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Why George Clooney Was the Perfect Messenger to Call for an Election Shake-Up
George Clooney is the perfect messenger for his call for Joe Biden to drop out of the election, because of the authority he's earned as an actor and activist.
His campaigning for the people of Sudan’s Darfur region in the midst of a lengthy civil war, or — closer to home for him, certainly — his excoriating speech against paparazzi pursuit of public figures after Princess Diana’s 1997 death are examples of his gift for placing new information in plain and easily comprehensible terms. I saw, for instance, memes on social media comparing Clooney’s writing the piece to his character in “Michael Clayton” exposing the villainous corporate lawyer Karen Crowder (Tilda Swinton). And his op-ed presented Clooney not as that much-hated thing, an actor diving into political affairs with little grounding and offering peremptory orders on how the world ought to operate, but as a member of a party.
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