Picking up on a monologue joke earlier in the program by David Letterman about how Sarah Palin's blinking is conveying "coded messages," immediately upon sitting down Brolin pointed to his face as he urged Letterman and viewers: "Watch this."

     He blinked several times, then asked: "You know what that is?" Brolin smugly answered his own question as he smiled and raised his fist in self-satisfaction to audience applause: "Vote for Barack Obama."

     [This item, by the MRC's Brent Baker, was posted Wednesday, with video, on the MRC's blog, NewsBusters.org: newsbusters.org ]

     Stone asked Brolin to play Bush because, in part, he's "mean," Michael McIntee recounted in his Wahoo Gazette re-cap of the October 14 Late Show: "Josh plays George W. Bush in the Oliver Stone film, W. Oliver approached Josh and said he would be perfect for the part, with the desired look of 'ranchy, bucolic, American and mean.'" See: lateshow.cbs.com

     Site for the movie: www.wthefilm.com

     IMDb's page for Brolin: www.imdb.com