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Originally Posted by rsdengler
He was way too funny! RIP Gunny, you will definitely be missed...
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You should've heard him off-camera. He was hilarious & definitely what you see = what you got. Met him one time at an NRA convention; long line for remarks/photo-ops/autographs. Long after all the other "speed shooting stars" had departed, he stayed until the last person there had been accomodated -1 very brief bathroom break.
I hope GSSF (Glock) keeps the Gunny Challenge going (sort of an end of year Master's shoot-off). He was a fixture in that from day one. Good man.
I notice the CBS article doesn't cover as much of the being blacklisted for his political views.
Fox' article is a bit more curtain-pulled-back:
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"I've had a very fruitful career. I've done over 70 feature films," he said. "I've done over 200 episodes of [Outdoor Channel series 'GunnyTime']... and then [Hollywood] found out that I'm a conservative."
Actually, he corrected, "I'm an Independent, but I said something bad about the president. I had something unsavory to say about the president's administration, and even though I did vote for him the first time around, I was blackballed."
Ermey, who was an NRA board member, said at the time that his association with the organization and his disapproval of President Obama cost him acting jobs.
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"Do you realize I have not done a movie in five to six years? Why? Because I was totally blackballed by the ... liberals in Hollywood," he alleged. "They can destroy you. They're hateful people [who] don't just not like you, they want to take away your livelihood ... that's why I live up in the desert on a dirt road ... I don't have to put up with their crap."
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