La Cage Star Kelsey Grammer Starts (Another) Right-wing TV Network

I Am What I Am- and what Kelsey am is a "pro-America, pro-business, pro-military" conservative.

"There's wrong, and there's right: Right Network, all that's right with the world," Grammer says in a video clip on the network's Web site....
"RightNetwork will be the perfect platform to entertain, inform and Connect with the American majority about what's right in the world."





Fox Too Left WIng For You?

Updated On: 4/19/10 at 02:33 PM

...and he's in La Cage, of all shows?

it reminds me of the 1984 Republican convention when the Reagan Bush ticket celebrated it's victory by playing "The Best Of Times."

He seems to think he's a Republican, but he is quite obviously a libertarian. I think his general support of gay rights/appearance in La Cage would cement this. I guess he sticks with the mainstream camp closest to his beliefs?

Updated On: 4/19/10 at 03:08 PM

But like so many people who hold up these ideals as the "right" ones (or Right™ Network ones), Kelsey Grammer's reality has not historically come close to what he's pitching in that capacity. Again, I am puzzled by the contradictions.

Some personal life highlights regarding Mr. Grammer's significant others from his bio on Yahoo:

Camille Donatacci
Born in 1968; posed for Playboy at least 15 times; became engaged in fall 1996; married Aug. 2, 1997 in a Catholic ceremony

Tammi Alexander
Posed for Playboy ; engaged to be married in March 1994; separated in June 1996, after allegations of an affair with an underage babysitter surfaced

Barrie Buckner
Had affair with Grammer while he was living with Cerlette Lamme; mother of Grammer's daughter, Greer

Cerlette Lamme
Performed with the Ice Capades; met in 1985; together for seven years, separating in 1992; sued Grammer for libel over comments in his book

Leigh-Anne Csuhany
Born c. 1970; married Sept. 11, 1992; Grammer filed for an annulment of their marriage in June 1993, after she allegedly menaced him with a kitchen knife; sought custody of their unborn child; she attempted suicide and had to have an abortion

Doreen Alderman
Met while she was performing on Broadway in "42nd Street"; married from 1982-1990; mother of Grammer's daughter, Spencer

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The battle for the Republican party is being waged between libertarian conservatives and social conservatives.

The libertarian conservatives want to take the Republican party away from Sarah Palin and the tea-partiers with the misspelled signs--and they don't want it to go to Ron Paul, whom they view as a kook.

So for Republicans like Kelsey Grammer, being pro-gay(-marriage) is the new chic.

They want a Republican party that can stand for American exceptionalism, a strong military, small government, low tax rates, pro-business without being pro-bailouts--probably even pro-guns--but at the same time have the government stay out of America's bedrooms. Gay marriage becomes the easiest part of the Gay Agenda for them to support, because, ultimately, it helps to "stabilize" society, one of the cornerstones of conservative thought since Edmund Burke.

So, in a way, this channel would be to the LEFT of Fox News, not the right, since Fox News panders to the social conservatives who are anti-abortion, anti-feminist, anti-open-immigration and anti-gay.

This divide between the social conservatives and the libertarian conservatives is the Democrats' best hope.

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"One of the consistent themes of the far right is defining 'them' for the masses."

Beware you don't fall into the same trap you accuse others of falling into. As someone else here said, people are complicated. How boring a world would it be if every single person in a given field had exactly the same political beliefs?

And the far left. It is, in fact, a danger in all political discourse of any kind.

Which part? Defining the opposition as dofferent from you in significant ways or defining the opposition while engaging in the very behaviors that you demonize as the opposition's behaviors?

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Well I don't think he is "demonizing" by any means. See the problem with politics today is everyone is ONE WAY or the HIGH WAY. Both parties are so narrow minded in their line of thinking and I like and respect the fact that Kelsey Grammar goes (pardon the pun) both ways. Very soon you will not be able to succeed in politics unless you embrace both sides while still maintaining your position. The best thing everyone can do is pick and choose from all sides and not lock yourself into one line of belief. Thats not to say you can't be Republican or Democrat but you should look at all sides and agree with some things and disagree with others it will make you much more balanced.

The problem PJ, is quotes attributed to Grammer vis a vis the Right Network ("There's Right and there's wrong: the Right Network, all that's right with the world") literally makes the man a spokesperson.

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Updated On: 4/19/10 at 05:00 PM

Should be interesting. If I remember right he had scores of women. Like many of his contemporaries he spent decades abusing hard drugs and alcohol. He was also a dear dear friend to Chris Reeves who fought up to his death for stem cell research. Which the right (as we know) was/is strongly against. I wouldn't give a fig about these people's personal lives if they didn't try to control mine. Oh and he's also in several unions.

"If I remember right he had scores of women."

Do you have short term memory loss?

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