Let's look at a few interesting tweets from tonight:
So, I went through a few more of these and apparently, he's been blocking people left and right, pulling a Tila Tequila, calling people "haters" for questioning him. Then, he referred people to this link, on the Huffington Post.
He did some interview with Naomi Klein and, they basically sat around bashing capitalism, and talking about how evil it was but, at the same time saying that we don't really have a free market. Huh? So, if we don't really have a free market, why are you criticizing what is not there?
I've known that John Cusack was a liberal for quite sometime but, I guess I had no idea that he was pulling the typical actor-career-goes-bad-so-let's-take-up-politics-and-try-to-get-people-to-believe-I'm-really-smart-and-not-just-another-dumb-actor route.
I don't know. Twitter is a great source of information but, these actors on here need to be more careful about what they say directly to their public. Does John Cusack realize he probably never would have had a career to begin with, if it wasn't for capitalism? I guess not.
From the interview:
Cusack: The question becomes one of intellectual honesty and basic morality. I wanted to talk about the players or the heirs of the Friedman legacy who are in the public sector today... The Grover Norquists and Bill Kristols of the world come to mind ...You also talk about the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, the American Enterprise Institute as pursuing the goal of the elimination of the public sphere and the total liberation of corporations.
Klein: I refer to the people in those think tanks as "the people who are paid to think by the makers of tanks" because a huge amount of the funding for these think tanks is coming directly from the weapons and homeland security industry. They are funded by some of the wealthiest families and the wealthiest corporations in this country so the question of intellectual honesty really has to come up. They exist in a strange intellectual gray zone where they get money in order to think. And besides, I'm not sure thinking really belongs in tanks.
Cusack: So you're saying that the Shultzes and the Perles and the Kissingers and the Jim Bakers of the world are embedded in the homeland security/privatized war economy?
Klein: More than embedded. I mean, they are it.
Cusack: I was trying to --
[laughter ]
Klein: Why are you trying to be polite?
Cusack: I don't know. I don't know. That's part of the problem, too: being polite with this immorality and not having the courage to call something what it is...The refusal of the Congress to challenge Bush in a meaningful way is proof of the Democratic complicity in the new economy. To name only right wing people is to ignore the central thesis of intellectual honesty as the first step in a long corrective march... So we'll have to talk about what Democrats are in on this game and name them, too...we'll have to get into that later.
Interestingly, the blog cuts off and, they do not "get into" the Democrats. Gee? I can't imagine why. They are claiming to have some moral high ground here? Very interesting. Since when do liberals talk about "morals"?
According to this Klein, conservatives are really just a bunch of puppets that follow what "tanks" are paid to think and sell to us. Okay, but they are the real free thinkers, right? Almost every media outlet is liberal and drenched in liberalism and, these guys think almost like them but, they are the "free thinkers" not being brainwashed? Okay.
I've read about all I can take of this. Cusack's tweets sound like he's tweaking on something for sure.
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