How ironic. The same week we learn that George, his un-American wife and their two children have fled the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave for the Land of the Snail and the Home of the Censored, “Variety” publishes a puff piece on the part-time actor presenting him as more than he is, which is a bubble-dwelling Hollywood progressive laboring under the delusion that he has something useful to contribute to the public discourse. He hasn’t. Neither does “Variety”.

We are told that when George was preparing to make his Broadway debut in the stage adaptation of his film about TV news icon Edward R. Murrow in “Good Night, and Good Luck,” he invited “60 Minutes” to witness that cast’s their first read-through. Clooney ‘s angle was that there is a parallel between McCarthyism in the 1950s and the “political pressure that news organizations face in the second Trump administration.” There’s a parallel all right, but it is the Democratic Party’s adoption of McCarthy’s tactics (like guilt by association) to try to dominate American policy and politics through fear and hate. President Biden’s “Republicans are fascists” speech was pure McCarthyism. The progressive pattern of cancelling any truth-teller who informs the public of what the 21st Century Left is attempting to do to the government and the culture is McCarthyism.

“When the other three estates fail — when the judiciary and the executive and the legislative branches fail us — the fourth estate has to succeed,” Clooney tells “Variety.” I’m sure he really believes that, because George, while intellectually ambitious, just isn’t very bright: bias has made him stupid. If he was alert and capable of objective analysis, he would realize that journalism has already failed, unless one calls abandoning journalism for partisan propaganda is “success.”

In a cover story with “Variety,” Clooney faults CBS and ABC for settling when Trump sued them.“If CBS and ABC had challenged those lawsuits and said, ‘Go, fuck yourself, we wouldn’t be where we are in the country,” Clooney says.“That’s simply the truth.”  Moron. ABC, with its deliberate and malicious repeated televised lie that Trump was an “adjudicated rapist,” knew it was risking a SCOUTS case that would finally overturn New York Times v. Sullivan, a case decided when journalistic good faith was still an accepted myth. CBS settled because it knew that pre-trial discovery would reveal damning emails and other documents proving that the “60 Minutes” producers were trying to swing the 2024 election by falsely editing Kamala Harris’s interview to make her seem less incompetent.

The two networks didn’t cave to Trump: they were guilty, and they knew it. This is all too sophisticated for George, who thinks the network news ethos of the Fifties still exists. In fact, it’s been extinct for decades.

“Variety” is not one to correct George’s misapprehensions.. When Clooney says, “Bari Weiss is dismantling CBS News as we speak,” the magazine describes Weiss as a “conservative commentator.” Weiss is a left-leaning journalist who has taken a bold stand for fair and objective reporting and against “advocacy journalism.”

Clooney tells the showbiz mouthpiece that he’s optimistic that “the pendulum will swing back in the direction of liberalism after America has its full of Trump.” George really thinks that progressivism 21st Century-style is liberalism, even though it’s pro-censorship, pro-socialism, pro-discrimination, and pro-illegal immigration. Someone tell George that real American liberals don’t become French citizens, who are subject to prosecution for “hate speech,” however it is defined by those in power at any period in time.

Next George reverts to current Democratic Party talking points, and either doesn’t see how cynical they are, or isn’t smart enough to do so. Arguing that the President is just a bad man and a bad President, he blathers, “Just straight up, it’s the economy stupid. It’s more expensive now than it was when Joe Biden left office.” Yeah, because it’s always “more expensive” a year later: this is called “inflation.” Prices are uncomfortably high now because Joe Biden was President, and the “affordability” gimmick is great for deceiving the dim, like Clooney.

“I think that cruelty, like separating children from their parents, although popular with small groups of people, doesn’t play well with most Americans,” he adds, parroting another fake issue. It is, however, one the media has employed to convince many Americans to feel sorry for illegal immigrants.

George Clooney was once hailed as the new Cary Grant. But Grant knew he was a lower-class British kid named Archie Leach who dared not get too impressed with himself despite his magnificent career successed. He was a versatile, intelligent actor with presence and charisma; he also was smart enough to stay out of areas beyond his expertise. Not George, however.

What a pity.