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Emmy, Tony Award Winner Bea Arthur Dies At 86
WCBSTV.COM ^ | 25 APRIL 2009 | WCBSTV.COM

Posted on 04/25/2009 4:35:48 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist

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1 posted on 04/25/2009 4:35:48 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Sticks and stones may break my bones but, “Franklin Delano Roosevelt!”


2 posted on 04/25/2009 4:38:08 PM PDT by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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She played the first woman star of a TV show to get an abortion. Death & progressivism through Norman Lear. I bet his folks were real proud./sarc


3 posted on 04/25/2009 4:41:19 PM PDT by AmericanGirlRising (I'm a Christian, and I pray for Janet Napalotano. Yes, it's as hard to do as you might think it is.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Thanks for letting us know. I’ve really enjoyed her humor over the years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaeuMJrTLWM


4 posted on 04/25/2009 4:43:17 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Nice tribute here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apk_ymHWr94&NR=1


5 posted on 04/25/2009 4:45:25 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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Arthur is survived by her sons, Mathew and Daniel, and two granddaughters, Kyra and Violet. No funeral services are planned.

Are they just going to leave her where she died !!??

Cheers!

6 posted on 04/25/2009 4:46:57 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: AmericanGirlRising

“Death & progressivism through Norman Lear.”

I liked her humor, but I agree on that point.


7 posted on 04/25/2009 4:47:49 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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I still hold her accountable for it....I think God will too.
...Her abortion stance helped pave the way for the horrible holocaust our nation holds sway to.....54 million.
8 posted on 04/25/2009 4:53:34 PM PDT by Guenevere ("He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain that which he cannot lose")
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Thanks Diana. I grew up watching reruns of “Maude” and “All in the Family” with Bea Arthur and she was a gem. That’s when television was real television instead of the crap that’s on now.


9 posted on 04/25/2009 4:56:23 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist ("President Obama, your agenda is not new, it's not change, and it's not hope" - Rush Limbaugh 02/28)
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Maude was arguably the worst, most depressing TV show in American history.


10 posted on 04/25/2009 5:03:13 PM PDT by MCH
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I’ve always liked M*A*S*H*, too. More good comedy amidst chaos. ;)


11 posted on 04/25/2009 5:08:22 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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I’ve always liked M*A*S*H*, too. More good comedy amidst chaos.

Sorry to disagree but MASH was leftist's propaganda at it's finest. The only truly patriotic character on the show was the cowardly and hypocritical Frank Burns. In the very early days of the show, the adulterer Burns even prominently displayed his Bible.

The characters of Hawkeye and BJ(?) were irreverent toward authority and treated military service as a joke (both for themselves and others). Infact the entire underlying theme of the show was anti-miltitary and had nothing to do with Korea but was really aimed at our military and the Vietnam War. That POS Gelbart admitted as much.

That is how the Hollywood Left insidiously injects its values in the American psyche, not by blunt force, but by wrapping an anti-American, anti-miltary message into a coating of sugar. Funny or not, MASH was poison.

12 posted on 04/25/2009 5:21:23 PM PDT by Robwin
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I’m Retired Army. I’ll bet you a donut that I saw humor where a civilian couldn’t. :)

We can agree to disagree. No problem.


13 posted on 04/25/2009 5:23:50 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Just posted this on the later thread:

She exited "Golden Girls" in 1992???

Okay, I knew it went off the air a while ago ... but really.

Funny thing about "Maude", my wife borrowed the first season from the library some months back. I didn't hate it like I thought I would. (I can't watch All in the Family any more -- haven't been able to for years.) For one thing, the "libs" are somewhat tame by today's standards and they have the same sitcom foibles as any other sitcom character of the 70s. Maude doesn't always get her way. Sometimes her husband is right. Sometimes her neighbor, the Republican is right -- and sometime she acknowledges that. And the Republican is actually a human being, not a two-headed eeeeevil dragon. Yeah, it's still slanted Lear, er, left, but it's watchable.

14 posted on 04/25/2009 5:49:49 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weight-lifting sessions each week and...)
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To be honest I prefer the MASH with Trapper and Blake.. When BJ came on the show it went downhill..


15 posted on 04/25/2009 6:01:32 PM PDT by KevinDavis (Now a member of the NRA)
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She played the first woman star of a TV show to get an abortion.

I remember that episode about her promoting abortion! How sad.

The first TV show that I ever saw promoting abortion was the Mod Squad. On the show they had Shelly Winters as an abortionist woman who was giving illegal abortions. Ironically, later on in life, Shelley Winters told Phil Donahue that she had had several abortions and that now she was a very lonely woman because she did not have any children. Isn't life sad sometimes?

16 posted on 04/25/2009 6:02:21 PM PDT by GinaLolaB (=^..^=)
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Agreed 100%. I suspect by that time they were starting to run out of plot ideas, too.


17 posted on 04/25/2009 6:12:47 PM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (There are no points for second place.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I never realized she was Archie Bunker’s wife....


18 posted on 04/25/2009 6:35:31 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Whoops...to my previous post...


19 posted on 04/25/2009 6:36:46 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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That is true..


20 posted on 04/25/2009 6:41:30 PM PDT by KevinDavis (Now a member of the NRA)
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