John Wayne airport likely to be renamed

Of course. That is what movies are all about. If it was about REAL action then someone like Jackie Chan would win hands down.

 

I have lived in California since ‘64 and am definitely not a Republican, in fact what that party has turned into makes me want to puke. However this new crap about tearing down statues and renaming airports for chickenshit stuff is silly to me. John Wayne is an American icon and changing the name of the airport is just going to piss some people off.

 

For those watching the Academy Awards tonight, that is the real face of California. Orange county just took a little longer to catch on.

 

we can not force them to resign anymore then we could force Trump to resign over the things he has done sadly

 

That describes Samuel L. Jackson to a tee.

Edit: Sorry, he was only nominated for an Oscar.

 

My favorite John Wayne movie is the one that most fans don't like . . . "The Quiet Man."

 

You won't get any argument from me in regards to Jackie Chan. I read his biography. That alone was mind boggling. The man TRAINED for his career and he genuinely has got the heart of a lion while possessing the character of a legitimately funny comedian on screen.

 

No, the Duke will persevere, the Duke had true grit

 

My man?!? I'm french-canadian

 

If you watch John Wayne's westerns you'll notice he's always wearing the same hat and packing the same revolver and holster in most of his movies.

I use to see John Wayne during the 70's in Newport Beach at the grocery store a few times.

Dressed very casually and unlike L.A. the Republicans living in the OC weren't star struck.

This is the car the Duke road around town in.

 

You sure would hate serving in the Air Force then.

 

From the article:

It was the tail end of the counterculture movement. It's how the vast majority of Americans felt.
It's how Richard M. Nixon became President...

>"The charge that we built our Republican coalition on race is a lie. Nixon routed the left because it had shown itself incompetent to win or end a war into which it had plunged the United States and too befuddled or cowardly to denounce the rioters burning our cities or the brats rampaging on our campuses."<
https://buchanan.org/blog/pjb-the-neocons-and-nixons-southern-strategy-512


The useful idiots of the Kremlin, the blacks were rioting and burning down there own neighborhoods.
Young people were rampaging on college campuses.
Liberal were giving aid and comfort to the enemy (North Vietnam) and were the useful idiots of the Kremlin.
John Ford used real American Indians in his movie starring John Wayne and it's well documented what it was like working with these Indians on the Navajo reservation.
And buggery was still a crime in America.

 

They're going to have a hard time finding anyone with a lifetime of politically correct views on everything. As far as his acting, he couldn't. JW was always JW.

 

He was also cast as Gengis Kahn and Burt Reynolds was cast as an Apache Indian.

 

How John Wayne saved the United States Marine Corps

Once WWII concluded, the years of bloodshed and mindnumbing violence finally ended, but a massive demobilization of servicemen to slash military spending began. Liberal Democrats supported an effort to completely abolish the Marine Corps, first established under Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.

This effort was supported by the Doolittle Board, created by the Truman Administration, and headed by none other than Army General Jimmy Doolittle himself, which called for the Marine Corps to be disbanded as a separate military outfit and unified with Army units.

As you can imagine, this didn’t go over well with Marines who had sacrificed so much to the war effort and distinguished themselves for valor and bravery against all odds, over and above the call of duty during those brutal years. Several enterprising Marines with Hollywood connections thought a movie built around the famous Joe Rosenthal photo of the Mount Suribachi flag raising at Iwo Jima could help sway public opinion.

The Marine veterans brought the idea to Hollywood director Allan Dwan who saw the merit in it and wanted to be involved in the project. The movie was to be called “The Sands of Iwo Jima” and everyone agreed the only big name Hollywood star fit to play the hero Sgt. Stryker was John Wayne.

Wayne read the script, didn’t like the adaptation, and turned it down. Never ones to back down from a fight, the Marines had Marine Corps Commandant, General Clifton B. Cates board a flight from Washington to California to personally explain to John Wayne what was at stake – the very existence of the United States Marine Corps. Wayne immediately changed his mind and promised the General he would do whatever it took to make the movie a success.

The Sands of Iwo Jima was released in 1949 and immediately became a blockbuster. Millions of Americans packed into movie theaters to see it. Wayne was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar, which took him from the number one box-office star to movie legend status. The Doolittle Board quietly disintegrated and no politician on Capitol Hill has ever again suggested we should disband the Marine Corps...

continue -> https://centerforselfgovernance.com...How-John-Wayne-Saved-Marine-Corps-Frickey.pdf

 

I always thought he was great. Still do. I loved his films.

 

The new name will be "Im offended" airport and his statue will be replaced with a giant snowflake.

Using these standards, it would be impossible to name anything after anyone.

 

It's pathetic to see all these people that have zero historical reference to John Wayne and his impact on Orange County and the area comment here.

Leftists pushing opinions from a position of ignorance... that makes today Monday.

 

I dunno.... Hugo Chavez International does have a nice ring to it....

 

He is also probably a little bit crazy. The punishment he put his body through to make movies is crazy.

 

I have never watched one of his movies and since I don't live in Orange County I have no idea of what his history is there. Why do you expect people to know who he is? I checked IMDB and his first movie was in 1926. His acting career started close to 100 years ago. He died 40 years ago. The national median age is 37.8 years. That means he was dead before the majority of people in this country were born. I think it is a little bit of a stretch to expect the majority of the people to know his movies or his history in a county far away.

 

He helped make Hollywood famous. O'Hare Airport is named for Butch O'Hare, long dead. Eiffel named after French engineer Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, long dead.
Shall we change the name of everyone who was so honored because they're dead?

 

I didn't say things can't be named after people that are dead. We have tons of things named after dead presidents, kings, scientist, war heroes throughout the world. What I said was you can't expect people to know about an actor that is long dead, that for most people have never watched his movies. Much to the disappointment of John Wayne's fans here his accomplishments were never taught in my history classes. Older people here are having problems separating their Hollywood hero from a long gone era from modern day reality. Just because he was a legend in your time does not mean people should watch his movies now. Kanye West has sold over 50 million albums. How many have you bought? Hollywood history may mean a lot to you but it is not a mandatory subject at schools nor do I have any interest in it.

 

Oh wow people in the past had different views than they do now?

 

There are so many leftwing hollywood kooks to choose from