Interview with Robert Davi

Very interesting link from Cold Fury. Michael links to an interview with Actor Robert Davi Here are Robert Davi's credits courtesy of IMDB - he has been busy! From the introduction to the interview: bq. A Hollywood Heavy for Bush Today, many Hollywood celebrities use their fame to air their Leftist political views. Johnny Depp whines about America and lives in France. Sean Penn travels to Iraq to provide sound bites for Saddam. America is attacked and Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, and Janeane Garofalo attack America as the root cause of anti-American hate. Michael Moore produces a propaganda film for the enemy and the cinema community gives him an award. Very true. The article then goes on to introduce Robert Devi - prolific actor and hero (recently rescued a young girl from a fire and saved her life). From the interview -- talking about Janeane Garofalo: bq. KAPLAN: I usually find that people like her are not that knowledgeable. They should read Horowitz�s book (The Anti-Chomsky Reader ..ed). bq. DAVI: They�re knowledgeable and unknowledgeable. They should read all of David Horowitz�s books. When they speak, they not only denigrate President Bush but America also. When Garofalo is speaking, her words convey a strong anti-American sentiment. What I hear from them is this Chomsky-like revisionist propaganda that always attacks America first. It�s an attack on America without any historical perspective or reference, always blaming America for the ills of the world. It�s always ignoring or excusing the atrocities committed by Communists and other adversaries of the Untied States. Even a discussion of slavery, a five-thousand-year-old institution, somehow ends up as an attack on America. Slavery was certainly not an American invention. America fought a civil war to get rid of slavery and became a better country because of it. Were there post-slavery race problems? So we had the Civil Rights movement. That is what America is really all about. bq. In the 1960�s John F. Kennedy was able to galvanize society�and Hollywood followed suit. The Civil Rights movement was a protest, but in a way that strengthened America. The revisionists ignore the positive and distort what Kennedy stood for. John Kennedy was a Zell Miller Democrat. Regarding the elections of 2000 and the current Bush Derangement Syndrome: bq. KAPLAN: What do you think about the election and how Hollywood is reacting to it? bq. DAVI: There is an almost visceral prejudice against George W. Bush by many in Hollywood, bordering on being totally irrational. bq. KAPLAN: You feel people in Hollywood have an unfair view of President Bush? bq. DAVI: I see a disconnection between Hollywood and the administration after the 2000 election. During the recount in Florida, I spoke to friends in Hollywood who felt they were �disenfranchised.� As for myself, I thought it was almost a divine intervention how the dispute turned out: the week of 9/11, some people who told me they felt disenfranchised during the recount told me, �Thank God Bush was in office at that moment, instead of his opponent!� Mayor Giuliani said the same thing. They felt much safer with President Bush in office. I think Bush is absolutely the right man at the right time, and thank God he�s in office. Many of my friends who didn�t vote for him said so, too. bq. But it only took three weeks after we went into Afghanistan to change all that. Now, as we get further away from 9/11, it seems like the left-wing media has begun to interject more politics into the war effort. Talking about threats from within: bq. KAPLAN: You mentioned earlier threats posed to America from within. bq. DAVI: I am aware of that. I became sensitized to these issues by what was going on in my own daughter�s private school, where it seems a majority of the teachers have a left-wing agenda. The Center for the Study of Popular Culture made me aware of how 90% of college instructors also have left-wing political views and how that affects education in this country. Just before mock presidential elections at my daughter�s school, the pupils were given Time Magazine for Kids to read an article, Leader of the Pack: John Kerry. It discussed Kerry�s views on terrorism and education in a very slanted and positive way, while President Bush�s agenda and policies were all presented negatively. I passed this same article among seven or eight adults of different political viewpoints at my home, and all of them agreed the article was biased. The students were all told to read that one article and then vote. If you only give an eighth grader one point of view to read, with no balance, what are you going to get? My daughter said Kerry won, hands down. Emphasis mine -- the education link is one that needs to be looked into and cleaned up right now. It is a vipers nest. I have only cherry-picked a couple of the great points that Mr. Davi made. If you have ten minutes, it's worth going there and reading the interview yourself. I know I will be checking IMDB more frequently to see what Mr. Davi is up to. Two fan sites here and here The first is a Tripod 'free site' -- be sure to have your pop-up blocker turned on...