Apparently he said some non-PC things in a 1970 interview that has social media demanding his memorials be renamed. Will they demand his movies be banned too? Isn't this great? Don't you just love having a Fascist Mob deciding all of our heroes and history must be expunged?
Social media trolls recently honed in on a new target of attack. The same agitators that consistently seek to tear down statues, ban books, and silence dissidents have now dug up an interview with …
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John Wayne is awesome. Time for a movie marathon.
I heard John Wayne was a closet homosexual.
Yea I heard that.
Wayne repeatedly wrote to John Ford saying he wanted to enlist, on one occasion inquiring whether he could get into Ford's military unit, but consistently kept postponing it until after "he finished just one or two pictures".
John Ford is said to have humiliated Wayne on set after the war saying things like:-
"That aint no way to salute you chicken livered ***!"
In the film Trumbo.
Dalton Trumbo is a screenwriter whose talent places him among the elite of Hollywood. However, his active membership in the
Communist Party of the USA draws the contempt of staunchly
anti-Soviet entertainment-industry figures such as columnist Hedda
Hopper and actor
John Wayne.
In one scene Wayne is depicted having made a anti communist speech confronted by Trumbo who say's that he served in Iwo Jima and asks Wayne where he served. Of course Wayne Hadn't served but had the audacity to go on and play the hero in the film Iwo Jima.
One reason the military is said to have not pushed for Wayne is that his medical revealed he had a severely stretched anal passage that they said didn't occur naturally!