Since his Oscar-winning turn in the 1978 antiwar film "Coming Home," the venerable actor Jon Voight has come to the conclusion that he and many in the "so-called peace movement" were manipulated by Marxist propaganda.
"The radicals of that era were successful in giving the communists power to bring forth the killing fields and slaughter 2.5 million people in Cambodia and South Vietnam. Did they stop the war, or did they bring the war to those innocent people? In the end, they turned their backs on all the horror and suffering they helped create and walked away," he wrote in an article titled "My Concerns for America."Mr. Voight is not the first to connect these dots. But he is certainly the biggest Hollywood star associated with the anti-Vietnam War movement to do so. In his newfound voice, Mr. Voight also boldly warns of the consequences of electing the current antiwar candidate:
"If, God forbid, we live to see [Barack] Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way."[snip] The Los Angeles Times, the Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly and People magazine alum Jeffrey Wells led the charge. At his influential Web site Hollywood- Elsewhere .com, Mr. Wells wrote,
"If I were a producer and I had to make a casting decision about hiring Voight or some older actor who hadn't ticked me off with an idiotic Washington Times op-ed piece, I might very well say to myself, 'Voight? Let him eat cake."[liberal 'tolerance' - aka 'blue McCarthyism']
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