On Tuesday, I linked to a fun website on “Celebs Who Lean To The Right.” I commented,
You got your country singers, of course, and your athletes. And your Cuban Americans (Gloria Estefan, Andy Garcia). (Like they’re gonna vote Democratic?) You got Kathy Ireland and Kim Alexis! How ’bout that? You got James Earl Jones (!) and Adam Sandler. You got Meat Loaf and 50 Cent. And, maybe my favorite fact of all: Scott Baio was in YAF. Don’t know how he feels now . . .
Have a ball!
Well, a lot of readers did. One wrote, “When I saw Adam Sandler, I couldn’t help being reminded of his ‘Hanukkah Song.’ Maybe, in time for the Republican convention, he should have been commissioned to do a ‘Conservative Song’?”
(By the way, there are as many ways to spell “Hanukkah” as “Catherine.”)
That “Conservative Song” is a very good idea — Adam?
Another reader pointed me to something fairly moving in a Robert Downey Jr. interview, given to the New York Times. Downey said,
I have a really interesting political point of view, and it’s not always something I say too loud at dinner tables here [in Hollywood], but you can’t go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary and really understand it and come out a liberal. You can’t. I wouldn’t wish that experience on anyone else, but it was very, very, very educational for me and has informed my proclivities and politics every since.
The Times added, “(Suffice it to say he is not one of the Hollywood types who weeps over innocents trapped behind bars.)”
(The sentence should read, “. . . not one of those Hollywood types who weep . . .”)
Still another reader let me know that James Earl Jones is a Second Amendment man. Jones has been quoted as saying, “The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose.”
Well, I never.
Finally, a reader wrote, “Perused the pics of Republican-leaning celebrities. Several years ago, I actually had a dream of marrying Heather Locklear. [Join the club, pal.] Now I know why.”
P.S. Years ago, I sensed that James Earl Jones was a great man. Why? Well, he was always being confused with James Earl Ray, or called James Earl Ray. And he said he didn’t mind — he didn’t take umbrage. It was a perfectly natural, forgivable mistake. I thought, “That is an unusual person — especially in the days of Whining, ‘I’m a Victim’ America.”