“hope and change” personifi ed by presiden- tial candidate Barack Obama. Voight decided this was his moment to


take a stand, and he did so in the form of a 2008 Washington Times opinion piece that would shake up his friends and colleagues in Hollywood. It’s useful to recall that this was a cultural


moment when, for many Democrats, any re- luctance whatsoever to usher the country’s fi rst viable African American candidate into the Oval Offi ce was considered border- line racism. So one can only imagine the reaction in


Hollywood when Voight wrote: “Sen. Barack Obama has grown up with the teaching of very angry, militant white and black people: the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, William Ayers, and Rev. Michael Pfl eger. “We cannot say we are not aff ected by


teachers who are militant and angry. We know too well that we become like them, and Mr. Obama will run this country in


their mindset.” James Hirsen, a bestselling author, law


professor, and columnist for Newsmax’s Left Coast Report, has followed the arc of Voight’s career and says the Hollywood community reacted in “utter shock.” “As far as Hollywood was concerned,”


Hirsen recalls, “ when he wrote his op-ed he came out as seemingly a completely diff er- ent person politically. “He really took a stand against the Dem-


ocratic Party when Barack Obama was fi rst running for president, and the reaction in Hollywood was utter shock. “In Hollywood it was shock, and then


kind of denial: ‘He’ll come back, he just got out on the wrong side of the bed’ or what- ever.” But to the contrary, Voight would grow


more and more outspoken in his defense of protecting the values he saw embedded in the U.S. Constitution as well as the Bible. Of course, over time he would take a terri-


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