McGyver was a cop? Huh?
“fairy shoeperson”:: My husband and I almost spit out our coffee on the computer screen laughing so hard *laughs*
Shapiro is relatively well known among the conservative commentariat, but believes he was able to persuade so many interviewees to reveal more than was perhaps sensible because they assumed he was a fellow liberal.
"There was a certain amount of stereotyping on their part in granting the interview," he said. "Many probably assumed that with a name like Shapiro and a Harvard Law credential, there was no need to Google me: I would have to be a leftist. In Hollywood, talking to a Jew with a Harvard Law baseball cap is like talking to someone wearing an Obama pin."
My dad knew Henson’s dad from the golf course or something like that. My dad, God rest his soul, was outraged when I said Sesame Street was promoting homosexuality because “Henson is a home town boy! I know his father!”
I pointed out that all the characters (for many years at the onset of the show) were male except for “Miss Piggy”, a drag queen; and that Bert and Ernie were “roommates” shown in the same bedroom many times.
Dad opined that I just had a “dirty mind.”
it's necessary to spend time teaching kids, reading to kids, and talking to kids everyday in order to be the biggest influence in their lives
Not only Hollywood writers and producers. It’s endemic in the advertising industry as well where almost anyone of “merit” or “value” or “attractiveness’ is portrayed as a left wing liberal, and almost all of the “bad guys” are conservatives. The ads are so blatantly politically correct where the “bad guys” or the “stupid guys” are almost always portrayed as white males, while the heroes, or victims, or the more intelligent of the characters are almost always members of a minority. I’m talking about ads for products ranging from dish soap and toilet paper to major financial industry institutions selling credit cards and banking services.
While on this topic, has anyone noticed how destitute these advertisers have become to find new “music” for their ads, and how “stealing” past hit tunes has become the norm for advertising background audio? And how “adept” these agencies have become at slightly “re-tooling” the very recognizable tune to avoid a copyright infringement suit? The spin and blatant intellectual theft coming out of these corporations is so obvious it’s nauseating. I have to get up and walk out of the room just to keep from throwing up.
I pulled the plug on the television when my daughter was two. To this day she does not have a television(she is in her twenties)and just graduated with honors from Columbia University. I came home one day and she was addressing her mother and talking about her teacher the same as Nickelodeon- TV stopped that night. I never regretted my action as she is a rational, calm and stable individual. The lack of television is certainly one factor in her development into the person she has become.
We have school-aged children and we don't need it to teach the kids. They like the puppets if they see them, but that's about it.