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John Schneider served five hours out of his three-day jail sentence for unpaid alimony on Tuesday. It was the latest hurdle for the conservative star who says he's experienced his share of rocky times in Hollywood.
Speaking to Fox News exclusively after returning to his Louisiana home, the "Dukes of Hazzard" star said his experience in the L.A. County jail was eye-opening.
"Going to jail was nothing like I ever imagined it was going to be," Schneider told us. "First of all, I was given no preferential treatment at all except they didn't detain me with the general population.
"I was arrested, I was searched, I was handcuffed, I had my wallet and my phone and they took my belt and shoelaces and it was put into a plastic bag," the 58-year-old recalled.
"It was totally life-changing," he added.
Schneider alleged that his conservative values may have hurt him in court, adding that it's time for more of his fellow Hollywood stars to "come out of the Republican closet."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/john-schneider-speaks-out-after-leaving-jail-says-theres-a-bias-against-conservatives-in-hollywood/ar-AAyAsJn?li=BBnb7Kz
Really now Schneider?
displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)He'll probably want to play himself in the movie based on his self-published book about his ordeal.
Iggo
(47,603 posts)Don't you sell him short.
That man has done some serious time!
His life is changed.
displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)The three hour tour that landed Gilligan on that island.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)I don't have to pay for them?
Cha
(298,139 posts)Archae
(46,379 posts)Dulcinea
(6,701 posts)John, you went to jail for nonpayment of alimony, not "conservative values." Or is not paying your bills a conservative value?
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,509 posts)OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)Is this the latest repuke mantra?
Ferrets are Cool
(21,122 posts)Docreed2003
(16,907 posts)Locrian
(4,522 posts)"Going to jail was nothing like I ever imagined it was going to be," Schneider told us. "First of all, I was given no preferential treatment at all except they didn't detain me with the general population.
Well golly gee - he didn't get special treatment like he expected.
Iggo
(47,603 posts)spanone
(135,958 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Didn't you give them the old "Don't you know who I am?" routine - it always works out well for a criminal heading to the slammer.
And naturally, Schneider runs off to Fox News for a sympathetic hearing of his sad tale of woe.
Iggo
(47,603 posts)That's the very definition of preferential treatment.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,604 posts)The reason he's not getting work might have to do with lack of talent and not political views. Hollywood runs on one rule: Does it make money? If putting your name in the credits doesn't increase the bottom line, then they'll choose someone else. It's not like they don't have a thousand other actors who can play the roles he does. Special treatment is reserved for those who are truly "stars" -- those whose names appear before the title of the film. Everyone else is fungible.
Initech
(100,155 posts)More crap from the "wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! Give me that it's mine!" party!
dchill
(38,641 posts)It's getting so re-repetitious!
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)whining about how they are always the victim. Enough. Conservatives have treated Liberals with distain since like forever.
Fullduplexxx
(7,882 posts)Girlfriend. No you didn't so just shut up
Fullduplexxx
(7,882 posts)Omg
dembotoz
(16,866 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,235 posts)Perhaps he and Dinesh D'Souza can swap horror stories.
wcmagumba
(2,893 posts)in a cell away from the general population and maybe alone, no cell phone or wallet,
all I can say is ow...
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Boo fucking hoo!!
Same exact damn thing happened to me years ago. Missed a traffic court date (daughter was in hospital) and I forgot about it. Couple yrs later I get pulled over and politely asked to get out of the car and I was cuffed and hauled downtown and booked and held in holding for a few hrs before I could ahold of someone to post bail
Sucked but wasnt life changing
Jesus Christ hes an attention seeking whore of a hasbeen
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)"I never saw anything but people being treated with respect with dignity and with humor, which really surprised me, and whatever authority they needed to show in order to keep everybody safe," he said, adding he was "so very impressed with every aspect of the penal system."
How impressive that he was able to see "every aspect of the penal system" in his whole five hours of incarceration! Poor guy must have really been put through the mill. How DID he survive his ordeal? Five hours...WOW! That must have been time enough to get booked, changed into his prison garb and escorted to his cell. Must have been brutal for him.
JHB
(37,166 posts)"First of all, I was given no preferential treatment at all except they didn't detain me with the general population."
Isn't that "preferential"?
RockaFowler
(7,429 posts)Oh wait you can't
I mean all she did was not put out a cigarette.
Go to hell John Schneider
https://www.thenation.com/article/what-happened-to-sandra-bland/
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Already accused of groping an adult female cast member of a musical he was supposed to appear in, he now faces charges he indecently assaulted a 16-year-old girl also in the cast of 42nd Street.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2017/09/26/dukes-hazzard-star-charged-assaulting-16-year-old-girl/706096001/
underpants
(183,071 posts)It's all about choices John and Tom
Buns_of_Fire
(17,218 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)But since you are an uncommon criminal, maybe next time they can do a full cavity search.
procon
(15,805 posts)served five hours out of his three-day jail sentence for unpaid
rockfordfile
(8,712 posts)The guy is a idiot. ahahahaha. If he was African American or a person of less, no way in hell you're getting out. A conservative pos.
Mike Nelson
(9,991 posts)
this thread to poor baby John!
Buns_of_Fire
(17,218 posts)underpants
(183,071 posts)YeeeeHaaaw!
DBoon
(22,433 posts)it's a bias against aggressive unrestrained assholes.
The personality type that is validated by conservative ideology
braddy
(3,585 posts)and hotel like rooms and meals.
tenderfoot
(8,443 posts)most of whom are conservatives.
Cha
(298,139 posts)Oh and sorry you had to go jail and suffer sooo MUCH for what? Not paying alimony?!
Pay your damn bills and quitcher Whining
dubyadiprecession
(5,740 posts)Renew Deal
(81,901 posts)Solly Mack
(90,803 posts)he didn't get the kind of special treatment he thought he deserved.
Not being put in gen-pop is special treatment.
5 hour visit? Special treatment.
Go away you self-important blithering idiot.
Vinca
(50,342 posts)LisaM
(27,864 posts)I actually liked watching the "Dukes of Hazzard", and he was in a couple of corny movies that I enjoyed him in, too.
He needs to suck it up.
kamalafan
(63 posts)Well, ok, in this case, he star who burned out lol This is ollllld. I personally like the want to be Magnum P.I. cowboy macho look with the low button shirt and chest hair lmao! Dead. lol
elias7
(4,039 posts)Or maybe it's your intolerance of people different than yourselves, yet strangely tolerant to egregious behavior in expressing that intolerance? Or hypocrisy, maybe?
John, you can't walk out into a setting where people are educated or informed and expect your backwater views to be even remotely acceptable.
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)lpbk2713
(42,777 posts)Gee ... why wouldn't someone like rethuglicants.
GoCubsGo
(32,103 posts)What a shocker.
oasis
(49,499 posts)OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)5 days and you may have to use one of those public metal toilets. You'll be begging for your previous non-preferential treatment.