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Feb 12, 2016
Andy Griffith, in an interview with Morning Exchange in 1972, talks about his role in the film, "A Face In The Crowd." He plays a character named Lonesome Rhodes, who is eerily similar to Donald Trump.
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bsiebs
(696 posts)If only that live mic would have mattered to our MAGAts today... the Access Hollywood tape WAS tsf's live mic moment, and it didn't matter......
Mr.Bee
(211 posts)take their Social Security and Medicare, drain their bank accounts and not lose any supporters!
IrishAfricanAmerican
(3,873 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,972 posts)Back in the day, non 24 hour communication via radio and T.V. was more direct from the speaker to the listener, and with minimal commentary or punditry as compared to today.
As a result today's celebrity pundits' point of views must be taken into consideration, (what does such and such have to say about it?) while in many cases they just simultaneously work to muddy the waters.
I believe the additional filters of non-stop punditry have created an added delay to our macro critical thinking skills as a society.
Having said that, I don't believe it to be permanent and *rump is now in the process of melting in the public's eye as major public conscious tipping points have passed.
Wonder Why
(3,676 posts)progressoid
(50,143 posts)Sickening.
ShazzieB
(17,042 posts)...or whatever the character in that movie said. It was just Trump being as ass, which they were fine with. I know some may argue that he could say anything about his followers and they wouldn't care, but that theory has never been tested. Be that as it may, I'm just saying the Access Holllywood tape wasn't really equivalent to what happened in the movie.
I wish something like that - a hot mic moment of him disparaging his followers - would happen. I'd love to see how they would react.
bsiebs
(696 posts)Warpy
(111,873 posts)from Joe Pyne to Morton Downey, Jr. to the biggest bloviating populist conman of all, Limbaugh. All had adoring audiences of mostly men who wanted to reclaim....something. I suppose they missed being the sidekicks of middle school bullies and were appalled to find out that women had the audacity to think they were human, too.
It's amazing how good a job Griffith did in that role, he was terrifyingly real. It's just too bad that a real life Patricia Neal was never allowed anywhere near the Great Man.
themaguffin
(3,848 posts)bmichaelh
(442 posts)There are stories that behind closed doors, he mocks his evangelical supporters.
OMGWTF
(4,074 posts)ShazzieB
(17,042 posts)Yeah, I'm sure he does that! In fact, I'd be surprised if he didn't. That's exactly the kind of jerk he is.
Bo Zarts
(25,436 posts)Andy Griffith would have been a perfect casting for the role of President Jimmy Carter in any future movie about Carter's wonderful life. Too bad Andy Griffith is gone. Too bad Jimmy Carter will soon be gone.
Indykatie
(3,714 posts)bmichaelh
(442 posts)Not sure what Andy Griffith's political beliefs were.
But back in 2008, Ron Howard made a promotional video for Obama with Andy Griffith and Henry Winkler.
TSExile
(3,194 posts)...in 2020, Ron Howard made a couple of pro-Biden videos featuring most of the main surviving cast of Happy Days. The one holdout, not surprisingly, was Baio.
wiggs
(7,871 posts)Just_Vote_Dem
(2,850 posts)Thanks for posting this!
Mysterian
(4,665 posts)I hope North Carolina becomes more like Andy would like to see it.
PCIntern
(25,866 posts)Which was a significant film in its own right.
andym
(5,458 posts)Unlike the fictional Lonesome Rhodes. The difference is that Rhodes was a face in (one of) the crowd. Trump stands above them, portraying himself as their superior and they eat it up. It's why he can do anything: lead an insurrection etc., and they love him nevertheless.
His supporters know they are not particularly great people and enjoy basking in the reflected self-importance of Trump. Trump could call them deplorables and they would cheerfully agree.
For example,
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/10/sunday-review/trump-supporters.html https://archive.is/5Azwa#selection-435.0-456.0
"Trump Has Called His Supporters Disgusting. Do They Care?
The people Trump despises most love him the most, Howard Stern has said. But that may be beginning to change."
from 2020.