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In On the Political Act [Hollywood actor Ron Silver bashing Dems and UN in NYT Sunday magazine]
The NY Times Sunday Magazine ^ | Dec. 4, 2005 | DEBORAH SOLOMON

Posted on 12/04/2005 10:56:15 AM PST by summer


Ron Silver

...Indeed, you're a former liberal Democrat who became a Bush convert only recently. What do you have against the Democrats?

The Democratic Party is becoming the tool of an extreme domestic leftist insurgency led by the Michael Moores and the Cindy Sheehans and other neoreactionary, neoisolationist Americans.

...[my] new documentary, "Broken Promises: The United Nations at 60," which portrays the U.N. as the height of incompetence. If you and I put a flag outside our door and we called ourselves a country, we would have a seat at the table.

Is that some sort of cheap shot at third-world countries?

I think that the countries that are democracies need to form a caucus and a coalition to make sure it is not controlled by blocs of authoritarian regimes that are permanently hostile to the United States.

One reason they are hostile is that they feel the Bush administration has marginalized the United Nations.

The United Nations marginalized itself...

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: allgrownup; bushdemocrats; ciindy; cindy; dems; lostdems; michaelmoore; ronsilver; un
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To: stephenjohnbanker; All
Hitchens, Bruce, Koch, Lieberman...Maybe there is some fight left in this ol' republic.
41 posted on 12/04/2005 11:36:30 AM PST by aligncare (Wasted my time...got my Journalism degree)
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To: summer

Ron is a very smart and moderate man who is able to push aside his personal social politics for the greater good of America.


42 posted on 12/04/2005 11:41:52 AM PST by aft_lizard (What does G-d look like then if we evolved from nothing?See Genisis Ch 1:26-27)
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To: aligncare

Indeed, you picked 4 of the best examples. I'm sure there are others, and I hope they live long and multiply!


43 posted on 12/04/2005 11:45:53 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker
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To: Fudd Fan
"For some reason he's always creeped me out to a degree (maybe it's been some of the characters he's portrayed, I don't know)"

He's been the go-to when Pacino passes on a role.

44 posted on 12/04/2005 11:47:17 AM PST by StAnDeliver
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To: summer

Good for Ron Silver. Obviously, an intelligent, patriotic man who will be an asset to the Republican Party. I just wish there were more like Ron Silver in Hollywood.


45 posted on 12/04/2005 11:47:33 AM PST by khnyny
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To: aft_lizard
I heard Koch, popular liberal democrat ex-mayor of NYC, say the same thing about himself. A common thread, I think.
46 posted on 12/04/2005 11:53:21 AM PST by aligncare (Wasted my time...got my Journalism degree)
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To: StAnDeliver

lol~ I would bet it was Silver's role as Dershowitz that started it for me!


47 posted on 12/04/2005 11:55:33 AM PST by Fudd Fan (God bless President Bush! (Proud member of the Water Bucket Brigade - MOOSEMUSS!)
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To: summer
"I really like Ron Silver. I think he is quite brave."

Would that his braveness filled his heart with respect for the unborn.

His Green tilt is no harm-no foul because he must compartmentalize & subordinate that within the GOP framework if that's where he wants to add his voice.

But if he seeks a more active role in the GOP, he must come around on abortion (if he wants more than a nasty namecheck article from the MSM once a year). Sure, the Slimes does everything but call him a scumbag in this interview -- maybe that's worth FReep cred, and Silver's erudition permits him to use the interview to his own ends, but he still needs a change of heart on abortion.

The party does not need another RINO New Yawker like Bloomberg or Giuliani (who I respect in every way but his pro-abort attitudes) at this point.

48 posted on 12/04/2005 11:58:30 AM PST by StAnDeliver
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To: jocon307

"James Woods (who has a degree in Poli Sci from MIT"

He called Bill & Hillary criminals. That's good enough for me!

" Islamofacists would just as soon chop off his head as shake his hand, any body who doubts that, or forgets it, is a fool, no matter how high their IQ."

Amen to THAT!


49 posted on 12/04/2005 11:58:55 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker
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To: Fudd Fan; All
Anyone know Dershowitzs' position on Iraq, WOT?
50 posted on 12/04/2005 12:01:23 PM PST by aligncare (Wasted my time...got my Journalism degree)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Actually Hitchens "rolled over" well before the war on terror. He was a consistently articulate, unforgiving critic of Der Schlickmeister. I think he's been consistent about what he believes. NO intellectually honest person (as Hitch is) could have defended Clinton, and none could defend Michael Moore and Cindy Sheehan.


51 posted on 12/04/2005 12:05:01 PM PST by Burr5
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To: StAnDeliver

Ahh, the issue that will not fade away.


52 posted on 12/04/2005 12:06:08 PM PST by aligncare (Wasted my time...got my Journalism degree)
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To: StAnDeliver

Ahh, the issue that will not fade away.


53 posted on 12/04/2005 12:06:36 PM PST by aligncare (Wasted my time...got my Journalism degree)
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To: Burr5

You are, of course correct. He was rough on the Clintons. I was alluding to the point where he abandoned liberalism altogether. (He used to be a Labourite Leftie).


54 posted on 12/04/2005 12:08:09 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker
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To: aligncare

Ah, perhaps with the nomination of Alito (and Bush's subsequent replacements of Stevens and Ginsburg), it will.


55 posted on 12/04/2005 12:09:18 PM PST by StAnDeliver
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To: aligncare
There should be an award for the After 50th Post Dunce. I'll take first honors.
56 posted on 12/04/2005 12:11:58 PM PST by aligncare (Wasted my time...got my Journalism degree)
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To: summer

Yes he did and I had the priviledge of hearing him speak.


57 posted on 12/04/2005 12:12:57 PM PST by GOPPachyderm
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To: StAnDeliver

"But if he seeks a more active role in the GOP, he must come around on abortion (if he wants more than a nasty namecheck article from the MSM once a year"

if you honestly think that the abortion issue is the core of the Republican party i think you're sadly mistaken...


58 posted on 12/04/2005 12:13:30 PM PST by kajingawd (" happy with stone underhead, let Heaven and Earth go about their changes")
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To: stephenjohnbanker
Regarding Hitchens:
"He was rough on the Clintons. I was alluding to the point where he abandoned liberalism altogether."

Amazing what leaving the UK will do to a man.
59 posted on 12/04/2005 12:18:36 PM PST by aligncare (Wasted my time...got my Journalism degree)
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To: Fudd Fan
One of his better roles was Chicago Hope, although the shark had jumped out of the water by the time his role got any traction.

But he and Patinkin had a scene where a clash over some sort of palace intrigue culminated with a face-to-face, inches-apart, by-the-dozens throwdown in a crowded waiting room, where Kelley employed a circling camera motion to great effect.

You instinctively knew the argument would be lost by the first person to push the other -- and sure enough, after a glorious full minute, Silver's character finally issued the shove; Patinkin gleefully pounced -- "You lose!" -- even though Patinkin's character was on the wrong side of the argument.

60 posted on 12/04/2005 12:20:59 PM PST by StAnDeliver
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