Actor George Clooney is more than just another pretty face.
The proof lies within the two movies he made in 2005 (Good Night, and Good Luck, which dealt with journalist Edward R. Murrow's battle with Joe McCarthy, and Syriana, which dealt with corruption in the oil industry), as well as an article he published in the Huffington Post a couple of days ago.
An excerpt from that article:
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I am a liberal. And I make no apologies for it. Hell, I'm proud of it.
Too many people run away from the label. They whisper it like you'd whisper "I'm a Nazi." Like it's a dirty word. But turn away from saying "I'm a liberal" and it's like you're turning away from saying that blacks should be allowed to sit in the front of the bus, that women should be able to vote and get paid the same as a man, that McCarthy was wrong, that Vietnam was a mistake. And that Saddam Hussein had no ties to al-Qaeda and had nothing to do with 9/11.
This is an incredibly polarized time (wonder how that happened?). But I find that, more and more, people are trying to find things we can agree on. And, for me, one of the things we absolutely need to agree on is the idea that we're all allowed to question authority. We have to agree that it's not unpatriotic to hold our leaders accountable and to speak out.
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