Jon Voight Archives

Jon Voight blasted President Barack Obama at the Republican congressional fundraiser dinner at the Washington Convention Center on Monday (June 8) in Washington D.C. Here are snippets from the 70-year-old actor’s fiery speech:

“Are we supposed to sitting and waiting, watching for the possibility of a new Holocaust? Who’s going to take the responsibility to keep America, I mean Israel, safe. I’ll tell you why this really scares the hell out of me. Everything Obama has recommended has turned out to be disastrous.

“It saddens me greatly to think we were the great powerful good in the world. We as Americans knew America to be strong. We were the liberators of the entire world. We are becoming a weak nation.

“Obama really thinks he is a soft-spoken Julius Caesar. He think he’s going to conquer the world with his soft-spoken sweet talk and really think he’s going to bring all of the enemies of the world into a little playground, where they’ll swing each other back and forth.

“We and we alone are the right frame of mind to free this nation from this Obama oppression. Let’s give thanks to [Republicans] for not giving up and staying the course to bring an end to this false prophet, Obama.”

Jon Voight has taken a very public stance for the Republican nominee for President, Sen. John McCain. The 69-year-old actor had some very strong words for Sen. Barack Obama and shared them with The Washington Times:

“Sen. Barack Obama has grown up with the teaching of very angry, militant white and black people: the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, William Ayers and Rev. Michael Pfleger. We cannot say we are not affected by teachers who are militant and angry. We know too well that we become like them, and Mr. Obama will run this country in their mindset.

“The Democratic Party, in its quest for power, has managed a propaganda campaign with subliminal messages, creating a God-like figure in a man who falls short in every way. It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America.

“And while a misleading portrait of Mr. Obama is being perpetrated by a media controlled by the Democrats, the Obama camp has sent out people to attack the greatness of Sen. John McCain, whose suffering and courage in a Hanoi prison camp is an American legend… If, God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way.”

Read Voight’s full article at WashingtonTimes.com.

Angelina Jolie’s actor father, Jon Voight, has been busy shooting the upcoming season of the hit FOX drama, 24.

But The Insider caught up with the 69-year-old actor on his film break to ask about his two new grandchildren, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline.

Voight said, “I am deeply happy. I’m over the moon. It’s magnificent. In this world, all we can hope for is that mommy and the kids are healthy. I’m very excited and thanks for letting me send my love to them. If I were called today, I’d be there.”

Jon Voight has reportedly signed onto the seventh season of 24 to play Jack Bauer’s (Kiefer Sutherland) uber-nemesis who will orchestrate next season’s terrorist threat.

Voight’s character will first be introduced during 24’s two-hour Season 7 prequel and will then be featured heavily in the latter half of the season, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

This marks Jon Voight’s first series role in 40 years, and is the first A-list villain casting on 24 since its first season.

Voight, 69, is a four-time Academy Award nominee, winning an Oscar for best actor in 1978’s Coming Home.

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Has estranged father Jon Voight patched things up with daughter Angelina Jolie?

Voight, 63, was seen leaving The Waldorf Astoria hotel on Sunday where Angelina, 32, and her family are also staying.

Do you really think it’s just coincidence that Voight and Jolie are booked at the same hotel? Methinks not!

Angelina and Brad Pitt were seen taking a helicopter ride all day today with Maddox and Shakira Zahara. Pax and Shiloh, the newest additions to the Jolie-Pitts… draw your own conclusions!

There seems to be a lot of parent-child patching up this weekend! First Britney Spears and her mom. Now possibly Angelina and her dad!

UPDATE: Voight was reportedly at the hotel to see his goddaughter, reports Extra.

Leading men Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom trade in their swashbuckling swords for dress shirts at the world premiere of Walt Disney’s Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End held at Disneyland on Saturday in Anaheim, Calif.

Proceeds from the world premiere of the Disney megahit benefited the Make-A-Wish International and its Foundation of America. The film will hit theaters nationwide this Friday, May 25.

Other celebrities who made it to the premiere included co-star Naomie Harris, Desperate Housewives star Teri Hatcher (with 9-year-old daughter Emerson), Ugly Betty star Mark Indelicato, Heroes star Masi Oka and Jon Voight.

Noticeably missing? POTC heroine Keira Knightley.

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1600 Pennsylvania Avenue!

Nicolas Cage and Jon Voight (Angelina Jolie’s father) film National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets right in front of the White House in Washington DC on Thursday morning.

Voight, 58, and Cage, 43, filmed scenes with co-stars Diane Kruger (Joshua Jackson’s girlfriend) and newcomer Justin Bartha.

National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets is set for a Dec. 21 release.