Andy Griffith was a beloved television presence and a gifted actor who remained loyal and stood by President Obama.
In 2008, Andy Griffith first earned the wrath of the right when he and Henry Winkler teamed up with Ron Howard to endorse Barack Obama.
Griffith’s part of the script contained this bit a of wisdom about fearing change, “People are funny. Sometimes change scares them. They’d rather keep doing the same old things that keep messing them up than change to the thing that can help them.”
However, Andy really earned the right’s wrath when he filmed a commercial supporting ObamaCare.
Here is Griffith’s 2010 commercial which was trying to convince seniors that Barack Obama was not going to kill them with healthcare reform:
Griffith was attacked by Rush Limbaugh after the ad aired,
RUSH: I don’t think it’s well known, but Andy Griffith is a well-known leftist. Oh, yeah. Andy Griffith is a well known leftist and he’s got a reputation for being nasty.
CALLER: Well –
RUSH: What you experienced is not uncommon. I guess it’s not well known because of the characters that he’s played on TV. No, he let Otis out of jail all the time. It’s a perfect example of a leftist, Otis constantly drunk. Griffith campaigned for Obama. Do you people not remember this? Oh, yeah. Andy Griffith campaigned for Obama. In fact, here is Andy Griffith for Obamacare.
Griffith paid a heavy price for making the ad. A September 2010 PPP poll of North Carolina found that his support for healthcare reform cost him 25 points of favorability in his home state. His favorable rating dropped twenty two points with Republicans thanks to attacks on his character by people like Rush Limbaugh and others on the right.
Unlike Congressional Democrats who cut and run from the president when things get tough, Andy Griffith was there for the president. The one thing that many congressional Democrats have proven is that when things get tough, they sell out the White House. One has to look no further than the shameless display put on by 17 House Democrats who voted for contempt charges against Eric Holder.
Democrats sold out Obama on the public option. They sold him out on closing GITMO. They even tried to sell him out on SOPA/PIPA. Sometimes Obama’s big problem isn’t the GOP. It is the self-interested members of his own party’s congressional delegation who work against him.
It is somehow fitting that Griffith got to enjoy one final Obama victory on healthcare before he passed away.
Andy Griffith was part of an era when Democrats actually supported their president. Times change, but of all the values that he tried to emphasize in his television shows, loyalty is the one that some Democrats could really use a refresher on.
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Jul. 3rd, 2012 at 4:33 pm
I always had a crush on Andy Griffith. He was so incredibly handsome, and even his nasty characters, like Lonesome Rhodes, were hot. He was like a southern JFK. So much love to him. I really like the color episodes of TAGS, because he was in his prime and he was in color. Yea, that is a totally shallow assessment, but I’m okay with it.
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Sandy
Jul. 3rd, 2012 at 4:52 pm
Rest in Peace Mr. Andy Griffith – few men have the courage to speak the truth anymore.
Long time fan from way back to B&W Mayberry…to his gospel music…
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Johnee
Jul. 3rd, 2012 at 5:23 pm
So here was a guy that believed in family values, hard work, responsibility, and patriotism. ALL the things that wastes of space like Rush say that liberals are not (once again, stereotypes). It must honk these types off to no end that Sheriff Andy Taylor was (gasp), a LIBERAL DEMOCRAT!!!
RIP Mr. Griffith. I loved watching Mayberry as a kid…. you will be sorely missed.
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Cha
Jul. 3rd, 2012 at 5:28 pm
I did not know this about Andy Griffith and of course I’m
Thrilled! Andy can wear it like a badge of Honor that he is is revered by the likes of Pres Obama and smeared by the
limbaugh sewage dept.
He was great in “Waitress”, thanks, Jason.
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j
Jul. 3rd, 2012 at 7:53 pm
He was buried at 11.00 am this morning on his family farm on Roanoke Island with his family and close friends there for the burial – the way he wanted it, no fuss, no bother.
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catherine
Jul. 3rd, 2012 at 9:16 pm
YAY! for andy griffith…a delightful person with the courage of his convictions.
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A Walkaway
Jul. 3rd, 2012 at 9:24 pm
RIP, Andy Griffith. You were a good man, and worthy of respect.
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H King
Jul. 3rd, 2012 at 10:03 pm
He was a great actor and a super human being. I watched Mayberry as a kid, and I loved him in Matlock. His quality programing is sorely missed on tv these days. Thank goodness for TV Land! RIP Sheriff Andy.
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Jaymes Reed
Jul. 3rd, 2012 at 11:11 pm
RIP Andy… but screw the New World Order ;(
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Diana Baskin
Jul. 3rd, 2012 at 11:32 pm
Why does anyone listen to Rush or even quote him. He is full of hot air.
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paulabflat
Jul. 4th, 2012 at 12:25 am
andy: do the tears on your pillow bespeak the pain that is in your heart?
barney: yeah.
andy: me, too.
and yeah. me, too.
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Dan Skinner
Jul. 4th, 2012 at 1:23 am
Only Rush Limbaugh can find enough hate in his heart for anyone… where is that last clogged artery when you need it?
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Anne
Jul. 4th, 2012 at 6:43 am
I have always liked Andy Griffith, both as an actor and as a human being. It’s really heart-warming to know that he was supportive of the president’s health care reform bill. Did you know that both Marilyn Monroe and Andy Griffith were born on Tuesday, June 1, 1926? As we all know, she had a short and tragic life, dying at 36, while he went on to live a rich, full life until age 86. The world will be a poorer place without him, and may he rest in peace.
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Doris
Jul. 4th, 2012 at 11:19 am
~~~~~~RIP,ANDY
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Tim
Jul. 4th, 2012 at 12:43 pm
It was a proud moment when Mr Griffith came out in support of Americans. Now if we could just get the Democrats to join with their president.
Never have we so left an elected president at the alter. The Democrats need to climb out of their corner of complacency and stand up for real Americans.
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Robi Rivers
Jul. 5th, 2012 at 10:57 am
We must not go back…let’s move forward…!!!
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SueinCA
Jul. 5th, 2012 at 1:08 pm
Some of us grew up with this man. He was and always will be to me “Opie’s Paw”. RIP Mr Griffith you will be sorely missed but if there is a “rock in roll” heaven then there is a movie star heaven as well. Act on Sir Griffith act on.
RIP
by Henry Van Dyke
I am standing upon the seashore. A ship, at my side,
spreads her white sails to the moving breeze and starts
for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength.
I stand and watch her until, at length, she hangs like a speck
of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.
Then, someone at my side says, “There, she is gone”
Gone where?
Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast,
hull and spar as she was when she left my side.
And, she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port.
Her diminished size is in me — not in her.
And, just at the moment when someone says, “There, she is gone,”
there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices
ready to take up the glad shout, “Here she comes!”
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sam
Jul. 5th, 2012 at 3:57 pm
RIP Andy.
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Tim Calahan
Jul. 5th, 2012 at 4:13 pm
I knew this about Andy. He was a wonderful person, who spoke it as he saw it. He was in a short lived television series in the 70′s called Salvage One, which was one of my favorite shows. It was an original just like Mr. Griffith. RIP, you will be greatly missed. Thanks for being part of my life.
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