Physically strong men, more likely to have right wing political views

[Stan Tamudo]

John Wayne was another noted right-winger who was physically imposing. Clint Eastwood as well.

 

You do know his real name was Marion Morrison don't you?

[Happ Hazzard]

So what? Plenty of actors use stage names.

[Stan Tamudo]

So what? Plenty of actors use stage names.

 

Marion Morrison.

[melthebell]

John Wayne was another noted right-winger who was physically imposing. Clint Eastwood as well.

 

[Stan Tamudo]

Am I the only one picking up a delicate whiff of homoeroticism here?

Thigh length leather boots anyone?

 

Where's Conrod when you need him?

[Longcol]

A little bit of research and it does seem to be correct. Stallone is an open Republican supporter, as is Bruce Willis and Chuck Norris.

 

Are there any well known and openly left wing males out there

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2325414/Men-physically-strong-likely-right-wing-political-views.html

 

And yet most blokes I've seen buying the Mail are about 5ft 7in and wear specs.

[skinz]

And yet most blokes I've seen buying the Mail are about 5ft 7in and wear specs.

 

I think that's from the spine to da belly button. 82% beer, 17% fat and 1% spine.

[boyfriday]

Where's Conrod when you need him?

 

Lifting Closet Guy's shirt..

[Rupert_Baehr]

I know (or have known - though not in the Biblical sense) a number of very strong men.

 

Are male ballet dancers noted for being right-wing?

[Vague_Boy]

Clint was very mild, actually, annoying Wayne, Heston and others by his insistence of casting the black guy in 1973's Magnum Force

 

Link?

 

Interestingly Charlton Heston used to be a campaigner for the US Democratic party and a Civil Rights activist.

 

Heston's political activism had four stages. In the first stage, 1955–61, he endorsed the Democratic candidates for president, and signed onto petitions and liberal political causes. From 1961 to 1972, the second stage, he continued to endorse Democratic candidates for president. In 1965-71, he served as the elected president of the Screen Actors Guild, and clashed with his liberal rival Ed Asner. Moving beyond Hollywood, he became nationally visible in 1963 in support of the Civil Rights bill, and in 1968 used his "cowboy" persona to publicize gun control measures.

LINK

 

 

He also openly supported the Civil Rights movement:

 

In 1963, he joined a civil rights march on Washington, and stood with Martin Luther King on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in the US capital. He called King a "20th century Moses".

LINK

 

Reportedly, when in 1961 an Oklahoma movie theater premiering his movie El Cid was segregated, he joined a picket line outside. Heston makes no reference to this in his autobiography, but describes traveling to Oklahoma City to picket segregated restaurants, to the chagrin of Allied Artists, the producers of El Cid. During the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom held in Washington, D.C. in 1963, he accompanied Martin Luther King Jr. In later speeches, Heston said he helped the civil rights cause "long before Hollywood found it fashionable."

LINK

 

So you can understand why I take your statement regarding his reaction to Eastwood's casting decision with a very large pinch of salt.

 

And wouldn't Ted Post have had some say in the casting? Maybe not, he was only the director after all.