Sep 11, 2008 4:45 am US/Pacific
Matt Damon: Palin's Rise Like 'Bad Disney Movie'
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"Bourne Supremacy" actor Matt Damon claims he is scared of the possibility of Sarah Palin being president.
Matt Damon compared Sarah Palin's rise to political prominence with "a really bad Disney movie" during an interview with AP Entertainment in Toronto this week.
The "Bourne Supremacy" star and Cambridge native mocked Palin for being a self-proclaimed "hockey mom" and her experience as governor of Alaska, saying the possibility that she could be president is absurd and "I don't understand why more people aren't talking about how absurd it is."
Damon is a Barack Obama supporter and said he's frightened by rival John McCain's choice of Palin as his running mate.
"I think there's a really good chance that Sarah Palin could be president. I think that's the really scary thing," Damon said during the interview. "Because I don't know anything about her. I don't think in eight weeks I'm going to know anything about her. I know that she was mayor of a really, really small town. And she was governor of Alaska for less than two years. I just don't understand. I think the pick was made for political purposes. But in terms of governance, it's a disaster.
"You do the actuary tables, there's a one out of three chance, if not more, that McCain doesn't survive his first term, and it'll be President Palin. I was talking about it earlier. It's like a really bad Disney movie. The hockey mom. Oh, I'm just a hockey mom from Alaska, and she's president. She's facing down Vladimir Putin and using the folksy stuff she learned at the hockey rink. It's absurd. It's totally absurd, and I don't understand why more people aren't talking about how absurd it is. It's a really terrifying possibility. The fact that we've got this far, and we're that close to this being a reality, is crazy. Crazy."
Damon also said Palin's creationist beliefs disturb him. It has been claimed that the Alaska governor once said God made dinosaurs 4,000 years ago.
"I need to know if she really thinks dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago. That's an important -- I want to know that. I really do. Because she's going to have the nuclear codes. I want to know if she thinks dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago. Or if she banned books or tried to ban books. You know, we can't have that."
Palin denied ever making such a remark.
Damon is currently appearing in a TV ad titled "Voices," by the
bipartisan, anti-poverty group ONE and its Vote '08 project. The voices
of others are superimposed as the actor speaks, including Cindy McCain,
wife of Republican nominee John McCain; and Michelle Obama, wife of
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
(© 2010 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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