Posted on 02/03/2005 11:27:48 AM PST by FlyLow
Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - Stage and screen actor Ron Silver, in Washington for President Bush's State of the Union address Wednesday night, credited left-wing celebrities -- particularly filmmaker Michael Moore -- with helping to re-elect George W. Bush.
"The celebrity backlash helped," Silver said. "Michael Moore, I think, was a big factor --a really big factor," Silver told Cybercast News Service in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall, following Bush's speech.
Silver's acting credits include the television series "The West Wing," and "Chicago Hope" as well as the movie "Reversal of Fortune." He also is a co-founder of the Creative Coalition, a social and political advocacy organization of the (generally liberal) entertainment industry, and he has stood out in Hollywood for supporting the war in Iraq.
"The attention paid to [Moore] -- the lionization of his piece of propaganda (the anti-Bush movie "Fahrenheit 911") -- I think it all kind of backfired," Silver said.
Silver, a former Democrat, was responding to a question about a billboard campaign in Hollywood sponsored by the conservative group Citizens United that is thanking celebrities for helping to re-elect Bush.
One billboard displays an image of President Bush juxtaposed against the images of several celebrities, including Michael Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Sean Penn, Ben Affleck and Barbra Streisand with the text: "4 More Years. Thank You Hollywood!"
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Thank you both, and hearty welcome to you.
I should have disclosed: my first vote was for Jimmy Carter. But I will say, in my defense, that the choice between him and Gerald Ford was a dim one.
Next choice was MUCH happier and MUCH easier: Carter and Reagan. No contest!
Also, my eyes had begun to open by then.
Dan
I voted Carter as well, to my eternal shame.
Wasn't Ron Silver the guy who bitched about the military flyover at Clinton's Inauguration until somebody told him, "They're OUR planes, now."
I'll bet many of us here are ex- dims.
I am, though I turned some years before you did. ( probably a lot older than you also)
Heck, I have even admitted that I named my #2 son for John Glen.
Wouldn't happen today, but he was a hero back then.
Hold your head high. You saw the light.
The Dims are a lost cause. They support terrorist, tyrants and any who wish ill-will on this country.
Ron voted for W just because of the WOT only. It understands its a paramount issue. He learned from 911. Something the rest of the libs never has learned.
I first voted Republican in 1994. I am 57 years old and so had voted for democrats for many years. The democrat party today is not even remotely comparable to the Democrat party of 1960. In 1960 there was plenty of political friction between the two parties but at least you never had to worry that if one or the other attained power it might well side with our foreign enemies. Today this is no longer the case.
I would never vote for a democrat of any stripe today because in addition to being the party that sees America as the root of the world's problems it is also the party that stands for the death of the unborn, the elevation of deviancy, the punishment of the productive and blatant racism. At one time its leaders could invoke the name of G_d and you could believe they might mean it. Today when they are not attacking religion, the Boy Scouts and the family they cynically use the name of G_d to try and set up a smoke screen of phony righteousness.
I have come to dispise the democrat party as it is today and think the best thing that could happen to it is for it to become completely marginalized.
They're OUR planes now, Ron.
He did openly define himself as a liberal.
What not to many people know, is that he started to turn on the dems, on the issue of school vouchers, 9/11 just accelerated it, and ideology wise, he's become much more conservative.
Alot of people think Al Michales gave him the right nudge.
Being identified with the Hollywood airheads certainly didn't help Kerry.
Wow, I wish I could have seen their faces the first time they heard of or saw this billboard. Some things, as they say in the commercials, are priceless.
What can I say? He voted for President Bush, he stomped for Bush, he spoke at the convention...none of which, I imagine has earned him any brownie points with the liberal left coasters. Kudos for him on those points, if nothing else.
I went to a retirement dinner in my home town for the fire dept. chief. The head of the airport sat at our table. Michael Moore came up. He commented, "I wouldnl't give that fat jackass a dime of my money". (hysterical)
I thought everyone in town was a liberal. I found out differently that night.
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