Posted on 07/07/2009 9:26:44 PM PDT by Steelfish
Jon Voight's Profile in Courage
Jeffrey Lord.
"'There's a group being formed to deal with you,' the unidentified voice said.
'They're going to fix you so you won't ever act again.'" -- Ronald Reagan, writing in his autobiography Where's the Rest of Me of an anonymous phone call he received while fighting Communist infiltration of the motion picture industry in 1949. The threat was simple.
Either Ronald Reagan stopped speaking out on his views of Communists in the movie business -- or he would have acid tossed in his face, disfiguring him. His main asset as an actor thus destroyed, Reagan would never work again.
It didn't work, of course.
"I took it as a joke," Reagan later recalled of the phone call he had received while working on the film Night Unto Night.
The movie, based on a Philip Wylie novel, co-starred Viveca Lindfors and Broderick Crawford. Reagan was filming a beach scene for the movie when he was called to a gas station nearby to take a call.
Warner Brothers, the studio where the film was being shot, was not amused.
When he finished the scene and got back to the Warner's lot, "the police were waiting with a license [for Reagan] to carry a gun. I was fitted with a shoulder holster and a loaded .32 Smith and Wesson....
Somehow I didn't think the department tossed policemen around as a practical joke….(snip)
This incident in Reagan's movie career comes to mind as what amount to veiled threats intended to politically disfigure Academy Award winning actor Jon Voight have made the news.
Voight, in addressing the annual House-Senate GOP dinner in Washington had used the phrase "Let's give thanks to them [various Obama critics] for staying on course to bring an end to this false prophet, Obama."
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I never knew that story about the vile threats that Ronald Reagan received. We are somehow always mercifully blessed with brave souls who defy personal risk for their principles, just when they’re needed. God bless them .. may it ever be thus.
Just...wow.
Jon Voight couldn't care less what these uberdouches think.
John Voight is a strong voice of reason in an industry of crazies.
He is a hero to conservatives, and it doesn’t seem to scare him that he’s being threatened. He’ll tough it out and come out on top just as Reagan did!
WOnder if/when Sarah carries.
Excellent article, thanks. It’s timely to hear Mr. Voight’s views after his role on “24” this past season. A great American!
Excellent, thanks...to bad we can’t post the entire article.
Liberals just get weirder and weirder and dumber and dumber.
I’m just glad he’s on our side!
He’s a very strong advocate and very articulate making the case for conservatism.
Maybe he’ll be able to make some converts where the others couldn’t. Who knows.......
Me neither. I didn’t even know about the acid threat’ to Reagan. It just shows what kind of character he had and just laughed it off.
Look, the Liberals need to start feeling some real economic pain as a result of what they have done to America. Fire them, don’t trade with them, don’t serve them. Leave them to rot. The revolution needs to be passive resistance to everything Liberal.
Somehow I can’t picture her with anything smaller than a moose gun.
When he finished the scene and got back to the Warner’s lot, “the police were waiting with a license [for Reagan] to carry a gun. I was fitted with a shoulder holster and a loaded .32 Smith and Wesson...
Years ago I broadsided a cow that had strayed into the middle of a country road with the rest of her heard...Then I traveled North....Every time I saw the sign: “Look out for MOO-se” my knees shook. Moose or MOOse can be one dangerous animal, maybe deserving of am armored tank instead of a gun.
Thanks for the ping, Starwise. I never knew about this either.
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