Hollywood star Rob Schneider turns Republican, citing Democratic ‘disaster’

[Liberal_in_LA]

Hollywood star Rob Schneider turns Republican, citing Democratic ‘disaster’


Hollywood television and movie comedy star Rob Schneider, 50, said he’s been a lifelong Democrat but can’t take it any longer. He’s moved into the GOP camp and announced a switch to the Republican Party.

“The state of California is a mess, and the super majority of Democrats is not working. I’ve been a lifelong Democrat and I have to switch over because it no longer serves the people of this great state,” said Mr. Schneider, as The Blaze reported. “The last time I made a movie was seven years ago and that’s because we’re not being competitive.”

Mr. Schneider, known for his “Saturday Night Live” rendition of Rich, the copy repair guy, as well as several movie appearances in the likes of “Deuce Bigalow, Male Gigolo” and other Adam Sandler productions, also said overregulation is killing his vitamin business.

He’s fled the state to avoid the hefty California regulations, he said in The Blaze report.

“We moved out of the state because of overregulation,” he said, speaking about Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s targeted ads to compel business to leave California for the comparative freedoms of the Lone Star state. “It isn’t helping businesses. We’re chasing businesses away.”

http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/1/hollywood-star-turns-republican-citing-democratic-/

[gopiscrap]

1. Stupid fucker

[JaneyVee]

82. I worry America is throwing around the word "star" too frivolously.

[gopiscrap]

85. Agreed

[oldtime dfl_er]

2. talentless twit

good riddance

[Lint Head]

3. Never thought he was funny. Now I know I was right.

[ArcticFox]

58. I don't know, I thought this was kind of funny:

“The last time I made a movie was seven years ago and that’s because we’re not being competitive.” 

Other than that, though, not so much.

[frylock]

72. I laughed too..

what does that even mean? competetive with who?

[former9thward]

83. Toronto.

Many movies/tv shows are made there now.

[grasswire]

4. who?

Never heard of him.

Why is he newsworthy?

OIC. Washington Times. Moonie rag.

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. sat night live,

[Skidmore]

53. Didn't know who he was either.

[flamingdem]

5. meh

move to FL or something..

[Callmecrazy]

87. HEY!...

We've got enough crazy here, thank you very much. Send him to Texas. He'll fit right in. He could run for Governor and probably win since he saw the error of his ways and became a Republican. Plus he's famous ain't he? They'll all be star struck by his awesomeness. He'd be the Texas version of Schwarzenegger.

[flamingdem]

90. 'kay, we don't want him in CA!

Texas it is.

[TlalocW]

7. Hollywood Star should really be in quotes...

So because there's not been a Deuce Bigalow 3, Hollywood isn't competitive. Sheeesh, the ego on this guy.

TlalocW

[Kablooie]

8. Smart move. And just at the right time too.

May he sink with the ship.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

9. - What the fuck is in those vitamins.

[UTUSN]

60. "vitamin business" - "The Blaze" - connecting dots = food paranoia/ doomsday preppers

Vince VAUGHN is a BecKKK "creative" partner, too. The universe in these dudes' heads is a very LIMITED, CLOSED one.

[MFrohike]

10. Haha

I wonder what his new friends will think of his movie where the woman had a penis for a nose?

[Autumn Colors]

11. Love this quote

Schneider: “The last time I made a movie was seven years ago and that’s because we’re not being competitive.”

Uh no, Rob ... maybe it's because no one wants to cast you in anything because you suck. Did that ever cross your mind?

[chervilant]

43. What mind? n/t

[TheFarseer]

49. he was in Grownups in 2010

And had a short lived sitcom just last year. Not sure what the 7 years is referring to. Maybe the vitamins have the side effect of memory loss and anal bleeding.

[Nevernose]

63. I think maybe he meant

The last time was in a movie that a friend (Adam Sandler) didn't cast him in, which is actually kind of sadder.

[Frank Cannon]

52. The guy's as funny as a kidney stone, and every bit as talented.

I would say that his lack of employment over the last seven years is PROOF that the comedy movie industry is competitive, and that he is an enormous loser.

[Rex]

12. Who?

nt.

[jberryhill]

13. Hasn't worked in 7 years, wants a handout

Yep, he'll make a great Republican

[Liberal_in_LA]

15. he's blaming dems for his lack of work. actually he's aged out of those goofy young man comedy roles

So did Paulie shore

[Bluenorthwest]

40. Paulie runs his family business, the Comedy Store, and has boxes of cash to use as

ottomans.

[Liberal_in_LA]

96. i had no idea

[grasswire]

16. yeah, and a whiner to boot

who needs him?

[joshcryer]

30. Holy shit.

Perfect!

[Jefferson23]

62. lol

[elehhhhna]

67. Never funny asswagon mad at the world.

shocker.

[Vashta Nerada]

14. Talentless hack.

The republicans can have him.

[sakabatou]

81. +1

[Fridays Child]

17. There aren't too many people I'd be more sorry to have on my team. Keep talking, Rob.

You can't make a movie, can't sell vitamins, and it's all someone else's fault.

Boo fucking hoo.

[Cha]

37. Right.. it's gotta be the Democrats' fault that he's

such a loser.

The last I remember him he was in an Adam Sandler movie.. maybe he rubbed off on him?

[rocktivity]

18. TRANSLATION: "I now have to pay my fair share of taxes." n/t

rocktivity

[Deep13]

19. Who? nt

[stevenleser]

20. This has to be some sort of joke/hoax by him. I can't believe it.

Did he actually take himself seriously as an actor? He is one of those folks who should have thanked his lucky stars he somehow had an acting and comedy career and made a lot of money. I dont have any problem with people getting lucky like this as long as they dont start being an ass about it.

[complain jane]

21. I had to google him

He looks vaguely familiar.

[Liberal_in_LA]

24. his 'guy who sits near the copy machine routine' was big in the 90s

[MADem]

22. He's closer to a "personality" than a "star."

He must be so desperate for work that he'll do anything....kind of like Dennis Miller.

He's no Oscar contender with "Deuce Bigelow" as his signature piece of work.

[JI7]

23. "hollywood star" , i wonder if anyone under 20 has ever heard of him

[JI7]

25. Rob Schneider Links Autism To Vaccines, Rails Against Big Government

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/01/rob-schneider-links-autism-vaccines_n_1641922.html

i found the above and noticed it's from last year. so this isn't some recent thing with him.

[longship]

26. Who in the fuck cares about Hollywood stars?

They are nobodies trying to be somebodies. The only thing they have going for them is that they appear, on occasion, on the big screen in your local movie theater where the pretend to be somebody else.

Don't get me wrong. I love cinema and have awesome respect for those actors (male and female) who can do what they do. But please, do not make the mistake that just because a person is a good actor that one must necessarily be rational or intelligent.

Fame is nothing. In spite of my love for cinema Hollywood fame is much less than that. There are many notable exceptions, but fame and intelligence are two different things. I can think of few exceptions.

[Beaverhausen]

55. Many in Hollywood are activists for good causes

Many of them work for human rights here and abroad. They lend their voices and money for many important causes.

[Frank Cannon]

74. George Clooney even has a freaking orbital satellite...

that monitors the effects of ethnic cleansing in Africa.

I mean, that is some serious Batman shit there.

[petronius]

27. If he feels that Hollywood is not appreciating his talents, maybe his new R pals

will back him in an Atlas Shrugged reboot - I'm sure it would do well with such a talented and important actor heading the cast...

[longship]

28. Joe Bagadonuts turns Republican!

Enough said?

[Change has come]

29. bummer

[NBachers]

31. I hear Wal Mart or Home Depot will let you fill out an application, robbie

[underthematrix]

32. I've never heard of him.

[cui bono]

33. Yeah, because they never fly actors out to location for filming.

[melody]

34. Since when?

He is not not has he ever been a lifelong Democrat -- he's lying. He bitched and whined to a friend of mine about Bill Clinton and "evil unions" when they were on a shoot.

[freethought]

35. Looks like he's trying to pull a "Dennis Miller."

Anyone remember Dennis Miller after 9/11? And how Miller was saying that 9/11 "changed me". Miller's career was sagging and it kept sagging. Anyone know where Dennis Miller is now? Doing some 2 bit web show. Nice goin' Dennis!

Gee Rob. Maybe your movies just weren't that great to begin with and your audience grew out of them?

[TreasonousBastard]

36. There's this...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Schneider

"In January 2005, film critic Patrick Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times said in an article that Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo was overlooked for an Academy Award because "nobody had the foresight to invent a category for Best Running Penis Joke Delivered by a Third-Rate Comic." Schneider responded two weeks later with full-page ads in Daily Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, saying he had done research and found that Mr. Goldstein had never won any journalistic awards, commenting, "Maybe you didn't win a Pulitzer Prize because they haven't invented a category for Best Third-Rate, Unfunny Pompous Reporter Who's Never Been Acknowledged by His Peers." Schneider also wrote, "Patrick, I can honestly say that if I sat with you and your colleagues at a luncheon, afterward, they'd say 'You know, that Rob Schneider is a pretty intelligent guy, I hope we can do that again.' Whereas, if you sat with my colleagues, after lunch, you would just be beaten beyond recognition."[8] He also called Goldstein a "real scumbag" in an appearance on Tom Green's House Tonight when referring to Goldstein's criticisms, and opined that Goldstein's criticism was unimaginative.[9] Patrick publicly asked, "Who are Schneider's colleagues and why would I want to have lunch with them?"[10]

In August 2005, film critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times responded to the Schneider–Goldstein conflict in his review for Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo. While noting that an online search showed that Goldstein had won a National Headliner Award, a Los Angeles Press Club Award, a RockCritics.com award, and the Publicists' Guild award for lifetime achievement, Ebert said, "As chance would have it, I have won the Pulitzer Prize, and so I am qualified. Speaking in my official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize winner, Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks."[11] (Ebert's 2007 collection of reviews of movies for which he gave negative reviews was titled Your Movie Sucks, a reference to his review of Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.) In a later interview with Stuff magazine, Schneider called Ebert an "ass", saying that Ebert "irks" him and that he had been told that Ebert is "not nice to the people he works with". Ebert rejected the accusation, and reaffirmed his opinion of the film, stating, "If he's going to persist in making bad movies, he's going to have to grow accustomed to reading bad reviews."[12] On May 7, 2007, Roger Ebert reported via his website that he had received a beautiful bouquet of flowers with a note stating it was from "Your least favorite actor, Rob Schneider." Ebert had recently undergone a very serious surgery to remove a cancerous salivary gland, and spent months recovering. Ebert saw the flowers as a kind gesture and publicly thanked Schneider, and said that Schneider may have made a bad film, but he was not a bad man. Ebert also expressed hope that Schneider would make a film that Ebert finds wonderful.[13][14]"

I'll spare you the interview on Victoria Jackson's site.

[Jefferson23]

64. Thanks, Ebert was spot on, nice Schneider sent him the flowers. n/t

[Boomerproud]

89. Am I supposed to care?

n/t

[C_U_L8R]

38. Poor timing

The GOP is going down in flames and represents the very worst of society.
What is he thinking?

[MarchemintotheSea]

39. OMG Rob Schneider turns Republican!! So who will be joining Rob in a show of solidarity?

We must brace ourselves for the Legions of Democrats who will leave the Party in a show of solidarity we many never recover from the damage!

[Bluenorthwest]

41. I don't think he was a lifelong Democrat, his entire social set is Republican and kind of

atavistic. Sandler is a Republican and he has been at the very least Rob's career mainstay. That whole set of people is conservative, self indulgent and Republican.

[smokey nj]

42. Has-beens and never-weres are drawn to the

Republican party like moths to flames. I wonder why that is.

[spanone]

44. hollywood star???? bwahahahahahaaaa.

fucking moran

[JaneyVee]

45. They ALWAYS play the victim.

[Botany]

46. California is a mess? No Rob Jerry and the Deomocrats have turned the state around

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/09/28/1242012/-Bill-Maher-has-excellent-news-on-why-conservatives-REALLY-fear-California#

Bill Maher:

And finally, New Rule: Conservatives who love to brag about American exceptionalism must come here to California, and see it in person. And then they should be afraid. Because while right-wingers are taking over places like North Carolina and Texas and even Wisconsin, California is creating the kind of modern, liberal nation the country as a whole can only dream about. And not only can't the rest of the country stop us — we're going to drag you with us. (audience cheering and applause)
Now, it wasn't that long ago that pundits were calling California a failed state and saying it was ungovernable. But in 2010, when other states were busy electing whatever Tea Partier claimed to hate government the most, we elected a guy who actually liked it — Jerry Brown. And without a Republican governor and without a legislature cock-blocked by Republicans, (audience laughter) a $27 billion deficit was turned into a surplus.

How? Well it's amazing, really. We did something economists call cutting spending and raising taxes. (audience applause) I know, it sounds like crazy science fiction, but you see, here in California, we're not just gluten-free and soy-free and peanut-free, we're Tea Party free! (massive audience cheering and applause)

[tanyev]

48. I think his sole criteria for calling it a mess is because no one wants to hire him.

Claiming you're the victim of liberal persecution is so much easier than admitting you're a talentless hack.

[LukeFL]

50. This is awesome!! I live Bill!!

[dballance]

47. Guess he can join Victoria Jackson in the never really funny and now washed up

I never really though he was funny in the first place. He's certainly showing he has no intelligence if he thinks the Dems are the problem - especially considering things as of late. Maybe we should all send him a copy of the book "It's Even Worse thean it Looks" http://public.cq.com/docs/weeklyreport/weeklyreport-000004082567.html. Of course that would mean expecting him to be able to read.

[Bettie]

51. "Star" is kind of um....overstating it, isn't it?

But, whatever.

Clearly, he's not the sharpest crayon in the box.

[99Forever]

54. Seriously.

Who gives a shit what that no talent twerp says?

[seabeyond]

56. i had to google a picture.... i mean seriously? who cares, lol. meh.

[Enrique]

57. he wasn't a "copy repair guy"

he was just some guy that sat near the copy machine.

[NuclearDem]

59. Rob Schneider derp de der.

[Initech]

61. He's an idiot then.

California is actually in better shape than we were 10 years ago, and it's because we didn't elect the fucking tea party.

[LaydeeBug]

65. This news is kinda old, and calling Rob Schneider a star is a kinda stretch. nt

[valerief]

66. Who the hell is he and why should we care? nt

[Buddha_of_Wisdom]

68. Fuck that. i think Rogen and Hill are far funnier than you...

Maybe if you start smoking weed and think like a stoner, maybe you'll be goddamn funny.

But alas, you're not, and you're hawking crap vitamins that no-one wants, and you can't find a job without Sandler's help says a lot about you, Rob.

[blm]

69. Schwarzenegger was governor till 2011. Brown has been cleaning up the wreckage.

Sounds like Schneider just wants his vitamin business to get lax oversight. We all know how well lax oversight works out for people.

The entire town of West, Texas can tell you about it - except for all the dead and displaced people.

[The Second Stone]

70. Is he saying Hollywood stopped making movies 7 years ago?

Because I'm pretty sure that is untrue. Maybe they have had no new original ideas, but movies and TV shows are being churned out at a high rate. It is a golden age of original cable television shows.

It is not the job of the Democratic Party to find Rob Schneider roles and appearances. That is the job of his agent. If he wants to wait tables or do construction, like other under-employed actors, there are plenty of jobs out there.

This sounds like another Republican who doesn't want to work.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

71. They can have him

Never liked him for as long as I can remember. He can go and join his equally talentless buddy, Adam Sandler, and we'll keep the real talent

[Spirochete]

73. That's a good thing

People of the non-talent level of Douche Bigalow should all be in the same party, anyhow.

[bhikkhu]

75. That's totally ridiculous

Brown turned a massive 23 billion dollar republican-created deficit into a surplus, by cutting spending and raising taxes, and California is a "disaster" now? He's complaining about how regulated the vitamin business is? Somehow, I doubt that Texas just lets you bottle up any old thing and sell it.

[Arkana]

76. Balls. If this guy was a lifelong Democrat I will eat my hat.

[Dawson Leery]

77. There is a trend when male actors careers end, they become right wing nuts.

[Blue Owl]

78. Look -- he thinks he's diverting disaster

[Cleita]

79. And how does jumping to the loser party

change his life?

[ScreamingMeemie]

80. "Star?"

[pinto]

84. Rob Schneider:Auditioning for Jenny McCarthy’s job as world’s most famous celebrity antivaccination?

Rob Schneider: Auditioning for Jenny McCarthy’s job as world’s most famous celebrity antivaccinationist?

I suppose it’s possible that there might be doubt that Rob Schneider has become a complete and total antivaccine wingnut. Possible, but not reasonable. After all, he’s shown his cards and risen to prominence with his attacks on vaccine science made as part of his effort to oppose the passage of California Bill AB 2109, which was finally passed and signed by Governor Jerry Brown, but not without an attempt to water it down by adding a pointless (and probably unconstitutional) set of instructions for implementation in a signing statement. Leading up to this, Schneider had “made a name for himself” by speaking at an anti-AB 2109 rally, comparing the bill’s sponsors to Nazis, and actually trying to make the specious argument that AB 2109 somehow violates the Nuremberg Code.

Yes, Schneider’s already done enough to demonstrate that he is an antiscience know-nothing when it comes to vaccines, but apparently he hasn’t done enough to satisfy himself. What could he do to make it absolutely clear beyond the proverbial shadow of a doubt that he’s gone down the rabbit hole of bad science, bad arguments, and pure misinformation that drives the antivaccine movement? Easy. He can start commenting on AoA:

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2012/10/02/rob-schneider-auditioning-for-jenny-mccarthys-job-as-worlds-most-famous-celebrity-antivaccinationist/

[pinto]

86. LOL. Article's "author" (really just a cut 'n paste piece) is extremely anti-Dem, anti-Obama.

As is the paper.

[Zen Democrat]

88. The only career Schneider has is as an Adam Sandler sidekick, and Sandler's a Republican. nt

[Duer 157099]

91. This has to be parody, right?

California has slashed our deficit and we're finally back on a good path.

If this isn't a joke then he and Victoria Jackson may have been hanging out or something. The Unfunny SNL Alumni Association perhaps?

[NoGOPZone]

92. This must be the Onion

who could honestly describe Rob Schneider as a star?

[nolabear]

93. Buh-bye Sparky.

[Azathoth]

94. He moved his family out of California because of "overregulation"?!?

What the fuck is he, a utility company?

[JHB]

95. Adam Sandler's organ-grinder monkey?

The man who's best legacy is this?:

[Incitatus]

97. You're supposed to jump OFF of the sinking ship.

At least now he has an excuse for why his career is over other than outgrowing the childish and talentless roles he used to get.