonymous
I must correct myself re-maturity of opposing comments - rising above the slagheap of "Damon-has-a-vagina"-type comments are some that are clearly mature and substantive, and I apologize if I have offended their authors.
Also, it is indeed "Palin" not "Plain"
Posted 10/30/2008 12:43 AMReply
Anonymous
Boy dropped out of school and thinks he has a right to judge others. Posted 10/30/2008 11:49 PMReply
Anonymous
Ms. Palin even looks smarter than Mr. Damon. As Biden has stated succinctly and without equivocation, Sara Palin is more qualified than Obama for the office of President of the United States. Posted 08/29/2009 9:58 PMReply

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