James Earl Jones, Voice of Darth Vader, Loves MSNBC And Knows the Tea Party Is Racist
Actor James Earl Jones appeared on the public-radio show Smiley & West last weekend and discussed how he stuttered as a teenager. “There’s a certain terror I still have about confronting people. I can’t debate, I can’t argue, I fall apart...I cannot be an activist, for instance, because of that.”
But as Brian Maloney reported, host Tavis Smiley wanted to draw his politics out. Jones quickly obliged by saying he simply cannot get enough of watching MSNBC, even though he is the voice of CNN, and agrees with the MSNBC notion that the Tea Party must be racist to oppose Obama (audio and transcript below):
TAVIS SMILEY: You suggested earlier in this conversation that there are reasons why you have never been and will never be an activist. Obviously you have played on the stage and on the screen roles that were political in nature. You referenced Obama a moment ago. Are you a political person, though? You might not be an activist, but are you a political junkie, are you a political person in any way?
JAMES EARL JONES: I listen as much as I can. I’m always on MSNBC. I can’t get enough of it. I even venture into the right wing talk shows sometimes.
SMILEY: So sometimes you turn to Fox then?
JONES: Yes.
WEST: Nothing wrong with that. You want to find out why people are wrong as well as right, you know what I mean. [Laughter]
JONES: Knowledge is all over the place.
WEST: Absolutely. You can learn from anybody, any perspective in that sense, absolutely.
JONES: I think I figured out the Tea Party. I think I… I do understand racism because I was taught to be one by my grandmother. My grandmother was part Cherokee Choctaw Indian, part black. She hated everybody. She taught all of her children and grandchildren to be racist, to hate white people and to distrust black people.
CORNEL WEST: Who does she love then?
JONES: Nobody.
WEST: Nobody at all.
JONES: But that allowed me to figure it out for myself. I think I know what racism is better than anybody who’s ever been a racist.
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Yes, this great actor...
Submitted by rickbren on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 11:42pm.
. . . has turned to the Dark Side. . .
Yep
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 6:23am.
Yep
He seems confused
Submitted by shawn. on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 12:02am.
........almost like he was run over by a herd of wildebeests
Awesome
Submitted by OuttaMyWay on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 8:20am.
You win comment of the day!
Considering Ed, Chrissy, Maddow, and the rest of gang
Submitted by Boudin on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 8:30am.
Work there, I would have to agree
Well, at least he's a
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 12:13am.
Well, at least he's a self-admitted racist...............which is more than I can say for most of the other race-baiters.
Quell Surprise!!!!!
Submitted by adamsmith on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 9:15am.
I knew this guy was a white hating racist as far back as the Eddie Murphy movie. He had way too much fun acting the King and looking down on whites. Most blacks HATE Whitey. Nothing new there, move along.....
Loves MSNBC And Knows the Tea Party Is Racist
Submitted by tcm14 on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 12:14am.
That is a redundant statement.
If it is RACIST...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 12:20am.
...to vote for or against a candidate based on their skin pigment, what does that say about 95% of black voters?
You know, he's a great actor,
Submitted by pilgrim4jc on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 1:22am.
You know, he's a great actor, but not very sharp about politics. He is also pretty old, I give him a pass on this one.
I always suspected that MSNBC
Submitted by HelloDare on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 1:56am.
I always suspected that MSNBC was part of the Dark Side.
The list of actors that I am
Submitted by michael lofrano on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 6:46am.
The list of actors that I am able to watch on screen without being revolted grows smaller and smaller. Sigh.
Also known as...
Submitted by DumbCanuck on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 7:54am.
...the voice of Darth Vader. nuff said? Not really.
CORNEL WEST: Who does [your grandmother] love then?
JONES: Nobody.
Which should beg the obvious question... "How were his parents even born?"
"There... Are... Four... Lights!"
<draws lightsaber>
Submitted by Kodos on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 8:11am.
"You have failed me for the last time, Mr. Jones..."
(c'mon; you knew it was coming!!)
Old film boxers never die,
Submitted by knuckle_head on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 8:15am.
Old film boxers never die, they just drool into the spit bucket.
No
Submitted by mustango on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 8:57am.
That's not true! That's impossible!!
What a sad voice
Submitted by jon_torlin on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 9:07am.
Well, another black actor to put on the list of black actors to avoid. And I file that under the list of actors in general to avoid because they make it a point to bring up race, which deserves their own sub-category. So if it seems racist, they started it.
At least in Jones' case, he's just a voice in Star Wars.
-Jon
Turning to Hollywod actors
Submitted by lesterwink23 on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 9:14am.
Turning to Hollywod actors and actresses for their political leanings is like asking kindergarteners to discuss nuclear physics. There are a few good exceptions out there, but not many.
So, it sounds like he is
Submitted by Free Stinker on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 9:46am.
So, it sounds like he is projecting his own hatred and racism on The Tea Party.
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His grandmother wasn't a racist.
Submitted by almostacowboy on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 10:46am.
She was just a bitter, hateful old woman. Mmmm, much like most of the women on the left regardless of their ages.
Hes fat!
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 10:53am.
And apparently afflicted with Alzheimers!
Absolutely!
Submitted by c5then on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 11:17am.
Just as Luke was racist for opposing Darth Vader because his voice was a black actor.
Anyone who disagrees with a black person, someone who looks like a black person, or someone who agrees with a black person is obviously racist.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
As a person of absolutely zero "color"..
Submitted by xyzzypoofs on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 11:45am.
who also voted for Herman Cain TWICE by the way, I am getting sick and tired of being assumed racist simply because I refuse to applaud a Marxist for destroying this country; or support a group of people who desire a non-Marxist form of government.