"He Just Plays The President!"

As a nation, we assign a certain air of wisdom to people in the entertainment industry. We watched Martin Sheen on the "West Wing", and many people thought he was more qualified to be president than the man holding the office. Many of you might have seen Jimmy Stewart in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", and thought he was the man you would like to see in Congress (in this case you may be right). Spencer Tracey starred in "The Last Hurrah", about a machine politician who finds integrity in his final campaign; a victory of conscience. Broderick Crawford won an Academy Award for his role in "All the Kings Men", a veiled biography of Huey Long. Crawford was compelling as the young politician who was corrupted by the system, and ultimately became the greatest corrupter of all. We have watched these performances and enjoyed them. What many of us fail to understand is the words spoken on the screen don't belong to those actors; they belong to the writers. It seems the actors of today have taken their screen influence and used it to promote some pretty bad choices. A little knowledge is a bad thing; Michael Moore is proof of that. Sean Penn and Danny Glover are also examples of people who really don't know who they are supporting. These two screen icons are huge fans of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela; an oppressive dictator that masquerades as a democratic leader. I'm sure there are many people in America that believe what Glover and Penn are endorsing as good.

Well, my fellow Americans, guess who is upset about the impending ouster of Moamar Qadaffi; yes, it is Hugo Chavez. Chavez says the United States and NATO had no business interfering in Libya's political turmoil; therefore, we must surmise that Glover and Penn also disapprove of America's involvement in aiding the rebel forces in the removal of this backer of terrorism and murder.

We must be very careful about who receives our trust. Most, not all, actors are engaged in a giant game of "Let's Pretend"; that is what acting is! Some actors are legitimate students of our Constitution, most are not. We are better served listening to historians rather than actors when making informed decisions. Actors do make some impact on history; remember John Wilkes Booth?