Now you tell us, George. After fronting a splashy fundraiser with Julia Roberts, Barbra Streisand and Jimmy Kimmel in LA LA Land three weeks ago, George Clooney penned a bombshell column for the New York Times this morning urging Biden to drop out of the race. He’s simply lost too many steps, said Clooney.
“It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe ‘big F—ing deal’ Biden of 2010,” wrote Clooney . “He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.
” He saw that Biden was a shell of his former self, and yet still helped to raise $30 million for a political lemon. Hey, the show must go on. What took Clooney so long? After all, this was not a rare case of rapid onset aging.
He and our Tinseltown betters told us this octogenarian career pol was the only guy for the job, spry at 81 and in fighting shape to slay the MAGA boogyman. That is, until the debate — when the showbiz myth of Biden collided with reality. There, Biden was free from teleprompters, protective handlers and press reps who vet every question.
He was undeniably in a cognitive free fall. Only now, Clooney admits that what we saw on TV, he saw in private. Everybody knows it.
The jig is finally up. Sadly, that’s what this Biden candidacy has been all along: smoke and mirrors, which happens to be the specialty of Hollywood. Clooney is one of the few industry A-listers left.
He oozes sex appeal.