[This is a reprint of a blog post I wrote at Beltway Blogroll on Sept. 22, 2006. It's one of my favorite stories about sharing the same name as a celebrity.]

I didn’t call the president a racist devil. That was Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at the United Nations earlier this week. And I didn’t stand with Chavez at a church in Harlem, N.Y., when he called George Bush “an alcoholic and a sick man.”

That was Danny Glover the actor. I’m just a lowly journalist who hasn’t written word one about Chavez (until now). So please, please, please, stop sending me e-mails that read like this:

– “I’m very ashamed of you. I have been a great fan of yours. … Danny, your actions are traderous! (sic) You should be ashamed politically. But on a grander scale the issues are spiritual and you are aligned with the devil and against God because of what, politics? Don’t be a fool.”

– “Danny boy. If Chavez is your brother why don’t you move to Vennez. Don’t crap where you eat.”

– “I am sickened to live in the same country as you. I hope you don’t call yourself an American. May God help you.”

– “You, sir, are a piece of trash. Never again will I spend my money or time to patronize any movie or film that you have an active part in. You have sunken to the lowest levels of Americanism possible.”

– “I cannot believe you live in this country and confess to be a communist.”

By all means, boycott the movies of Danny Glover if you choose. Or maybe buy your gas somewhere other than Venezuela-backed Citgo, which is what bloggers like Michelle Malkin, Ed Morrissey and Mark Tapscott are doing or discussing. But please don’t protest in my in-box.