Transcript: Tom Hanks Too Political?

Bill O'Reilly
The O'Reilly Factor (Fox News Network)
01-30-2009
O'REILLY: "Personal story" segment tonight, Tom hanks, as you know, is a huge super star. And people tell me he's a very nice guy. Not arrogant, not an entitlement guy.

But very quietly, Mr. Hanks has become a left-wing power player in Hollywood. Shortly after the gay marriage vote, he condemned the Mormon church publicly. Subsequently, he apologized for that.

Last fall he ripped the Bush administration, no unusual thing in Hollywood, but he's also donated big money to Al Franken and other far-left candidates. Hanks' ideology first came into our zone shortly after 9/11 when he criticized me for asking Hollywood telethon ...

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