George Clooney may well be a huge ball of smugness, thinking he knows better than all of us – but he doesn’t think that highly of himself, it would appear.

Well, he probably does still think highly of himself. In fact, there’s no ‘probably’ about it.

Anyway, Georgey apparently doesn’t think enough of himself to advise presidential candidate and Paris Hilton/Britney Spears-alike Barack Obama, despite reports emerging that claimed otherwise.

No, it would seem that George Clooney just thinks he’s better than us ‘normies’, as he may well like to call us, and only feels it prudent to educate (‘patronise’) and entertain (‘annoy with smug fat face’) the plebians – not those of a better stock, like candidates for the US presidency.

Well doesn’t that just make you feel a whole lot better? Not only is he not trying to influence possible future leaders, but he will still try and talk down to us as much as humanly possible.

But we’ve seen you in Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, George – we all know what levels you’ll stoop to, and we simply can’t respect you for it. Take that!

It was reported by the Los Angeles Times on Friday that Clooney “frequently text messages the Illinois senator with whom he’s been friends for many years.”

Granted, if it were true then the texts would probably just amount to daily questions along the lines of: ‘have you bought a hybrid car yet? I have, I’ve bought ten, actually.’, ‘have you installed solar panels on your house yet? I have, I’ve got more than you.’ or ‘do you pay attention to your carbon footprint? I do – I pay loads more attention than you do’.

But George was quick to deny involvement with the senator, issuing a statement through his publicist which read:

“I have never texted or emailed Senator Obama. And I’ll offer a million dollars to anyone who could prove otherwise. In fact, I’ve only talked to the Senator once in the last year and a half….on the phone,”

The topic of conversation during the phonecall wasn’t revealed, but we can speculate it covered one or more of our potential text message topics listed above. It is easier to talk than it is to text, after all, but putting up with the smugtitude of Clooney while having to listen to his voice at the same time is something that most sane people wouldn’t be able to cope with.

This makes hecklerspray think that maybe the call didn’t cover those topics.

The statement did have more words in it, and amazingly they didn’t bother trying to lecture us at any point. It went on:

“I’ve spent more time with Senator McCain (he did my TV show) than I have with Senator Obama.

“I would hope that my friend John McCain would join me in condemning this kind of politics. Although I support Senator Obama I would never be dumb enough to offer policy advice to either candidate. They seem to be doing fine without me.”

There – proof if proof be need be that George Clooney thinks he is better than you, but not some men who pretend to care about their country. The big ruddy smug git.

Reports that Clooney, after issuing the statement, went for a walk and talked to 34 different grown adults as if they were toddlers were unconfirmed at the time of posting this. But we can assume he probably did anyway. While wearing a big UN badge.