Roxanne Roberts and Amy Argetsinger, the Washington Post’s "Reliable Sources" gossip columnists, were all smiles in their column for leftist actor Danny Glover as he stumped for a leftist trying for a second to unseat Democratic Rep. Al Wynn in Maryland, contending he’s too conservative (with a lifetime American Conservative Union rating of 9.9 percent):
Lots of Hollywood types show up to a rally and give a two-minute speech. But who among them will do the real dirty work of politics?
Ladies and gentlemen, Danny Glover. The "Lethal Weapon" star turned out last night for congressional candidate Donna Edwards, doing the kind of chore that cures most folks of higher-office notions: standing at a Metro station on a cold winter night shaking hands with potential voters.
Glover is hailed for his commitment in the cold, and he jokes in the story that Mel Gibson would never do the same.
The Post writers made no mention of Glover’s passionate leftist anti-Bush politics or his moonlighting as the chairman of the board of the far-left TransAfrica Forum. The Donna Edwards campaign is all the rage on the left: MoveOn.org, the Sierra Club, and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) are all focused on throwing out Al Wynn.
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The old media is always
January 15, 2008 - 18:40 ET by Chris NormanThe old media is always willing to airbrush out any negative or controversial facets from a Leftist, leaving only an attractive, feel good, soft focus picture.
I think Wynn will eke out a
January 15, 2008 - 18:43 ET by Ken ShepherdI think Wynn will eke out a win.
A 9.9 ACU rating and he's
January 15, 2008 - 18:51 ET by Chris NormanA 9.9 ACU rating and he's too conservative? Yikes, do you have to be a Bolshevik these days to be considered liberal enough?
Wynn's sin
January 16, 2008 - 00:00 ET by Tim GrahamHe has been in the 20s the last two years on the ACU scale -- which among Democrats, puts you on the conservative fringe, I guess.
Goofy Glover
January 15, 2008 - 18:54 ET by Lame CherryI remember Rush Limbaugh once describing Danny Glover at an event where he watched Rush like one would an oil slick about to wash up on his exclusive beach.
One always wonders what Glover and these other attention grabbers can never find after fame and fortune. Instead of making the difference in poor people's lives in one on one contact, they instead run to the spotlight looking for ways to dictate to the masses like some petty dictator.
I remember Michael Landon in going to events. He always shunned the mayors and big shots in the communities he went to, but instead would always choose to dine with some local nobody and their family.
Hollywood is not like Frank Sinatra or Jack Benny anymore in doing such great deeds for communities and individuals and shunning anyone ever finding out about them.
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Mel Gibson?
January 15, 2008 - 20:04 ET by shannon20Glover is hailed for his commitment in the cold, and he jokes in the story that Mel Gibson would never do the same.
I know something else Mel Gibson wouldn't do...take money from an crazy dictator to make a movie!
How does he know Mel Gibson
January 15, 2008 - 20:41 ET by motherbeltHow does he know Mel Gibson wouldn't do the same for a candidate he supported?
I get so sick of people just tossing out judgments about others when they don't have a clue....
Mel Gibson helped make
January 15, 2008 - 21:14 ET by doug1950Mel Gibson helped make Glover rich too. If not for The Lethal Weapons movies Glover would have been a has been a lot sooner. The phone is not ringing at Danny's house anymore. I hope he saved some of his money.