Posted on 12/06/2023 7:03:09 AM PST by Red Badger
Good riddance to liberal trash.
I didn’t agree with his politics, but Rest In Peace, Norman.
+1
Lear started the tread of making fun of white males ala Archie Bunker.
Most viewers didn’t know what they were watching and thought the show was funny.
In reality the show started the downfall of the white male.
Lear was the leading edge of the destruction of wholesome and popular American television. Shows like The Andy Griffith Show were canceled and replaced by All in the Family and others almost overnight, despite the fact that they were incredibly popular and morally edifying.
The first several seasons of AITF is still very funny. There were plenty of “good” white males on it. It was a satire of the generation gap. Brilliantly written and acted.
George Jefferson is a sitcom character who could never be done today. Black, hard worker, started a business that employs many people, a Navy vet, fiercely devoted to his family, never forgot where he came from and resolved to make life better for he and his wife and son...
Those kinds of qualities are alien to modern television, or entertainment in general for that matter.
The Rural Purge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_purge
I never was a big fan of Lear’s politics. But he was a WW2 combat veteran (radio operator/gunner on a B-17, with 52 missions). And he volunteered. No waiting for the draft or looking for some exemption.
I’ll honor his memory for that.
True on all counts.
Try and find a TV or movie that portrays an American black family in a positive light. I can think of very few, practically nonexistent.
Every TV show or movie depicts blacks as drug dealers, drug abusers, gangstas, criminals or deadbeats on welfare with few redeeming qualities.
And they call us racists. All they need do is look at Hollywood’s portrayal of them.......................
Lear himself opined that AITF did not go the way he wanted it to.
Mike and Gloria were supposed to be the stars of the show, not Archie and Edith.
Archie was supposed to be Mike’s foil but it would up the other way around.
He directed the writing to emphasize the liberal Mike’s philosophy but every time it would just make Mike a more comic character.....................
I was going to mention the rural purge. They took away anything that showed traditional American culture and brought in highly political content for our amusement and indoctrination. People like Lear and Fred Silverman were a big part of that change.
I enjoyed the Jeffersons.
“Wheezy!”
That was the shortened version. The full version is even better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ITlFBPbVAA
Now... who was Mr. Lear making fun of in this scene?
White males were being made fun of long before then. One of the cornerstones of western humor is bringing down those in charge. Which is white males. Even if you want to give him the modern version All in the Family was based on a British show.
Not to mention, George’s racism was also exposed for its hypocrisy and not justified merely because he was black. That, for sure, would never fly today.
Finally....after 101 years, a good commie.
**I’ll honor his memory for that.**
Howard Zinn was a bombadier,... and like so many socialists, could find plenty wrong with the USA; but not so much wrong totalitarian socialism. He would have hated the way king David ruled Israel.
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