Actor Rick Schroder on President Bush: "He's a Fantastic Guy"

MRC ^ | Tuesday April 22, 2003 | BrentBaker

[fight_truth_decay]

Saturday's Names & Faces column in the Washington Post, compiled by Matt Kane, included this item:

Rick Schroder, the child star formerly known as Ricky, really digs nature. The onetime "NYPD Blue" star was in town yesterday, shovel in hand, taking part in Interior Secretary Gale Norton's national volunteer Take Pride in America program.

It "inspires people to take pride in parks," Schroder told us while planting trees alongside Mayor Tony Williams and schoolchildren in Watts Branch Park. "I've been involved with these issues for the past 12 years because I have a cattle ranch."...

Schroder, who is not shy about his conservative views, also met with President Bush during his brief D.C. stint. "He's a fantastic guy, let me tell you that," Schroder said. "I told him I wanted to help him get reelected."

Schroder's comments follow another second-tier celebrity praising President Bush. As recounted in the April 12 CyberAlert, on NBC's Last Call with Carson Daly, Shannen Doherty extolled her love for Donald Rumsfeld, said she's "a big supporter of President Bush" and revealed that on her refrigerator she displays a picture of herself with Ari Fleischer. See: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030412.asp#6

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Schroder starred as "Detective Danny Sorenson" on NYPD Blue from 1998 to 2001 and also starred in the early '80s sit-com Silver Spoons and later in the Lonesome Dove mini-series.

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When liberal author/professor Michael Eric Dyson complained on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday night about how President Bush went to war in a crusade of Christianity over Islam as evidenced by how Bush "bows his head to God and prays to God," actor/comedian Dennis Miller fired back with an anti-Clinton quip: "At least he's not bowing his head to watch..."

[bushfamfan]

I realized Rick Shroeder leaned conservative on Politically Incorrect when he was on with Charlton Heston and you could see he was on Heston's side and if you haven't seen Earthling you people should check it out. And I've known Shannen Doherty supported HW Bush, most likely got her all that bad publicity and cheap shots with the liberal domination of her field. She hosts Scare Tactics on Sci-Fi and you all should check that out too.

[katana]

I understand that he was close friends with the Reagans and was an ally in the struggles against communists in the SAG (Screen Actors Guild) when Reagan was head of the union. Either way, he was one of the best film actors who ever lived.