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Ron Silver in Memoriam - RIP [Powerful VIDEO TRIBUTE, David Horowitz Freedom Center, PopModal.com]
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| March 15, 2009
| Jeffers Dodge
Posted on 03/16/2009 5:43:26 AM PDT by RonDog
This moving video, with highlights from the career of actor Ron Silver, who died yesterday, after a long battle with cancer.It was originally created by Jeffers Dodge on November 21, 2007.
Ron Silver was recently honored at the Restoration Weekend, sponsored by the David Horowitz Freedom Center. You can now watch this POWERFUL video tribute to Ron Silver on the CONSERVATIVE alternative to YouTube, PopModal.com:Ron Silver in Memoriam - RIP . .
Produced/Directed/Edited by Jeffers M. Dodge
for the David Horowitz Freedom Center
Runtime: 3m 53s
TOPICS: Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: davidhorowitz; hollywood; popmodal; ronsilver; tribute
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posted on
03/16/2009 5:43:26 AM PDT
by
RonDog
To: Justaham; lainie
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posted on
03/16/2009 5:56:57 AM PDT
by
RonDog
To: RonDog
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posted on
03/16/2009 6:01:20 AM PDT
by
agere_contra
(So ... where's the birth certificate?)
To: RonDog
I remember when he had his “come to Jesus” moment after 9/11. God bless him.
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posted on
03/16/2009 6:02:48 AM PDT
by
submarinerswife
("If I win I can't 't be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead." - George S. Patton)
To: submarinerswife
Prayers to his family. However with just a little profiling I’m guessing he was Jewish.
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posted on
03/16/2009 6:11:58 AM PDT
by
stevecmd
To: RonDog
May God hold you in the palm of His hand, Ron. Good job!
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posted on
03/16/2009 6:12:49 AM PDT
by
McGavin999
(How's that change old Hopey Dope promised you working out?)
To: submarinerswife
See also, from
pajamasmedia.com:
Roger L. Simon
March 15th, 2009 6:05 pm In Memoriam - Ron Silver
Some people have more courage than others.
And still other people have dead on guts that make the rest of us seem like terrified guppies in a sea of cowards.
That was Ron Silver.
Ron had been fighting terminal stomach cancer for well over two years now as if it were some minor skirmish interrupting his otherwise important dedication to the future of this country. And what a dedication that was twenty-four hours of every day, when they didnt drag him into Sloan Kettering for treatment
the place Ron would call to his friends with characteristic gallows humor Sloan Spa.
We all knew Ron had cancer and most of us, I suspect, had some idea how bad it was. The summer before last (I think it was then) I remember him telling me about his recent operation. He was out for about six hours, he told me, and when he woke up he looked at the doctor and asked her how it went. She told him she couldnt take out the cancer. It had metastasized. The six hours were for nothing. She had to sew him back up. They gave him about three to four months to live at that point.
My heart went into my toes, but Ron told me that matter-of-factly and then he went on to apologize for not writing some article or other for Pajamas Media and then asked me how I was doing. That was Ron.
We had a close relationship that came from a strange confluence of events. Perhaps the best movie that either of us worked on was the same one. Enemies, A Love Story. But that wasnt the real reason it was politics. We had stayed friends after Enemies, as movie folks sometimes do when they have worked on something together that was successful, critically or commercially. We discussed other projects, but our relationship was fairly superficial then and gradually we drifted apart during the nineties.
Then 9/11 came and Ron and I were thrown together once again. We were 9/11 Democrats.
We talked on the phone about our journey and the alienation we were feeling from some our friends, but we didnt come face-to-face until the Republican Convention of 2004. I was a blogger there and feeling rather weird an old leftie gone right but there was Ron, far more out than I was, speaking to the entire convention. And he was brilliant. The man could speak in public as well as almost any politician and he had more intellectual background than almost all of them too. He swept the convention audience off their feet...
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posted on
03/16/2009 6:14:58 AM PDT
by
RonDog
To: McGavin999
May God hold you in the palm of His hand, Ron. Good job!
Thanks!
I justed POSTED that video, however - Jeffers CREATED it. :o)
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posted on
03/16/2009 6:26:46 AM PDT
by
RonDog
To: submarinerswife
It was remarkable how is politics changed after 9/11. According to his obit in the NY Times Silver’s brother said that Ron had voted for Obama. Oh well. No one is perfect. Rest in Peace.
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posted on
03/16/2009 6:27:37 AM PDT
by
LottieDah
(If only those who speak so eloquently on the rights of animals would do so on behalf the unborn)
To: LottieDah
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posted on
03/16/2009 6:45:20 AM PDT
by
RonDog
To: RonDog
Ron, I’m glad you came over from the dark side and saw the light. Say hi to my family up there and don’t forget to walk my dog Sonja.
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posted on
03/16/2009 7:17:30 AM PDT
by
jabonz08
(When rights become privileges, only the privileged will have rights.)
To: RonDog
God bless him and his family.
To: RonDog
Barukh Dayyan Ha'Emet! I had no idea!
I think Mr. Silver was actually more of a liberal (he supported Clinton and was on "The West Wing," if I remember correctly), but I think he got "mugged by reality" at the end.
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posted on
03/16/2009 7:59:05 AM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
(Hachodesh hazeh lakhem ro'sh chodashim; ri'shon hu' lakhem lechodshey hashanah.)
To: Zionist Conspirator
The West Wing cast harped on him constantly after Sept. 11. There are some vicious messages out there but outnumbered by positive, supportive comments. I had no idea Ron Silver was ill and he looked younger than he was.
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posted on
03/16/2009 8:08:39 AM PDT
by
floriduh voter
(Terri's Day March 31, 2009. Remember Terri Schiavo in your neck of the woods.)
To: RonDog
To: LottieDah
I'm amazed that he voted for Obama. As analytical as Silver was you would think that he would have seen the radical, dictatorial personality that Obama possesses
Oh Well! RIP
To: RonDog; Matt Drudge
Thank you for posting this and the video link. I never heard of some of those films before. He was an amazing actor and speaker. I was so sad when I heard the news.
I hope his family sees all the comments in various places that express admiration for him and the passion he put into politics and speaking out about the war on terrorism. He made a valuable contribution.
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posted on
03/16/2009 4:21:11 PM PDT
by
Cinnamon Girl
(G-d Bless President Bush. He kept us safe.)
To: RonDog
Ron Silver — Thank you for having the courage to buck the anti-Americanism of Hollywood and place national security above politics. RIP and prayers for your family.
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posted on
03/16/2009 7:03:39 PM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(Christian and armed)
To: RonDog
Heres a toast to you Ron Silver!.......You were a good man.
To: DainBramage
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieYpBXG5pGk
Ron Silver is Honored at the Restoration Weekend 2007.
3 min 53 sec - Nov 21, 2007
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