Matt Goldich | September 2003

Circle Gets the Square

Monday, September 29, 2003

CAUSE CELEB I'm going to devote today's blog entry to the hilarious exploits of my good friend Adam Zeidel. Last Tuesday Adam received a "personal" e-mail from Rob Reiner asking him to contribute money to Howard Dean's campaign. To which Adam responded: Rob - Great to hear from you. Have you gotten a chance to read that script I sent you? Let me know your thoughts and I'll let you know who I will support for President. I like Dean, but there are, of course, "a few good men" out there as candidates. I loved you as "meathead", Adam Zeidel. Adam cc'd me and a few other friends on the e-mail. I wanted to tell them all how funny I thought it was, so I hit "Reply to All" and wrote something to the effect of "This is hilarious...good for you." I didn't realize that my congratulatory e-mail had also been sent to the Dean campaign. About five minutes later I got this e-mail back from them: THANK YOU FOR CONTACTING DEAN FOR AMERICA We appreciate your interest in Governor Howard Dean, M.D. Your input is vital to us because it is voters like you who help fuel this campaign and will lead us to victory in 2004! We cannot answer every e-mail individually due to the enormous grassroots support for Governor Howard Dean. Many Policy Questions can be answered by visiting our On the Issues section and the Pressroom accessible from the left side of our homepage (www.deanforamerica.com). Thank you for taking the time to e-mail the campaign. Together, we are going to put forth a new vision for America and take this country back in 2004! YOU HAVE THE POWER TO TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK! Then, on Friday, Adam received another e-mail asking for money from the Dean campaign, this one from Martin Sheen, to which he replied: Mr. Sheen - Thank you for your kind message urging me to vote for Howard Dean. Rest assured, though, sir that I will not vote for another candidate for President while you are still in office. Despite the tragic loss of your daughter, I know that you are fit to govern and I stand resolute behind your leadership. We must not allow John Goodman to usurp the direction of our great country. Maybe when he was on Rosanne I would have accepted him as the leader of the free world. But after having seen him play Uncle Sweetheart in the film "Masked and Anonymous", I do not think he is worthy of the post. President Sheen, a good friend of ours, Rob Reiner, also encouraged me to support Dr. Dean. Given Rob's familiarity with the military and friendly relationships between men and women that become something more, I believed his advice to be sound. However, now that I see your personal pain during a time of crisis, I realize that I cannot betray my commitment to you. Despite your urgings, I will not support Dr. Dean as long as President Sheen is capable and available for the great responsibility of leading our country. May God continue to bless America, Adam Zeidel I will keep you posted on any further developments in the Zeidel v. Hollywood Do-Gooders situation. Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.