BadFish from Winners Use Drugs tipped us off to Mickey Rourke running his mouth about political celebrities.
“Actors should shut up about politics, because they tend to be ill-informed finger-pointers who just cozy up to some flavor-of-the-month liberal, you know?” The Wrestler star says in this month’s edition of GQ.
You know where I’m going with this.
In 2006 Mickey issued a big “piss off” to people who disagreed with President George W. Bush’s foreign policy, saying:
“George is doing a hell of a job during very difficult times, more power to him. Screw all them people who don’t like him.”
The rest of that GQ article also has him on a pro-Bush rant where he claims he’s shocked by how Muslims are allowed freedom of speech in Great Britain. Yup.
Now I know he just won Best Actor and everything at the Golden Globes yesterday, so a lot more microphones are going to be shoved in his face between now and Oscars night, but this is just Pete Sampras-style bitching.
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Heh, thanks for the source credit guys, you may call me BadFish, my blogging name
Those quotes you dug up are awesome, I was pretty sure you’d find some political rants from him!
You really can’t win as a celebrity voicing opinions, and you *especially* can’t win as a celebrity voicing the opinion that celebrities shouldn’t be voicing opinions. Then you’re just a walking paradox. Not to mention kind of an a-hole.
Is anyone else kind of shocked that he’s conservative?
I still don’t see what Sampras did wrong…
Mickey Rourke brings new meaning to the definition of “two faced,” literally and figuratively. I must say, I am more freaked out by his bad plastic surgery than I am with his political views. Perhaps he can wear a burka and save us from having to look upon his visage?
And here I thought all conservatives bathed regularly.
Is this the guy who did all those song and dance movies with Judy Garland? Age has not been kind to his boyish looks.
I actually think he looks kinda cool. Don’t you get the idea that if you were out drinking with him, 20 minutes after last call he’d be out on the street screaming at the top of his lungs at a parking meter?
I wonder whatever happened to Evan.
Go Mickey.
too many boxing shots to the head will eff up anybody’s view of the world…this is the same mickey rourke that was beating his wife’s butt back in the day and the same mickey rourke that walks around holding a scared little dog or with his hands down his pants…of course he’s a bush supporter…
Thanks for the insight. I was happy for that old washed up pile of crap! Now I will not be going to see his movie and I hope Sean Penn wins the Oscar instead of him!
may i just take a moment to comment on his get up? wow.. that is a stunning outfit. good lord!
Actors are people like anyone else… well, most of them are, and they are entitled to their political opinions, but voicing those opinions has never been a smart career move. I hate when actors get political, especially when they are complaining about actors who are political. Shut the hell up, Mickey.
Remember when he used to be hot?
Because Sean Penn is totally neutral and doesn’t have any political opinions right?
Yes, I would much rather see him make a politically charged movie, instead of just talking about it. That would match him up well with Hollywood.
Oh, and being liberal too. That would match him up well, but that was a missed opportunity there, huh?
Conservatives complain that there are no conservatives are in hollywood, and then one comes along, and makes us look stupid.
I am just happy he is not a bleeding heart liberal like Richard (gerbil) Gere. Listening him spew his biased views on the golden globes had me hoping Clint would have gotten up and slapped his gay ass off the stage.
Thank God some people in Hollywood still support America, especially Mickey Rourke, Kelsey Grammer, and Bruce Willis.
I guess that Mickey Rourke has become the new Nick Nolte: used to be cute, used to be a good actor, fell away from the acting career and got the scary hobo look, achieved a possible come-back career but still looks and acts like a crazy hobo. Sad.
“Thank God some people in Hollywood still support America, especially Mickey Rourke, Kelsey Grammer, and Bruce Willis.”
LOL yeah, being a Republican for the sake of protecting your fortune through lower taxes is just about the most American thing you can do, really.
“Actors should shut up about politics, because they tend to be ill-informed finger-pointers who just cozy up to some flavor-of-the-month liberal, you know?”
Well can’t really argue with that comment, I agree 100%. Of course he is an ass for his hypocrisy
Put Mickey on The View! I triple dog dare ya, Barbara Walters!
BTW, liberal actors try not to pay taxes either. They just think that *I* should pay more taxes in their stead because I haven’t incorporated myself or set up a production company in The Cayman Islands.
Chronic, I’m having trouble remembering when Mickey used to be hot. And I can’t even blame the memory loss on drugs.
I’m with Strawberry – The View! The View! Think about all the fun screaming and physical violence that could result.
MC Mom, back when he did that crap-fest, soft porn “9 1/2 Weeks”, he was looking pretty good. Sort of had that young, Bruce Willis vibe. Then he had that botched plastic surgery and began to look like that gay Puerto Rican astrologer, Walter Mercado, who has to be close to 80, looks like an old woman, but still manages to look better than Mickey.
Thanks Chronic, I laughed myself into an asthma attack over the Walter Mercado thing.
Two puffs, that’s preemo humor according to my lung collapse rating system.
LOL, Minnow. I forget who pointed out the resemblance to me in a comment around here somewhere. Was it you? After that, it made me see Mickey in a whole new light.
Careful with that lung!
It must’a been Pasta. He and Walt have the same tailor.
Ack! I just did a Google image search on Walter Mercado, who does indeed look like a Fort Lauderdale grandmother…crossed with Liberace. Is this where Mickey is headed? Egads.
I do now remember ‘9 1/2 Weeks’ but Mickey mostly scared me, even then. Of course I was an impressionable youngster when that movie came out and tended to be more attracted to less-threatening Brits…
It’s the capes, isn’t it? Flick the cape and hiss, “¡Esssscorpion!” ala Walter…
It’s great he and Walt look the same. Gives Mickey another role to play. You can’t say he was born to play it but he was made to play it. (Nice catch, guys. While I don’t smoke and don’t have a collapsed lung, the separated after plastic surgery is hilarious)
Rourke was cute in “Body Heat” too.
I agree with him, and I respect that he’s not afraid to speak his mind regardless of what Hollywood thinks of him!
The Pitch:
It’s a buddy movie, with Mickey Rourke, Nick Nolte and Gary Busey. We give em a thousand bucks, a van with tinted windows, rope and duct tape and just tell ‘em to go out and do the right thing. No script, we just film the carnage.
No? Okay. It’s a talk show, Danny Glover, Mickey Rourke, Amy Cho and the angry dad from Orange County Choppers. Ryan Seacrest can be the timid, ineffective voice of moderation.
Think about it! Beautiful.
Dennymack
I was wondering how Nick Nolte missed out on Pasta’s list of bat crazy celebrities.
Ahe talk show looks like a hit, especially if you add a drunk Danny DeVito to the list.
I like Gary Busey. Nick Nolte not so much.