{"id":860292,"date":"2021-10-08T15:59:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T19:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=860292"},"modified":"2021-10-08T15:59:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T19:59:04","slug":"matthew-mcconaughey-talks-texas-governor-run-abortion-law-calls-politics-bag-of-rats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/matthew-mcconaughey-talks-texas-governor-run-abortion-law-calls-politics-bag-of-rats\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew McConaughey Talks Texas Governor Run, Abortion Law, Calls Politics \u2018Bag Of Rats\u2019"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fmatthew-mcconaughey-talks-texas-governor-run-abortion-law-calls-politics-bag-of-rats%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=860292&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\/10\/GettyImages-1088600238.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Matthew McConaughey discussed the possibility of running for Texas governor on Thursday while at the same time calling politics a \u201cbag of rats\u201d in which he appears hesitant to involve himself.<\/p>\n<p>The actor and self-described \u201cstatesman-philosopher, folk-singing poet\u201d shared his thoughts on a potential gubernatorial bid and other issues including the Texas abortion ban during an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/07\/opinion\/sway-kara-swisher-matthew-mcconaughey.html?showTranscript=1\">interview<\/a> on Thursday\u2019s episode of the New York Times Opinion\u2019s \u201cSway\u201d podcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTexas Governor\u2014 you said, I\u2019m measuring it. I\u2019m sorry, what\u2019s \u2018measuring\u2019 mean? What are you measuring?\u201d podcast host Kara Swisher asked the iconic movie star.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeasuring\u2014 \u2018measuring\u2019 is a great word, isn\u2019t it?\u201d McConaughey responded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, but it doesn\u2019t mean anything,\u201d Swisher pressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like to measure things before I partake. And you\u2019ve got to partake before you\u2019ve partook,\u201d McConaughey said, prompting a laugh from his interviewer.<\/p>\n<p>The actor explained that he is mulling the question of, \u201cwhere can I be most useful?\u201d and considering whether politics is already \u201ca fixed game,\u201d calling it a \u201cbag of rats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou go in there, you just put on a bunch of Band-Aids in four years, and walk out, and they rip \u2018em off when you\u2019re gone. I\u2019m not interested in that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a broken business,\u201d McConaughey added. \u201cAnd it\u2019s getting dangerous now, you know, when both parties on their own would claim themselves to be democracy itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McConaughey did not give a definite answer on whether he would launch a bid for governor, but he appeared to lower expectations by musing, \u201cI could arguably have more influence as an informal leader than a formal leader.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The actor also argued that he believes \u201cpeople want a third party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThird party, centrist\u2014 I think it\u2019s necessary to be aggressively centric to possibly salvage democracy in America right now,\u201d McConaughey said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his hesitancy to engage in partisanship, McConaughey had kind words for a Democrat politician and less positive remarks for Texas\u2019 new abortion law.<\/p>\n<p>He praised Beto O\u2019Rourke, calling him a \u201cgood man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe he believes in what he\u2019s selling, and his heart is in the right place, and he\u2019s got the right kind of compassion that a liberal-sided politician needs, and is necessary,\u201d McConaughey said.<\/p>\n<p>The Academy Award winner also criticized Texas\u2019 six-week abortion ban, although he declined to reveal exactly where he stands on the issue of abortion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to come out and tell you right now on this show, here\u2019s where I stand on abortion,\u201d McConaughey said when Swisher asked him about the Texas abortion law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been trying to figure out that, and how to play God with that situation, since the beginning,\u201d he continued.&nbsp;\u201cBut this latest move by Texas? It\u2019s a little bit of \u2014 feels like a back to front sort of Roe v. Wade loophole that they\u2019re trying to get into.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McConaughey said the law \u201cfeels a little juvenile in its implementation\u201d and said he has a \u201cproblem\u201d with how it deals with rape and incest. He added that \u201cif you\u2019re saying that your discussion of abortion is even on the table to consider, six weeks does not really make that a honest consideration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The abortion ban went into effect in Texas in September but was suspended by a federal judge this week.<\/p>\n<p><em>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;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew McConaughey discussed the possibility of running for Texas governor on Thursday while at the same time calling politics a \u201cbag of rats\u201d in which he appears hesitant to involve &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860292","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=860292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}