Actor Rob Lowe won’t come out of the closet as a libertarian, but he sure echoed such sentiments during an interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, as he told the host “individuals usually do a better job than collective big government.”
Lowe entered the “O’Reilly Factor’s” no-spin zone Wednesday to discuss his libertarian-esque comments about the dangers of big government. But while the “Parks and Recreation” actor affirmed his anti-government stance with host Bill O’Reilly, he shunned the “libertarian” label.
“Equality for everyone is great,” Lowe said. “That would be amazing. I just think that individuals usually do a better job than collective big government. That’s the way I look at it.”
The actor, whose first foray into politics was as Deputy White House Communications Director Sam Seaborn in the “West Wing,” went on to agree with O’Reilly in that he didn’t want the government telling him how to live.
However, when the Fox News host pegged him as a libertarian for his viewpoints, Lowe shunned the label.
“Does that make me a libertarian?” he asked O’Reilly. “I’m a Hollywood pinhead. I don’t know about political labels. So, I spent all this time shedding the dogma of political labels, and now you’re telling me I have to go back to living under a political label?”
Lowe went on to reaffirm that he wants more personal freedom and less government.
And both agreed that the government should be involved in “big-ticket items” like national defense and transportation.
Lowe made headlines earlier this week for comments in The New York Times Magazine. The actor, who played President John F. Kennedy in an adaptation of O’Reilly’s book Killing Kennedy, said he wanted the government out of “almost everything.”
Once an outspoken Democrat who supported former Presidential nominee Michael Dukakis, Lowe became a registered Independent and campaigned for former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R).
Watch Lowe and O’Reilly discuss big government below.
