President Sarah Palin? 'It's like a really bad Disney movie,' says Matt Damon

Matt Damon is scared. Make that terrified.

What could frighten the actor who is fearless in all those wild, action-packed "Bourne Identity" international espionage movies?

The possibility that Governor Sarah Palin could soon be a heartbeat - or perhaps a melanoma cell - away from being president of the United States.

“I think there’s a really good chance that Sarah Palin could be president, and I think that’s a really scary thing, 'cause I don’t know anything about her - I don’t think in eight weeks I’m going to know anything about her. I know that she was a mayor of a really, really small town and she’s the governor for Alaska for less than two years. I just don’t understand. I think the pick was made for political purposes…. Do the actuary tables and there’s a one out of three chance, if not more, that [John] McCain doesn’t survive his first term and it’ll be President Palin…. It’s like a really bad Disney movie. The hockey mom, you know, ‘oh, I’m just a hockey mom’… and she’s facing down President Putin [of Russia]…. It’s totally absurd …. It’s a really terrifying possibility.”

Do you agree? Those of you who don't, please try to keep the comments free from expletives and hate-speeches so I can publish them.

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Comments

[Gary]

This is so damn funny! The press... Hollywood... you're all putting it out there and people are laughing at you.

[Joe]

Matt Damon is a left winger thats for sure. I am going to boycott his movies. What do you know about Obama Matt? Oh wait that doesnt matter cause he's a left winger like you. You turd of a man...

[Pete Hill]

Maybe Matt like everyone else should take a minute or two out of his no doubt hectic schedule to check out Sarah - after all, everyone else is and enjoying the experience . . have you ordered the glasses yet? . .

[Mike Woiwood]

What a sellout. Wasn't he the guy that came from nowhere with Good Will Hunting? Now Palin scares him? BTW the Bourne Identity was a movie, he really wasn't a CIA spy. I loved his performance in Team America though.

[Jig]

Minstrels, mimes and jugglers are to advise us on political matters?

[Gord]

Matt Damon sums up my feelings exactly. I am terrified that this person who may actually believe that cavemen and Dinosaurs lived together could be making choices that affect my life directly.

[Robert Vance]

Matt Damon ought to be afraid of the people we DO know more about - like Obama, Hillary, and that crowd. They scare me much more!

[Bill Jacobs]

This video should be required viewing for everyone in America.

[David OWENS]

Continue to publish the insane rants of the far left loons. Every moronic statement
gets us closer to the White House..

Please, please quote dimwit Sean Penn and his butt-buddies. Wait until early November for maximum effect.

[JG]

Yes, I agree with him. It was a very, very irresponsible choice on John McCain's part - totally reckless.

[Frank Beacham]

Of course, Matt is correct. The woman is a horror story. Why so many Americans support her is the big mystery. If McCain and she is elected, the United States will be history...so over!

[John]

Thank you Matt, for telling the truth. If only so many Americans weren't idiots we could click our heels together three times and send Palin back home to Alaska.

[Saxxon Domela]

Sarah Palin has proved herself to be a liar. She uses her political office to punish people in her personal life. She tried to fire a town librarian because they were having an affair with her friends spouse. She fired the head of the Alaska troopers because he wouldn't fire someone she wanted fired. This woman is a religious zealot who is nuts!

[wsb]

Or like a really bad Matt Damon movie!! He is just an actor - the kind of kid who was in drama class at high school. You know the kind, you would have nothing to do with!

[Richard Carey]

The Old Media is in the tank for Obama.

What else is new?

[mymazdatribute]

Hes an actor, what does he know about politics, stick to acting. Would you listen to a pilot describe what medical condition you have when your sick?

[GD]

Love your movies
Do what your Good At

Better to thought a fool than open your mouth and leave no doubt

I hope you dident feel that tingling up your leg to like Matthews, just get you hand out of your pocket and Please make anothe movie

It aint what you think it is

[Jay]

What a superficial article. It gives credence as to why my father canceled his forty year subscription in 1989. Given the L. A. Times and its bias I am surprised this is not a front page lead story!

[A Ha]

Matt Damon is right. While the other candidates -- McCain, Obama, and Biden -- have stood up in front of the national press and the public, and have answered unscripted, spontaneous questions, Palin has not. Why not? It does make one think the Republican campaign committee is afraid she'll say ... well, what exactly?

If she can't speak extemporaneously she shouldn't be a national candidate.

[ROBERT]

Wow it is amazing that so many people are seeing this for what it is but some how the McCain camp is making her out to be the cure for Obama. Last time I checked it was Obama V. McCain not Obama v. Palin. We need focus our attention to the actual nominees for they will be the decision makers. Do you really think McCain is going to take any advise from Palin if he wins the white house??

[bob]

so, let's see. he's a hollywood liberal, a leftwinger, a turd of a man, a phony spy and a minstrel a mime or a juggler, even if all of that is true, no one above has addressed the twin points about mccain's actuarial profile and palin's ability to govern the most powerful country in the world.

[Chris]

Hooray Matt! You are speaking for people like ME who are sick and tired of all the dumb people on the right who simply do not know how to process information and continue to vote for silly, stupid, morons like Palin. If you are one of the people DUMB enough to vote for McCain/Palin you are going to get what you deserve. 4 more years of bad management, bad foreign policy, bad choices. Unfortunately there are enough of you idiots arounds to make the rest of us elitists pay for your mistakes as well. I hope we can out vote you this time. Go Obama!!

[Michael]

This is hilarious... everytime Democrats/Liberals talk about Pallin and being president with her limited experience, one only has to look at Obama and really be frightened... black activism, betlittling women, and having zero, I mean zero executive experience (unless you count the joke of him running his campaign). It is obvious from the polls that the united states is seeing that all Obama can say is "McCain is continuation of Bush." He simply is out of touch, and doesn't realize how different McCain/Pallin are and what real change is. Change not to promote a career, but a lifetime of experience from McCain to promote change.

[Craig]

In California, we already have a minstrel advising us on politics -- he's our governator!

That being said, why are people so bent out of shape about what one person said about Sarah Palin? I like Matt Damon for his movies, not his political views. However, in this case I do agree with him.

Palin has NO foreign relations experience, wants to make abortions illegal across the board, wants to ban all forms of sex education, wants to teach religious beliefs as science, and believes that a bill can't be passed by Congress without it having an earmark for Alaska.

[Lennell]

At the rate the “beautiful people” continue to offend most of us, pretty soon there will be no movies for me to go to or rent, . Except for a handful like the Jon Voights’ and Gary Sinises’ of the world.

They would all be better off to shut up and act and stop using their bully pulpit to promote their silly left-wing agendas. Don’t they know that outside of their insulated bubble---Main Street America is not one of them.? They come across as complete morons. Their opinion is no more important than the kid who mows my grass..
And they all make my boycott list. Sorry Matt. I liked you, too. You’re from my hometown
But now you’re as much of an idiot as Barbra Streisand and Jane Fonda, and I’ll no longer send you my entertainment dollar. Gawd---these people are insufferably offensive.