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).

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“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.

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