A lot of people have been wondering about the lack of Obama surrogates in the media pushing back against the McCain campaign and Sarah Palin in particular. Well, we just got a scathing analysis of McCain's choice for VP from none other than Jason Bourne himself.
Matt Damon tells it like it is about how absurd and terrifying the idea of Palin being a heartbeat away from the presidency is.
I am guessing this video is taken from the morning talk shows. I'm vaguely familiar with the background but isn't that the set of ABC's "Good Morning America?" If so, wouldn't that be special if Damon was invited onto a Disney owned show and directly compared Palin to "a really bad Disney movie." The ironies abound.
Jason Bourne tells it like it is.
UPDATE: Here's the transcript.
"I think there's a really good chance that Sarah Palin could be president, and I think that's a really scary thing because I don't know anything about her. I don't think in eight weeks I'll know anything about her. I know that she was mayor of a really, really small town and she's been governor of Alaska for less than two years. I think the pick was made for political purposes but in terms of governance its a disaster. If you do the actuary tables, there's a 1 out of 3 chance - if not more - that McCain doesn't survive his first term and it'll be President Palin. (You know) we were just talking about it earlier. Its like a really bad Disney movie. You know, the hockey mom (saying) "Oh, I'm just a hockey mom from Alaska!" And she's the president! and its like, she's facing down Vladimir Putin (using the) folksy stuff she learned at the hockey rink. Its just absurd. Its totally absurd and I don't understand why more people aren't talking about how absurd it is. Its a really terrifying possibility. The fact that we've gotten this far...and we're that close to this becoming a reality...is ....crazy. Crazy. I mean, did she, I mean I really need to know if she thinks dinosaurs were here 4000 years ago. That's an important...I wanna know that, I really do. Because she's gonna have the nuclear codes. You know, I wanna know if she thinks dinosaurs were here 4000 years ago. Or if she banned books, or tried to ban books. I mean, this is...this is...we can't have that."
Pretty forceful stuff, huh? Finally, the rawest takedown of Palin yet. Damon shows he's not just a pretty face or some naive Hollywood celebrity. He sounds just like one of us contemplating the terrifying possibility of a country run as poorly as this woman ran Wasilla and the entire state of Alaska.
Personally, I agree with the analogy and I'd like to take it a step further, so here goes.
(Clears throat.)
Its bad enough the GOP trolled Disney Studios for their Vice Presidential candidate. Problem is, instead of trying to win over America by naming Hannah Montana to the ticket they opted for Cruella Deville.
(Takes a bow.)
(Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week. Please don't forget to tip your waitresses.)
I can't wait till the GOP tries to silence Jason Bourne. I've seen that movie, it didn't go too well for the bad guys.