Over at Pajamas Media, actor Ron Silver has a blog . Silver’s TV work has run the gamut from Rhoda in the 1970s to the West Wing more recently, and in film from the serious— Silkwood, Enemies: A Love Story, and Reversal of Fortune (as Alan Dershowitz, no less)—to the goofy-sweet Garbo Talks and the one decent Jean-Claude Van Damme film, TimeCop .
He has also done something even more remarkable: He’s actually spoken at the Republican Convention and been a vocal supporter of President Bush, at least as far as his foreign policy goes.
This has caused Mr. Silver—who eschews political labels—no amount of grief in La-La-Land, as one might expect.
A quote from a November 15 entry:
I believe the President’s critics are profoundly mistaken. I believe they misunderstand how he’s trying to protect us. I believe they misunderstand the nature of the threat. I believe they misunderstand history. If they succeed in dismantling what President Bush has set in motion, the results may well be catastrophic and history will never forgive them.
George W. Bush: a revolutionary liberal internationalist? History may so decree. Let’s wait and see.
Whether you cheer him on or merely cheer “Ron, Ron, the Neocon!” along with his costars, this is a guy who actually risks something with his opinions, as opposed to 95 percent of his confreres who believe they are taking a courageous stand—AND CONSEQUENCES BE DAMNED!—because they recycle their organic waste (now available in lieu of first-run network programming).
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