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Hollywood’s War of the Words
2024’s Big Summer Blockbuster appears to be celebrities arguing publicly over President Joe Biden’s reelection prospects.
This week, the entire U.S. news media ecosystem imploded over the “Op-Ed Heard ‘Round the World.”
A-list actor and major political donor George Clooney, long a fixture in Democratic Party campaigns, hosted a blockbuster fundraiser for President Joe Biden in Hollywood one month ago. This week, Clooney followed this glowing endorsement of President Biden with a New York Times op-ed suggesting Biden be replaced as the Democratic Party’s standard bearer.
“I Love Joe Biden: But We Need a New Nominee,” begged Mr. Clooney for the New York Times on July 10, 2024.
After a less-than-stellar performance in the debate against Donald Trump two weeks ago, President Biden has been enduring internal leaks, dismal polling numbers, and a growing clamor of calls for him to drop out. Clooney’s argument, perhaps unsurprisingly, has gotten a great deal of attention.
The former Biden supporter didn’t spare the President’s feelings:
“It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe “big F-ing deal” Biden of 2010,” Clooney admitted sadly. “He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed…