Opie Jumps The Shark (video)

Stuck On Stupid ^ | April 13,2009 | Quaker

[Quaker]

Another Useful Idiot in the box for the Obama Administration.

Ron Howard appearing with Bill Maher on his show ‘Real Time with Bill Maher”:

“at a certain point I don’t think we’ll be so consumed with being the pre-eminent super-power and, you know, driven by sort of militarism and this need to export, you know, democracy.”

[vetvetdoug]

Howard is a big supporter of Obama. Opie has gone as far left as one can without becoming a NAZI.

[kittymyrib]

And he makes movies that really stink. Too bad when one has done his crowning work at eight years old.

[gimme1ibertee]

“Stuck On Stupid” doesn’t even BEGIN to cover it....but,consider the source...Hollywood.

[Ken522]

Ron who?

[Vaquero]

Some great movies....

....but he dwells in the land of the flaming @$$hole, hollyweird, and like so many of his kind, he succumbed to the dark side.

[AppyPappy]

You know. Opie Cunningham.

[massgopguy]

I heard on on with Bob Costas. He was terrible. It was a soliloquy of um, ahs and ya knows that would make Carolyn Kennedy roll her eyes.

[ScottinVA]

When I saw those pro-0bama commercials with Andy Griffith and Henry Winkler, I thought...

... damn, that is SO sad. What a long fall.

[pabianice]

During the night, agents of evil sneak into the homes of the Hollywood rich and famous, stick a hose up their noses as they sleep, and suck-out half of their brains. Tragic.

[ETL]

This is really sad. The Andy Griffith Show is one of the all-time best family sitcoms. That TV-ad of a few months ago featuring "Opie" and "Andy" endorsing Obama and calling for "Change" made me want to puke.

"The Communist Party USA views the 2008 elections as a tremendous opportunity to defeat the policies of the right-wing Republicans and to move our country in a new progressive direction.

The record turnout in the Democratic Presidential primary races shows that millions of voters, including millions of new voters, are using this election to bring about real change. We wholeheartedly agree with them."

http://cpusa.org/article/articleview/907/1/4/
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A Landslide Mandate For Change

Congratulations on an extraordinary history making election!

We can think back with pride to decades of hard work toward our strategic goal of a big enough, broad enough and united enough labor and all-people’s movement that could overcome the ultra-right blockage to all progress. That all people’s movement has come to life, it is dynamic and it has the potential to keep growing.

The election of Barack Obama and a strengthened Congress creates new conditions in our country. There is now the possibility to shift gears and move forward. This new day requires us to further develop our tactics in order to continue to deepen and broaden labor and people’s unity.

There are thousands of experiences that we all have had in these momentous days, some large, some small, all of which express the enormity of change in thinking and readiness for involvement that is underway and that steels us for the battles ahead.

The tears of joy we all shared as crowds gathered to watch the election results here and throughout the world dramatize the new moment we are in.

http://cpusa.org/article/articleview/991/1/154/
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Saul Alinsky on "Change"...
From Rules for Radicals, Alinsky outlines his strategy in organizing, writing:

"There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution."

Saul Alinsky, The Latter Rain (LatterRain.com is a "Liberation Theology" commie-left website -etl)
http://latter-rain.com/ltrain/alinski.htm
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"Barack Obama told supporters that
'change has come to America' as he
claimed victory in a historic presidential election."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/04/election.president/index.html

[Apercu]

“stick a hose up their noses as they sleep, and suck-out half of their brains”...and replace the other half with fecal matter - hence the term “sh!t for brains.”

[ETL]

This is really sad. The Andy Griffith Show is one of the all-time best family sitcoms. That TV-ad of a few months ago featuring "Opie" and "Andy" endorsing Obama and calling for "Change" made me want to puke.

Here is the sickening video:
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/cc65ed650d/ron-howards-call-to-action-from-ron-howard-and-henry-winkler

[Vaquero]

[IrishPennant]

Now, that's not the Opie I knew

[Mercat]

Shut up and sing ping.

BTW, I was at a blue grass festival last summer. I was surprised at how family friendly and non-political it was. But one all girl group from yes - San Francisco - felt compelled to start bashing Bush and the war in Iraq. The crowd sort of groaned. I happened to be back stage (lovely outdoor patio on a Colorado river) and moved by the Spirit, yelled, “shut up and sing.” I bet those women hadn’t heard that at many concerts. They did stop although I think that they had finished their rant. I was shaking. My son (who got us the passes) wasn’t there but my husband was sort of pretending he didn’t know me. :-D

[longfellow]

opie cunnungham-—idiot.

[wbill]

And he makes movies that really stink

I dunno, I liked Apollo 13.

But then again, I'm an engineer, and Apollo 13 is about the only movie where 1) the Engineers are the heroes and 2) they're not all made out to look like 'Revenge of the Nerds'.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I’m not so critical, oddly enough, but for a strange reason. Hear me out.

More and more, it’s becoming obvious to everyone that the US federal government is out of control, across the board. Now, the right pays more attention to what it thinks are the worst parts, and the left pays more attention to what it thinks are the worst parts. But the truth of the matter is that the whole thing is out of kilter.

This is why a majority of *both* Red and Blue States are passing 10th Amendment resolutions. And though the light hasn’t dawned yet, I suspect this is the real impulse behind the Tea Parties as well.

While the right might think the Tea Parties are about spending and taxes, the truth of the matter is that they are about much, much more. And ironically as all get out, the left might agree with that much, much more. Agree with the right that the US federal government is out of control.

This is what Ron Howard said: “At a certain point I don’t think we’ll be so consumed with being the pre-eminent super-power and, you know, driven by sort of militarism and this need to export, you know, democracy.”

While he said it poorly, ask yourself this question: “Why, exactly, is the US expending vast amounts of treasure to have its military in literally 100 other countries, when only a fraction of nations pose any threat to us at all? Why are we keeping foreign dumbasses from killing other foreign dumbasses?”

Yes, even the right’s beloved Department of Defense is part of the problem of an out of control federal government. It happens to be the part that the left pays more attention to, but they have a point.

This doesn’t mean that the US should pull all of its military home, mind you, just that unless they are vital to either US defense or our national interests, why are they expensively deployed?

In truth, what the Tea Parties are saying is that both the Republicans and the Democrats tightly hold the reigns of power in the US, as a “duopoly”. On top of them, there is a grotesquely bloated bureaucracy, that *also* has no basis in the US constitution. And there are international corporations that are ravaging our economy while feeding off our sustenance, with our government shoveling more and more of our money into these bloat pigs. Finally, there are internationalist schemes to strip away our sovereignty and our power for the foreseeable future.

To HELL with all these things, the Tea Parties are saying. And both the Red and the Blue States are joining with the People to say “enough!”

This isn’t a “left and right” fight. This is a “The People and the individual States vs. the political parties and the bureaucracy” fight.

We want our country back. And Ron Howard may actually agree with us.

[NordP]

That’s because Opie’s sittin’ in the “Jump the Shark” seat.

[neverdem]

LOL!

[raybbr]

This is really sad. The Andy Griffith Show is one of the all-time best family sitcoms. That TV-ad of a few months ago featuring "Opie" and "Andy" endorsing Obama and calling for "Change" made me want to puke.

All that early, easy success for Howard is the basis for his socialist views. He's never had to work for anything and thinks that the way it supposed to be.

[CAluvdubya]

Who took that cute little boy and turned him into a jerk?!(yes it's rhetorical)

Why, oh wny, can't they just shut up so we can all enjoy what they do.

[ETL]

Here is the sickening video:
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/cc65ed650d/ron-howards-call-to-action-from-ron-howard-and-henry-winkler

[sweetiepiezer]

BTTT, thanks for the ping.

[SunkenCiv]

"...driven by sort of militarism and this need to export, you know, democracy."

second topic about this, check out the original quote though.

[Cacique]

btt