In one of his infrequent forays out of red-carpet life to political grandstanding, George Clooney joined the president of Armenia in a solemn ceremony to call the 1915 massacre of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks a “genocide.” In a burst of political fervor & eloquence he called denial of the genocide “ridiculous.”

Our man would be so much more credible–& less ridiculous–if his episodes of humanitarianism weren’t associated with war-mongering for US troops to Darfur; if he could say even a word against US wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, & elsewhere; if he could protest US military aid to Israel & the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians; & of course, if he weren’t actively campaigning for Hillary Clinton who is associated with sweatshops, militarism, genocide, ethnic cleansing on several continents.