Charlie Sheen earned a few million per episode for a popular TV show. The free market can't do better than that. If your private life is unhinged from your public persona, so what? Reality is how you perceive it to be, and if you say a thing often enough, then you make it true. In his unhinged certainty, framed by "winning" conviction, Sheen echoes the manic, hostile GOP untethered from its own moorings. The GOP rants about caring and compassion, but it needs a lot of makeup and punch lines to maintain pretenses. The cancelled sitcom our nation is experiencing-- with the Republcian fraudsters of Wall Street unpenalized and still standing in place--, has its own odd symmetry with Charlie Sheen. When Charlie assures a national TV audience that he cares deeply about his children being raised by two girlfriends-- beautiful models or porn stars, who knows-- he echoes The Family in Washington, sheltering Republican Senators tolerated for straying outside marriage vows in DC because they believe themselves to be a higher order of Christian.
In our fascination with Charlie Sheen, we can feel the tremors of the Tea Party; angry about everything and only a little aware. The Karl Roves, the Dick Armeys, the Tom DeLays and the Ralph Reeds all have deployed populist formats to keep the nation in barcaloungers and numb, in front of our TV sets. They are certain, we cling meekly. They are winners, we cheer. Who needs Keifer Sutherland and "24" to rally the Republican troops around paranoia, when there is Charlie Sheen? All government is evil. All government needs to be shrunk to fit in the size of a bathtub where it can be drowned. That's not Grover Norquist or Jeb! Bush. It is Charlie Sheen.
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Maybe Braman will support Charlie Sheen for Mayor.
If you want to play this game, Let me point out that it can be argued that Sheen could be associated with the Democrats and the far left.
Sheen has spoken on how 9/11 was an inside job (Truther) just like former White House Green Czar Van Jones.
The Jews stayed home on 9/11 and GWB used 9/11 to get us into Iraq so that he could avenge the planned assassination of his daddy. (not sure why he went to Afghanistan first, but pretty simple logic. Who could argue?)
WIth regard to the comparison of Sheen's family values resembling the GOP leader's values. I would be careful because the hypocrisy floats on both sides of the aisle.
Two come to mind immediately.
It was recently revealed Ted Kennedy at the age of 30, married with two children rented out a brother in Chile in 1960 for he and his entourage's "entertainment"
Need a more contemporary example? Former Democratic Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards fathering a child out of wedlock while his wife was dying of cancer.
All of humanity is filled with failure and trying to point those failures to one group whom you politically disagree is just intellectual laziness.
Brother = Brothel
Sheen has taken one too many pills. I don't care if he is Dem or Repub, he is a looney tune.
I have heard Sheen rail against Bush and blame him for 9/11. Your reasoning is absurd. He is 100% Demicrat.
You are missing the point reader. It is not about his political views it is about bad behavior. Read the post again, this time put your thinking cap on.
It is a sad day when the situation of a hopelessy drug addicted celebrity is used to further a personal political agenda, particularly when the political views ascribed to said celebrity are 180 degrees from actual reality.
Sheen's (Estevez')family hail from a long line of progressive, wealth redistribution cheerleaders of government intervention into anything the Supreme Court will allow.
We should, and do take care of those who need it, but too many are still on the public dole only because they can be. I know from personal contact with many of these folks in Miami. The only thing stopping them from looking for a job is their "disability" or SSDI check and their foodstamp card. They're proud of their ability to game the system so they can be at or just below subsistence level and not have to lift a finger except to go the the VA's drug treatment center on Flagler for a meeting so they can get free breakfast and lunch. The place is like a ghost town on only two occasions; after lunch is served, and the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd of every month (cause the gov't checks come on the 1st).
So leave Estevez out of this. He is a very sick man. It's a shame to see someone so sick they are dying, and they don't even realize it.
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