“Shortly after Jon Voight addressed health care protesters on Capitol Hill last week, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs dismissed the event by saying rather glibly, ‘I’m sure there’s a Jon Voight joke in here somewhere, given he was one of the featured speakers.’
“Over the weekend, when a clip of Voight was played on ‘The Week with George Stephanopoulos,’ where the actor asked of Obama, ‘Could it be he has had 20 years of subconscious programming by Reverend Wright to damn America?’ Cokie Roberts called it a ‘cringemaking’ moment. …
“When I asked about the criticism of his speech, Voight said, ‘Listen, there’s no telling what people will say.’
“What concerned him, he says, was the notion that the protesters on Capitol Hill were being dismissed by some lawmakers. ‘It is unfortunate that people will not take seriously the response of informed citizens.’
“Of his own remarks, he said, ‘They are not taking me on in any substantive way. They are not taking on the issues I am raising. They are simply making slurs and joke or and saying I am crazy.
“‘I don’t have a lot of respect for that stuff. They want to dismiss me, just like they want to dismiss the Tea Party people.'”
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