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Is The Charlie Sheen Crazy Train About To Crash Into The World Of Political Punditry?

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by Frances Martel | 8:21 pm, February 24th, 2011

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Charlie Sheen is out for blood. Making his first major media appearance since his latest tragic excesses went public, Sheen spoke to radio host Alex Jones today and attacked everyone from Alcoholics Anonymous to his boss to Thomas Jefferson. While doing little to restore faith in his sanity, he touched one of the most inflamed nerves in post-Tea Party America by going after the patriot and, by visiting a program like Alex Jones to begin with, may be wanting a path to punditry.

Most of his interview with Jones centered around his private life and his career as he rambled about the “goddesses” he dates, the “Vatican assassin warlocks” he works with, and the great fiction that is substance addiction (“I’m cured,” he assures Jones, “I’m done.”). Of the most political significance is the aforementioned slam of Jefferson and attacks of “Bible-clingers” that disapprove of his “bitchin’” lifestyle. There is a remarkable amount of material to work with in the 18-minute interview.

Of course, the entertainment media will have a field day with Sheen’s self-proclaimed “100% success rate” in avoiding addictions and claims that Alcoholics Anonymous is a “bootleg cult,” not to mention that total war he seems to have started with Two and a Half Men creator Chuck Lorre. But we’ll leave what’s Caesar’s to Caesar and get to the real meat and potatoes of this remarkable media appearance: (1) why is Charlie Sheen commenting on the masculinity of our Founding Fathers in public and attacking “Bible-clingers” and (2) what is Charlie Sheen doing making media appearances on The Alex Jones Show anyway?

Alex Jones, for those who may not recall the name, is a radio host that describes himself as something of a “libertarian” but, in actuality, does things like propagate that terrifying image of President Barack Obama as The Joker and getting arrested for things like “operating a bullhorn without a permit.” A sampling of the menu on Jones’ webpage, InfoWars.com, today naturally includes Charlie Sheen but also, did you know the media is “demonizing” Muammar Gaddafi because the Pentagon is planning a military invasion of Libya, or that Justin Bieber is an agent in the war against the Second Amendment? Jones also purports to know “Glenn Beck‘s Secret“– namely that he’s “ripping me off” in order to “save us from the New World Order” while “poisoning” the information he feeds his public. Yes, Jones even has a conspiracy theory about Glenn Beck. Talk about meta.

This is Jones’ standard fare, and while thoroughly entertaining, isn’t exactly the sort of venue one would attend to establish a reputation in the mainstream (Jones, judging from his commentary, would take that as a compliment). And yet here is Sheen, making the slightest entry into the world of politics by visiting the program. It isn’t the first time, either– Sheen was on the show in 2009, questioning the U.S. government’s involvement in the 9/11 attacks. His triumphant return today involves talk of assassins from the Vatican and his superiority to Thomas Jefferson (in terms of presidential power, for example, Sheen may have a point: Jefferson’s perception of what America could be never expanded beyond a peaceful nation of farmers and small businessmen. He never saw the industrial revolution coming and, unlike contemporaries like Alexander Hamilton, refused to empower the executive branch of government over the legislative). His most serious statements attack social conservatives who judge others– namely, himself.

One would be hard-pressed to find a coherent political ideology comprised of these statements, but the Charlie Sheen saga– much like that of modern America– is so unpredictable that the question must be presented: is Sheen trying to position himself as a political commentator of some sort? Going on a political show and spouting even the most arbitrary of political statements, even if you are Charlie Sheen, in a world where an entire wing of a state legislature literally ran away when asked to vote on a bill they didn’t like and Donald Trump is considered a viable presidential candidate inspires suspicion. Or maybe his attempt at staying sober isn’t as “100% successful” as he has been advertising.

His interview on The Alex Jones Show below:

Alex Jones, Alexander Hamilton, Charlie Sheen, Chuck Lorre, Important Media Feuds, Muammar Gaddafi, Thomas Jefferson, Two And A Half Men

http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

I hope he doesn’t show up on Matthews’ show…EMS wouldn’t know who to strap into the jacket first!
LOL!
OxyCon

One would be hard-pressed to find a coherent political ideology comprised of these statements…

They don’t call them “Hollyweirdos” for nuthin’.
Lee Harvey

He still sounds more sane than Beck and Limbaugh.
OxyCon

Lee Harvey said:
He still sounds more sane than Beck and Limbaugh.

Or a guy who takes his online name from Lee Harvey Oswald.
Greg

centerline says:
February 24, 2011 at 2:04 pm
Glenn Beck gets a huge paycheck and lives in the lap of luxury.He is only going to say enough that doesn’t rock the boat too much.Alex will push it more and by far has more courage.Do you ever see Glenn Beck with a bullhorn standing up to a FBI agent,or yelling at the belderberg group?I don’t think so.
People make money off the patriot movement.That’s just America,Glenn Beck has found his nitch.

Quote of the day: Infowars
http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

He may be pulling a David Arquette and using a somewhat friendly venue to say his piece and like was theorized about Arquette, he could be stoned.

Based on the above sample, if I were to venture a guess and go down the road that Frances has nicely laid out, I lean more toward a radio show like the one from Tom Leykis with some Alex Jones thrown-in. I knew that I haven’t heard Leykis in a while and Wikipedia says that he’s on a three year hiatus, so there may be a hole in the market for someone with Sheen’s “skills” and some of his bragging made me lean that way.

Of course, he also has probably has more than enough money and if he doesn’t blow the rest, he really doesn’t have to ever do anything again, if he’d like.
Judge Mental

Francis Martel said:
[M]aybe his attempt at staying sober isn’t as “100% successful” as he has been advertising.

Gee, ya think?
zumpano

SHEEN POWER

THIS IS AWESOME

listen to him and the TRUTH BOMBS he drops about AA, the comedy worth of 2 1/2 Men, and Thomas Jefforson.

LOLS for miles
zumpano

WOW

A couple of those Alex Jones links are AMAZING

The “Biebler” rant is Highly Recommended

For all his ranting about the “poison in the food”; that must be knowledge he experiences firsthand. Let’s just say Jones isn’t the most :fit: radio personality.
Color Me Badd

Alex Jones is a conservative Tee Hee.
Color Me Badd

OxyCon said:
Or a guy who takes his online name from Lee Harvey Oswald.

He took his name from Stripes douche.
Helix

I’m betting on a John Belushi style ending myself. Except with less class and more ego. I wouldn’t take his political statements seriously, it’s just the drugs talking, nothing really there. Only question is whether his money runs out or his blood vessels burst first in the race to the gutter.
Davo

Frances Martel said:
And yet here is Sheen, making the slightest entry into the world of politics by visiting the program. It isn’t the first time, either– Sheen was on the show in 2009, questioning the U.S. government’s involvement in the 9/11 attacks. His triumphant return today involves talk of assassins from the Vatican and his superiority to Thomas Jefferson………….

Democrits should welcome Charlie into their political non-diversity. He would fit right in and go unnoticed as anything out of the ordinary or exceptional.
BatBoy

As I have said a hundred times before…I have never seen a good outcome from people who use drugs.

Charlie is a case study on this subject.

I don’t know Alex Jones…but he is an enabler, using a drug crazed Charlie Sheen for his ratings. Pretty sad!
goldmind

Charlie Sheen, is just another,of many meltdown Hollyweird maggots. The public elevates these people to the status of “icon”, when in fact they are circus acts, promoted to a lofty status by a machine that lets them know they are expendable. Ratings are a lethal consequence of this charade, along with the reviews that can make or break a Hollyweird career. Media, is an unforgiving foster mother…and she demands perfection from her children. With the world in a tailspin, this trend will continue,as people begin to realize there is no real entertainment value coming out of those soiled hills. Many will return to their circus acts, and fade into oblivion.
Quite the Pundint

Yeah, Charlie’s “cured” all right. The sitcom gig was probably his last tether to reality, and even by Hollywood standards, he’s too far gone for anybody to work with. “Major League III”, yeah, sure. The burnout is gonna accelerate quickly now…
Nationman

Davo said:
Democrits should welcome Charlie into their political non-diversity. He would fit right in and go unnoticed as anything out of the ordinary or exceptional.

nah he’d fit right in with michelle bachman’s talk about investigating politicians for anti american activities.
X-3

NORBIT Jr. said:
I hope he doesn’t show up on Matthews’ show…EMS wouldn’t know who to strap into the jacket first!LOL!

That’s one of the funniest things you’ve ever said.
Davidod

Sheen on Obama, during his Alex Jone’s interview: “You sir, are obviously a coward in a cheap suit”.

Obama’s response back to Sheen: “You sir, are obviously a crackhead who gets paid $2 mil per episode just to read scripted fart jokes in a cheap Coconut Joes batik shirt.”
WillP

Smoking crack and sleeping around with hookers. Sounds like a fun way to live. He really should get help. He is getting older. He doesn’t want to end his life this way.
njoy-d-ride

Why not? Sheen has nothing to loose and is running out of control on full throttle. Sad.

If he somehow manages to land this one without crashing BIG, he can write the book.