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July 30, 2003

Bastards!

   So what do presidential candidate Dick Gephardt and Joe Stalin have in common?  No, other than that?  It seems both have/had an animus, for John Wayne.
"Geppy condemned President Bush's foreign policy as "machismo" and "arrogant unilateralism."

"Foreign policy isn't a John Wayne movie, where we catch the bad guys, hoist a few cold ones, and then everything fades to black," the White House wannabe fumed in a speech to a receptive audience: San Francisco Bar Association.

"And why the slap at John Wayne? That prissy attempt at an insult might delight a bunch of leftist lawyers in San Francisco, but would Gephardt have the guts to say that to an audience of normal people in Omaha or Pittsburgh or Orlando? "

Okay, NewsMax was really fishing on that one, but Joe Stalin was deadly serious it seems.

Josef Stalin ordered hitmen
to kill movie idol John Wayne

That's right, we came that close to World War III.

"British historian Michael Mann said: “Stalin saw him as a gigantic propaganda symbol against the Soviets."
A fate Henry Fonda never had to worry about, eh wot?
"He said that two exiled Ukrainians living in America were given a contract to shoot the movie gunslinger, nicknamed The Duke.
"They broke into his changing room at Warner Brothers’ Hollywood studios in 1943 — but the FBI ambushed them."
Bastards!
Posted by pecksnif at July 30, 2003 12:05 PM | TrackBack
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Anyone who badmouths The Duke deserves summary execution, after 24 hours days of torture.

Posted by: Kim du Toit on July 31, 2003 03:15 PM

Every time any Dem opens his mouth I think, there's another girlyboy. Geeze, even Dem women sound like girlyboys.

Posted by: Peter on July 31, 2003 10:38 PM

What anti-communist stuff was John Wayne filming at that point? I'm just trying to figure out what made Stalin key on him.

Posted by: Skoonj on August 1, 2003 12:43 PM

instead, wayne was killed by an atomic bomb.
he died of cancer, like most of the rest of the cast that had made a movie in a bomb test site.

Posted by: arbitrary aardvark on September 25, 2003 02:48 AM
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