Rob Reiner: Archie Bunker Would Have Jumped Off the Trump Train After Jan. 6

The Wrap ^ | August 2, 2022 | Jeremy Fuster

[DoodleBob]

“All in the Family” made Archie Bunker one of the most famous right-wing characters in television history, but Rob Reiner thinks that the Jan. 6 attacks would have been a bridge too far for the patriotic patriarch when it comes to supporting Donald Trump.

In a CNN interview with Jim Acosta on Saturday about the 100th birthday of “All in the Family” creator Norman Lear, Reiner was asked about a New York Times op-ed written by Lear in which he argued that Bunker would have supported Trump but be “sickened” by the sight of the president’s supporters attacking Capitol Police during the Washington D.C. insurrection. Reiner said that Lear “expressed it perfectly.”

“I do think that Archie would have been really upset to see cops beaten by insurgents,” Reiner said. “And then to find out as time goes by that Trump was at the hub of all this, and it was Trump’s operation altogether, I think he would have gone the way of Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger,” Reiner said, referring to the two lone Republicans on the Congressional committee investigating Trump’s involvement in the attacks.

“People are starting to leave Trump and he’s just going to be left with the crazy conspiracy nutcases,” Reiner continued. “There’s a wave of Christian nationalism…and I think they’ve imbued Trump with this God-like patina.”

[WKUHilltopper]

Reiner, FU commie. Go to Red China where you belong.

[Nifster]

Meathead still is

[neverevergiveup]

Archie Bunker would have been up in arms about the BLM and Antifa riots, the confused gender bs, men participating in sports as women, the Afghanistan pullout debacle, Hunter Biden, AOC, the Squad, Communist Bernie, George Soros, open borders, Critical Race Theory, giving up manufacturing to China, the concept of White Privilege, and much, much more. He would also very likely believe, with very good reason, that the 2020 election was stolen.

[Salamander]

^this^

Bunker was created by a liberal commie solely to mock real Americans.

[ballplayer]

Nice try meathead

[OttawaFreeper]

"The main character is a guy just like me. I wouldn't even have to act, just be myself."

[TalBlack]

Archie Bunker wasn’t a right wing character. He was a stupid strawman they set up to knock down every week.

[FLT-bird]

Who cares what Meathead and his Commie dad think?

[GMLORGMD]

Once a meathead, always a meathead.

[djpg]

Reiner is telling us what Archie Bunker, a comic fictional character, would do? Reiner evidently doesn’t distinguish imagination from reality.

[ScottinVA]

This idiot just can’t resist the pull of attention, can he?

[StACase]

Once a meathead, always a meathead.

Zackly wut I wuz gonna say.

[GOPJ]

Rob Reiner carries a commie stench...

[MrRelevant]

I doubt that because Archie would’ve seen the summer of love in 2020 and seen what actual riots and violent uprisings look like. He may have also understood that Trump was in fact robbed of his win.

[wny]

A real live Archie Bunker would have beat the shit out of meathead...

[Deplorable American1776]

Meathead, Archie Bunker would know the fraud that happened at 4 am...

[USS Alaska]

I’d LOVE to see a remake of that show with a suitable actor.

Shirley you joke.

There is no way in hell that Archie could say, "Kikes, n------- and spics" and have that show air.

Archie was a great comedy but times have changed so much that a remake is impossible.

Hell, they can't even show a tame movie like "Blazing Saddles" without bleep outs and word distortions.

All In The Family, NFW.

[enumerated]

That was the intention, but Rob Reiner was so stupid he got knocked down by the straw man every week.

[McCarthysGhost]

STOOPID.

[McCarthysGhost]

Archie was a union hall democrat. Like what Biden used to be, a racist democrat.