Here's something more interesting:
Posted on 06/04/2013 9:20:36 AM PDT by NJRighty
Jean Stapleton, a born-and-bred New Yorker immortalized in pop culture as the iconic Edith Bunker, died Friday in her Manhattan home at the age of 90.
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Today’s Queens is arguably America’s most diverse county.
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But what of “All in the Family” creator Norman Lear? Well, according to the ZIP code listed on his political contributions, Lear lives in the Brentwood hills of Los Angeles — ZIP code 90049, to be exact. That neighborhood’s population? It’s 84 percent white, 1.4 percent black, 8.7 percent Asian, with the remainder “other” and multiracial. That almost looks like Archie Bunker’s dream spot.
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You must understand, a propaganda vehicle like All in the Family, or a Roseanne Barr comedy, or whatever, is not meant to make you suddenly wake up a liberal, it is to have a slow, corrosive effect, an accumulative effect to move things just a fraction left, drip, drip, drip, All in the Family was a better dripper than most, and is recognized as such for it’s being perhaps the most influential cultural sitcom ever.
Here's something more interesting:
i was 5 years old when AITF debuted... loved to watch it with my parents and much older siblings and even a niece and nephew... along with the spin-off Maude, MTM Show, the Carol Burnett Show, Bob Newhart... those were the days... i remember thinking when i grow up, i want my life to be like Mary Richards’ life... i loved her clothes, her apartment, her career and her friends...
Dingbat.
Funny. I usually sympathized with Archie Bunker. Yes, he was an ignoramus, but his heart was usually in the right place even if his reasons were not.
Archie Bunker reminded me of a kinder version of my Grandfather.
By the end of the show and its spin-off, Archie Bunker had done a 180 and was portrayed as a loveable, if somewhat ignorant person.
MAD Magazine. I remember the issue came with a 45 record of Archie’s old army pal coming. It was Adolph Hitler!
Amazing, to you, All in the Family wasn’t an effective part of the left’s culture war because the show did not prevent Ronald Reagan from defeating Jimmy Carter and Mondale in presidential elections.
Things don’t work that way, do you ever wonder why America thinks Palin is an idiot that can see Russia from her house, or is convinced that the only thing of historical note about the man who created the FBI and ran it throughout WWII and much the 20th century is that he was a homosexual who wore dresses, when none of those things are true?
archie’s dream spot would have far less asians. just sayin. meathead. /sarc
That’s true.
To Death Us Do Part ...Johnny Speight created it
Others.
Steptoe and Son = Sanford and Son
Man About The House = Three’s Company
The Office (UK) = The Office (USA)
Men Behaving Badly (UK) = Men Behaving Badly (USA)
Strictly Come Dancing = Dancing with the Stars
Antiques Roadshow (UK) = Antiques Roadshow (USA)
incrementalism.
the dialectic at work.
In the British original, the son-in-law wasn’t just a liberal he was an outright Trotskyite.
Another piece of trivia: Lear wanted Sherman Hemsley for the part of George Jefferson, but he wasn't available, so he created a placeholder character, his brother, Henry, who disappeared after George showed up.
Wow! Not often do I see Phil Ochs quoted on FR. Kudos!
See Post 11.
“”IBTimes: After about five seasons, “All in the Family” seemed to run out of gas — Nixon was out of office, the Vietnam War was over and U.S. society had drastically changed since the 1960s. Why did the show go on for another four seasons when it had little left to say?
Strate: It was popular, it was profitable, and commerce trumps art for the most part on television, which is why such programs often get stretched out in this way. But in all fairness, along with the lure of success, I think Lear and his colleagues felt that with this platform, they had a responsibility to continue to express their progressive views.””
Lear was a jerk. His ex-wife said so.
That's because he got the "Bush-hitler" treatment by the Democrat party that wanted to take his place. He was used as a whipping boy for all the evils since the Fall of Rome by all four terms of the commie-infested FDR cabal.
Sound familiar?
And the only hired help who could afford that neighborhood were "live-in" workers.
As the elites go, so goes the nation. Sadly, we are long past the time when people are allowed to make up their own minds, or make their own social policy in their communities. The federal government has been grabbing power at least since FDR -- almost a third of our nation's existence. FDR's advisors were largely infiltrated or influenced by active European Socialists or Soviet Communists.
Most Americans lived in rural than urban/suburban areas until 1939; but as the IRS and the growing use of electricity, telephones, radio and eventually television and the superhighway systems gathered power in the 50s, we were done for. It was all over but the shooting. The feminist movement and the push for all kids to go to universities, many far from home and family instead of the local State U., were planned incursions by Socialist International, whose motto was "make haste slowly."
There is a freeper named Progressing America who has a huge amount of documentation on his/her home page, including a transcript of the invaluable chronicle of socialist/communist infiltration written in 1964 and now out of priint, The Fabian Freeway.
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