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.
