Malcolm Rex

George Clooney is God.

Think otherwise? Well, you're wrong. And stupid.

George is urging his fellow Hollywood stars to keep quiet when it comes to politics, because he fears celebrity endorsements could wreck their favorite candidates' chances of victory. He is endorsing silence, for the greater good... speak softly now, spread solace later... as two-point plans go, this one doesn't suck.

Democrat Clooney and a number of screen stars have recently come under attack for voicing their political views. And the actor, whose father Nick -"That AMC guy"- Clooney was recently defeated in his bid to be elected the congressional representative for Kentucky, has now vowed to be a lot more politically low-key.

George says, "My father ran for congress last year. I couldn't campaign for him and I knew I couldn't, because I'd hurt him. They tried to get me to get on the John Kerry train and I said, 'We'll hurt him. They'll use us as "liberal."'

"Now, I would argue that (throughout) American history, it's pretty hard to find a time when liberals were on the wrong side of an issue. We thought that the conservative view was, 'Witches should be burned at the stake.' Moderate view was: 'Well, just in case,' and the liberal view was, 'There's no such thing as witches.' "

"We thought women should be able to vote and blacks should be allowed to sit at the front of the bus and Vietnam was wrong. We haven't really been on a lot of wrong sides for us to be sort of used as this bad word."

"But we hurt candidates right now, so we can do fundraisers quietly and make some money. But I think it's dangerous to get up and talk about it."

It's a sad world we live in, when people have to rationalize not vociferously supporting their candidate, or loudly espousing their views, for the greater goal of getting them elected... but at the same time... come on, we live in that world, and George say "Relax: Don't do it."

He's the voice of a generation. He's the voice of a movement.

George say: "Relax."

By any means necessary.