Good riddance to liberal trash.
I didn’t agree with his politics, but Rest In Peace, Norman.
Lear started the tread of making fun of white males ala Archie Bunker.
Most viewers didn’t know what they were watching and thought the show was funny.
In reality the show started the downfall of the white male.
Lear was the leading edge of the destruction of wholesome and popular American television. Shows like The Andy Griffith Show were canceled and replaced by All in the Family and others almost overnight, despite the fact that they were incredibly popular and morally edifying.
George Jefferson is a sitcom character who could never be done today. Black, hard worker, started a business that employs many people, a Navy vet, fiercely devoted to his family, never forgot where he came from and resolved to make life better for he and his wife and son...
Those kinds of qualities are alien to modern television, or entertainment in general for that matter.
I never was a big fan of Lear’s politics. But he was a WW2 combat veteran (radio operator/gunner on a B-17, with 52 missions). And he volunteered. No waiting for the draft or looking for some exemption.
I’ll honor his memory for that.
Finally....after 101 years, a good commie.
“Good riddance to liberal trash. 12/6/2023, 8:12:02 AM by nwrep”
Couldn’t agree with you more. We got assigned to watch this crap in grade school, I remember it clearly, I was already starting to hate television and then we were forced to watch this absolute garbage. Like popular entertainment is supposed to make your skin crawl, right? You’re supposed to be “challenged” and blah-de-blah.
The best part it was roman catholic priests and nuns telling our folks not to object to it, it’s culture, and “challenging” and all this and that. So we had to sit there trying to do our “assignment” while Dad was in the background dissing it with scathing rhetoric that scared us.
Young people on social media acting like “Oh, Archie Bunker is VERY COOL, actually!” like “this is conservatism” when Lear was mocking patriotic working-class conservatives and goading an entire generation into mocking them. (And it worked.)
*spits*
May you be reborn as the retarded son of a moslem illegal immigrant cab driver and his 2nd wife who is also his cousin living on the 485th story of a highrise in a 15-minute city in Pakistan.
"Leftist Propaganda" is a much pithier way of saying the same thing.
AITF was enjoyable in the day. Archie wasn,t always the brightest bulb. And meathead was to represent the younger generation with the cause of the day. Of course Jean Stapleton was the greatest character as Archie’s victim of husbandness
People tend to forget that many liberals didn’t like Lear’s character of Meathead - a stereotypical hippy who couldn’t hold a job. Yes, there was Archie the racist, but Lear also created black characters who were bigots George Jefferson frequently had issues with his mixed-race neighbors - he often used words like honky and zebra. And the character Fred Sanford had his prejudices, too, like when he had an appointment with a white nurse and said, “I ain’t goin’ in there with that ugly old white woman!” Lear created some good balance in that regard, showing that all people can have prejudices.
“He deeply loved our country”
He just hated the people who lived in it.
Yep, Norm Lear was obviously a huge racist, what with his writing and creating all those tv shows that were so racist they would not be allowed to broadcast today.
Do not GAS.
What “pioneer”?
I suppose that taking British sitcoms and merely adapting them to US audiences is “pioneering” somehow? The man had not an original thought in his head.
Gosh....I thought he was (already) dead, Jim.