Mendez was also 1/2 Irish and Italian, why didn't they make Affleck look more Irish and Italian in the movie... (see how idiotic that sounds?)

Do all people of Mexican ancestry look "Mexican"? What does Mexican look like anyway, do they have Mariachi bands following them into restaurants?

Nothing's worse than when political correct-ism is forced upon an art form such as film. If a Mexican or Mexican American wants to tell the Argo story they have every right to - if Affleck didn't make it, quite a few non Mexicans would not know the story of an American of Mexican ancestry who cleverly succeeded where our entire government at the time would have failed (and did). There are many actors of Mexican ancestry who have succeeded in Hollywood, some even with their ancestral names. If they're born here, grew up here, and have lost their "ethnicity" due to becoming Americanized, is that their fault? Did Tony Mendez have a thick accent, or is Moctesuma Esparza just unhappy that they didn't choose someone with proper bloodlines?

This argument is archaic. We're a far cry from Italians playing Indians in commercials...

What utter self-absorbed nonsense about Ben Affleck's self casting! Does your interlocutor mean that actors must be cast according to the surname of the character they're playing? Most of us are generations away from looking anything like the race of the forebear whose name we carry on. And what about the other branches of the seven livelies? Is the implication -- by extension --that African American sopranos can't be cast as Madama Butterfly or Salome? What a terrible hole that would tear in our cultural heritage. The thing is called acting, and one's genetic heritage shouldn't have much to do with it, except in really obvious cases.

Matt Damon is playing Liberace's boyfriend in an up coming film. Is the gay community upset that his character is being played by a straight man?

Great segment, where were stories like this when Johnny Depp was chosen to portray a Native American character?! Why is there a gag order on Native issues in the US? ...anyone remember NA Hertiage month, hea about the war in Canada in the '90s, tens of thousands marching & protesting in the past 8weeks?