#Winning!

My deepest apologies to all of you out there in TV land for such a long gap between our last correspondence and today. This is Matt Topolski coming to you with a long overdue update. So lets get down to business.

In the next few days I’ll be making an exciting announcement about a new project I’ll begin working on. Its one that will give me the creative freedom to branch outside just the political realm and really give all of you a sense of what I’m really passionate about, which is broadcasting in general and entertainment. Once things are official, we’ll have a big-to-do roll out and all that good stuff so just sit tight. In closing however; I want to thank so many people which have supported me over the last few months on the television show, the radio show and all the other little ventures I’ve been a part of. I’m excited about the future but moreover I’m very lucky and tremendously grateful to have so many amazing people surrounding me. Life is good. I feel like I’m winning. And speaking of winning! Onto a new little segment I’ll be doing for A Matter of Opinion.

The Not-So Special Comment Segement: Charlie Sheen versus Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker

If the last few weeks of headlines have shown us anything, its that little is gained by not keeping it real with America. Being elected under the promise of balancing budgets by cutting wasteful spending and then including teacher’s pay, government employee’s benefits and collective bargain rights in the category of wasteful spending will lead to… well a REVOLT.

Meanwhile, we vilify not the villain, but the guy who keeps it real. Charlie Sheen.
Sheen is an actor. Not someone who’s responsible for public policy, the rights of workers, or the functionality of government. And yet, HE has been the subject of America’s ever growing appetite for the irrelevant. Meanwhile the Governor of a State in America that has successfully managed to have half of his legislature walk out on him. His schools let out for the summer… in FEBRUARY! And a revolution outside the steps of the very capital he occupies that would make even the Egyptians proud, gets little coverage in the national media. Sure we talk about him during roundtables with political pundits and so-called Hill Experts. But outside of that, who’s really paying attention to Scott Walker and the GOP? Are you?

Who even cares if GOP doesn’t back off their promise to tank funding for millions of people and hundreds of programs in an effort to reclaim their own moral code of fiscal conservatism? Who even cares that a nationwide shutdown of our government is imminent?

Why should you care when you’ve got Charlie Sheen’s b*tchin rockstar lifestyle to compare yours to?!

Don’t care. Because in the midst of all this coverage of an actor with a drug problem, the blood of a tiger running though his veins, and the ability to just keep winning. He’ll continue to enjoy his life. Because as crazy as it may seem to you, Charlie Sheen keeps it real. It might not be what YOU want to hear. Hell it might not be what anyone wants to hear. But its honest. It’s crazy. But its honest.

When asked if he was concerned because one of the women partying at his house may have died of a drug overdose. He responded: what’s that got to do with me? He honestly had no idea what it had to do with him, and he kept it real. And in reality, whether it did have something to do with him or not is irrelevant. Because people can choose whether or not they party with a guy that by all conventional wisdom takes it a little further than most can or would even dare to. He has a reputation as a guy who will turn it up, and if you’re not ready for the ride you might loose yourself in the moment. *Shouts to B-Rabbit*.

But what about Scott Walker? What do we know about him? Well not a whole lot. Because Scott Walker like most conventional politicians will hide behind an intentionally ambiguous record and use catch phrases like, "If elected we’ll have to make tough decisions."

But the bottom line is, he will never be the guy that makes tough decisions. Because, making tough decisions means walking out on your job to stand up for what you believe in. Making tough decisions means; standing in the cold for weeks or longer if necessary to preserve a Union’s right to negotiate fair labor practices and wages. Making tough decisions means; being deadly honest with the people who look to you for leadership.

Fortunately for us, Charlie Sheen is only in charge of himself.
Unfortunately, Scott Walker is in charge of Wisconsin.
And right now, neither one of them is in control.

You can pay special attention to the Charlie Sheen revolution. For all its twisted comedy and entertainment value its better than Two and a Half Men could have ever been. But there’s another revolution taking place in America. And if we fail to cover it as a country, if we fail to pay attention to it as a people, and if we most importantly fail to hold our political figures accountable for the reasons why its happening, well… NONE of us will be winning!

~Great American
Matthew P. Topolski