Jon Voight has responded to Roseanne Barr’s rant on his support of John McCain by personally attacking her back. Those ad hominem arguments from both sides are just so persuasive. Voight’s first line of defense was to bring attention to Barr’s supposed lie about her childhood history of abuse – even though his own son has publicly accused him of emotional abuse against his late ex wife and he would do well to avoid that subject. At least Voight knows how to use punctuation and line breaks, although his reasoning is about on par with Barr’s:

Answer to Roseanne Barr’s Rant:
We can never be surprised at what vile evil comes from the mouth of a confessed victim of child abuse at the hands of her own parents.

Her parents responded to the accusations by going on the air and stating she is a psychopathic liar and her sister agreed.

Her defaming of our National Anthem in 1990 gave us insight into who she is and what she is capable of saying and doing.

My allegiance to Senator McCain becomes stronger with any assault that tries to deter my loyalty to him.

I can only pray that good people see her for what she is (sick of mind)

[From Jon Voight's written response to Roseanne Barr on Extratv]

This argument reminds me of Rosie’s feud with Donald Trump – they were just insulting each other back and forth and seemed to forget what it was they were arguing about in the first place. It’s lame when people just start attacking each other and it makes them both look petty. (Here’s my favorite guide for addressing arguments as outlined by Karl Sagan in his book Demon Haunted World. Scroll down to the common fallacies of logic and rhetoric, that’s the best part.)

Barr has blogged that she wasn’t really attacking Voight’s estranged daughter, UN ambassador Angelina Jolie, for her unwillingness to endorse a candidate, she was attacking the media’s representation of Jolie and Pitt. OIC what you were doing there, Barr, that’s so clever. *eyeroll* Barr called Voight’s daughter and her husband his “evil spawn” and “vacuous” and criticized their careers, their donations to charity and the impact their lifestyle has on the environment. It’s all ok according to Barr, because she sort-of took it back by blaming someone else for her opinion:

i do not know brangelina

and do not mean to personally impugn them as they might be good people in the flesh, but the media’s images of them are smelly and vile, and I must always attack the media’s representation of what is good or cool, because those who inhabit the media world of glamour and entertainment and fashion and gossip are horrid people who have no talent of any kind, and yet think of themselves as tastemakers. taste my sandy buttcrack, tmz, and perez!

[From RoseanneWorld.com, emphasis added]

TMZ titled their post about this, using a reference from Shaq’s rap about Kobe Bryant, “Roseanne To TMZ: Tell Me How My Ass Tastes!”

One talent many people who inhabit the media world have that Roseanne lacks is the ability to compose a coherent sentence. Voight wins in that department, even if his logic skills are just as poor.

Please don’t let either of these clowns keep you from researching the candidates and voting for the person you think would make the best President. It’s about the issues and who would take the country in the direction you support, not about two celebrities’ half-baked opinions.

I smell a celebrity feud brewing. Roseanne Barr has written a pretty scathing diatribe on her website about Angelina Jolie’s refusal to name a Presidential candidate she supports. Despite the fact that Barr was advocating for Hillary Clinton to land the Democratic nomination for the Presidency, she’s blasting Jolie for refusing to support Obama now that he’s the presumptive nominee. This long-winded post on Barr’s website lacks line breaks, punctuation and common sense. It seems to be in response to Angelin’s estranged father, Jon Voight’s op ed piece in the Washington Times calling Obama “militant” and questioning his fitness for the job:

jon voight

is a frightened little girl in a pink ballet tutu, who acts like Obama just wandered in from the rain forest with a bone thru his nose and a communist pamphlet in his loincloth. The neocons who own jon voight and make him dance on the chabad telethons are the worst most elitist people on earth. glen beck and jon voight are their bitches… both of them are used tampons who must be flushed down the toilet immediately! jon voight your evil spawn angelina jolie and her vacuous hubby brad pitt make about forty million dollars a year in violent psychopathic movies and give away three of it to starving children trying to look as if they give a crap about humanity as they spit out more dunces that will consume more than their fair share and wreck the earth even more. (just sayin’).
Also miss jolie says she likes mccain too and hasn’t decided who to endorse….huh? Aren’t you supposed to be somewhat enlightened, or do you not know that the african daughter you hold in every picture had parents who suffered and died because of the republican party’s worldwide economic assault on africa over the last few decades since reagan? whaaaa…??????!!!! (for that matter, the thai and vietnamese sons you are photo’d with weekly too!!!? who’s pictures you sell to raise money to help the poor? Their families are victims of America’s right wing military incursions too. Mccain wants to continue with the idea of war for profit…the americans are over that thinking now! They have drugged our troops and lower classes into supporting their oil business atrocities for long enough. We want to save not lose our souls thank you. Now go back to making your movies about women who love to handle big guns that shoot hundreds of people to death. Ps….it might be good for your asian and african children’s self esteem to know you support a brown man for the leader of the free world.)

[From Rosanne's official blog via US Weekly]

I’m liberal and I agree with her general points and hear where she’s coming from, but such emotional, over-the-top attacks do nothing for our cause. People are welcome to support whomever they want to for President. That doesn’t mean they have personal failings no matter how much I disagree with their reasoning. Barr will get some publicity for this, but she sounds like an idiot. There are many people who think the war is incredibly wrong and a horrible atrocity, but they’ll also listen to people who disagree and give reasoned arguments. When you make such heated statements you just cause the other side to respond in kind and make yourself an easier target.

Jolie could possibly support McCain for President, but she may not ever admit it. McCain will save her a lot of money in taxes, while people who make less than $112k will save much more under Obama’s plan. Obama’s plan will give 90% of Americans a tax break that McCain’s plan won’t, but still McCain has the nerve to repeat that Obama is raising taxes. He is – for the people who are making over six figures and can presumably afford it.

This is a case of yet another celebrity making an emotional argument for Obama over McCain and hurling insults at someone else in the process. Obama would do well to continue to keep celebrities at arm’s length in his campaign.

Roseanne Barr is shown at the TV Land Awards on 6/8/08. Credit: Fame

Back in the day, George Clooney worked on Rosanne Barr’s sitcom. He wasn’t quite so hot then – he had sort of a pillowy, Farrah Fawcett -esq hairdo going on – but he was still George Clooney, which means he could still make the ladies want to drop their panties. George has been doing some last-minute promotion for his box office failure Leatherheads, and gave a pretty funny interview to Rolling Stone where he talked about his early acting experiences.

Hand it to George Clooney: He’s sexy, he’s funny, and he’s not afraid to share embarrassing stories about how Roseanne Bar hit on him. The actor, who sat down with Rolling Stone movie critic Peter Travers Wednesday night at the Picture House Theater in Pelham, N.Y., following a screening of his latest movie Leatherheads, revealed secrets about his early days working for Barr on her sitcom Roseanne – as well as his thoughts on Paris Hilton and bombing at the box office (which, he readily acknowledges, Leatherheads did). Choice quotes below:

Travers: “I have this quote (from TIME magazine) to read aloud from your former boss Roseanne Barr. ‘He can drink too much and still while standing in a bar parking lot at 3 a.m. discuss the world with such passion and good sense that you actually stop imagining him nude.’”

Clooney: “Don’t you want Roseanne writing your obit? I worked on her first series, and when I met her she said, ‘You’re really good looking, why don’t you take me out behind the stage and make me stink.’ She was unbelievably kind to me at a time when no one was.”

[From People]

That’s… um… quite the quote. I don’t think there’s anything I could say about it that wouldn’t be wildly, wildly inappropriate. Not that that would generally stop me… but I think it’s raunchy enough that we don’t need to add anything to it. No word on if the Cloons actually took Rosanne out behind the Warner Brothers lot. But I’m guessing that if he’s sharing the story… and he got the job… he must have gone the way of the casting couch.

Here’s George Clooney leaving Dan Tanas restaurant in Los Angeles on April 25th. Images thanks to WENN.

Comedienne Rosanne Barr is so sarcastic that it’s hard to tell when she’s being truthful. However it seems that she was telling the truth – or I guess oversharing – last night on the Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson when she told Craig that she’d had vaginal rejuvenation surgery. Craig asks her what it’s like being out there as a single woman, and she mentions that she had the surgery and she know has a “vajunior” instead of a vagina. So clearly she was planning on sharing it as a part of a bit, but it still seems like she meant what she said.

Comedian Roseanne Barr talked to Craig Ferguson Wednesday night and claimed to have had vaginal rejuvenation. Talking about how she’s single, Roseanne told the “Late, Late Show” host, “I went and had vaginal rejuvenation surgery. No, I did! And now I have a va-junior. And I’m not afraid to use it.”

True or just part of her stand-up routine? It’s unclear. But, she still knows how to shock and make an audience laugh.

[From the Huffington Post]

It’s certainly not beyond the realm of possibility, as Rosanne’s gone under the knife before. She had a gastric bypass in March of 1998, and since then has had a nose job and a breast reduction. And she’s always been very candid with people… some might argue a little too much so. According to the Laser Vaginal Rejuvenation Institute of Los Angeles, vaginal rejuvenation “will effectively enhance the vaginal muscle tone, strength, and control.” There’s a lot of other stuff it does too, but I’ll let you look that up for yourself.

Here’s the clip from last night’s “Late, Late Show.”