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Clooney vows to keep quiet about politics
Indo-Asian News Service
Los Angeles, Oct 5 (IANS) Actor and director George Clooney is discouraging fellow Hollywood friends from endorsing political candidates because it spoils their chances of victory.
According to Internet Movie Database, Clooney and a number of other stars have come under attack for their involvement in politics. He says, "My father ran for Congress last year. I couldn't campaign for him and I knew I couldn't, because I'd hurt him. They tried to get me to get on the John Kerry train and I said, 'We'll hurt him. They'll use us as 'liberal'.'
"Now, I would argue that (throughout) American history, it's pretty hard to find a time when liberals were on the wrong side of an issue. We thought that the conservative view was, 'Witches should be burned at the stake.' Moderate view was: 'Well, just in case,' and the liberal view was, 'There's no such thing as witches.'
He added, "We thought women should be able to vote and blacks should be allowed to sit at the front of the bus and Vietnam was wrong. We haven't really been on a lot of wrong sides for us to be sort of used as this bad word. But we hurt candidates right now, so we can do fundraisers quietly and make some money. But I think it's dangerous to get up and talk about it."
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