Forrie Smith is a regular John Wayne — all hat and no cattle, nothing but air and noise pretending to be a cowboy. He’s on some show called “Yellowstone,” and he’s been making a fuss about vaccines and masks and all that right-wing BS. He’s taken it a step further than most, though, insisting that not only will he not wear a mask, but he will get mad if you wear a mask.
On March 24, Smith posted an Instagram story with the caption, “You need to hear this story.” He then proceeds to delve into the story of how he was kicked off an airplane. In the video, he appears intoxicated and disoriented, even expressing confusion about which city he is currently in. The video is filmed from the Houston, Texas, airport, where he claims, “I just got kicked off a plane … because I told them that I didn’t feel comfortable sitting next to somebody with a mask on.” Smith also revealed the staff cited his intoxication as the reason for kicking him off the plane. While he admitted he had “been drinking,” he insisted he wasn’t intoxicated.
He claimed the real reason he was kicked off was “because you people won’t stand up and tell everybody what bulls**t this is. I just told them I didn’t feel comfortable about sitting next to somebody that had to wear a mask, and I’m off the plane.” The incident may have gone unreported if Smith hadn’t posted it on social media. However, he seemed to think the video would garner sympathy or make some kind of point about vaccinations. Instead, it just made him look like a fool.
This is a new level of stupid. So he’s drunk — he mentions sitting in an airport bar for 3 hours — and he’s offended that he would be asked to sit next to someone wearing a mask. That’s bad enough, but then he goes on Instagram thinking he will be inspiring the people to rise up and complain right alongside him that someone dared to mask up in his presence.
I didn’t need to hear his story, but now that I have, I know to never pay attention to his pretentious, entitled, ignorant ass ever again.
He sounds exactly like the sort of dribbling bellend who would crow about his support for stand-your-ground laws then whine when someone punched him because he got in their face to scream incoherently about masks.
You see, he has a right to be exposed to other people’s pathogens, and expose them to his. Frredumb.
The guy is an idiot.
That was dumb.
He has no idea why that person is wearing a mask.
There are a huge number of reasons why someone is highly vulnerable to the usual airborne viruses you find in airports.
A few.
.1. They could be taking anti-rejection drugs for their heart, liver, kidney transplant, making a viral infection potentially deadly.
.2. They could be taking chemo for treating cancer.
.3. They could have a lot of medical conditions that make them more susceptible to viruses, i.e. autoimmune diseases, immune system defects of one sort or another, dialysis, old age.
4. Asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).
Or
.4. Maybe they have a cold and don’t want to spread it around.
.5. Maybe they have a perfectly normal immune system, are healthy, and just don’t want to get whatever viruses are circulating that day in the Houston airport.
Forrie Smith does have the right to get off the plane if he doesn’t like his next seat passenger.
He has zero reason to complain about it though.
The person wearing the mask was a responsible adult.
Forrie Smith is an irresponsible idiot with a toxic, defective personality.
I’d never heard of this clown.
I didn’t miss anything.
He is an antivaxxer. An idiot living in a fact free anti-reality bubble.
Antivaxxers are 14 times more likely to die from a Covid-19 virus infection than normal people.
The number of antivaxxers who caught the virus and died in the USA is high at 330,000.
Not only does the once and future Republican presidential candidate have a rapidly degenerating brain, the collective American brain is also rapidly deteriorating.
Yes, by now any talk of political right vs. political left is no longer useful or relevant.
All over the world, it’s “f*ckin’ deranged reality deniers” vs. “people with more-or-less normal brains”.
Not a pretty thing to see, wherever you are.
There’s not much to know about him. Neither Wikipedia nor IMBd list “Yellowstone” in his credits which may mean his role isn’t big enough to get on the page, or is very new. He’s a former football player from Iowa but he’s been an actor for 37 years, although not a lot of credits. He’s very B-list or even C-list in Hollywood terms. If he starts getting sauced and making scenes at airports or on the internet, he may find himself on the X-list.
@7 ? Imdb does list him with Yellowstone https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0808210/
Someone should tell him he can protect himself against people wearing masks by putting a plastic bag over his face.
That grizzled old geezer is two years younger than I am?
My business partner has cystic fibrosis. It’s a mild form but if she catches covid or RSV, it will kill her. She’s not been able to see her family since covid hit because of assholes like this guy. It’s just too dangerous for her to travel on airplanes.
refusing to sit next to someone wearing a mask is like refusing to sit next someone wearing a cowboy hat. Actually a mask is less odious than a large hat.
Thanks to a less than completely effective and politicized response to COVID, the US republican party lost nearly 1,000,000 potential voters. In large part, motivated by their current presidential candidate, who (at one point) suggested putting disinfectant in people’s bodies, and using horse de-wormer instead of antivirals – who then got shot full of monoclonal antibodies when he got COVID himself, after trying to infect his opponent and other people at a presidential debate. Amazingly, there are people like Yellowstone actor who will probably vote for him again, in spite of the truly staggering number of felony convictions he is about to talk himself into.
I used to say such things were mind-boggling until I found out that there are people who believe we didn’t land on the moon, or that the airplanes hitting the WTC in 9/11 were mumble mumble special effects. The US has a large and energetic population of radiant assholes. People who understand global warming enough to de-tune their diesel engines so they emit extra smoke. They have even infiltrated the ruling class, thanks to the wealthy, who are, I don’t even know what, preparing some nihilistic self-wipe maneuver. My theory is that aliens have secretly invaded us and are manipulating us into face-punching ourselves to death.
I rarely wear a mask anymore. The most recent time ironically was when I went to urgent care for a COVID/flu test a month ago because upper respiratory irritation and my temp “spiking” to 99.6 °F. I wore an N95 and came back negative for both viruses. High pollen count so maybe allergies. Claritin D is a wonderdrug.
Anyway I haven’t flown in over a decade, but if I did I would probably wear a mask due to the uncertainty. I wouldn’t care if others were wearing masks in my presence.
Anyone refusing to get vaccinated is an ignorant asshat.
And as for Yellowstone I haven’t seen it. Friends have said it’s good. Aside from Thirteen Days I’m not too keen on Costner. I have seen several episodes of Lawmen: Bass Reeves because I liked the main actor when he was on MI:5 (aka Spooks). Danny Hunter is all grown up. He had one of the most stellar death scenes in that show of agents having amazing death scenes. Unlike Jack Bauer they didn’t last very long.
Geez, it really is all about personal freedumb and libfarty with these klowns isn’t it? I mean as long as its just for them and no one else gets to have any choice or say even in their own bodies or clothes. (Masks count as clothes kinda right?) For fucks sake!
As for Yellowstone I thought that was an Attenborough* doco? (WARNING : Possibly confronting wolf hunt feeding scene.)
.* Okay not the one I thought this was which couldn’t find but Frozen Planet instead.
If masks so offend him, and I were wearing a mask in the seat next to him, would it make him feel better if I pulled my mask down and spit in his face? Or would merely coughing on him make him comfortable?
Lee Scoresby he ain’t.
I live in an area with a pretty low rate of vaccination, but even without that I like wearing a mask at this point since it’s quite effective at reducing the severity of my pollen allergies.
Another use for masks: keeps extremist assholes from getting too close.
Assholes like this are the reason why I will not board an airplane anymore.
I think Forry Smith, actor and former football player, is a different person than Forrie J. Smith who plays Lloyd on Yellowstone and who was kicked off the plane.
@bcw bcw, #8: Careful. That is NOT a toy or a game.
A piece of advice my father gave me years ago: You can’t argue with a drunk.
As someone who’s close to the commercial aviation industry- if FA had a nickel for every time some @sshole said they were “Not drunk, they just had a few drinks” that they had to kick off an airplane they’d be able to retire from their jobs. You can be drunk on a plane- you cannot get on a plane drunk. You are way more easily intoxicated in the air and they don’t want to deal with an easily avoidable medical emergency.
I basically only wear masks at work (I see a lot of the public, including children and seniors every day) and in the airport. Occasionally I’ll take them out at busy venues if I start feeling like I’m breathing too much of other people’s air. Funny thing about that- my spouse is a pilot. They used to come back from work after a four or five day feeling low level sick. Now after they wear the mask in the airport they don’t. Funny that.
He wears the hat so he can’t hear the wind whistling through the holes in his head. I stopped wanting hats like that when I was about 5. Instead, I’ve wanted a Aussie slouch hat. The lead character in my favorite TV show wore one.
I have actually started functionally thinking in terms of cooties in adults. Unresolved irrational negative feelings that influence group behavior. Maybe that’s why profanity works but that feels too simplistic.
Still, vaccine cooties. That is the politicization of vaccines. Also male/female masculine/feminine cooties. CRT/race cooties. Maybe that’s directly how the “invasion” “illegals” language works. Just the feelings of war and crime.
I can get folksy in lots of other actors.
Years ago I used to occasionally see a woman on Saskatoon Transit who I called the gas mask lady, because she always wore a full blown respirator mask with filter canisters. I have no idea what her health problem was, but apparently she felt being able to ride the bus was worth all that trouble. I stopped seeing her at least a couple years before COVID, so she may not have had to deal with the pandemic.
The cooties in adults often extend to the very mention of sexual anatomy and action. Like they’ve literally no ability to speak of it in a functional or technical sense. That’s a lot of fear. At the level of worms thrashing in the sun.
I think of these people as the “You’re Not The Boss of ME” Republicans. Because, face it, they are more likely to be Republicans. More interested in “My Freedumbs” than in saving themselves and others.