Appearing on Tuesday's Late Show, Josh Brolin, who plays George W. Bush in Oliver Stone's 'W' movie set to open this weekend, blinked “Vote for Barack Obama.”
Picking up on a monologue joke earlier in the program by David Letterman about how Sarah Palin's blinking is conveying “coded messages,” immediately upon sitting down Brolin pointed to his face as he urged Letterman and viewers: “Watch this.”
He blinked several times, then asked: “You know what that is?” Brolin smugly answered his own question as he smiled and raised his fist in self-satisfaction to audience applause: “Vote for Barack Obama.”
Stone asked Brolin to play Bush because, in part, he's “mean,” Michael McIntee recounted in his Wahoo Gazette re-cap of the October 14 Late Show: “Josh plays George W. Bush in the Oliver Stone film, W. Oliver approached Josh and said he would be perfect for the part, with the desired look of 'ranchy, bucolic, American and mean.'”
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That movie looks like it'll
October 15, 2008 - 23:34 ET by air conservativeThat movie looks like it'll be funny as hell. Brolin was great in "No Country for Old Men".
Gee... he can blink.....
October 15, 2008 - 23:43 ET by ToddonCapeCod... and people say celebrities are dumb....
I think Dave Chapelle
October 15, 2008 - 23:47 ET by MidAmericaI think Dave Chapelle would be perfect to play obama in a bio movie.
Appropriate
October 16, 2008 - 10:01 ET by misterbee241That would be appropriate. Dave's already been in a movie about Robin Hood.
blink blink
October 16, 2008 - 01:15 ET by pummyI wonder how long he had to study that script?
I think it is soooooo boring
October 16, 2008 - 07:03 ET by SeashellI think it is soooooo boring when these celebs go on these talk shows and tell us who to vote for.
What a doofus!
October 16, 2008 - 10:12 ET by mizflame98“Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula? I mean, they’re charging a lot of money for this stuff.”
B.H. Obama
The Designer Candidate
October 16, 2008 - 10:13 ET by Kirk TurnerJosh Brolin is an insufferable jackass. He is the archetypal child of priviledge who, having never been around typical Americans, condescends to them in theory by advocating a system of government that, he has been told, helps the "average Joe." In reality, socialism obliterates every vestiage of what the average Joe loves.
He does this because it is as trendy as designer shoes. And he will be none the wiser for it when it fails, nor will he suffer.
His candidate, Obama, should characterized for what he is: the designer candidate. Obama costs a fortune, but much as a Mussoni shirt, he looks good on stage.