Reports from all over tonight, that Actor Ron Silver has died. He’d been fighting cancer for some time. Roger Simon, in writing some notes at Pajamas Media, tonight, remembers his friend;
Then 9/11 came and Ron and I were thrown together once again. We were 9/11 Democrats. We talked on the phone about our journey and the alienation we were feeling from some our friends, but we didn’t come face-to-face until the Republican Convention of 2004. I was a blogger there and feeling rather weird – an old leftie gone right – but there was Ron, far more out than I was, speaking to the entire convention. And he was brilliant. The man could speak in public as well as almost any politician and he had more intellectual background than almost all of them too. He swept the convention audience off their feet.
Michelle Malkin has Ron’s speech to that convention, up.
He had finally come, with the help of the 9/11 attack, to see the intrinsic contradictions in the left of today:
Even though I am a well-recognized liberal on many issues confronting our society today, I find it ironic that many human rights advocates and outspoken members of my own entertainment community are often on the front lines to protest repression, for which I applaud them but they are usually the first ones to oppose any use of force to take care of these horrors that they catalogue repeatedly.
Given the atmosphere of Hollywood today it takes a special kind of individual who while working in that environment can be so outspoken in opposition to the prevalent political winds there. As I said the night he made that speech:
I can’t imagine him being very popular in Hollywood after telling the left they’ve been trying to have to both ways.. protesting against violent acts but never wanting to take actions against the violent.
Here was a man of unique courage.
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