Andy Griffith's Popularity Nose Dives Over Support for Health Care Reform

Associated Content ^ | September 9th, 2010 | Mark R. Whittington

[Marcus]

The acrimony surrounding health care reform, stoked up to white hotness as the 2010 midterm elections draw nigh, seems to have claimed another victim, albeit an odd one: Andy Griffith, the long-living television and film star.

[GailA]

Let me get this straight. We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it but exempts themselves from it, to be signed by a president who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke;

What the hell could possibly go wrong?

[Fresh Wind]

He was gay.

I don't know about Gomer, but I wonder about Andy.

There was one episode in which Opie has one of his young friends there for a sleepover and as they are getting ready for bed, Andy comes in and convinces the boy to sleep with him instead of Opie. Strange.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Gomer was the featured act at the county fair where I lived about 20 yrs. ago. People did not have much of an issue with him, but the whole town was about ready to kill his obnoxious significant other.

[tal hajus]

...But don’t sing “Let me be your salty dog” because it makes the baby, or me, cry. LOVED Denver Pyle on the jug.

[katana]

Never heard anyone say a bad word about Jim Nabors and I just looked up his biography. Supposedly the Rock Hudson rumor stemmed from a joke with the punch line: then Hudson's name would be "Rock Pyle". But if the "significant other" you refer to was male I guess, like half of everybody else in Hollywood, he walks the wild side.

These days I have at least some respect for anyone in that business who keeps their personal politics (and preference of bedroom company) to themselves. He's now retired to Hawaii and owns a macadamia nut farm. Certainly not anyone who should be chased down for a "citizen's arrest!". Andy Griffith, on the other hand ....

[LeonardFMason]

Rumor has it that he is one unfriendly, nasty, guy. You know how it goes with elitist liberals like Andy,
Iv’e got mine. Now gimme yours.

[goat granny]

That is totally funny and true......

[GailA]

My cousin sent me that one, couldn’t resist, it is so perfect for o’nazicare threads.