All Hail Chairman Martin -

All Hail Chairman Martin - The London Independent writes about the "West Wing" star in tones normally reserved for Kim Jong-Il in the North Korean press.

This bit here:

From his earliest days, Sheen has been a rebel, a nonconformist, a man who delights in challenging authority at the highest levels by standing four-square on his own unshakable moral sense. His radicalism has its roots in a certain populist strain of Catholicism stretching back to his boyhood in a large immigrant family in Ohio; it was nurtured by the shattering experience of the Vietnam War and the rise of Cesar Chavez, the heroic leader of the United Farm Workers' union in California in the 1960s and 1970s.

To this day, there is no company Sheen loves more than that of rebellious Catholic priests, the kind who publicly call for a return to the non-violent, peace-loving message of the gospels, who loathe war, loathe the consequences of US intervention in Latin America and elsewhere, loathe the injustices and disenfranchisement and poverty of the modern United States, loathe even the hierarchy of the Catholic Church itself for its cosy accommodations with the rich and the powerful...

...is the kind of thing I expect to see below a Socialist Realist painting, perhaps with "the Internationale" playing in the background.

Posted by Mitch at January 18, 2003 05:17 PM