Ron Howard's Call To Action

Thanks!!! Thank you very much. 'Had a good laugh when I first saw this on CNN. 'Don't watch much T.V. these days, but when I was a kid I watched reruns of the Andy Griffith show on UHF 32, now Fox TV, in Chicago, and of course I saw "Happy Days" too. I'm from "small-town America" and I always get a little homesick when I watch the T.V. shows that gave suc... more >

Thanks!!! Thank you very much. 'Had a good laugh when I first saw this on CNN. 'Don't watch much T.V. these days, but when I was a kid I watched reruns of the Andy Griffith show on UHF 32, now Fox TV, in Chicago, and of course I saw "Happy Days" too. I'm from "small-town America" and I always get a little homesick when I watch the T.V. shows that gave such a positive and warm portrayal of the culture I grew up in. There's a lot of reality in that portrayal too. But, I left 'cause I was kinda sick of home when it comes down to it; there are many subjects that don't go over so well on a people-pleasing family sit-com, as I'm sure you're well aware. (I recommend a book called "Buried in the bitter waters : the hidden history of racial cleansing in America " by Elliot Jaspin. That has plenty of potential for a movie or two as well -- I mean, I always used to wonder why there were NO blacks in the little town I grew up in, even long after Mayberry was integrated! 'Turns out the geographical separation of races in the rural U.S. is NOT just the result of so-called "self-segregation.")

Anyway, than you so very very much! 'Guess I'll have to take a look at that "Frost Nixon" flick too.

Cheers!

Ron Howard didn't 'just' reprise his Richie Cunningham role to get people to vote. ... he used it, along with Andy Griffith & Henry Winkler with their iconic roles on the Andy Griffith Show & Happy Days, for pro-Obama partisan politicking. America voted for someone we hardly know, who is a freshman US Senator. He vetted Mr Gaff, Joe Biden who is so UNpopula... more >

Ron Howard didn't 'just' reprise his Richie Cunningham role to get people to vote. ... he used it, along with Andy Griffith & Henry Winkler with their iconic roles on the Andy Griffith Show & Happy Days, for pro-Obama partisan politicking. America voted for someone we hardly know, who is a freshman US Senator. He vetted Mr Gaff, Joe Biden who is so UNpopular with America, he got ..what?... 1% of the vote when he wanted to be president, instead of Hillary Clinton who got almost the same amount of votes as he did, then made her Secretary of State (probably to fulfill what has been written by the sages.. "Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer."). Most of America wants legal, but limited abortion, but Obama has 100% approval ratings from NARAL & Planned Parenthood & is extreme liberal on pro-abortion laws, and can't figure out in the ENTIRE 9 month gestation period when the unborn has human rights/is even life. He's more liberal than a majority of the country on a number of issues, and if you want to see how badly universal health care screws the country who has it- take a close look at Cananda: people aren't having enough kids to have enough tax payers to fund that massive tax-sucking feel-good program, and the only reason they aren't in worse condition-YET- is immigration, but much/most of that doesn't help them nearly enough because the age bracket of too many of the immigrants to Canada, etc. We aren't having enough children, either. The only group in the USA who aren't growing are non-Hispanic Whites, but still not enough tax-paying newbies for what we have (Social Security, etc), never mind a universal health care that the well intentioned, but misguided liberals want. So we are messing ourselves up with not having enough children then & now. Howard, Winkler & Griffith really should have just kept it to encouraging voting. Now, they polluted the memory of those shows with their political bias. I don't care who they wanted, the shows should have been kept out of their partisanship (The TV show, Boston Legal, a program I like a lot, notwithstanding their huge bias politically, was bad enough painting the liberal Alan Shore to be logical, and the token conservative, Denny Crane, an Archie Bunker-like buffoon & their hugely pro-Obama episode with even Crane voting for .. surprise!.. Obama). Now, every time I see or watch those shows, see something about them (DVD, TV, etc), there is an image of them using the classic sitcoms for their own agenda. No thanks.
BTW, Nixon did really screw up big, but how about a truthful movie exposing the mostly inept & ineffective presidency of Jimmy Carter, with a Democrat controlled Congress, & the law they passed which pushed the banks to make home loans to those who couldn't afford it, then Clinton passing another law with another Dem controlled Congress which worsened it, Democrat Barney Frank saying several times that we didn't need to do anything with Fannie May & Freddie Mac, no need for more regulations, etc.? I don't belong to any political party, and I heard a few 'Both parties are guilty', but in practice, waaaaay too many people high & low had the mindset that the GOP & W did it all, or laid the blame too heavily on one party, the GOP (thanks to the media's warped pseudo-journalism), and didn't see the heavy guilt the Dems played. Now they just voted more Dems in, more GOPers out in thanks to a THIRD Dem controlled Congress, who consistently has a LOWER approval rating then W Bush (NOT that the media really reported that close to the amount of times they repeated how Bush has low approval ratings. No thanks to the warped slant Hollywood has. America thinks so low of Congress, but keeps thinking it's another member, not theirs. If Congress is so low, guess what? It most likely includes YOURS, especially when most are Dems. America almost gave this rotten Congress a super majority. People, start thinking differently, and in the future, don't reward an abysmally pathetic Dem controlled Congress with more of the same. Change we can believe in? Where? "Burning Down The House: What Caused Our Economic Crisis?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RZVw3no2A4

Ron Howard didn't 'just' reprise his Richie Cunningham role to get people to vote. ... he used it, along with Andy Griffith & Henry Winkler with their iconic roles on the Andy Griffith Show & Happy Days, for pro-Obama partisan politicking. America voted for someone we hardly know, who is a freshman US Senator. He vetted Mr Gaff, Joe Biden who is so UNpopula... more >

Ron Howard didn't 'just' reprise his Richie Cunningham role to get people to vote. ... he used it, along with Andy Griffith & Henry Winkler with their iconic roles on the Andy Griffith Show & Happy Days, for pro-Obama partisan politicking. America voted for someone we hardly know, who is a freshman US Senator. He vetted Mr Gaff, Joe Biden who is so UNpopular with America, he got ..what?... 1% of the vote when he wanted to be president, instead of Hillary Clinton who got almost the same amount of votes as he did, then made her Secretary of State (probably to fulfill what has been written by the sages.. "Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer."). Most of America wants legal, but limited abortion, but Obama has 100% approval ratings from NARAL & Planned Parenthood & is extreme liberal on pro-abortion laws, and can't figure out in the ENTIRE 9 month gestation period when the unborn has human rights/is even life. He's more liberal than a majority of the country on a number of issues, and if you want to see how badly universal health care screws the country who has it- take a close look at Cananda: people aren't having enough kids to have enough tax payers to fund that massive tax-sucking feel-good program, and the only reason they aren't in worse condition-YET- is immigration, but much/most of that doesn't help them nearly enough because the age bracket of too many of the immigrants to Canada, etc. We aren't having enough children, either. The only group in the USA who aren't growing are non-Hispanic Whites, but still not enough tax-paying newbies for what we have (Social Security, etc), never mind a universal health care that the well intentioned, but misguided liberals want. So we are messing ourselves up with not having enough children then & now. Howard, Winkler & Griffith really should have just kept it to encouraging voting. Now, they polluted the memory of those shows with their political bias. I don't care who they wanted, the shows should have been kept out of their partisanship (The TV show, Boston Legal, a program I like a lot, notwithstanding their huge bias politically, was bad enough painting the liberal Alan Shore to be logical, and the token conservative, Denny Crane, an Archie Bunker-like buffoon & their hugely pro-Obama episode with even Crane voting for .. surprise!.. Obama). Now, every time I see or watch those shows, see something about them (DVD, TV, etc), there is an image of them using the classic sitcoms for their own agenda. No thanks.
BTW, Nixon did really screw up big, but how about a truthful movie exposing the mostly inept & ineffective presidency of Jimmy Carter, with a Democrat controlled Congress, & the law they passed which pushed the banks to make home loans to those who couldn't afford it, then Clinton passing another law with another Dem controlled Congress which worsened it, Democrat Barney Frank saying several times that we didn't need to do anything with Fannie May & Freddie Mac, no need for more regulations, etc.? I don't belong to any political party, and I heard a few 'Both parties are guilty', but in practice, waaaaay too many people high & low had the mindset that the GOP & W did it all, or laid the blame too heavily on one party, the GOP (thanks to the media's warped pseudo-journalism), and didn't see the heavy guilt the Dems played. Now they just voted more Dems in, more GOPers out in thanks to a THIRD Dem controlled Congress, who consistently has a LOWER approval rating then W Bush (NOT that the media really reported that close to the amount of times they repeated how Bush has low approval ratings. No thanks to the warped slant Hollywood has. America thinks so low of Congress, but keeps thinking it's another member, not theirs. If Congress is so low, guess what? It most likely includes YOURS, especially when most are Dems. America almost gave this rotten Congress a super majority. People, start thinking differently, and in the future, don't reward an abysmally pathetic Dem controlled Congress with more of the same. Change we can believe in? Where? "Burning Down The House: What Caused Our Economic Crisis?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RZVw3no2A4

Ron, you have convinced Andy to ruin my whole idea and attitude towards Andy. As long as I can remember, I have used the lessons learned in Mayberry to shape my life. I have many, many times used the memory of an episode to give perspective to my life and others. In the show, I don't remember Andy voicing his political choices. I was taught that my poli... more >

Ron, you have convinced Andy to ruin my whole idea and attitude towards Andy. As long as I can remember, I have used the lessons learned in Mayberry to shape my life. I have many, many times used the memory of an episode to give perspective to my life and others. In the show, I don't remember Andy voicing his political choices. I was taught that my political choices were to be private, as (I could be wrong) I always believed Andy portrayed. Don't misunderstand, I am NOT upset because of backing Obama, but at the fact that his name, as well as Ron's, was sold in the name of politics. It makes me wonder why someone would feel like they needed to sell their noteriety for any cause. Aren't there other ways for a celebrity to earn a living?