George may have put the fork in Joe, but Amal was the cook

Biden is fading fast but his ICC 'outrageous' comments put him in the Clooney's bad books months ago

Still from The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, & Her Lover

When I read George Clooney’s op-ed in the New York Times on Wednesday urging Biden to step aside, I thought well that will put a fork in him… but what about Amal? If Amal Clooney came out and said “I Love Joe Biden. But We Need a New Nominee”, well then, sleepy Joe would be well and truly cooked.

Turns out that Amal is the cook, as well as the wife and lover, but who knew that she in fact completes the title of Peter Greenaway’s brilliant 1989 film – she is a thief as well!

In fact, the thief part of ‘Amal Clooney: The cook, the thief, the wife, and the lover’ might be what is really behind George’s op-ed, behind his sudden change of heart.

George has long been a Biden supporter, bundling millions for him in 2020 and only last month headlining the fundraiser that netted $28 million for sleepy Joe’s re-election campaign. He concedes as much in his op-ed but now states that “the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal’ Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate”.

Of this I have no doubt, but George failed to mention that he really abandoned the poor old man back in May, when he called counsellor to the president Steve Ricchetti to complain about the Biden administrations’ ‘openness’ to imposing sanctions on the ICC. His problem? His wife might be subject to the penalties.

Like ‘the thief’ in Greenaway’s film, an English gangster Albert Spica who takes over a restaurant and makes nightly appearances there with his retinue of thugs, Amal Clooney is perhaps the most influential, or at least the most ‘high profile’, member of the retinue of thugs that is the ICC.

Characterised, not inaccurately, by Republican Congressman Chip Toy as “a massive threat to US sovereignty”, the ICC was subject to severe criticism over the prosecutor’s application for arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Israeli leaders, with Democrat Senator John Fetterman describing the actions of the ICC as “trash”.

And Biden, sleepy or not, rightly stated on May 20 that “The ICC prosecutor’s application for arrest warrants against Israeli leader is outrageous…let me be clear: whatever this prosecutor might imply, there is no equivalence—none—between Israel and Hamas. We will always stand with Israel against threats to its security.”

Much to the chagrin of Anthony Blinken, the Biden administration has since said that it does not support sanctioning the ICC, so Amal is safe for now and indeed was before George headlined sleepy Joe’s recent fundraiser. But Biden’s stubborn characterisation of the actor’s wife’s work as “outrageous” apparently really hit a nerve.

For what it’s worth, I am watching Joe Biden’s solo news conference as I write, and I feel sad for the man. When he does step aside, as he surely must soon, I hope the cooks and thieves of this world leave him in peace. Somehow I am not convinced that George Clooney, or any of the other ‘well-meaning’ luvvies and pundits now apparently ‘concerned’ ‘love’ him, and I am starting to wonder if anyone in his corner really does.

LS

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