What makes you think that Charles is 'honest'?  do you know him?  This society has a strange idea of the definition of 'Honesty'.  they seem to think if a person is outspoken and goes against the grain, he is 'honest'.  the last time I checked the dictionary, I saw that honesty is a loyalty to the truth, and not obfuscation.

I find it laughable and hypocritical that folks require a level of honesty and openness with public officials that they could never achieve themselves.  I am not defending politicians, but they are people subject to pressures, and how is that any different than any of us?  The media is amazingly dishonest.  My wife teaches high school, and the level of cheating is at an all time high.  Kids don't even bother to hide it anymore.  If you work at a large corporation, you see how little value is placed on honesty vs. the corporate line.  Cops in Berkley look the other way when marine families are attacked.  Yet people have somehow determined that one demographic is less honest than another.  And youu somehow have determined that a voice on the TV is honest simply because of what?

You miss the point about freedom of speech, as well as most of America.  Sure, everyone is guaranteed freedom of speech.  But not everyone is guaranteed the right to be listened to.  That is a privelege that is earned by reputation and character.  Charles has been accorded that privelege due to his status as a celebrity.  What hass he done with it?  Used it as a platform to spread his inane and unsupportable opinions, when a little kid says, daddy, why did Charles say the word Viagra?

Of course the media does all of this, and most of them have some measure of postsecondary schooling, but I'm not takling about them.  Just Charles.

And hang it up about the Bush bashing.  As if test scores were everything.  Clinton was a Rhodes scholar, and he did nothing except set up 9-11.  Character makes a leader, not test scores.  Charles says, I am not a role model, then proceeds to demonstrate the truth of his statement.  Most of these athletes struggle to get 800 on the SAT.  They don't need a test score.  They play basketball for gosh sakes.  Then when they stop playing, we put a microphone in front of them.  Whose fault is that?

Rosewood, I'd be willing to bet you're better educated on more of the important subjects than is the Chuckster.  So, why shouldn't you be on a national political show?  Why shouldn't I?

This stuff should be reserved for persons who actually know what they're talking about.  No, I'm not for censoring who can appear on certain shows, and it's certainly CNN's call (or whatever program wants to put whoever on).  The point is that it's all just stupid.  All the way around.

My main problem with him talking (or George Clooney or Ted Nugent) politics is that there are so many stupid person out there who listen simply because he's a celebrity.

The Letterman stuff is good, though.