'Ron, Ron, the neo-con!'
Actors turned pundits -- hardly a trend worth embracing given the kind of information spat out by too many celebs. Need proof? Consider the musings of John Cusack, a terrific actor but a fellow who appears to have anger issues.
Character actor Ron Silver is throwing his hat into the ring with a new blog posted at Pajamas Media, a right-leaning forum.
Here's his opening salvo. Check it out and see if his thoughts are worth considering.
I remember seeing Silver at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner in DC a few years back, and he bumped into Bradley Whitford of "The West Wing" fame. Silver had become a defender of the Bush administration at that point, specifically its war on terror efforts. Whitford gave him a big smile and cried, "Ron, Ron, the neo-con." It was all in good fun, I guess, but it showed just how out of touch Silver had become with his Hollywood pals.
posted by Toto @ 9:58 AM
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The interesting thing to me about this continuing "trend" is how the machine feeds itself: a fraction of media figures present themselves as "Liberal Hollywood" when the Industry is properly as conservative as any successful business industry. Further, while these celebrities enable and are enabled by their own publicity process, and are Constitutionally guaranteed their right to express their views, their ad hominem attacks on individuals much better trained and educated than they themselves are too often ring hollow and shrill
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