One is a much easier sell than the other.
Posted on 01/26/2006 1:54:06 AM PST by Aussie Dasher
What is "NBC" and "TV"?
I get a real kick out of the Commander in Chief promo commercials this week. One clip shows Gina Davis saying something to the effect, "Give him five minutes and take your best shot."
This is a liberal mind you. Any sane person would rewrite this for Gina along these lines, "Give him all the time he wants, and if he needs anything let me know."
The left truly does live in some alternatue universe fantasy land. Not only do they not have a clue what conservatism is all about, they simply refuse to own up to what they are all about.
The West Wing. Also known as, Where Liberal Talking Points Go To Die.
And die they did!
It was never the same after Peggy Noonan left. I used to enjoy it before then.
West Wing and Command in Chief are like two stars circling each other as the slip together over the event horizon and into black hole.
Down into the crushing depths of bad story line, bad character development, phoney melodramatic conflict and infinitely-heavy ideological preaching they go.
First one will disappear, then the other. Finally, they will emit no light, no sound, no record that they ever existed.
Beautifully put, I might say!
One is a much easier sell than the other.
I agree with this article, but I have to say a word in favor of "Will and Grace".
We can be against laws legalizing gay marriage (which I am), and against promoting a gay agenda in schools (which I am), and against giving gays special "minority protection" as if they were a race or religion (which I am), and still recognize that gays do exist, and will always exist and that they are a part of our society.
"Will and Grace" might have an agenda to make gays acceptable or "endearing", but I believe (from the ten times I've seen the show) that the agenda is subservient to the story.
The show has good stories, believable and original characters and is funny. It's a comedy first, an agenda second. And it is set in NYC (isn't it?). I mean really, amusing tales about gays in NY, there's nothing phoney about that. Life does, after all, happen.
Anyway, my point is that I would definitely not put "Will and Grace" in the same category as the two "presidential dramas" which so miss the point of what politics and the presidency is all about that they might have been written for some race of methane-breathers on Neptune.
despite the grammar flubs in the first sentence?
anyway, thanks...
..they are just super slick at presenting it in an almost innocuous & certainly comedic manner....(that's the most dangerous kind, cause you don't see it coming!)
...their propaganda just slides right into the psyche ...
I've caught a few epidsodes in reruns...
...slick, polished, beautiful people, all the funny lines you can want...
..but nothing of what happens to those beautiful bodies after multiple sex partners...his and hers...
...of sexually transmitted diseases....
..of indoctrination to young boys and girls who wonder if it's fun to experiment...
...of AIDS!
Propaganda in its highest form.....The Third Reich would have been proud.
Absent your dissent on "Will and Grace" you just described the article and Linda Chavez's point. They, Hollywood, get so lost in their propaganda that the story suffers and they lose their audience.
The Stone Age Media is the only industry in America that believes it can insult 60% of their customers.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
I don't know. I think you're going a bit overboard there. There's a different standard for school-curriculum and for TV sitcoms. Although it undoubtedly has an ideological slant, from what I've seen, it rises to the level of art. Maybe not high art, but art nonetheless. In my opinion.
..but keep in mind it's not just schools who propagandize....
..it's coming from all quarters and our kids are in the cross-hairs.
Our kids mindlessly sit in front of the tube...it's their pablum, their pacifier, their babysitter...
..propaganda, you bet!--It's not just from schools anymore.
Alternate title - "Grace and the Happy Homos".
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