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Published: 12/12/07, 6:05 PM EDT

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - Actor and film director Tim Robbins came to Iowa Wednesday to praise John Edwards - and bury the media.

"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."

With Bill Clinton campaigning for his wife and Oprah Winfrey campaigning for Obama, celebrity sightings are becoming increasingly common on the campaign trail. Actor Kevin Bacon was to join Edwards later this week. And singer-song writers Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt are scheduled to perform at Edwards' town meetings in New Hampshire next week.

Edwards was on the third day of an eight-day bus tour through Iowa.

The campaign setting was not entirely alien to Robbins. He's 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.

Robbins was not kind to the media, accusing it of having skewed priorities.

"What if instead of 24-7 coverage of the most recent pop star's fall from grace we would see 24-7 reporting of veterans returning from Iraq," he said. "How do THEY feel about occupying a country and being caught in a crossfire of a civil war?"

Robbins added: "We are owed information, not gossip. And yes, celebrity culture is part of the problem. It's not what I know, it's what you know. It's what the people who don't have access to microphones in front them know."

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.

DANG...beam me to Iowa...I am missing alot of fun...
I do think that too many people listen the early polls via media and then don't go out to vote because they think their candidate does not have a chance.

Vote...vote anyway

Amen, poly, VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks DRAGONESS.
Look what happened with Truman. Then its our right and duty to vote. I know I didn't vote for George Bush and I feel free to discuss and critize him.

I don't like to hear people whine and when you ask them...did you vote...well no...

Our voter turnout should be higher than a 3rd world country
OK I feel better

Oprah is giving away things on her show right now.......WHY AM I NOT THERE????

But a campaign should'nt be based on "who has the most money" either. Have you HEARD what each of these people already have???? We're talking MILLIONS!! So the presidentcy is just another way for them to be seen on TV or a hobby or something for them. Get a REAL person in office that knows what its like to struggle to pay the bills and put food on the table. THATS the kind of candidate I'd like to see win.

I'm voting for Edwards

Go check this out. Its funny as hell!!

http://www.travisandjonathan.com/RedStateUpdate

Tim Robbins..The leader of the Hollywood Communist Party...endorsing John Edwards?? hmmmm...time to change my vote...guess obama doesn't look so bad after all

Ole-boy says, "I was just in the same room as Hillary Clinton. I need to go to the gentlmens club and get same hoochy rubbed on me to get the smell off!"

Whats up redwine?

Fanta ya right there bud...Hillary must really reek..her campaign is dying fast and people running for the showers

How ya been bro?

Cruising For Votes

Thats a good one!

ya I see that ..but WHO are you crusing for...first I believe it was Ron Paul...then crisich(spelling? )...now John Edwards....who next week?

wow..typo.on that on..sorry...must be these drinks..

Ive always leaned toward Edwards and Richardson!


Red State Update Health Care Plan, Thats a good one too!

yea..thats right ..Richardson...my bad..sorry

Heres one for you Gypsy!

Oprah For President

Fanta...sadly I think Oprah would make a better President then any of the top 3 dems running (Richardson excluded). She is a smart, savy business woman who could better manage the countries affairs then the rest of them

Here red!

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