Because we’re fans of “Gone Baby Gone,” “The Town,” and feel he was unfairly destroyed by the gossip press (and the all kinds of awesome “Reindeer Games”), Big Hollywood has been good to Ben Affleck. So we’d like to respectfully request he leave The Stupid to his less-talented homeboy Matt Damon.
From our friends at NewsBusters:
On Tuesday’s Morning Edition, actor Ben Affleck was selling his new movie about corporate layoffs, Company Men, and anchorman Steve Inskeep carefully led the left-wing actor onto a soapbox to lecture about the immorality of American capitalism and financiers who do nothing but “move money back and forth”:
AFFLECK: The banks shouldn’t — people shouldn’t make such a giant profit off just moving money back and forth. And CEOs’ pay shouldn’t be 200 times the average worker. It used to be nine times.
NPR didn’t have the contrarian populist toughness to ask about whether that sentiment about overpayment counts for movie stars that make $250,000 for simply showing up at a casino grand opening.
But then, Affleck somehow this resentment of “giant profits” and overpaid CEOs is universal, and is shared by the Tea Party:
Okay, maybe it’s legal and maybe it passes muster with shareholders. But there’s something about us that fundamentally feels it isn’t right. And I think that’s the frustration that you feel on people speaking out from the left. I think it’s the same frustration you hear from Tea Party activists. And that tells you that it’s common to the entire spectrum of American people. We have a deep sense that what’s happening is wrong and unethical and that we are in decline because we’ve lost our moral compass.
Tea Party people have a sense of America in decline, and unethical leadership — but they were protesting in Washington, not outside a factory, or an overpaid Hollywood actor’s house
Much more here.