Game Changer! Angelina Jolie Thinks Obama Is A Socialist, Maybe

by Robert Quigley | 10:46 am, November 25th, 2009

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Get this: Angelina Jolie thinks Barack Obama is a “socialist in disguise.” This is according to an anonymous source, who provided many dubious but extremely spicy quotes to Us Weekly. She also “hates him.”

This raises several important questions: Does this doom Obama’s chances in 2012? Will this tear her and Brad [Pitt] apart? And how does Angelina Jolie compare to Megan Fox, anyway?

From Us Weekly:

Barack Obama does not have Angelina Jolie’s seal of approval.
“She hates him,” a source close to the U.N. goodwill ambassador, 34, tells the new issue of Us Weekly (on newsstands now).

See Angelina Jolie’s early modeling shots!

“She’s into education and rehabilitation and thinks Obama is all about welfare and handouts. She thinks Obama is really a socialist in disguise,” adds the source.

Fortunately, the source said that despite her political disagreements with Brad Pitt, who is a strong Obama supporter, this will not tear them apart. The source did not address whether Jolie’s opinion would cause Obama to lose re-election in 2012 — be prepared for an op-ed on that topic somewhere.

It’s easy to mock tabloids for their paper-thin reliance on anonymous sources. But we’re going to do it anyway: Us Weekly‘s reliance on one anonymous source is laughably paper-thin.

But the more interesting takeaway here — the “media angle,” if Mediaite commenters like Magister are to be appeased — is that in today’s hyperpolarized, relentlessly political climate, a story about a celebrity’s misgivings about Obama is considered juicy tabloid fodder. Has Us Weekly ever run a story that sounded more like Drudge-bait, at least in recent memory? Even if it is interspersed with links to photos of the Jolie-Pitt kids and slideshows comparing Angelina Jolie to Megan Fox.

(h/t a tips line email titled “this will get people reading your site.”)

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MikeLI631

Just lay there and be pretty, my Dear !
http://www.sailrabbits.com Magister

It’s probably kind of ironic that I read this post name-checking me about the “media angle”, right after I had made a purely political comment in another thread. But hey, thanks. Sometimes I’m a hypocrite, I guess..

Still, someone over a Gawker (I believe it was Foster) recently linked to a nonsense story about Angelina in US Weekly and after giving it the “GossipRoundup” treatment, they rhetorically asked why it merited a blurb, then they theorized about the mini-farm of Jolie links littering the page.

It’s probably the same reason the HuffPo was prominently linking a nudie calendar yesterday and why this site loves Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and Keith Olberman; Everybody’s in it for the pageviews, myself included.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Chuck-Varrick/1170421091 Chuck Varrick

Lay there and be pretty? For Chrissakes just eat something, that would make me happy. I love her Father though. A great actor, sane person and one that doesn’t seem to shy away from a fight. If there were more men like Jon Voight in Hollyweird, it might not be the scum sucking place it is. Anyone that takes the Manchurian Muslim seriously as our President is what I call “Liberal Zombies.” Zombies can’t think and that’s what it takes to be a Democrat. Not that Republicans are shining beacons on the hill because they’re not. We’re in trouble here folks.
m

If you’re a UN Goodwill Ambassador you’ve probably traveled all around the world and met plenty of socialists from plenty of democratic countries. That she has such archaic and knuckle-dragging political opinions just blows my mind.
Robert Quigley

@Magister: I didn’t realize that you had a blog! I will have to check it out, shameless pageview grabber or not.
hkyplayer

You will see the left loved her and said great things about their hollywood starlite.
They put her all over over the magazine covers etc when they thought she was a fellow follower…

But the instance she may not have the same view as the rest of them. They will tear her apart and attack her looks and her intelligence right away!!! and tell her to shut up and just do movies…. Look what they all do to all conservative thinking women..

So transparent!
ImNotBlue

m says:
November 25, 2009 at 11:54 am

It must be tough for you to respect other people’s opinions so much.

Ugh.
Nachi

Well now. Jolie’s dad is Jon Voight. A fine, fine actor – who has in recent years gone off his nut and become a right-wing extremist. Appears at all manner of functions and looksa/sounds embarrassingly out of it.
http://www.sailrabbits.com Magister

@Robert Quigley: I had one for about four years, then I outgrew the host, took a year or so off and am just now trying to launch a new one, plus putting together a couple of aggregators.

</shameless plug>
http://www.sailrabbits.com Magister

BTW: Your choice of picture should certainly help with the pageviews.
Oh, and I really should revisit Rachel’s Megan Fox pointer.
mk3872

Why would anyone believe an anonymous source in US Weekly anyway, for goodness sake? When have they EVER been right about anything related to a celebrity like Jolie ??
Sunnyr

Angelina is OK but her Dad ROCKS! Love Jon Voight….. He “gets it.”
roxsteady

Jon Voight is a moron! As for Angelina, I couldn’t care less what she thinks about President Obama. I will say this much….Voight clearly didn’t teach his daughter a simple thing called boundaries. She not only made out with her brother but, she had sex with her step father. I don’t know where or if she was educated but, one thing is clear. If not for her career we’d be looking at more poor white trash!
jimmymaher

Funny how people who carry on about socialism don’t know what it is. A nice Thanksgiving dinner was spoiled at our house by two of my relatives who kept going on and on about this big socialist conspiracy. They couldn’t even give a proper definition of socialism…although they were very good at repeating stuff they heard on Fox News. Politicians will be politicians. We managed to survive Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, and Carter…somehow I think we’ll make it through this guy. Relax, people! You are reading a GOSSIP column. This is the place for JUICY DIRT! (who cares if it’s made up…)