By today's standards, The Cosby Show is politically incorrect.

I don't know what Bill Cosby's political views are. And I don't think it was his intent to put any political messages into the show. However, watching numerous episodes recently on Nick At Night, I have noticed numerous things that, by today's standards, are politically incorrect.

The show has a very, very strong support for the institution of marriage. This can be observed in many of the episodes. Most notably, watch the episode where Cliff's parents celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. Look at how his parents stare into each other's eyes. This episode is very powerful. And there are plenty of other episodes that portrary marriage in a positive light, too.

In one episode, Vanessa was assigned a science project for her school's science fair. She had plenty of time to do it. But she waited until the last minute. She was so full of self esteem, and so sure that she would get first place. But when she got to the fair, she realized that all of the other kids had put a tremendoous amount of work into their projects. It was obvious to everyone at the fair that Vanessa didn't put any real effort into her project. She was very embarassed. She did not win first prize. She did not even come close.

When Vanessa got home, she made up all sorts of excuses to try to justify her failure. She claimed victimhood status. So Cliff told her the politically incorrect truth: "You're trying to blame everyone except the one person who is actually at fault. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. What happened was your own fault. You should have started sooner. You should have worked harder. It's time that you accepted responsibility for your bad decision making." Those weren't his exact words, but that was the general message.

In another episode, Theo asked his father to buy him a lot of expensive things that he didn't really need. So Cliff had Theo take an imaginary job with an imaginary salary, and plan an imaginary budget. All of a sudden, Theo realized that he didn't need to have as many possessions as he had previsouly thought. This type of fiscal restraint is the exact opposite of today's politically correct entitelement mentality.

Cliff's character was born around 1934 or so. And he is a medical doctor. And he is black. This means that he got his college degree before affirmative action ever existed. This is a very politically incorrect idea.

Pregnancy is always portrayed in a positive light. Babies in the womb are cherished. Large families are encouraged. Cliff and his wife have 5 children. There are no worries about so-called "overpopulation." Abortion is never mentioned on the show, as far as I have seen.

In one episode, Cliff said, "My great grandfather drained a swamp, and built a 12 room house." That one sentence contains multiple politically incorrect things. Note that he used the word "swamp," not "wetland." And note that it was drained. And note the implication of private property rights. And note the implication of self sufficiency. So that's four instances of political incorrectness in one sentence.

In one episode, Cliff suggested to his wife that they take a trip to France. They would ride in a limosine, with a truck following behind. They would go to where the shops were. He would give her his credit card. She would buy a bunch of things, and put them into the truck. When his credit card was maxed out, he would give her more credit cards. Then the truck would drive onto an airplane, and they would fly away. This support for greedy materialism is very politically incorrect.

I have saved what may be the best example for last. In one episode, Cliff won the "doctor of the year" award. His acceptance speech contained the following sentence: "I am an American."

"My great grandfather drained a swamp, and built a 12 room house."

Not to mention "destroying the natural ecosystem" and wiping out who knows HOW many indigenous creatures!

Now we get show after show teaching us that all marriages are inherently bad with the exception of homosexual "marriages." Every show teaches children that all pregnancies should end in abortion.

No kidding. You ever see this show called "Undressed" on MTV? That show pretty much qualifies as soft-core porn. Not to mention making perversions seem like something normal (Like the one episode which I saw part of the other day, where they presented kinky role-play sex in a good and positive light). Same episode also had a straight woman flirting with a lesbian (And from the previews of the next episode, they apparently had sex, and she didn't consider it cheating on her boyfriend as it was with a woman). And that's not even counting how often sex is the main topic of discussion. It's apparently the ONLY thing college kids talk about, and the only thing they think about is having sex as frequently as possible in as many different manners and with as wide a variety of partners as possible. It's SO nice to see MTV hard at work doing what it can to chip away at the moral foundation of this country by presenting perversion as normal.

I recently watched a Leave It To Beaver episode on TV Land and Miss Landers asked the children in the class to stand up and tell the class what they wanted to be when they grew up. The Beav and Larry Mondello took their turns, and then a girl in pigtails stood up and said, as cute as can be, "When I grow up, I want to be a nurse and heal the sick and help the poor..... and marry a rich doctor!"

Now that's politically incorrect.

Cosby has shown weird leanings in the past for both the democrats and the republicans. My guess is he is a moderate, but here is one fact every single person should know if they ever meet him. Where ever he goes, whenever he leaves his house, he carries a handgun on him. He is never ever without it.

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