{"id":16276,"date":"2016-08-03T22:34:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T22:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16276"},"modified":"2016-08-03T22:34:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T22:34:37","slug":"actor-criticized-for-attending-dnc-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16276","title":{"rendered":"Actor criticized for attending DNC &#8230; why?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/american_sniper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16277\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/american_sniper-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"american_sniper\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/american_sniper-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/american_sniper-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/american_sniper-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/american_sniper.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bradley Cooper is a fabulous artist.<\/p>\n<p>His most memorable portrayal arguably is of the late Navy SEAL Chris Kyle in the film &#8220;American Sniper.&#8221; I saw the film and was riveted by it.<\/p>\n<p>Lately, though, Cooper has been taking some flak from Republicans who criticized him for attending the Democratic National Convention in his hometown of Philadelphia. He wanted to hear President Obama&#8217;s speech at the convention in which he extolled the virtues of Democratic nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper said as well that Obama is a great public speaker. He took his mother to the convention so <em>she<\/em> could hear the president&#8217;s remarks.<\/p>\n<p>So, why the criticism? I can only surmise that it&#8217;s because anti-Obama activists and other observers thought that the actor who portrayed the iconic Chris Kyle was somehow disloyal to the late SEAL&#8217;s values &#8230; and that he since he assumed Kyle&#8217;s identity in the film that he also embraced the brave special forces warrior&#8217;s politics.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm.<\/p>\n<p>If that&#8217;s the case, I only have one response.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why they call it &#8220;acting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ew.com\/article\/2016\/08\/03\/bradley-cooper-outrage-dnc-corden\">http:\/\/www.ew.com\/article\/2016\/08\/03\/bradley-cooper-outrage-dnc-corden<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bradley Cooper is a fabulous artist. His most memorable portrayal arguably is of the late Navy SEAL Chris Kyle in the film &#8220;American Sniper.&#8221; I saw the film and was riveted by it. Lately, though, Cooper has been taking some flak from Republicans who criticized him for attending the Democratic National Convention in his hometown &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16276\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Actor criticized for attending DNC &#8230; why?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13,14],"tags":[369,540,729,968,1406,1941],"class_list":["post-16276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-american-sniper","tag-barack-obama","tag-bradley-cooper","tag-chris-kyle","tag-dnc","tag-gop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16278,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16276\/revisions\/16278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}