Archie: “Hey, Edith, what channel is Cronkite on?”
Edith: “Channel 2, Archie. The one we don’t watch, ‘cause you always say Walter Cronkite is a Communist.”
Several seconds of laughter
Archie: “I never said that, Edith, the man ain’t all red.”
Lear was a destructive lefty and Carroll O’Connor must have regretted that ad when Ronald Reagan won.
That 30-second ad is devastating to Jimmy Carter.
Yes, conservatives are often played by liberals in liberal entertainment media.
I guess this writer couldn’t think of anonfrivolous subject to write about.
Girls were girls and men were men.
All in the Family was a nasty, mean spirited show. The cardboard caricature of Archie Bunker poisoned the mentality of its viewers. It gave them an archetype to project upon the supporters of Ronald Reagan and even out to Donald Trump.
“ not the character he played on the show”
Archie would never endorse that fat crazy libtard drunk Ted Kennedy
Yeah, but Norman Lear didn’t exactly invent the character. I believe the show was purchased from the BBC which had a similar show in the UK about a curmudgeonly British father who spoke openly about racial stereotypes etc. Lear refashioned it for US audiences. That said, he was extremely talented in that endeavor, his many other shows and characters, and of course the writing.
“...maybe most importantly—backs a candidate who never had a shot at the Archie Bunker vote.”
Archie Bunker only existed when O’Conner was on the All in the Family set and the camera was on.
He was a commie anti-American scum.
Teddy Kennedy was such an embarrassment to America and the Kennedys.
Drunken sot. IQ around 80. Manslaughter and coverup.
The other Kennedy brothers had deep flaws. But they were not a humiliating embarrassment.
Did you know the actors weren’t paid well?
It is interesting how much of an impact a fictional performance by actors can have on the weak minds of a population. The show was an attempt to display over-the-top antics of a radical conservative (produced by hard core liberals, scripts written by hard core liberals, and performed by hard core liberals)....