Yeah, it's a never ending class warfare story with leftists...
Posted on 02/06/2009 5:12:12 AM PST by DJ Taylor
One of New Mexico’s most famous residents is once again telling people in the press that he wants to run for governor.
According to The Hill actor Val Kilmer is still thinking about running for New Mexico’s top job in 2010 when the current governor, Bill Richardson, is term-limited out of office.
And Kilmer hinted that he has the backing of Gov. Bill Richardson.
The Hill reports that Kilmer said the mysterious “they” have asked him to run.
He told The Hill at Monday’s Huffington Post party at the Newseum that he has been approached to run for the highest office of the state where he owns a ranch and has family roots.
“Actually, they’ve asked me to run for governor,” he said, not specifying who “they” are. “People seem to want me to.”
But the most eyebrow-raising part of the article comes further down, where it looks as if Kilmer is claiming to have the backing of Richardson.
Richardson publicly declared his support for a potential Kilmer candidacy last year, and on Monday the actor returned the praise to the current governor, who now plans to stay put after an ongoing ethics investigation forced him to decline President Obama’s invitation to become Commerce secretary.
Last year, a Richardson spokesman told the Santa Fe New Mexican that Richardson did not endorse a run for governor. Instead, Richardson seems supportive of the idea of Kilmer’s running, saying of Kilmer, “If he jumps in a race he’s got name ID, so it can’t be discounted.”
I still think that if people want to learn a little more about Kilmer– besides that he was Doc Holliday in “Tombstone,” Iceman in “Top Gun” or Batman in “Batman Forever” — the Chuck Klosterman profile for Esquire is a good place to start.
This exchange is particularly … well, just read it.
[Klosterman]: You mean you think you literally had the same experience as Doc Holliday?
Kilmer: Oh, sure. It’s not like I believed that I shot somebody, but I absolutely know what it feels like to pull the trigger and take someone’s life.
[Klosterman:] You understand how it feels to shoot someone as much as a person who has actually committed a murder?
[Kilmer] I understand it more. It’s an actor’s job. A guy who’s lived through the horror of Vietnam has not spent his life preparing his mind for it. He’s some punk. Most guys were borderline criminal or poor, and that’s why they got sent to Vietnam. It was all the poor, wretched kids who got beat up by their dads, guys who didn’t get on the football team, couldn’t finagle a scholarship. They didn’t have the emotional equipment to handle that experience. But this is what an actor trains to do. I can more effectively represent that kid in Vietnam than a guy who was there.
He did a fine job as Neek Rivers in “Top Secret!”
I know far too many people who had run-ins with this guy from when I lived in New Mexico. Calling him an arrogant prick would be an insult to arrogant pricks.
Really? Who was that? When was that? Was it self defense or murder? There is no statute of limitations on murder. Law enforcement may be knocking on your ranch door.
"A guy who’s lived through the horror of Vietnam has not spent his life preparing his mind for it. He’s some punk."
What an ass. WTFIIWNM, indeed!
Be sure to get that on video. That is a Kilmer film I would pay to see.
Yeah, and Sarah Palin as Governor is a freak of nature.../s/
“...Most guys were borderline criminal or poor, and that’s why they got sent to Vietnam. It was all the poor, wretched kids who got beat up by their dads, guys who didn’t get on the football team, couldn’t finagle a scholarship...”
Yeah... I’d imagine some Vietnam Vet would like to set him straight on that one!
Can’t be real. He’s got to be joking somehow. He’s playing the “iceman” character from top gun, right?
Demographics have disproved this on-going LIE many times. This p***k needs his butt kicked.
Regards,
Vet
WHat is it with the left saying that people who either joined or got drafted is too stupid to make it in the “real World”. When I joined, you had to pass a battery of tests.
I have plenty of friends who joined the service, and I wouldnt call any of them stupid. And I wouldnt really call the USMC vets stupid.
The left have no idea what it takes to join and serve. They think that serving thier country is supporting the DNC and protecting the rights to kill babies. They are a stench in the nostrals of all real Americans.
Yeah, it's a never ending class warfare story with leftists...
“Isn’t that a daisy?...”
Some how I don’t think I will ever see his movies again and feel good about it. Maybe I will just not go see any more of his movies. Yea! I think that is the better thought!!!
“I’ll be your huckleberry” Didn’t he kill some badguy after this line?
The fact is that the biggest shirking REMF turd that never left the compound at Cam Ranh Bay is a better man than Val Kilmer will ever be.
FACT VS FICTION.....THE VIETNAM VETERAN
The stereotypes are wrong. Let’s look at the facts, starting with who actually served in Vietnam.
The image of those who fought in Vietnam is one of poorly educated, reluctant draftees — predominantly poor whites and minorities. But in reality, only one-third of Vietnam-era veterans entered the military through the draft, far lower than the 66 percent drafted in World War II.
It was the best-educated and most egalitarian military force in America’s history — and with the advent of the all-volunteer military, is likely to remain so. In WWII, only 45 percent of the troops had a high school diploma. During the Vietnam War, almost 80 percent of those who enlisted had high school diplomas, and the percentage was higher for draftees — even though, at the time, only 65 percent of military-age males had a high school diploma.
Throughout the Vietnam era, the median education level of the enlisted man was about 13 years. Proportionately, three times as many college graduates served in Vietnam than in WWII.
Another common assumption: The war in Vietnam was fought by youngsters wet behind the ears, who died as teenagers barely old enough to shave. In fact, more 52-year-olds (22) died in Vietnam than 17-year-olds (12). An analysis of data from the Department of Defense shows the average age of men killed in Vietnam was 22.8 years, or almost 23 years old.
Though the notion persists that those who died in Vietnam were mostly members of a minority group, it’s not true. About 5 percent of KIAs were Hispanic and 12.5 percent were black — making both minorities slightly under-represented in their proportion of draft-age males in the national population.
A common negative image of the soldier in Vietnam is that he smoked pot and injected heroin to dull the horrors of combat. However, except for the last couple of years of the war, drug usage among GIs in Vietnam was lower than for U.S. troops stationed elsewhere.
When drug rates started to rise in 1971 and 1972, almost 90 percent of the men who served in Vietnam had already come and gone. A study after the war by the VA showed drug usage of veterans and non-veterans to be about the same. And marijuana — not heroin — was the drug used in 75 percent of the cases. Of those addicted, 88 percent kicked the habit within three years of returning.
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http://www.vvof.org/factsvnv.htm
I’m your Huckleberry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx1TWk-V4P0
Oh boy! I can see it now! Blago number 2.
I think I'll send this to him.
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