To: edie1960
To this day, many conservatives consider “Archie Bunker” a hero of the right.
Yet, his creator, uber-liberal Norman Lear, intended the narrow-minded Archie to be an example of atrocious conservative thinking.
Lear intended to show the world that conservatives were idiots.
34 posted on
08/16/2019 8:56:54 AM PDT by
Liz
(Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
To: Liz
Lear did not create the character. Archie Bunker is derived from Alf Garnett, just as the whole show All In The Family was derived from BBC’s Till Death Us Do Part.
Johnny Speight, the creator of the BBC series, was of course just as left-wing as Lear, portraying Garnett as “reactionary”.
36 posted on
08/16/2019 9:01:03 AM PDT by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: Liz
Lear intended to show the world that conservatives were idiots.
Yes, indeed, Archie was mocked and derided.
Still, I’m grateful for O’Connor’s portrayal and wish that we deplorables had a similar character on TV today to admire.
58 posted on
08/16/2019 10:50:23 AM PDT by
edie1960
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