Appearing on Fox News Sunday tomorrow, actor George Clooney told anchor Chris Wallace that “It’s a very funny thing, odd for me to be on the same side of an issue as Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer and George Will and people like that,” noting that “usually we’re not on the same side.”
The issue of agreement, of course, is Donald Trump and his lack of fitness to be president.
Clooney, a well known liberal, comes from a political family. His father ran, unsuccessfully, for Congress in Kentucky.
UPDATE: Below is a partial excerpt of the transcript.
WALLACE: You’ve raised millions of dollars for Hillary Clinton. You have no use for Donald Trump. I want to ask you a bigger question. CLOONEY: Sure. WALLACE: What do you make of our politics today? CLOONEY: Yes, that’s a good question. I — it’s — it’s frustrating. I mean I grew up as a Democrat in Kentucky in the ’70s. So, you know, I grew up in a place — I was a minority, you know, in that world. I didn’t move to Hollywood and become a Democrat. But it wasn’t as contentious and there wasn’t the idea that — that — that once one party got power that — that nothing was going to happen from the other side. That we’re going to just stop things cold. I worry about that. I think that’s dangerous. It’s a very funny thing, odd for me to be on the same side of a — of an issue as — as Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer and — and George Will and people like that. Usually we’re not on the same side. I feel as if we need to get away from the divisiveness that we are stuck in right now and the fear that we’re playing off of. You know, I think it was Murrow that said, we cannot be driven by fear into an age of unreason. If we look deep in our history and remember that we are not the descendants of fearful people. I think that’s an important part of us and I think that that’s important to remember as we go forward. CLOONEY: John, George, thank you.
