Is it okay if we drop the Chuck Norris as go-to pop cultural reference now?
If you go to wikipedia and look up Chuck Norris, the final entry in his “Political Views” is
On November 18, 2008, Norris became one of the first members of show business to express support for the California Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage, and he heavily criticized the gay community for interfering with the democratic process and the double standard he perceived of criticizing the Mormon Church without criticizing people of color.
This sort of hurts the image of wikipedia as being fully on top of matters — for instance, go to the Sarah Palin entry and you’ll see that her selection as vice-president was announced there before the media cut in to it, and I do recall some controversy or other where wikipedia “had it first”. And yet, the last major point in the Political Activism career of Chuck Norris has yet to be added. Just in case you weren’t aware of just how far the Republican Party has strayed from being “The Party of Lincoln”.
For those losing hope, and others wanting to rekindle the patriotic fires of early America, I encourage you to join Fox News’ Glenn Beck, me and millions of people across the country in the live telecast, “We Surround Them,” on Friday afternoon (March 13 at 5 p.m. ET, 4 p.m. CT and 2 p.m. PST). Thousands of cell groups will be united around the country in solidarity over the concerns for our nation. You can host or attend a viewing party by going to Glenn’s website. My wife Gena and I will be hosting one from our Texas ranch, in which we’ve invited many family members, friends and law enforcement to join us. It’s our way of saying “We’re united, we’re tired of the corruption, and we’re not going to take it anymore!” A modest mutation to the old “Rush Rooms” of the ’90s, I guess, the “Beck Bunkers”.
I don’t think adding the “President of Texas” item violates the rule of being careful not to tilt the article toward a bias of “Presentism”. Interesting, go to conservapedia and we learn a few more facts that you don’t get at wikipedia, though no “Secession from the Union with cell group in waiting, and running for President of Texas” mention.