Posted on 03/28/2008 7:43:37 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3
DENVER, Colorado - An Emmy-winning actor who once played a downed fighter pilot in an action movie is narrating a television advertisement for Republican presidential candidate and Arizona Sen. John McCain, who was shot down in real life as a Naval pilot during the Vietnam War.
The 60-second commercial for McCains presidential campaign, which will play in the battleground state of New Mexico before being aired more widely, is narrated by the gravelly voiced actor Powers Boothe, who has also appeared in popular tv series like 24" and Deadwood.
The commercial opens with spotty black-and-white footage of McCain interviewed in a hospital bed in Hanoi shortly after he was shot down piloting a Navy attack aircraft in 1967.
Smoking a cigarette, he gives his rank as lieutenant commander, describes ejecting from his aircraft and breaking a leg and both arms. He then goes on to give his service number 624787.
The vintage footage of McCain as a young POW is cut together with images of the now 71-year-old Arizona senator on the campaign trail, urging American voters to Stand up. Were Americans. Were Americans.
Boothe, whose narration threads together the ad, played a downed F-15 pilot in Red Dawn, an over-the-top Cold War action movie released in 1984, about an American high school militia that turned back an invasion by Cuban and Soviet paratroops. In the last season of the hit tv program24, Boothe portrayed Vice President Noah Daniels, who briefly assumed the presidency after a terrorist attack.
When I think of Powers Boothe, I still first think of his haunting portrayal of the Rev. Jim Jones.
Well, John McCain listened to John Kennedy, when he said something like
...don’t ask what your country can do for you but ask what you can do for your country....
John McCain listened and put to action this call...He loves his country and will put his fellow Americans before himself...
Calling Obama and Hillary...are you listening...the me me me me me me me senators...
Actually, IMHO the very best Powers Boothe was the Phillip Marlowe, Private Eye series HBO had back in the 90’s. It was atmospheric, cool music, cool acting, and just plain cool. LOL
“Hollywood’s the kind of town where they stick a knife in your back and then have you arrested for carrying a concealed weapon.”
The guy has an incredible voice, no doubt.
I remember his playing “Cash,” a mexican desperato in a movie with Nick Nolte.
He played the original “Drink the Kool-Aid” guy!
You said it. Anyone who has never seen that movie, doesn't know what they are missing.
Extreme Prejudice. Great show.
Powers Boothe was also excellent in Tombstone.
"So why are you sayin' it?"
Best Powers Booth line.
Years ago, a Dallas Cowboy football player’s name was Jim Jones........teammates dubbed him “Kool-Aid”............
Why is this even newsworthy?
"Well, who *is* on our side?"
Col. Andy Tanner: "Six hundred million screaming Chinamen."
"Last I heard, there were a billion screaming Chinamen."
Col. Andy Tanner: "There *were*."
Which is the perfect...and best...counterpoint to his campaign against Barack Hussein Obama. Should it become necessary.
This is the one point that truly separates Obama from every other President or Presidential candidate over the last 30 years.
Juanito Mccain...."I already did it"
I didn't know half the stuff until i read it here...I new he really served in Vietnam but didn't know to what extent???
These pictures of him need to get out...
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