Seinfeld Liberals

The American Thinker ^ | 6/26/05 | Ed Lasky

[Kitten Festival]

Seinfeld was a television marvel. Perhaps the most successful situation comedy series of all time, it ran from 1989 to 1998, and has become an omnipresent aspect of our lives as it continually runs in syndication and lives on in best-selling DVD box sets, making fortunes in the hundred millions for both of its co-creators.

But there is yet another facet of Seinfeld at which we can marvel: the cast of characters on the show weirdly foreshadowed the rise to prominence of a large component of the dominant urban liberal wing of the Democratic Party. With a nod to Brian Anderson’s South Park Conservatives and a quick glance backward at yesterday’s Matt Bai New York Times Magazine article King of the Hill Democrats, let us join the craze for television series politics, and call them Seinfeld Liberals.

Their emergence has not been beneficial for our nation.

Hollywood has long provided role models and templates for Americans – just as books and stories always have (Washington and the Cherry tree, Abe Lincoln studying by candle, the always-inventive Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison, the heroic obstinacy of U.S. Grant and George Patton).

In recent decades, a certain cynicism about the character of Americans seems to have taken hold, at least in the filmed and televised entertainment we see.

[sheik yerbouty]

It was a hugely funny episode!

[Balding_Eagle]

I actually met a few who took offense to the term "soup Nazi." For the love of God.....

I'll bet they weren't offended by our Gitmo troops being called Nazi's!

[SandyB]

Larry David is a schmuck. His wife is a liberal. ;-)

Who is his wife? Do you mean Cheryl?

[PLMerite]

Nevertheless, the Kramer as portrayed in Seinfeld is a retard. A lucky retard, but still a retard.

[SoothingDave]

Who is his wife?

Laurie. She posts at the Huffington Post. An insufferable liberal.

Do you mean Cheryl?

No, but she's pretty insufferable as well, both in real life and on TV.

SD

[SandyB]

Do you mean Cheryl?

No, but she's pretty insufferable as well, both in real life and on TV.

I dont know what you mean by that. On tv she is a real sweetheart (not to mention putting up with Larry)

[SoothingDave]

On TV she's always prattling on and on about her environmental groups.

Plus, she stands their silent a lot, letting Larry out to dry when she could speak in his defense. Sure, he's annoying, but she isn't perfect either.

SD

[SandyB]

There is little that Cheryl, or I, or any sane person, could say in Larry's defense.

[Kirkwood]

"Nevertheless, the Kramer as portrayed in Seinfeld is a retard. A lucky retard, but still a retard."

Too harsh. No, he is a hipster doofus.

[MotleyGirl70]

It came through loud and clear. I just listened to it. That was hilarious. I was picturing every episode with every soundbite. That's a keeper.

Thanks :)

Gotta go listen to it again...