Mark Ruffalo has overtaken Sean Penn as the most obnoxious lefty actor. At least Penn is mostly quiet these days. As Twitchy reported, Ruffalo (like all Democrats and progressives) opposes the merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery. The claim it will cost the industry jobs, but their biggest problem is that Paramount is owned by the son of Oracle founder Larry Ellison, a big Trump donor. They're afraid that Paramount is going to turn CNN into a conservative news channel.
As we reported the other day, Ruffalo posted a message on Instagram warning against the merger and Oracle’s complicity in “what we now have come to see as a genocide” against Palestinians while questioning why “Trump pushed this illegal merger through.” Paramount hit back with a statement reading, in part, "We are, as always, troubled when antisemitic tropes are invoked in purported service of a business dispute. Words like ‘genocide’ and ‘apartheid,’ applied to a corporate transaction, aren’t just wrong — they’re a bridge too far, and they cheapen the very real suffering those words are meant to describe."
Ruffalo has since posted that he's not antisemitic, noting he has Jewish friends: "Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life."
For some reason, Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna decided to step in, calling Ruffalo "one of the great humanitarians of our time."
.@MarkRuffalo worked with @BernieSanders & me to stop the war in Yemen & pass the first War Powers Resolution in American history.
— Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) August 26, 2026
Mark has stood up for clean water & a livable climate.
Mark has called out the genocide in Gaza.
Smearing him as an antisemite is ignorance.
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… is one of the great humanitarians of our time.
1. There is no genocide in Gaza.
— Ivan Saidenberg (@IvanSaidenberg) August 26, 2026
2. He is a raging antissemite
3. 🤡
Ro sit this one out. Your track record is on par with Mark's...
— Adam Milstein (@AdamMilstein) August 26, 2026
Like you , Mark is a filthy antisemite who supports Hamas and Palestinian militants . Mark denied Hamas murdered three teenage Jewish hikers even when Hamas admitted to it. pic.twitter.com/EiUxTcJcZt
— Michal/Michele -מיכל✡️ 🟦 (@MichalSabra) August 26, 2026
Making an IDF kidnapping up is ignorance. Jussie Smollett level of laughable ignorance.
— Mountain Guy (@dufferjones) August 26, 2026
I don’t remember Mark saying Anything about October 7. 🤔
— Not my Name (@1Lowprofile) August 26, 2026
Watching you trying to deny he is an antisemite is kind of funny. Do you think we are deaf and blind?
— Tired of being politically correct (@USBornNRaised) August 26, 2026
Greta has a few thoughts. That would be Greta Van Susteren. She tells a completely different story. Hers is accurate.
— Barbara M (@Barbara35980709) August 26, 2026
Greta Van Susteren absolutely does have some thoughts on Ruffalo:
He also pushed for me to get fired at MSNBC…why? Because he disagreed with me on some topics? #BigBaby By the way, unlike Ruffalo, I have actually done specials on Clean Water, and I have actually GONE to war zones and covered them and, for a living, I don’t just memorize what… https://t.co/8owOKcw1wM
— Greta Van Susteren (@greta) August 26, 2026
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… others write :) Finally, I asked Ruffalo to meet me for coffee and talk and he never responded. #ScaredyCat :) As for great humanitarian…I have yet to see him at an earthquake disaster (I have been to many) or tornados (I have been to many.) BTW, I never saw Mark in Israel right after Oct 7 when I was there nor did I see him at a screening of the Hamas 47 minute tape where they brag about killing and raping.
Yes, Mark Ruffalo stopped the war in Yemen. You people think you’re being heroes but you’re really coming across as fucking psychotic monsters to normal people.
— American Cranes (@guide_a22047) August 26, 2026
@MarkRuffalo is first, last, and always just another commie hypocrite.
— The Crazzzy Conservative (@canderson93) August 26, 2026
The fact that Ro Khanna is speaking out for him is an even bigger sign to dislike him. Ro is one of the planet’s most disgusting and corrupt human beings and we will be in a safer place when he is no longer free to pursue his grift and destructive policies.
— Grok Heavy Stocks (@grokheavystocks) August 26, 2026
Uhhhhh Mark is an opinionated loudmouth with no true foundation. And you clowns have no idea what a genocode is other than a purposely used emotional word meant to mislead and prey upon the emotions of the general public. You both deserve each other
— ⚒Andrew Lowden, EA 🫧⚒ (@ALowd34) August 26, 2026
I didn’t see one counter in those “good deeds” that proves he’s not an antisemite.
— Kimberley (@kimberleyfiles) August 26, 2026
Khanna is vouching for both Bernie Sanders and Ruffalo. That's not worth much.
Ruffalo opposes the merger not because he's afraid of a conservative owning another media company, but because Ellison is over at Oracle building Jewish space lasers to commit genocide against the Palestinians.
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