My exposure to Ashton Kutcher is limited to his show on MTV, and I have always had the impression that he was a goofy and sophomoric, well, punk. But, last night, facing a bitter ender from the reality wing of the Republican Party (Republican Rep from Miami; sorry, didn’t catch her name) on Bill Maher’s show, Ashton Kutcher revealed the answer to that vexing, age-old question: what does Demi Moore see in him?
Below is a clip of Ashton Kutcher on Prop 8. Here, he kills the BS defense behind entangling church and state after a Newsweek editor, in a feeble defense of gay marriage, bizarrely attempted to justify enshrining conservative values into law. Kutcher dismantles him by explaining the true intent of our Nation’s founders: SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE. I’ll quote:
The fact that proposition 8 is even on the ballot...the fact that it’s EVEN ON THE BALLOT! (all caps Ashton’s, not mine)...is ridiculous! I don’t care what your spiritual or religious beliefs are! It should not interfere with our government and our ability to do things through the government! EVER!
Amen, my brother! Here’s the video:
The discussion continues 3:55 into the clip below. About 6:00 minutes into this segment, the salient topic of marijuana legalization arises. This subject deserves some attention over the next four years.
In the below clip, the panel discusses the prudence of our existing electoral system. While the token Republican and Maher bog the discussion down in process, Kutcher interjects a brilliant and simple idea: give voters the day off on voting day. He stole my idea! Even in the white collar environment I work in, employees are woefully reluctant to take time off to vote. If we can afford to shut down on Columbus day, our democracy is important enough to make election day a national holiday.
About four minutes into the same clip, the Republican prop, in an attempt to defend McCain’s gutter campaigning, lauded him for not playing the race card in the face of his sleazy advisors’ desperate insistence. Her inanity, undeserving of a response, went unanswered.
Even to this day, though, Obama responds to McCain's gutter diving with superhuman class, which Kutcher put in historical perspective by drawing the almost hackneyed comparison to Lincoln's "Team of Rivals." He took it a bit too far, though, when he described McCain as noble. That would be Obama's mantle.
Unfortunately, Kutcher was at his best in the show's beginning, and I don’t have that clip. That's when Kutcher proposed the genius idea of making the oil companies bail out the auto makers. I will post it if/when it becomes available.