# Fox News Idiot Roger Friedman go to hell. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 14, 2005, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-idiot-roger-friedman-go-to-hell/335632 "2005-12-14T20:36:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-idiot-roger-friedman-go-to-hell/335632/41 "2005-12-16T15:59:41Z")
According to a book by one of Wayme’s wives–I can’t recall which–he was tolerant of gay people and had a live-and-let-live attitude toward his gay friends, like Rock Hudson. She said something like, “Duke could overlook anything if you were a good bridge player.” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-idiot-roger-friedman-go-to-hell/335632/42 "2005-12-16T21:52:39Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > He could charm anyone. I saw a video of him, when he went to some big university. The initial reception was somewhere between meh and lukewarm. By the time he was done, they loved him. He was smart, witty, and well spoken. He was able to make fun of himself, something many people can’t do. Not quite the loudmouthed aggressive type at all. So yes, he was a charmer. It was actually the plot of a funny episode of _Maude_. She intended to curse him out when she met him (he was in town for some reason) due to his chauvinistic views, and when she met him (he appeared as himself) he made the same remarks she hated, and rather than curse him out she ends up melting in his arms and dancing with him. ---
**Author:** ![Avumede](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/avumede/32/7235_2.png) [@Avumede](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avumede)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-idiot-roger-friedman-go-to-hell/335632/43 "2005-12-17T00:13:56Z")
Plus, according to that scruffy-looking guy in Repo Man, John Wayne WAS gay. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-idiot-roger-friedman-go-to-hell/335632/44 "2005-12-17T01:27:38Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > During WW2, they did join up. Hundreds of Thousands of them. They signed up with flat feet, poor vision, lots of things that made for a “less than perfect” soldier. I’m sure many of them had wives and kids too. I’ve heard and read stories that the Duke wanted to. I can surely ask then, why didn’t he. Plenty of other actors did. Jimmy Stewart even became a general eventually. So why not the “greatest American of all”? I don’t think it was cowardice at all, Wayne had a lot of physical courage. I thnk it was his career that held him back. During Vietnam, a lot of people weren’t given any choice (the draft) between war or career. During WW2 there was a draft too, but a very large number of people volunteered. Yeah, it’s not like you had to go into combat, either. Reagan made training films for the military. Glenn Miller formed the Army Air Force Band. Hell, neither of my grandfathers “fought”, one was a mechanic, the other was a driver for a general. But they still signed up. The one who was a mechanic in the Air Force has epilepsy, for crissakes. Then again, Gregory Peck was deferred because of a bad back, and I don’t think anyone would call Peck a coward. Of course, he wasn’t a gung-ho war hawk, either. Topic? I wish _Brokeback Mountain_ was playing here in Pittsburgh. I guess I could just wait for the DVD. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-idiot-roger-friedman-go-to-hell/335632.md?page=2)