Category: Celebrity News Author : Duncan Riley Posted: January 13, 2009
Tags : mickey rourke, PETA
Mickey Rourke Says Actors Should Shut Up About Politics, Then Appears in a PETA Ad

Comeback kid Mickey Rourke, one of the few conservative leaning actors in Hollywood believes actors should shut up about politics, but apparently that rule doesn’t apply to him.
Rourke told GQ magazine that “Actors should shut up about politics, because they tend to be ill-informed finger-pointers who just cozy up to some flavor-of-the-month liberal, you know?”
In the same interview he defends George W Bush, and talks about politics, which is a little hypocritical in itself, but then we find today that he’s featuring in a PETA campaign.
Now his choice of PETA campaign is actually a good one (as opposed to say sea kittens): desexing dogs to prevent unwanted puppies, but still, didn’t he say that actors shouldn’t be talking about politics?





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Jan 14, 2009
Although PETA is often political, an ad encouraging owners to fix their dogs is not a political ad. If it was a “seat belts save lives” ad, would you think political?
Jan 15, 2009
and so what … he has a thing or two to say like everybody else …
Jan 20, 2009
And how is this political?
Jan 31, 2009
At least Mickey Rourke has the cajones to buck the hollywood trend of liberalism when asked to speak about his beliefs.