{"id":544711,"date":"2021-05-28T17:36:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T21:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=544711"},"modified":"2021-05-28T17:36:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T21:36:27","slug":"dont-reporters-have-any-pride-jon-voight-sounds-off-on-the-media-in-exclusive-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dont-reporters-have-any-pride-jon-voight-sounds-off-on-the-media-in-exclusive-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Don\u2019t Reporters Have Any Pride?\u2019: Jon Voight Sounds Off On The Media In Exclusive Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdont-reporters-have-any-pride-jon-voight-sounds-off-on-the-media-in-exclusive-interview%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=544711&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-462141803-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Jon Voight spent much of his career amassing killer performances, Oscar nominations and the respect of movie goers nationwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">These days, he\u2019s branched out into cultural commentary, without the kind of woke handcuffs embraced by the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/seth-rogen-comedians-should-stop-complaining-about-cancel-culture-accept-it-if-jokes-age-poorly\"><span class=\"s1\">Seth Rogen<\/span><\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/tina-fey-woke-comedy-rules\/\"><span class=\"s1\">Tina Fey<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Yes, Voight is that rare creature, an outspoken Hollywood conservative who continues to land major roles like Mickey Donovan, the ethically challenged father in Showtime\u2019s \u201cRay Donovan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Voight\u2019s most recent work is in \u201cRoe v. Wade,\u201d the pro-life feature recalling the 1973 Supreme Court fight over abortion. The superstar spoke about his early days, being an out and proud conservative and much more during <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/episode-11-a-one-on-one-with-jon-voight\/id1557742167?i=1000523145924\"><span class=\"s1\">an hour-plus chat on \u201cThe Truth with Lisa Boothe\u201d podcast.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">At 82, Voight could be slowing down or resting on his considerable laurels. He keeps chugging away, but he says his ideology does him few favors in Tinsel Town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIt\u2019s costing me work, of course,\u201d he said of the industry\u2019s left-leaning status, adding others like him typically stay silent rather than face the Blacklist-like music. \u201cBecause\u2026people who would have common sense are afraid to be exposed for having common sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Voight plays a KGB agent in the upcoming \u201cReagan\u201d biopic, due next year, and it\u2019s clear how much Communism influences his current thinking. He touched on how Hollywood and Communism haven\u2019t been strange bedfellows over the years, and why we\u2019re seeing a resurgence in collectivist thinking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cYou see, initially the KGB targeted the United States and, and Khrushchev said, you know, we won\u2019t, we\u2019ll overcome you, but we won\u2019t do it with guns. You know, we\u2019ll just, you\u2019ll vote us into office,\u201d Voight said. \u201cThat\u2019s pretty much what\u2019s happened. I mean, they know what they\u2019re doing. They targeted the film industry because of its influence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Communists, he said, exploited America\u2019s free speech to infiltrate and help shape enough hearts and minds to impact the culture at large.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThey used it as a tool for themselves,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He calls Communist thinking an \u201cevil\u201d trying to \u201covertake the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWhy is it that people want to come to this country? Why is it that people are breaking down, you know, our borders to get to us and why is it that the people who are most concerned about us are people from- who have lived under this, this tyranny of socialism, communism, you know, across the world, people from Poland, people from Russia, people from Cuba?\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re turning into a Venezuela and they see it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Voight is just as blistering when it comes to the mainstream media, which he describes as being in the pocket of the Democrats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cDon\u2019t journalists have any sense of pride\u2026You see, they repeat the party line. This is just like Russia. I mean, this is just like Pravda. There\u2019s no difference. You read the New York Times, you\u2019re getting phony stuff,\u201d said Voight, who has a measure of sympathy for low-level reporters doing their bosses\u2019 bidding. \u201cSo what does a [reporter] do if he wants to feed his family and he needs to keep his job? It\u2019s those pressures that keep it going, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Voight won\u2019t be welcomed by social media these days, if only because he told Boothe the 2020 presidential election wasn\u2019t on the up and up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThere\u2019s so much evidence that it was a stolen election. I take this back to the moment when Soros realized that Trump had been elected by the American people and he said, this is a disaster,\u201d the actor said. \u201cAnd he meant it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Voight shared stories of his childhood and early days in Hollywood in the early part of the conversation. He also confessed to losing his religion after starting his now-legendary show business career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI grew up a Catholic, and when I hit New York, I kind of lost that. You know, I kind of left that behind. And got in trouble with it, you know, got away from this understanding of God and the rules of life and stuff,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd even the examples of my parents who were admirable people, I lost my way a little bit. And then I came back around.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cGod is real, and we have to be our better selves,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Voight spent much of his career amassing killer performances, Oscar nominations and the respect of movie goers nationwide.These days, he\u2019s branched out into cultural commentary, without the kind of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313450,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-462141803-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Don\u2019t Reporters Have Any Pride?\u2019: Jon Voight Sounds Off On The Media In Exclusive Interview","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-462141803-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Don\u2019t Reporters Have Any Pride?\u2019: Jon Voight Sounds Off On The Media In Exclusive Interview","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}