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, Ermeys 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 Hollywoods 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.
Ermeys career exploded in 1987 with Stanley Kubricks 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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Apocalypse Now, Conan the Barbarian, Dirty Harry...many more
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“Ermey says he voted for Barack Obama in 2008,
This cant be true. No REAL marine would have voted for that scumbag contents”.
He repented, then paid a big price for that repentance. Nobody’s perfect.
FMJ is available on Netflix.
I did too. I have had to defend those decisions over time but you have to look at who Jimmy Carter. But you have to look at who he was running against. Gerald Ford was a nice guy to have lunch/dinner with but he was a dumb as a rock. I unfortunately thought Jimmy was smarter than Gerald. Boy was I wrong.
Had an 88 year old client said he voted for Goldwater and Obama - and thought he was probably the only person that did both.
Yep. Sounds like one rare bird. You should have asked for his autograph.
If Goldwater was still alive, he probably would have voted for Obama. He went Left later in his life.
If Goldwater was still alive, he probably would have voted for Obama. He went Left later in his life.
I did not know that. But given the track record of our recent Arizona beltway “conservatives” I don’t doubt it.
There were people were fed up with Nixon-Agnew-Ford or Bush-Cheney-McCain and voted for the new guy to express their discontentment, anger or outrage.
Some people who grew up Democrat get nostalgic and hopeful when a new and unknown candidate turns up, especially at a time when Republicans are in office and the economy's bad: happened with Clinton in 1992, too.
Ben Mankiewicz (TCM)can't shut his big mouth about the HUAC. Bastards do the same thing to conservatives.
Maybe, maybe not. Goldwater and McCain were friends of a sort. Same state. Big military guys. Neither of them Bush family fans.
Hollywood is run by fascists.
He might have been fired by GEICO, but it was later than 2010
Good stuff.
Louder with Crowder
Parody Intro
“Indianapolis Speech Scene”
https://youtu.be/ZRLaO9GngTE?t=472
Correction—
Goldwater became more libertarian, not leftist.
I have tried until I’m blue in the face to tell people that liberal get people fired and we do not do the same to them. The liberal leftists are beyond evil. They do not kill us because so far they can’t get away with it.
Masterful..!
Did you ever see Crowder’s imitation of Hickock45...?
SPOT ON..!
I was really surprised.
He’s a great actor.
He comes periodically here, to FR, btw...
Great link —thanks..!!
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