Just as we thought Donald Trump had gone over the top, now he's actually implying that his followers assassinate Hillary.

Bob wrote:

Telstar wrote:

I was proud of Howard and Griffith back in 2008, when they filmed an endorsement for Obama.

Andy Griffith is a very important figure to me.  Not only because he was born and lived about 30 miles from where my father grew up,  but even moreso because we have (or had in his case) a common interest.
Griffith like me was an avid collector of antique jukeboxes and slot machines.

But something I want to share with you about what you said.  When Griffith moved from L.A. back to North Carolina,  the politics of NC was very different than today.  It was before so many of the progressives who now reside in NC had moved into the state to work in the Research Triangle and the renaissance which happened in Charlotte and the like.

At that time the state was still very conservative.  That was when Jesse Helms still reigned supreme.
And not only that,  but Griffith decided to live in eastern North Carolina.
Eastern NC,  between Raleigh and the Outer Banks,  has always been one of the most conservative places in the South and actually still is.

Griffith immediately got involved in local and state politics.  And in a very progressive manner.
This created a lot of ill will between Andy Griffith and many North Carolinians at the time.  Especially in eastern NC where he lived.

Ironically,  the same folk who had grown to love Sheriff Andy Taylor turned on Griffith himself and he became somewhat of a pariah in the state.  Which I've always felt is really pretty sad.

Damnit I'm never going to be able to get back to this movie if I keep running my mouth.

Bob wrote:Now you're talking about an all-time classic. It ranks as one of my three favorites for the entire decade (the others being The Day the Earth Stood Still and The Thing).
That film was downright clairvoyant. It predicted what the American commercial media would actually become like in the future.
I've been saying for 25 years that Rush Limbaugh is the real-life version of Lonesome Rhodes.
All the time hoping and praying that one day the same exact thing will happen to Limbaugh as happened to Rhodes at the end of the movie. lol

And yes Griffith was absolutely brilliant in it.
Not bad in No Time for Sergeants either by the way. I'll never forget the first time I saw that sequence in the latrine when those toilet lids all flew up in unison. I laughed so hard I cried.