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Emmy-winning actor narrates McCain commercial
reuters.com ^ | 03/28/08 | Tim Gaynor

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 McCain’s 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. We’re Americans. We’re 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 program”24,” Boothe portrayed Vice President Noah Daniels, who briefly assumed the presidency after a terrorist attack.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 24; ads; commercial; mcbackstabber; mccain
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MSLSD ranting that this actor played a VP who tried to steal the presidency from a black man on the TV show 24:)
1 posted on 03/28/2008 7:43:41 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3
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2 posted on 03/28/2008 7:45:54 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Everytime McCain reaches out to conservatives, conservatives get poked in the eye.)
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To: TornadoAlley3

When I think of Powers Boothe, I still first think of his haunting portrayal of the Rev. Jim Jones.


3 posted on 03/28/2008 7:49:21 PM PDT by dfwgator (11+7+15=3 Heismans)
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To: TornadoAlley3

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...


4 posted on 03/28/2008 7:51:49 PM PDT by forYourChildrenVote4Bush (911 Republican)
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To: dfwgator

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.”


5 posted on 03/28/2008 7:53:28 PM PDT by I still care ("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
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To: TornadoAlley3

The guy has an incredible voice, no doubt.

I remember his playing “Cash,” a mexican desperato in a movie with Nick Nolte.


6 posted on 03/28/2008 7:54:22 PM PDT by Mr. Brightside
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To: TornadoAlley3

He played the original “Drink the Kool-Aid” guy!


7 posted on 03/28/2008 7:54:27 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: dfwgator
When I think of Powers Boothe, I still first think of his haunting portrayal of the Rev. Jim Jones.

You said it. Anyone who has never seen that movie, doesn't know what they are missing.

8 posted on 03/28/2008 7:54:54 PM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: Mr. Brightside
I remember his playing “Cash,” a mexican desperato in a movie with Nick Nolte.

Extreme Prejudice. Great show.

9 posted on 03/28/2008 8:02:02 PM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: dfwgator

Powers Boothe was also excellent in Tombstone.


10 posted on 03/28/2008 8:02:24 PM PDT by varina davis
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To: TornadoAlley3
"Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord."

"So why are you sayin' it?"

Best Powers Booth line.

11 posted on 03/28/2008 8:03:58 PM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: dfwgator

Years ago, a Dallas Cowboy football player’s name was Jim Jones........teammates dubbed him “Kool-Aid”............


12 posted on 03/28/2008 8:05:04 PM PDT by AwesomePossum
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To: TitansAFC; meandog; onyx; MARTIAL MONK; Kuksool; freespirited; Salvation; furquhart; mossyoaks; ...
The McCain List.
13 posted on 03/28/2008 8:06:33 PM PDT by Norman Bates (Freepmail me to be part of the McCain List!)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Why is this even newsworthy?


14 posted on 03/28/2008 8:07:25 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Great spirits will always encounter violent opposition from mediocre minds.)
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To: TornadoAlley3
MSLSD is MSNBC?

"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*."

15 posted on 03/28/2008 8:08:58 PM PDT by LdSentinal
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Very scary....almost in the Anthony Hopkins-as-Hannibal Lecter league.....
16 posted on 03/28/2008 8:09:05 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine ("There is no civility, only politics.")
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush
He loves his country and will put his fellow Americans before himself...

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.

17 posted on 03/28/2008 8:10:58 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Great spirits will always encounter violent opposition from mediocre minds.)
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To: varina davis
Curly Bill Brocius...You know what I'd do? I'd take that deal 'n' crawfish, then drill that ol' Devil in the @ss. What about you Juanito, what would you do?

Juanito Mccain...."I already did it"

18 posted on 03/28/2008 8:12:23 PM PDT by digger48 (http://prorev.com/legacy.htm)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
He loves his country and will put his fellow Americans before himself...

Will he be putting Americans first when he grants amnesty to all the illegal aliens in this country?

Was he putting Americans first when he wrote the Incumbant Protection act A.K.A McCain-Fiengold?

Is he putting America first when he refuses to drill in ANWAR and anywhere else in the US for some phoney-baloney reason?

Was he putting America first when he penned the McCain-Lieberman bill that would have added 50 cents to every gallon of gas to combat the SCAM of Global Warming?

Is he putting America first when he proposes to implement a Carbon Cap and Trade system here in the US which will effectively destroy the US economy?
19 posted on 03/28/2008 8:22:59 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (GOP: If you reward bad behavior all you get is more bad behavior.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
He should make more videos like that...tell the American people what sacrifice he did for them..

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...

20 posted on 03/28/2008 8:33:16 PM PDT by forYourChildrenVote4Bush (911 Republican)
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