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Cecil B. DeMille would have fun with this epic. Naturally Charlton Heston plays Coach Murphy. Michael Crichton '64 (MD '69) would write the screenplay...
Presiding over one of his famously incongruous assemblages of guests on a recent evening, Bill Maher got on the subject of failed second-term presidencies. On the panel that night was Charlton Heston, who casually inserted that Ronald Reagan "won the cold war" during his last years in office. Maher's blood pressure started to mountain-climb. "He won the cold war? Please! This was strictly a Reagan project?...I would say Vietnam was the biggest thing that won the cold war..." The conversation shifted but Maher's mind didn't. Later he cut off one of his other guests...
...question that prefaces most conspiracy rants: "Don't you find it interesting that...?" For Maloney, who preaches that President Clinton is an "agent of influence" for the Chinese, there seems to be no such thing as a meaningless coincidence or a truthful politician. When a caller nominates Charlton Heston for Speaker of the House, it is not a joke...
Indeed, in an interview with Tim Russert on Sunday's "Meet the Press," Charlton "Moses" Heston came out shooting. Asked repeatedly by Russert why the NRA backed revoking the Brady Bill and was so enthusiastic in foiling the government's attempts to regulate the distribution of semi-automatic and automatic weapons, Heston toed the party line artfully enough to make even the most sanguine gun advocate proud. When confronted with statistics displaying the wide-spread violence and the staggering number of juvenile deaths caused every year by the mismanagement of fire arms, he adopted the Disraeli defense, dismissing statistics...
...bear arms shall not be infringed." Given that the Amendment explicitly justifies the right to bear arms on the grounds that a citizen militia is essential to national security, Russert asked, doesn't that mean that the right is void now that we no longer require a militia? Heston simply said "no"--and he is right...