Posted on 08/04/2022 10:13:43 PM PDT by 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.”
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Archie would have put your bags on the curb Meathead.
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I never wrote ‘on air’.
Stop calling me Shirley :P
He’s a great actor, but I’ve never seen him do ‘crass’.
I’d give him an audition.
I haven’t given it much thought, but my first impression was James Gandolfini.
Where can we watch the original series? Does anyone dare stream/show it?
Archie had a good reason for calling him Meathead.
Meathead continues to be as dumb a shit as he was back then. Archie would have said J6 was a patriotic American protest against the stealing of an election.
Better to be silent and thought to be a meathead than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Rob played a professional student living rent free in someone’s home, eating their food, enjoying their furnace, watching their TV, using their facilities and bitching about how they live.
Archie should have kicked his ass out on the street!
I don’t know why we always get posts about the lunacy coming out of the Meathead’s mouth on a regular basis.
Rob Reiner is Hollywood trash that lives in a s**t hole state where nothing is normal and he call Trump bad.
The left never grasp reality their mind is always in never never land.
Yeah, but it was Edith that was beaten to death in the tunnel, Rob.
If Archie were still watching network news he'd be as misled as everyone else who does.
Archie would have been 96 in 2020 and would be dead or in an old-age home.
So, yeah, his vote would go to Biden -- whether he wanted it to or not.
So Meathead is quite the clairvoyant isn’t he? Communicating with dead fictitious characters. If he has such psychic powers he can tell me the numbers that’ll come up in the next Powerball drawing.
And to get out of his chair.
That one may have been a simple misreading of “truth and horror” on the teleprompter.
She cheated first though, as I recall from some ep where Archie goes to visit them in Cali.
And Archie would have been ultra-MAGA all the effing way!!
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