Ron Silver: How to Get the World to Like Us –The Case for Isolationism

pajamasmedia.com ^ | October 30, 2007 | Ron Silver

[Tolik]

The presidential electoral cycle is upon us. That means conventions. Conventions have platforms. I propose a platform that will make the world like us again. Just like they always did.

It may take 12 steps to get clean and sober, but only 6 to make the world realize just how super the U.S. can be.

1. We can start by helping the Arabs retake Andalusia. Having conquered it once, it belongs to them forever. This goes for most of the Balkans as well as Austria up to the gates of Vienna. All infidels should convert to Islam. This is inevitable as Islam means “submission.” Needless to say, we should all follow the code of Sharia. It’ll work wonders. No need to tie up the courts with gay marriage cases; we can just kill all the homosexuals. How much better will our soap operas be when the cheating wives get stoned to death?

What’s wrong with honor killings of women? Or keeping them uneducated or illiterate? Why can’t heroism be defined as hiding behind women and children while trying deliberately to kill women and children?

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Now I know this will offend many in my own community. Hollywood, as we know, is very sensitive to the mistreatment of women, and women’s rights, first amendment protections, separation of church and state and the usual menu of American values like diversity, pluralism, dissent, free press, unfettered artistic expression and all the other BS we try to foist on the world. But what happens in America should stay in America. If filmmakers are killed in Holland, let the Dutch decide if it has a chilling effect on free and unfettered, robust debate.

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[Tolik]

Ron Silver as Bruno Gianelli in West Wing

Bummed out about international hostility to the US of A? Waiting for the good times to roll again? Actor/activist Ron Silver has a proposal for you. (NOTE: Silver begins his new PajamasXpress blog “Silver Bullet” for Pajamas Media on Wednesday)

[Tolik]

Nailed It!

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[Moose4]

Wow. Mister “Those are our planes now!” from 1993 has really come around, hasn’t he?

}:-)4

[timsbella]

Please add to this ping list. I already enjoy your Victor DH list.

[mnehring]

Bump and ping

[Army Air Corps]

You may enjoy this essay from someone from Tinseltown who isn’t a complete git.

[AdvisorB]

We should wipe out these radical jihad wherever these vermin are found...

[Tolik]

Added. Thanks

[Tolik]

For many September 11 was enough. Others keep dreaming..

[njrep]

What ever happened to Clint Eastwood? He is a conservative and could afford to be in a town where being one means no work.

[Army Air Corps]

You do not seem to hear too much from him lately. Then again, he could give a tinker’s damn if he ever works again; the man has made so many movies that he has the cash to work because he *wants* to do so.

[Mr. Jeeves]

What ever happened to Clint Eastwood? He is a conservative and could afford to be in a town where being one means no work.

Doing real estate development in Carmel. I don't think he cares much about politics one way or the other, these days.

[Red Badger]

To paraphrase the immortal words of one of my fellow artists, we can hold hands, open a Coke and say, “They like us, they really like us.”

LOL!!!!.....

[FreedomPoster]

The heck of it is, there are extremist Lefties out there who wouldn’t understand that this whole thing is written with the sarcasm turned up to eleven.

[SoCalPol]

Ron Silver gets it, as a New Yorker he remembers 9/11

[dennisw]

Wow. Mister “Those are our planes now!” from 1993 has really come around, hasn’t he?

Even then he was making great movies such as Enemies: A Love Story
I always figured he was smart enough to come around. That he isn't into phony crap. And fact is he is very smart, has a masters in Chinese history. I'd love to have a beer with him

[Tolik]

I’d buy him a few rounds of ANY drink he wants

[SaxxonWoods]

Silver Bullet?

Ron Paul Silver, away!

[Cinnamon Girl]

More this:

Less this:

[dennisw]

Ron Silver would definitely be interesting to have a few drinks with and let him unwind.