Maybe we should all be spending more time watching C-SPAN. From The Washington Post via ThinkProgress:

While you were sleeping in Memorial Day weekend, Cher was fighting for American troops on C-SPAN. The legendary singer called into “Washington Journal” early Sunday morning — 4:20 a.m. her time, to be exact.

“Hello? This is Malibu, California. I’m going to try to be really calm while I’m talking about this . . .” and she launched into a passionate argument for helmet safety upgrades for troops and her frustration with the government for not providing them to every soldier. Host Steve Scully recognized her famously husky voice.

“Is this Cher?” he asked.

“Yeah,” she answered. “I know that I am an entertainer and from Hollywood and should have no conscience, but I am an American and I just cannot bear these people for another moment.”

Her new cause is Operation Helmet, which has donated 6,850 of the liners to troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan since it was founded two years ago.

Go check out Operation Helmet and consider helping protect our men and women fighting overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan.