I always feel a little sad when I learn that some actor or actress I like turns out to have terrible politics. I’m still recovering from my recent discovery that Mike Nelson of MST3K fame is a right winger who loves the Washington Times and Michael Medved. Michael Freaking Medved!! Maybe he really should be shot into space to watch bad films for all eternity.
And then there’s James Woods, so good at playing creepy charmers, perhaps most memorably in David Cronenberg’s Videodrome. It’s one of my favorite films and he’s a big part of what makes it great (I mean, alongside Debbie Harry and a really weird TV set). But alas, in real life he’s a lot more creepy than charming, an obsessive right-wing Obama-hater (with a girlfriend more than forty years his junior) who spent years attacking the now-ex-President on Twitter.
Now, in the age of Trump, he’s moved on from Obama. For the most part.
But he can’t seem to let go of Hillary Clinton. Even today, nearly six months after she lost the election and 95 days into Trumps’ regime, Woods’ Twitter is filled with bizarre attacks on Hillary.
If you haven’t looked in on Woods’ Twitter before, you may be a bit surprised just how unhinged many of his political tweets are, rife with conspiratorial thinking (he was one of the #Pizzagate believers) and weird racist digs.
Here he is calling former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice a “savage” and demanding her arrest.
Are these savages finally going to prison? Wondered why #Dems were concocting all this Russian crap. #SmokeScreen https://t.co/eJ4PGBk8gG
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) April 3, 2017
Meanwhile, his assorted tweets about Sen. Elizabeth Warren — or as he likes to call her, Princess Fauxcahontas — inevitably reference her American Indian blood in the crudest (and most hackneyed) possible ways.
We go after many scalps, #PrincessFauxcahontas #StrategyForDummies https://t.co/eaGlO0PvJ0
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) April 15, 2017
This is simple, folks. In the immortal words of the Great Warrior Princess #ElizabethWarren, "You pass gas, you get Tomahawk!"
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) April 7, 2017
Maybe your war paint got in your eyes and obscured your vision. https://t.co/6PvnPX4YNz
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) April 9, 2017
Did you offer a peace pipe? https://t.co/dZlayFWgUg
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) April 16, 2017
It’s safe to say he hates Democrats generally.
Like rats they always work better hidden #TheDemocrats pic.twitter.com/VcjWGwB1B8
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) April 17, 2017
They are all but one #demon with many faces… https://t.co/u18mVS8exC
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) April 14, 2017
He really, really doesn’t like abortion, or Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards.
This Satanic fetal organ harvester is going to take the moral high ground??!! You got some balls, Lady. Oh, wait… https://t.co/PJFimkwQ70
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) March 20, 2017
And he has one of the most, er, creative takes on the whole O’Reilly thing I’ve seen.
The simple truth is that the @oreillyfactor purge was simple out and out age discrimination.
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) April 20, 2017
He still throws in the occasional anti-Obama tweet, for old times sake.
The joy of knowing these vermin are powerless… #Rats pic.twitter.com/jfuX4VYVh4
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) March 17, 2017
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) March 5, 2017
And he’s got a lingering obsession with Susan Rice that is too tedious to even bother to document here.
But his greatest nemesis, at least for now, remains Hillary. Or, as he prefers to call her, The Hildebeest, or “Darth Vader in drag.”
The #Hildebeest turns the corner on sanity, goes full blown #CrazyCatLady… pic.twitter.com/9Dmx2AjgjV
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) March 9, 2017
Thanks to those swing states that saved us from this debacle… #SorosPuppet #Hildebeest pic.twitter.com/VRb4RmYxMx
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) April 11, 2017
Once upon a time in a nightmare long, long ago… #DarthVaderInDrag pic.twitter.com/ZdWGsERVhZ
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) April 22, 2017
Watching the #SorosVermin rampaging makes the #ClintonCollapse even more important. We now realize her election would have been Armageddon.
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) April 23, 2017
Because they are like bear snot. They are disgusting and stick like old glue. #Clintons #Scum https://t.co/ckwJ9ZK7K6
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) April 23, 2017
When reptiles slither in groups, they look like this… pic.twitter.com/KaDPRTfyT2
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) April 13, 2017
These reptiles are still working to destroy #America. Now, of course, they do it in the dark, where they have always been more comfortable pic.twitter.com/c5CWBXtgtJ
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) April 16, 2017
Woods, who famously sued a Twitter user who called him a “cocaine addict,” frequently suggests, none-too-subtly, that Hillary is a raging alcoholic.
Big clue: is it Happy Hour yet? pic.twitter.com/ydF9rzfGjx
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) April 22, 2017
It must be five o'clock somewhere, Lady. Stop talking… https://t.co/25Ytu5vb2a
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) March 26, 2017
He even manages to work cat and rabbit gifs into his anti-Hillary fantasies.
If the rabbit were drunk at noon and the cat were an orange calico, you could almost see Hillary and Trump in this…pic.twitter.com/jny1xg0upf
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) April 22, 2017
Really, dude? You see a gif of a kitten bopping a baby bunny and the first thing you think is, “ha ha, that reminds me of Hillary Clinton, who by the way is a total drunk!”
If I may quote the famous Hollywood actor James Woods, “stop talking.”
Does he slam any white men at all?
The whole obsession with calling people vermin sounds suspiciously like the way the Nazi’s talked about Jewish people.
PoM, somehow I feel sure that he’d happily slam Our Gracious Host if he found out about this post.
He seems nice.
This was a man who bragged on that an anonymous blogger died ‘screaming his name’ . Because said blogger had the temerity to call him a ‘cokehead’.
Donald J. Trump
@TrumpInsulter
Dummy James Woods.
James Woods is a dummy. Just look at James Woods’s past.
Love watching James Woods fail!
James Woods is a totally overrated clown who speaks without knowing the facts.
James Woods is truly as dumb as rock.
Uncomfortable looking James Woods calls me to ask for favors and then mockingly smiles
Tell ’em, @TrumpInsulter
I don’t know if that asshole dropped his lawsuit against the dead blogger’s estate, but I have zero respect for this thin-skinned jerk’s work these days. None.
Would that he would quit Twitter permanently.
Now this is just looking for a scapegoat. What is taking antisemitic potshots at Kushner like the rest of his buddies not kosher for him?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/25/us/judge-blocks-trump-sanctuary-cities.html
Judge Blocks Trump Effort to Withhold Money From Sanctuary Cities
Wow James Woods Hillary must have all the shadow governments to once again block him every time he tries to play Dictator.
I have never been a James Woods fan. He has always struck me as little better than any of sneering and arrogant characters he’s played in countless films.
For me he has always been that sniveling, whining, and weasely character from the movie Casino, which in my mind was perfect casting because then he’d just be playing himself.
As far as James Woods is concerned I’m not surprised to find out that wind, is windy.
Reminds me of finding out that Jayne Cobb isn’t just a gamergater, he’s the one that invented the #GamerGate tag.
Ahhh, justice… it goes down smooooooth….
ETA:
hell, it’s a clash between the white house and the whole fucking WORLD (except James Woods)
Yikes, I was never a Woods superfan but I always, always enjoyed his performances. I am a sucker for the kind of fast-talking, weaselly characters he played and seeing them get their comeuppance – or talk their way out of a jam! – was always rewarding.
Alas, deeply disappointing. Yeesh.
I was at least marginally comforted – kinda, sorta, maybe – that cute-but-possibly-quite-dim Chris Pratt walked back his blitheringly idiotic lament about their not being enough “blue collar” (white dude) stories in the movies. I don’t know how sincere he was but I guess at least he listens to his publicist…
Why can’t these people find a hobbie. Lile, I don’t know, fishing or whatever. Something to keep them off the internet for a few hours.
@LindsayIrene, Rioting Werebonobo
I was so disappointed when I found that out. 🙁
Mike Nelson was a sad revelation for me, too, especially since I preferred him to Joel when I first started watching MST3K. at least his RiffTrax co-star Bill Corbett is, as far as I know, a super good dude (and hopefully Kevin Murphy as well, but I know the least about him).
I actually don’t mind Michael Medved. He’s still a rightwinger but he’s actually a nice guy and he’s not the raging monster that passes for conservative these days. So Mike Nelson can have his bad political choices. He made me laugh.
James Woods on the other hand, really has to stop doing all that cocaine.
At least Owlman was a cartoon, so his face isn’t attached. Still a great performance. ‘Does it really matter? Nothing… matters’
In addition to being a total right wing nut job, Woods is also really thin-skinned. I had a very brief run-in with him on Twitter (over what, I no longer remember), and be blocked me after a couple of Tweets refuting an article he posted. Woo-hoo! I was blocked by a celebrity!
I hate to tell you this, especially because it will date me, but it’s been known for many, many, many years that James Woods is a misogynist to the nth degree.
I knew there was a reason I always preferred the original Joel episodes!
I noticed rewatching MST3K in recent years that the Mike episodes have some sexist and homophobic jokes. They’re still overall funny and worth watching but I guess it’s not a surprise considering.
It’s hard to even get as mad about James Woods because he’s so far into conspiracy land. People like that are basically lost causes.
Embracing a platform of bigotry is never nice. Even when it’s dressed up in civil language.
A lot of right wingers are nice and friendly with me. Even knowing that my politics clash with theirs. But I know they’re only nice to me because I’m white, cishet, mainstream looking and culturally Christian so I can never really view them as nice or trust them at all.
@Tovius – even George Bush paints!
@wwth – I’m with you, Joel all the way. I never really took to Mike, he always seemed so smug, like he was “too good” for the show. He was all right, but it was no longer “required viewing” for me.
I wonder if Mike Nelson’s love for Medved is political or because he and his brother Harry wrote two of the seminal books about the joys of bad movies, The Fifty Worst Films of all Time and The Golden Turkey Awards. I like those even if I can see the seeds of bad Michael Medved writing later (more so in The Hollywood Hall of Shame, which is about high-budget bad movies… there’s a few jokes about ethnicity and sexuality that, even given they were more acceptable in 1982, still feel kind of cheap and low).
@lkeke35
Psht, I just imagine him as his character from Contact.
And speaking of Contact, I now have the perfect excu- I mean segue into something else that’s somewhat related: Peggy Whitson now holds the American record for the most cumulative time spent in space at 535-ish days. She currently stands in 13th overall, but will move up to 7th with the conclusion of Expedition 52 in September and the landing of Soyuz MS-04 (which itself was notable for only launching two occupants as opposed to the typical three).
She also received a call from Trump congratulating her. That’d be like making it to the South Pole and having to talk to a circus clown that might decide to throw a pie in your face for your effort.
Now that it’s been mentioned: I’ll also stick with the rebooted MST3000, thankyouverymuch.
I had no idea about Mike Nelson. That is sad to hear.
James Woods seems obsessed with Hillary Clinton. You’d think he would have better things to do.
I get it. James Woods is a creepy obsessed loser with a grudge that lasts forever. Kind of like this guy.