Ron Silver and Dennis Miller are two Hollywood figures that just seemed to get it after 9/11. While Dennis Miller still graces the airwaves today with his quirky uber-lexiconic spurts, actor Ron Silver died Sunday at the age of 62, as Annie C says in her column this week, “an intellectual trapped in an actor’s body.” Here’s a Cavuto tribute on Silver’s passing:
One point that Silver made which left an impression with me was a story he recalled from the 1993 Clinton Inaugural period. He was standing with this Lefty friends at a moment when the Air Force had a quick fly-by. His Lefty friend remarked, “Those are our planes now,” which didn’t sit well with Silver, nearly a eight years before 9/11. Didn’t they always belong to all of us, the American people? That friend’s remark demonstrated the Liberal worldview to a tee — it’s all about power to them, America’s only worth defending when the Lefties are in charge, and our military is also a political tool. Ever since 9/11, this perspective has unfortunately shown through, and to hear it refuted from a former Lib, gave Silver some serious street cred in my opinion. He’ll be missed as a person, an actor, and as a fierce defender of American freedom on the airwaves.
