Not Much to See on "Silver" Screen - (Ron Silver)

[lumberingbear]

By Al Kamen

Friday, September 23, 2005; Page A21

A press release Monday caught our eye. Prominent actor and political talking head Ron Silver was having a news conference Wednesday at the National Press Club to talk about his new "unflinching exposé" of the United Nations' "failures to resolve human rights abuses, improve economic and social development and enhance world security."

Silver, who's had "a lifelong interest in international affairs," would be there to talk about the documentary -- "Broken Promises: The United Nations at 60" -- which he hosted and narrated. It's produced by Citizens United, a conservative group headed by David Bossie , who became famous for investigations of Whitewater and other matters in the Clinton administration, and Floyd Brown , maker of that very subtle but quite effective Willie Horton ad in the 1988 Bush 1-Dukakis race. Unclear if they'd had a similar lifelong interest in things international.


We decided not to go, figuring that, with two major celebrities bashing the United Nations, the small room would be packed and it would be hard to get in. Turns out we were wrong. No reporters showed, and the news conference was scrubbed.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/22/AR2005092201981.html?referrer=email

[NYCGirl]

1. Good stuff. You might want to send this info to Janeane and Sam over at

AAR's Majority Report. They just love to rag on Silver.

http://www.majorityreportradio.com/weblog/index.php

[AX10]

2. Of course no one showed up.

Right Wing "celebs" are just pure shit. No one wants to see right wing shit anymore.

[rman]

3. Interesting in various ways.

Especially in the fact that no-one showed up.