MATT DAMON, A LIAR? OH NO, SAY IT AIN'T SO!!!

 

Fracking fans have a new target, that mental midget, and well-known moron, none other that Matt Damon. "Promised Land," the new Gus Van Sant film about the controversial technique that acquires natural gas through drilling and pressurized fluid, stars, and was written by, this dweeb, Damon, and costar John Krasinski. This idiotic work of pure unadulterated fiction opens nationally today. Enter, Phelim McAleer. Mr. McAleer is launching what is essentially a one-man campaign to call Damon out about the film. McAleer directed the documentary FrackNation, along with his wife Ann McElhinney, and the film paints a more sympathetic portrayal of fracking and aims to dispel some of the misinformation that McAleer and McElhinney believe have dominated the debate over the procedure’s environmental and health impact.

 

 

"This is classic propaganda," McAleer told POLITICO. "It’s political from the beginning to the very end." And that, according to McAleer, represents a large part of his problem with "Promised Land." Movieline.com attended on a panel discussion about "Promised Land" featuring Damon and reported that Damon said the movie wasn’t political. "I don’t want to call Matt Damon a liar but he’s a liar, really," McAleer said. "It’s a deeply political movie and it’s deeply disingenuous for Matt Damon to say otherwise. … Matt Damon isn’t telling the truth." McAleer’s criticism of the film and Damon’s politics seems to center primarily around the suggestion that fracking can contaminate local water supplies to the point of making them flammable, a point made most prominently in the 2010 documentary, "Gasland."

 

 

But while it may not be exactly reassuring, perhaps, McAleer says "the water has always been on fire" going as far back as the 17th century. "This stuff can get into the water supply naturally," McAleer said. "In America hundreds of years ago, native Americans named three different locations ‘Burning Springs.’ Quite simply, this is because of the naturally occurring gases, like methane, that are found beneath the earth’s surface and that can rise to the surface with water. This pre-dates fracking and, in fact, there is no evidence that suggests that fracking has led to an increase in this phenomenon." Beginning this week, McAleer will go up with a billboard in New York that shoots down "Promised Land." The ad states, "Matt Damon: the water has been on fire since 1669." Look, I think we can all agree that Hollywood types like Damon care very little about facts.

 

 

McAleer has been hoping for sometime to have an opportunity where he could engage Damon, mano a mono, so to speak, on the topic but has thus far been unsuccessful in contacting the film’s production company. That should come as no surprise to anyone, after all, Damon's nothing more than one of those idiotic, 'do as I say not as I do' Hollywood liberals who feel that can get away with saying just about anything they want, without ever having to back any of it up. Somehow, because they're 'movie stars' they're supposed to be on a higher plain than those of us who are part of the lowly, unwashed masses who simply expected to shell out more and more of our hard earned money for a night at the movies. Movies that are no longer made to be a source of entertainment, but more as a method to deliver, what is essentially, nothing more than propaganda.



MATT DAMON...ACTOR, MORON, STOOGE, AND HYPOCRITE…ALL ROLLED INTO ONE...

What is it with some people that makes them think that just because they have a certain knack for acting, or singing, or even for the telling of stupid jokes, that they are somehow to be considered as being smarter than those of us who weren't born possessing the same little knack that they were? Now take Matt Damon, for instance. This stupid little, holier than though, shit, like most other Hollywood liberal-types, thinks that he's got all the answers. And remember when this little dweeb, rather infamously I suppose, said back in 2011 that he wouldn’t mind if President Barack Obama, whom of course Damon had supported in 2008, was a one-term president because he’d rather have a "one-term president with some balls who actually got stuff done." But, little Matt still did his part to give Barry a second term, admitting that he still voted for him in November.

"I assume there will be some Supreme Court appointments in this next term; that alone was reason to vote for him," Damon told Playboy magazine in its January 2013 issue. "I don’t think I said anything a lot of people weren’t thinking. It’s easier now more than ever in my life to feel the fix is in, the game is rigged and no matter how hard you work to change things, it just doesn’t matter." Damon was also asked for his thoughts on Clint Eastwood’s performance at the Republican National Convention. First of all, to ask this moron about his thoughts on anything would seem like a complete waste of time. Who cares? I mean, cone on, here we have a guy who wasn't bright enough to find any other kind of work that to 'act.' And if he were to live in any other country he would be lucky to be selling newspapers at some intersection. And yet, we're supposed to be interested in his thoughts. Nope, don't think so!

But, be that as it may, he responded to the idiotic question saying, "I heard the backlash, but I never saw the whole thing because I just didn’t want to see my friend … you know. Look, his knowledge of filmmaking is so vast and deep that he can wing it beautifully on the set. What he did at the RNC was an unrehearsed bit he decided to do at the last minute. You can’t go onstage and do 12 minutes of stand-up completely unrehearsed. But I agree with what Bill Maher said — Clint killed it at the convention for 12 minutes, and the audience loved him. I wouldn’t do that unless I spent a month rehearsing." So he agreed with that other schlep, Maher, in accessing Clint's performance, no big surprise there. But if I remember things correctly, Maher's comments were tinged with just a hint of sarcasm. And if I'm my wrong, my apologies go out to Mr. Maher.

Damon’s latest trip to the big screen, and one I doubt very much is one that I'll be wasting the necessary $10 to see, is entitled, "Promised Land." You see, I go, when I go, to the movies, I go to be entertained, not lectured to. But anyway, in the film, at least from what I've read, Damon plays a salesperson trying to persuade homeowners to sell their natural gas drilling rights, which means that their land will ultimately be "fracked," a term used to describe a process by which gas is released through drilling and pressurized fluid. The issue of fracking has become a political hot potato lately, in part because of the 2010 Oscar-nominated documentary, "Gasland" (and subsequent counter-movies, including "Truthland" and "FrackNation"). In May, Al "Global Warming is Real" Gore put his support behind Vermont’s effort to ban fracking, citing environmental concerns. Good old Al, making himself rich off bogus climate change, what a deal!

While it should be painfully obvious to just about anyone familiar with Damon, and the bizarre mentality that has seized control in Hollywood, Damon still felt it necessary to explain what politics, if any, are behind "Promised Land." He said, "We went to the studio saying, ‘Who f—king wants to go see an anti-fracking movie?’ and were all in agreement. When we were working on the script, it was about wind farms, but we changed it to fracking — a good issue because the stakes are so high. That sh*t is real. They’re debating about letting it happen in New York now. To us, the movie was really about American identity. We loved the characters because they felt like real people making the kinds of compromises you have to just to live your life." What a bunch of idealistic drivel that has no connection to the real world! But it is the standard fare that we get from most of those who reside out there in the land of the fruits the nuts and the flakes.

Damon said he isn’t so naive to think that any politician would ever move to make serious action against fracking. Naïve doesn't even come close to describing this mental midget. Whoops, sorry, make that mental little person, we must be politically correct after all. Anyway he droned on, "We’re at a point where politicians don’t really get any benefit from engaging with long-term issues. Instead, it’s all about the next election cycle. Those guys in the House don’t do anything now but run for office. So unless they can find some little thing that zips them up a couple of points in the polls, they’re not interested. There’s a consensus among scientists, though, that we face serious long-term issues. They’re saying that unless we engage with those issues, we’re genuinely f*cked. The way it looks, we’re going to wait until one of those big issues smacks us." Is he serious? Yup, I'm afraid he is!

Man, is this guy a genius or what? I'd say, or what! Look, guys like this clown are a dime a dozen. They all seem to be operating under the rather misguided notion that they, and just because of their celebrity status, are someone worthy of being listened to. But, really, in the big scheme of things very few of these celebrities now trying to dictate to us how to live out our lives even ever made it out of high school. Yet they still feel that they are, somehow, entitled to being considered as superior to those of us who did. Now I'm sure little Matt is constantly surrounded by like-minded folks, but that doesn't make what he says, or his idiotic opinions on important issues, anymore relevant that what someone outside of his little sphere of bizarreness may think or say about any particular issue. Now little Matt may take himself pretty seriously, but that's no reason for the rest of to.