Posted on 09/19/2021 9:51:38 AM PDT by GenXFreedomFighter
That tall, amiable sheriff and his little boy, Opie, heading to a fishing hole on the outskirts of Mayberry, North Carolina, at the start of "The Andy Griffith Show," were actually strolling along a backlot in Culver City, California.
Ron Howard, the actor who played Opie, is now one of Hollywood's top directors. Most of the other stars – Andy Griffith; Don Knotts, who played his deputy, Barney Fife; and the actors who played Aunt Bee and Floyd the Barber – they've all passed on. After all, it's been 53 years since the show was cancelled.
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Koppel asked Collins, "If I wave the political thermometer across the forehead of Mount Airy, do people here believe that Joe Biden is the legitimate president?"
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Koppel asked the trolley's riders, "I know you came here to have a good time and not to talk politics. But let me just ask you, as a matter of curiosity, how many of you think we had a fair election?"
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Koppel asked, "One question, it's a serious question and I know you all will take it seriously: Tell me what you think happened on January 6 at Congress?"
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"I won't be offended," Koppel said. "I've been a journalist all my life. When President Trump talked about the press being the enemy of the people …"
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
Yeah, that link doesn’t work either.
I’ve had people tell me his real personality is closer to Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes the character he played in the movie ‘A Face in the Crowd’.
A film well worth watching !
Aunt Bee moved to North Carolina to be near the mystic setting after the show ended in 1971
She died there a spinster ...in 1989 at .age ....87....married briefly young
But known to the towns people as who she was ....poignant
Siler City
She was known to support local charity and arts
Left a small fortune to I think the fire Dept
She was a native downtown Manhattan lady.....Grammercy
Draft dodger as well: https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/how-andy-griffith-avoided-getting-drafted-into-the-military-some-people-thought-he-was-a-draft-dodger.html/
Draft dodger as well: https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/how-andy-griffith-avoided-getting-drafted-into-the-military-some-people-thought-he-was-a-draft-dodger.html/
Koppel is what he is......urbane liberal Jewish...elitist...it just is how it is
Like I’m a southern Baptist white guy righty small city now rural though I have reams of world living experience.
These two sides are different more often than not....it’s been like this since the Pale moved west
It’s a demographic friction tween his identity and upbringing and average southerner in North Carolina....bearing in mind North Carolina has been overrun by northeastern libs
Koppel in his defense is usually less nauseating
That link says he was genuinely disqualified due to back problems- that he WANTED to avoid service but was truly medically exempt.
I love the “lesson” the people on the tour bus took control and told it like it is.
The majority of the comments reflect the kind I encounter every day in my travels.
I realize that’s anecdotal, but those kinds of statements and opinions are rarely (if ever) broadcast on msm.
I was watching that segment.
Went on an on about no blacks being present in Mayberry.
Koppel said it’s a town that never was, but there are a lot of small towns here in Maine exactly the same.
When Koppel asked some white residents....”do people here believe that Joe Biden is the legitimate president?”
CLICK. Off went the TV, and it stayed off.
Koppel knows very well Trump did not mean "the press" in the general sense. He meant the press specifically in its current form of lying biased activists who wouldn't recognize real journalism if it kicked them in the nuts.
I would think most towns outside of Portland are like that. The liberal areas are the least diverse. They preach diversity but don’t like it except when they man the SODEXHO dining hall at school. What county are you in?
That's ever so rare in the media, and he and all those like him have absolutely no political axe whatsoever to grind against those whom they despise (us) -- as this little story clearly shows. Completely fair and unbiased from start to finish.
No the link reads a childhood friend claimed he was at seminary to avoid military service. The draft board found he had an old injury, a herniated disk. He could have applied for an exemption but didn’t. Lots of guys were in the service with worse injuries than that.
No the link reads a childhood friend claimed he was at seminary to avoid military service. The draft board found he had an old injury, a herniated disk. He could have applied for an exemption but didn’t. Lots of guys were in the service with worse injuries than that.
Hi, can you please fix my link to the story? Thanks.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-trip-to-the-original-mayberry-the-andy-griffith-show/
Yeah, I was surprised at how well the folks on the bus came off looking. Of course they probably looked like kooks to Koppel, and I'm sure that's how it played to the Democrat voters watching. Sure would be nice if some journo would look at the half of the nation who believes that the election was rigged, and decide to investigate, fairly and in good faith, just what took place. But it'll never happen. They're perfectly happy with the outcome and don't care whether it was legitimate or not. Don't even care about the deadly and spectacular failure that this presidency is.
I’m in Hancock County.
Portland, as you knpw, is in Cumberland County and has plenty of illegals, refugees, asylum seekers, etc.
Yep
You just know who it is
Like you know who robbed the liquor store
You can guess the identity of super leftist media usually
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