{"id":396632,"date":"2019-02-21T05:20:46","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T04:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-twitter-firestorm-emerges-over-1971-john-wayne-playboy-interview\/"},"modified":"2019-02-21T05:20:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T04:20:46","slug":"prison-planet-com-twitter-firestorm-emerges-over-1971-john-wayne-playboy-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-twitter-firestorm-emerges-over-1971-john-wayne-playboy-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Twitter Firestorm Emerges Over 1971 John Wayne \u2018Playboy\u2019 Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/02\/19\/twitter-firestorm-1971-john-wayne-playboy\/\"><strong>Daily Caller<\/strong><\/a><br \/>February 20, 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Forty years after his death, John Wayne\u2019s views on race and homosexuality have suddenly sparked a firestorm of tweets from users who believe his comments are somehow representative of America as a whole in the Trump era.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">After a viral <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pixelpreaching\/status\/1097358363715952641\">twee<span class=\"s2\">t<\/span><\/a> began to circulate over the weekend, highlighting portions of a famous<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>1971 Playboy <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.shanti.virginia.edu\/Wild_Wild_Cold_War\/files\/2011\/11\/John_Wayne_Playboy_Int2.pdf\">intervie<span class=\"s2\">w<\/span><\/a>, the phrase \u201cJohn Wayne\u201d was trending on the platform by Tuesday evening as users found their feeds flooded with both outrage and confusion at the new-found relevancy of the interview.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The tweet highlighted particularly jarring portions of the interview, such as Wayne\u2019s belief that films portraying homosexuality were \u201cperverted,\u201d and statements asserting that \u201cblacks\u201d were uneducated and therefore lacked adequate \u201cresponsibility\u201d for leadership positions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Pia Glenn, an actress who played Condoleezza Rice in Will Ferrell\u2019s 2009 political comedy \u201cYou\u2019re Welcome America,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PiaGlenn\/status\/1097734414006509568\">asserte<span class=\"s2\">d<\/span><\/a> that there exist \u201cdirect lines\u201d between Wayne\u2019s language \u201cand the country today.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">OK but to be fair, this was a very different time!<\/p>\n<p>\u2026now that I&#8217;ve gotten the attention of anyone who might agree with the above statement, let&#8217;s be clear that this is exactly who America&#8217;s &#8220;hero&#8221; was &amp; let&#8217;s look at the direct lines between this language and the country today <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Uucec8NrA0\">https:\/\/t.co\/Uucec8NrA0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 @PiaGlenn (@PiaGlenn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PiaGlenn\/status\/1097734414006509568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I love the tweets explaining how John Wayne was born in the early 1900\u2019s so we shouldn\u2019t be horrified. <\/p>\n<p>Ya gotta pick one. Are we trying to go back to those times or were those times terrible? Ya can\u2019t make America great again while making excuses about how shitty it was.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon James White (@elonjames) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonjames\/status\/1097909221675466753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am shocked that John Wayne, who was born in 1907 (!) made some un-progressive remarks in 1971. Just shocked. This is me being shocked. <a...<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/twitter-firestorm-emerges-over-1971-john-wayne-playboy-interview.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily CallerFebruary 20, 2019 Forty years after his death, John Wayne\u2019s views on race and homosexuality have suddenly sparked a firestorm of tweets from users who believe his comments are somehow representative of America as a whole in the Trump era. After a viral tweet began to circulate over the weekend, highlighting portions of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-396632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}