Jon Voight has responded to Roseanne Barr’s rant on his support of John McCain by personally attacking her back. Those ad hominem arguments from both sides are just so persuasive. Voight’s first line of defense was to bring attention to Barr’s supposed lie about her childhood history of abuse – even though his own son has publicly accused him of emotional abuse against his late ex wife and he would do well to avoid that subject. At least Voight knows how to use punctuation and line breaks, although his reasoning is about on par with Barr’s:

Answer to Roseanne Barr’s Rant:
We can never be surprised at what vile evil comes from the mouth of a confessed victim of child abuse at the hands of her own parents.

Her parents responded to the accusations by going on the air and stating she is a psychopathic liar and her sister agreed.

Her defaming of our National Anthem in 1990 gave us insight into who she is and what she is capable of saying and doing.

My allegiance to Senator McCain becomes stronger with any assault that tries to deter my loyalty to him.

I can only pray that good people see her for what she is (sick of mind)

[From Jon Voight’s written response to Roseanne Barr on Extratv]

This argument reminds me of Rosie’s feud with Donald Trump – they were just insulting each other back and forth and seemed to forget what it was they were arguing about in the first place. It’s lame when people just start attacking each other and it makes them both look petty. (Here’s my favorite guide for addressing arguments as outlined by Karl Sagan in his book Demon Haunted World. Scroll down to the common fallacies of logic and rhetoric, that’s the best part.)

Barr has blogged that she wasn’t really attacking Voight’s estranged daughter, UN ambassador Angelina Jolie, for her unwillingness to endorse a candidate, she was attacking the media’s representation of Jolie and Pitt. OIC what you were doing there, Barr, that’s so clever. *eyeroll* Barr called Voight’s daughter and her husband his “evil spawn” and “vacuous” and criticized their careers, their donations to charity and the impact their lifestyle has on the environment. It’s all ok according to Barr, because she sort-of took it back by blaming someone else for her opinion:

i do not know brangelina

and do not mean to personally impugn them as they might be good people in the flesh, but the media’s images of them are smelly and vile, and I must always attack the media’s representation of what is good or cool, because those who inhabit the media world of glamour and entertainment and fashion and gossip are horrid people who have no talent of any kind, and yet think of themselves as tastemakers. taste my sandy buttcrack, tmz, and perez!

[From RoseanneWorld.com, emphasis added]

TMZ titled their post about this, using a reference from Shaq’s rap about Kobe Bryant, “Roseanne To TMZ: Tell Me How My Ass Tastes!”

One talent many people who inhabit the media world have that Roseanne lacks is the ability to compose a coherent sentence. Voight wins in that department, even if his logic skills are just as poor.

Please don’t let either of these clowns keep you from researching the candidates and voting for the person you think would make the best President. It’s about the issues and who would take the country in the direction you support, not about two celebrities’ half-baked opinions.