IOWA CITY, Iowa — Actor and film director Tim Robbins came to Iowa on Wednesday to praise John Edwards.
“I’m not Oprah,” Robbins said, by way of introduction to a packed library auditorium.
Robbins, whose film credits include “Mystic River,” “Bull Durham” and “The Shawshank Redemption,” said Edwards has been overlooked as the media focus on the clash between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.
“There is one man who is neck-and-neck with these two in the polls,” he said of Edwards. “And he’s there because he’s listening to people. He’s reaching their lives with his campaign.”
Robbins is well-known as a liberal activist and even played a candidate running for the Senate in “Bob Roberts,” a film he also wrote and directed.
He blamed the media for prematurely narrowing the presidential contest.
“When I was here eight months ago with eight viable candidates running, we were being sold a fiction of this being a two-person race,” Robbins said.
The Associated Press
