Matt Damon has all the characteristics of a great spiritual leader – he’s thoughtful, looks OK in tight T-shirts and his head is the exact dimension of a family-sized box of cornflakes. We need Matt Damon now more than ever, so we’re immensely grateful that he’s decided to tell us all what to think about Sarah Palin.

According to Matt Damon, Sarah Palin is ‘terrifying’, ’scary’, ‘absurd’ and a ‘disaster’ should she ever become president. Some might question Matt Damon’s qualifications to publicly broadcast his ideological views to the world like this, but don’t forget that he did star in a funny movie about a hilarious pair of co-joined twins once, and that’s roughly the equivalent of having a PhD in political science. Video after the jump.

When it comes to vice presidential candidates, there really isn’t any stopping Sarah Palin at the moment. A prettyish, straight-talking redneck with an illegitimate grandkid on the way who enjoys shooting wolves out of aeroplanes, was once the mayor of Northern Exposure and doesn’t mind that she’s basically a cynically-chosen tool of the system to try and tempt embittered Hillary Clinton supporters to the Republican party, Sarah Palin has made much more of a splash than her Democrat counterpart Joe Biden, whose most exciting fact is that sometimes he sits inside a train.

And, because of this, celebrities have been falling over themselves to tell the world what they think of Sarah Palin. For example, Diddy’s not a fan of Sarah Palin but Jamie Lynn Spears is, although not as much as everyone initially thought.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck from The View is already a staunch Sarah Palin supporter, calling her a “real American” even though a) if being a real American was a qualification to run for office, Hulk Hogan and the man who does the voiceover for the Coors adverts would have been president and VP since the mid-1980s and b) Elisabeth Hasselbeck has never been right about a single topic in her entire life.

Of course, none of these political endorsements and rejections of Sarah Palin meant anything, because everyone was waiting to hear what the big cheese of political opinion had to say first. But it’s OK, because Matt Damon has now emerged from his bunker of thought to intone his mighty opinion of Sarah Palin to the world.

Why should we be listening to Matt Damon’s opinion about anything? Simple, because Matt Damon is the sexiest man on Earth. That’s literally all you need to know.

So, what does Matt Damon think of Sarah Palin? Why not watch this video and find out…

Sorry, was he talking? Honestly, when Matt Damon starts getting angry we just get lost in his eyes, the big adorable lug. Wait a minute while we watch the video again and actually try to listen to what he says.

Oh, right, so he’s not a big Sarah Palin fan. Fair enough. Personally we have to disagree with Matt Damon a little – if Sarah Palin does become president, then it won’t be like a really bad Disney movie at all. It’ll be like a really brilliant Disney movie – Bambi.

You know, the story of a young and inexperienced creature learning for itself and going on to achieve greatness in the world. That’s what Disney movie it’d be. True, Sarah Palin wouldn’t be playing the role of Bambi – she’d be the hunter who kills Bambi’s mum – but that doesn’t matter.

Anyway, so that’s Hasselbeck and Spears in the pro-Palin camp and Diddy and Damon in the anti-Palin camp. Oh, we still don’t know if we like Sarah Palin or not. Quickly, someone go and call Jim Carrey. His opinion matters more than anyone’s right now.

But until the day when he inevitably ends up fronting that show – working title Diddy: It’s Both Oblivious And Obnoxious – we all have to put up with him spouting off endlessly about whatever subjects happen to be ambiently passing through his brain all the time like some sort of dreary old pensionable pub bore, but gangsta.

This time, Diddy has turned his sights on newly-named Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Diddy’s not a fan of Sarah Palin, you see – it’s all because Sarah Palin is the Governor of Alaska and “there aren’t even any crackheads in Alaska.” We’re not joking. We wish we were. Oh, there’s video after the jump, too.

Historians are going to look back on the day when Diddy discovered YouTube and declare it the exact day that the human race started to go wrong. Sure, it had been bad before, what with all the death and war and sadness and whatever, but at least we didn’t have video footage of the man who did that Godzilla song having a piss while describing exactly why he enjoys pissing back then.

It’s not just urination that Diddy enjoys prattling on about on video – he’s also taken to the internet to praise his girlfriend for carrying his children right before he left her. Plus not so long ago Diddy recruited an assistant by posting a video on YouTube, which was a smart move – after all, his ideal candidate was an obese loner with terrible skin and a secret longing that humans could be as understanding as cats.

And now Diddy is using his fondness to push through a political message. It’s all because of Sarah Palin, you see - John McCain has announced her as his running mate in the upcoming election. Leaving aside the fact that seeing elderly white-haired John McCain and younger, marginally sexier Sarah Palin together is like watching a creepy remake of late 1980s ITV nightclub show The Hitman And Her, Sarah Palin has managed to get right up Diddy’s nose.

Why? Has Diddy seen through the seemingly transparent fact that Sarah Palin was only made VP to lure disappointed female Hillary Clinton supporters to the Republican party? No. Is he fundamentally opposed to Sarah Palin’s pro-life, pro-capital punishment worldview? No. Does he disagree with Sarah Palin’s decision to support a bill allowing wolves to be hunted from the sky? Not really.

In fact, Diddy seems most concerned that Sarah Palin comes from Alaska and not too many Alaskans are addicted to crack. Here’s the video…

You know what? It’s easy to mock, but Diddy actually makes some very good points. Michelle Obama really would have been a better choice of Republican vice presidential candidate because, as Diddy points out, it would have been more ’strategic and fly’ to do that. Let’s hope that John McCain sees sense and appoints Diddy as his Chief Strategy And Flyness Advisor. It’s a no-brainer, really – Diddy gets his long dreamed-of position of political power and John McCain gets, um, a nice pair of sunglasses or something.

Oh, and by the way Diddy – Sir Rock Obama? What are you, seven?

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