Posted on 04/16/2018 4:24:19 PM PDT by ethom
Actor R. Lee Ermey, who died at 74 of pneumonia Sunday morning, was Exhibit A in the New Hollywood Blacklist. After criticizing Barack Obama in 2010, Ermey’s thriving film career dried up. Even after apologizing, he was ostracized, fired by GEICO insurance and never did another commercial. After disappearing completely for a few years, he managed to appear in a couple of reality shows in the last few years of his life. Iconic and talented, Ermey was a walking-talking example of left-wing Hollywood’s intolerance toward those they condemn as thought criminals.
Ermey, who was known to his friends as “Gunny,” enlisted in the Marines in 1961 when he was only 17, and spent 14 months in Vietnam before earning a honorable discharge after 11 years of service.
Ermey’s career exploded in 1987 with Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket where Ermey was unforgettable (to say the least) as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, a drill instructor who pushes a recruit (Vincent D’ Onfrio) too far.
Ermey was only supposed to be a technical advisor for Kubrick, but he asked for an audition and not only nailed the role, the famously finicky and precise director went so far as to allow Ermey to improvise.
Ermey says he voted for Barack Obama in 2008, but in 2010 he was blacklisted in Hollywood (no one disputes this) for souring on and then publicly criticizing the president. Over his personal political opinion, he was also fired as a commercial spokesman for GEICO insurance.
Ermey is survived by his wife of 43 years, Nila, who he referred to as “Mrs. Gunny.” They had four children.
Ermey is also survived by a second-to-none performance in Full Metal Jacket that will be remembered long after the fascist monsters who blacklisted him are worm food.
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Will never buy Guy Co insurance.
He voted for Barry in 2008?
Yes, that was when he went on my sh--list.
Had an 88 year old client said he voted for Goldwater and Obama - and thought he was probably the only person that did both.
Disappointing.
I guess being a conservative makes me different. But if I were making a movie or TV show I would cast the best people for the job, as 99% of the population doesn’t care about a person’s politics.
Obama did run against McCain, need I remind.
I can see those Hollywood types blackballing him. It is what they do with their power.
Wow, kinda surprised. Didn’t know.
And here he played an American President who was fighting against the (as-yet-unknown) Antichrist trying to bring America into the New World Order.
Christian film so not too many saw it.
Geico and Progressive are both partly owned by George Soros.
That is how most people accuse Scientology of acting toward those who express doubt or dissent. Very hypocritical and malicious. One day, the tables may be turned. Some of the Libs may see what it’s like to lose your livelihood over having expressed a non-PC thought. They will find it as incredible and disheartening as we do.
He probably voted for 0bama because he knew what a traitorous prick McCain was, and didn’t want to see him CIC of our military.
GEICO is owned by the billionaire Warren Buffett, a big supporter of Barack Obama.
What was the name of it?
Thank you for bring that up.
And let us not all forget:
GEICO stands for the “Government Employees Insurance Company,” and when it was founded in 1936 by Leo and Lillian Goodwin.
I voted for Carter and Reagan. All the hot girls were Gaga over Carter sooooo, you know
After canceling Lock n Load the History Channel really went off the deep end with the UFO garbage and pawn shop.
One of the funniest men to walk the planet. He would never get that part today.
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