Over at Pajamas Media, actor Ron Silver has a blog . Silver’s TV work has run the gamut from Rhoda in the 1970s to the West Wing more recently, and in film from the serious— Silkwood, Enemies: A Love Story, and Reversal of Fortune (as Alan Dershowitz, no less)—to the goofy-sweet Garbo Talks and the one decent Jean-Claude Van Damme film, TimeCop .
He has also done something even more remarkable: He’s actually spoken at the Republican Convention and been a vocal supporter of President Bush, at least as far as his foreign policy goes.
This has caused Mr. Silver—who eschews political labels—no amount of grief in La-La-Land, as one might expect.
A quote from a November 15 entry:
I believe the President’s critics are profoundly mistaken. I believe they misunderstand how he’s trying to protect us. I believe they misunderstand the nature of the threat. I believe they misunderstand history. If they succeed in dismantling what President Bush has set in motion, the results may well be catastrophic and history will never forgive them.George W. Bush: a revolutionary liberal internationalist? History may so decree. Let’s wait and see.
Whether you cheer him on or merely cheer “Ron, Ron, the Neocon!” along with his costars, this is a guy who actually risks something with his opinions, as opposed to 95 percent of his confreres who believe they are taking a courageous stand—AND CONSEQUENCES BE DAMNED!—because they recycle their organic waste (now available in lieu of first-run network programming).
