Meditations on Scott Baio

Why we care that the former Charles in Charge and Joanie Loves Chachi star is speaking at the RNC tonight.

For a whole lot of journalists, and people, of a certain age(s), it would probably have been better if actor and now RNC speaker Scott Baio had remained in the warm, safe spaces within our hippocampus, existing in our memories solely as a character in a sitcom.

In our grown-up understanding of the world we get that characters and actors are not the same thing, that our appreciation for the art or entertainment that we like may not extend to the political sensibilities of the person creating the art or portraying a role.

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