I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!
Gov. Tim Pawlenty is holding a fundraiser tonight in Minneapolis to kick off his new leadership PAC, called Freedom First, where he will tout his poor man’s celebrity endorsements by Jon Voight and Kelsey Grammer. Voight is the father of Lara Croft who last appeared as a psycho in 24. Grammer used to be Frasier but now he’s just another down-and-going sitcom star waiting to get the axe. These aren’t exactly the stars I’d want for my photo-ops. Hey look! It’s Jon Voight! The guy who abandoned his family and has no relationship with his daughter! And isn’t that Kelsey Grammer? The former cokehead? Awesome.
Apparently only Voight will be at the event in person. Grammer will be there on “speaker phone.” So everyone’s supposed to gather around someone’s BlackBerry to hear what Grammer has to say? They couldn’t get any other famous Republican to show up? Whenever I think of a Republican celebrity, I think of the tear-duct-challenged Janine Turner and the scary plastic Bo Derek who’s dating Aidan from Sex and the City. Oh, and then you can always throw in that black sheep Baldwin brother. But after that I’m at a loss. So I googled it. Here are my Top 10 star recommendations for T-Paw going forward:
Bruce Boxleitner
Dean Cain
Jeff Foxworthy
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Shirley Jones
Chaka Khan
John Malcovich
Meat Loaf
Rick Schroder
Andrew Lloyd Webber
(I’m contesting Adam Sandler, Vince Vaughan, and Destiny’s Child. They can have Jon Secada.)
Anyway, why is it that so many celebrities are liberals? And why do I have to be such a starf*cker?
[via Ben Smith]
Tagged: jon voight, kelsey grammer, tim pawlenty.
Really? says:
Buffy?
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Don't Mess w/ Pink says:
I have never been able to figure out whether Andrew Lloyd Webber is brilliant, and I just don’t get it, or whether I’m brilliant and he’s an annoyingly formulaic db and the world doesn’t get it. This clinches it. I’m brilliant.
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potted meat Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
fuggin’ A , you are!
/I coulda told you that.
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treehugger Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
ALW can vote in this country? I thought he was British.
Sure he’s formulaic, but I’ll give him lots of kudos for confusing the hell out of WTX Baptists with Jesus Christ Superstar. Jesus had long hair and Mary was smokin’ hot and and OMG that sounds like rock n’ roll? Ok, we’ll let the kids go on the school trip to see the stage show of JCS, but we stand steadfast with the Church of Christ that there will be no school dances.
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Don't Mess w/ Pink Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
“I Don’t Know How to Love Him.” Helen Reddy. Need I say more?
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texun says:
If they’re going to have Kelsy on speaker phone, why can’t they arrange for John Wayne and Charlton Heston to speak from the grave?
Forget about Barry Goldwater; he didn’t buy into the religious right. Nor did Ike and Gerald Ford.
Pawlenty should headline his fellow Minnesota Republican, Rep. Michelle (a few pancakes short of a stack) Bachman.
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Eileen Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Funny you should say that… Jon Voight will hook up with Michelle after Tim.
/that’s what she said
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Evan says:
woah woah woah woah woah
Bruce Boxleitner?
From TRON?!?!?!?!
Really gives a new meaning to Red states and Blue states.
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potted meat says:
What about the ultimate right wing celebrity superststar, who admitted going after underage girls in his 3 chord, 3 hit daze, the man who KNEW that Waco was the center of the universe for crazy, so he moved there…..Ted No-Gent.
Shoot, oops bad choice of words……I mean heck, he’s a gen-you-wine guitar hero, and mental zero…..
C. Heston and him still hang together, I think.
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Jed says:
not the red rocker!
and all this time i thought “you can’t touch my three lock box” was a sexual reference (to what, i never knew) … now i know it was a hidden anti-tax message.
no wonder it didn’t make any sense.
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Fled says:
The fact that Kelsey is a GOPper drives it home that his entire TV career was spent parodying northwestern liberals.
I feel so used. I laughed at that at that show… I think…maybe…oh wait — no I didn’t.
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