We need to talk about George Clooney, who is busy trying to look 30 years younger than he actually is with weirdly dyed hair as he tries his hand at Broadway.
He is currently starring in a stage adaptation of his movie Good Night, and Good Luck about Edward R. Murrow because Clooney fancies himself a journalist and has lots of thoughts on how journalists need to do journalism the way he does it (i.e. stumbling upon the biggest story of the decade that a sitting president is mentally infirm and ought to be 25th Amendmented right out of office, saying absolutely nothing for weeks on end, and then – only after that president humiliates himself on the national stage at a presidential debate and then refuses to step down as the entire Democrat Party watches its electoral chances up and down the ballot go swirling down the toilet – finally decides to write an op-ed in The New York Times saying Joe Biden is not up for the job).
That is not journalism, George. It is cowardice followed by naked partisanship. You are not fooling anyone.
The Play
He chooses to finish the play by lecturing the audience on how journalism ought to be done. Speaking as Murrow, he warns about the ongoing struggle for “truth” and “integrity” in the media and about the potential for the media to be manipulated and used for propaganda.
Apparently, he ends the whole thing with a video montage featuring yours truly and Elon Musk doing a “Nazi salute”… because Elon Musk and I are the dangers George Clooney fears and not the propaganda that was pushed on us for four years by his favorite leftist so-called journalists that Biden was fine and these were all cheap fakes we were seeing, or for the four years prior that Donald Trump was a Russian asset.
The propaganda, you see, is that you would dare to defend anything done by Trump. That is a violation of “truth” and “integrity” in media.
Clooney’s Call Out
Our pal Georgie apparently got wind of the fact that The Megyn Kelly Show show mocked him for trying to lecture anyone on journalism, especially given the timeline on his own disclosures about Biden. Here’s a refresher:
- June 15: He hosted a fundraiser for Biden on June 15, 2024, in which the president could barely walk or talk. His appearance was so alarming that it was in the news for two weeks after, as it was clear he had to be escorted off stage by Barack Obama. A debate was raging right then about whether Biden was fit to be president, never mind to run a second term. Clooney said nothing. Absolutely nothing.
- June 23: Then came the disastrous presidential debate on CNN. Calls grew steadily louder for Joe Biden to drop out, but he refused.
- July 10: This is when Clooney finally came out with an op-ed admitting to some of what he had seen a month earlier. He only spoke up when he saw the Democrats electoral prospects swirling down the drain, but now he wants full credit for speaking truth to power and is even lecturing other Democrats for not doing their part.
In any event, I guess we hurt his thin-skinned Hollywood feelings because he sat down with Broadway’s biggest – and oldest – bully Patti LuPone (remember when she screamed at a ticket-holding audience member for not wearing a mask?) for Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series, and they started navel gazing about themselves, their vaunted profession, and just how terrible the media is. That led to this exchange:
CLOONEY: …What we do in this is we talk about the responsibility of journalists to hold truth to power, right? That’s our goal. And so if you’re doing that– and we don’t tell people what to think when we show that montage at the end, for instance. You see, Megyn Kelly, she’s– who’s come out and said, you know, ‘I’m not a journalist.’ I didn’t say I was a journalist.
LUPONE: Well, neither she, by the way.
CLOONEY: You know, but I’m not quite sure what she’s done. I’ve at least been to, you know, Darfur, and Sudan, and the Congo, and been shot at to try to get stories out. And I’m not quite sure what she’s done to be a journalist. Having said that, we only show her words in this play, we don’t tell people what to think. It’s not out of context. We don’t manipulate it. We literally just go, ‘These are your words’…
He thinks I am objecting to something he put in his show about me. I have no idea what you put in your show about me, and I couldn’t care less, sir. I was mocking you for trying to lecture journalists on how to do journalism based on your own failure to speak truth to power. You failed. You only did it when you knew your candidate was going to cost you up and down the ballot.
My Career
Clooney is not quite sure what yours truly has done to be a journalist, which does not surprise me at all. Why would he know anything about the journalism career I have had? Absolutely none of my stories held any interest for George Clooney. Of that, I have no doubt.
You see, I have spent the past 20 years interviewing people like Susette Kelo, who owned the “little pink house” that got seized by her local government declaring eminent domain, a decision that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court; like the cake baker in Colorado who didn’t want to bake a gay wedding cake because it violated his religious beliefs (oh, and by the way, also the gay couple he offended); people like triple- and quadruple-amputees back from Iraq and Afghanistan, who the Hollywood class looked down upon – actually loathed, judged, and treated like scum – because, unlike the war in Ukraine, they didn’t like those wars.
What did you do, George, to help the hundreds of men I featured on my Fox News show year after year to help find housing and to help them rehabilitate their lives? I see you went to Darfur. That’s great. But what about our guys? Because I never saw you at a Tunnel to Towers fundraiser or at a gathering for our Navy SEALs, and I have been to many of them. I never saw you at any of the public appearances I have attended, where our injured soldiers are just back from war and seeking a helping hand.
I guess you never saw the interviews I have done of the Medal of Honor recipients like Dakota Meyer. You didn’t want to hear his story about the overwhelming sacrifice he made for this country both on the battlefield and then back home, where – had it not been for a guardian angel looking over him – he would have taken that gun, it would have had bullets in it, and he would have taken his life in his truck. Did you miss that one, George? You didn’t make that story into a movie, did you? No, it has mostly been Mark Wahlberg who shows any interest in our troops.
I guess you never saw my interview with detransitioner Chloe Cole on what the gender cult has done to our young girls; or with Payton McNabb after she suffered permanent nerve damage from a trans volleyball player; or with Patriot Barbie (a.k.a. Lindsey Graham), who explained to our audience how the draconian lockdowns and intentional ruination of her business in Oregon during COVID led to her finding herself at the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
No, you had no interest in stories like that that actually probed the minds of regular Americans and found out why they did the things you only had an urge to demonize in your elite Hollywood circles. That is not the kind of “fearless” journalism you’re talking about.
I could go on, George, about the school and mass shootings I have had to cover with tear-stained faces all around me, the women who told me their stories of domestic abuse or sexual assault or rape, the women who accused Donald Trump, and those who accused Joe Biden too. I wonder if you saw that one. It also got buried by your favorite media stars.
I guess these stories never made it on your radar. You were too busy in your $100 million dollar Lake Como mansion, or at one of your five other homes, or running about the stage pretending to be a journalist who speaks truth to power.
‘Relentlessly Factual’
Now, you tell us in that sound bite that you got shot at – and even that turns out to be a lie consistent with your others. You have told the story many times, so you need to be more careful if you are going to lie like this on camera. You once had a gun pulled on you by a kid in Darfur more than 20 years ago. Only now with Patti LuPone (who you accurately deduced is a moron who will never check) did you change it to getting shot at. That didn’t happen, George. This is not the kind of “truth” and “integrity” we want in our profession.
So no, it is no surprise that Clooney has not seen much of my work – not my six presidential debates, not my sit downs with Trump, Vladimir Putin, Narendra Modi, or Benjamin Netanyahu. His world is the world of entertainment and cosplaying human rights advocate on the arm of his wife (you know, the one who followed the professional wrestler he used to date).
Maybe in the next decade, he will watch an episode or two and catch on to the kind of journalism that has made The Megyn Kelly Show consistently one of the top, if not the top, news programs in the country with over 2 billion views and news some call “relentlessly factual.”
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