Ricky Gervais
I almost always shy away from Hollywood award shows. Mostly because I don’t enjoy pampered rich babies telling me what I should think. Most of us work harder in a week than they do all year. My wife, however, likes them, we have one TV…do the math. Before I retreated to another room to read, I caught the opening by Ricky Gervais. WOW!
It was raw comedy that your rarely see in Hollyweird. I loved it. He took on all comers and I was disappointed that network cameras did not show his victims as he took swipes at them. Here’s a few of my faves:
I hadn’t “given” this award for a while. There are probably a lot of folks who are deserving, but when I decide to do this I really have to feel it and there is generally some action that prompts me to act. In the case of Mr. Sowell it was his retirement. I looked back at how many times I’ve either read/reviewed on of his books, or used a quote of his, or embedded a YouTube video with Mr. Sowell making a great point.
I have not done one of the “True American Hero” posts for over three years! I hadn’t consciously avoided the topic, but no one jumped out at me until more recently…and that is the latest Hero for me, Mike Rowe. You may know him best as the “Dirty Jobs” guy who jumped in a sewer manhole to clean crap or one of the many other dirty things he did during his series. One of the themes about the series if you paid attention was how the folks who did this “dirty jobs” just did the work. Sure the jobs were often unpleasant, but they did them and many times were damn cheerful about them.
Erick Erickson is the Editor-In-Chief of RedState and most recently contracted to be a contributor to Fox News. Mr. Erickson hasn’t made any big splashes in the media or in conservative circles, but as a daily recipient of his RedState Morning Briefing I have come to know him as a true conservative or at least what I believe is a conservative. There is no gnashing of teeth over Obama phones, but real insight into politics. You can and must 
It may be too soon to tell, but the following video by Dr. Barbara Bellar gets her noted on this website as a True American Hero. The video is over eleven minutes, but you only have to listen to the first few minutes for her big moment. In one, albeit long, sentence she sums up the folly of Obamacare. She goes on to make a strong case against the government takeover of OUR healthcare, but those are deeper arguments that the masses won’t listen to or hear. Her sentence early in the video is perfect.
