{"id":30784,"date":"2018-07-06T02:40:15","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T02:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30784"},"modified":"2018-07-06T02:41:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T02:41:00","slug":"conservative-actor-gets-the-boot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30784","title":{"rendered":"Conservative actor gets the boot?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I don’t like the tenor and tone of the news I’m hearing about one of my favorite actors.<\/p>\n

James Woods says his agent has dropped him because of his pro-Donald Trump, conservative political leanings.<\/p>\n

C’mon, dudes! What is going on here?<\/p>\n

I didn’t even know about Woods’s politics until, oh, about a year or two ago. I haven’t cared one damn bit about them. I don’t care now!<\/p>\n

I like the man’s art. I like watching him perform on big screen or on TV. I like James Woods, the actor.<\/p>\n

I might think differently about James Woods if he were to shuck his acting career and enter the political world. He hasn’t. He remains an entertainer.<\/p>\n

Woods revealed that his agent, Ken Kaplan, was dropping him. According to The Wrap: “It’s the 4th of July and I’m feeling patriotic. I don’t want to represent you anymore. I mean I could go on a rant but you know what I’d say,” said Kaplan, who Woods described as a “political liberal.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Sigh.<\/em><\/p>\n

Reports such as this give progressives a bad name. If by definition their politics espouses “liberal” policies, doesn’t that imply an open mind, a quest for other points of view, an inclusive world view?<\/p>\n

I simply detest the idea that one of our nation’s premier actors is being kicked around — allegedly! — because of political views that, to my way of thinking, have nothing whatsoever<\/em> to do with his art.<\/p>\n\n

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I don’t like the tenor and tone of the news I’m hearing about one of my favorite actors. James Woods says his agent has dropped him because of his pro-Donald Trump, conservative political leanings. C’mon, dudes! What is going on here? I didn’t even know about Woods’s politics until, oh, about a year or two … Continue reading Conservative actor gets the boot?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1126,1424,7861],"class_list":["post-30784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-conservatism","tag-donald-trump","tag-james-woods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30787,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30784\/revisions\/30787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}