Simon Baker strikes me as a pretty cool actor and his show The Mentalist is my favorite new series of the season, so of course he's got to disgorge some typical condescending celebrity nonsense in this Parade article:
“The morning after your election in November, I said to my wife Rebecca, ‘You know, I’m thinking about becoming an American,’ and then she said that she felt the same way.
“I don’t follow sports here,” he said. “But politics has sort of taken its place. I followed the race closely. It’s a tricky area, because I don’t want to be offensive, and I had no party loyalty. But electing Obama was this country being very grown-up. It was such a positive step for the U.S. to become a part of the world again after the last eight years."
“I don’t follow sports here,” he said. “But politics has sort of taken its place. I followed the race closely. It’s a tricky area, because I don’t want to be offensive, and I had no party loyalty. But electing Obama was this country being very grown-up. It was such a positive step for the U.S. to become a part of the world again after the last eight years."
Right. Just gaze upon the serious-minded grown-upness of Obamerica.
h/t The Media Blog
Ugh. The worst kind of American (or faux American booster like Baker) is the one who only loves the US when his own party is in power. Pathetic.
Oh, and Mr. Baker -- is that the same "world" which ignored Rwanda (and the current Darfur crisis) ... the same world which rallied indignation against the Israeli assault on Hamas but stays quiet when Hamas rains missiles down on Israel?
Oh, what a wonderful World to belong to, eh? Sign me up, too!
Posted by: Christian Toto | January 16, 2009 at 10:58 PM