George Clooney joins Council on Foreign Relations
Diane Ellis ·
Jun 16, 2010 at 10:46am
From the Washington Post:
The Oscar winner has been granted life membership in the prestigious think tank [the Council of Foreign Relations].
What are Clooney's qualifications for such a position, you ask? Allow me to remind you that he played a really, really smart CIA operative in the movie Syriana.
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Re: George Clooney joins Council on Foreign Relations
Given his stint on ER, I assume he'll also be joining the staff of the Mayo Clinic.
May '10
Re: George Clooney joins Council on Foreign Relations
He must have slept at a Holiday Inn.
May '10
Re: George Clooney joins Council on Foreign Relations
I keep wondering whether there is any absurdity that liberals will not rush to embrace, thinking each time, "But surely not THIS absurd." And each time I find that I have underestimated liberals' appetite for the preposterous.
Re: George Clooney joins Council on Foreign Relations
I'll have you know, Tom, that Michael Douglas and Warren Beatty are also life members of the Council on Foreign Relations. Maybe I've misunderstood the nature of the CFR. Perhaps it's just a forum for Hollywood stars to opine about foreignness and relations.
May '10
Re: George Clooney joins Council on Foreign Relations
One day you'll look up from the operating table, and the preternaturally handsome surgeon will be grinning down at you and saying, "I'm not a doctor, but I played one on TV!"
May '10
Re: George Clooney joins Council on Foreign Relations
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., is also a member. Come on, folks, this is about fundraising. They do it. We do it. It's not like Clooney's running for vice president or anything...
Re: George Clooney joins Council on Foreign Relations
The day the Hoover Institution brings on Ted Nugent as a senior fellow, you'll have a point.
May '10
Re: George Clooney joins Council on Foreign Relations
Like!
May '10
Re: George Clooney joins Council on Foreign Relations
Clooney isn't a senior fellow at CFR. He's just a member of the membership component of the organization. Max Boot is a fellow. When was the last time Newt Gingrich, Hoover "distinguished visiting fellow," produced a serious piece of scholarship or policy recommendation?
May '10
Re: George Clooney joins Council on Foreign Relations
Oh, and a list of 10 things the country should do -- that it politically never could do -- doesn't count.
May '10
Re: George Clooney joins Council on Foreign Relations
The Contract with America.
May '10
Re: George Clooney joins Council on Foreign Relations
1994...
For $25 we all can become "members" of the Heritage Foundation...