Posted on 06/27/2005 7:58:15 AM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The show was funny because it was true. It was typical New York City, which abounds in just such farcical liberalism.
LOL!
This is almost as insane as the King of the Hill Democrats article I saw the other day.
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Definitely one of the top sit-coms of all time, right up there with I Love Lucy and All in the Family.
It made me want to open the window and take a walk on the wing!
Elaine was pro-abortion to the point of making her look utterly stupid and closed-minded. There were a couple episodes with that topic involving Poppy and also her search for a perfect man.
Ditto.
The show wasn't political.
One episode had Elaine fighting over abortion, but the guy she ends up dating was pro-life.
You could tell pretty easily that the message of the show was that there are great people who you like who may happen to disagree with you on some issues.
She ends up opening her mind up a bit.
The show is not liberal.
Is it just me, or is there currently a popular trend to try to divine political overtones in everything these days?
Can't we just accept that not all shows have hidden agendas and enjoy them (or not) for what they are?
I for one don't want to just watch bland, neutral shows that have been deemed 'depoliticized for your protection'.
p.s. Wow. Depoliticized passed the spell checker. Who knew it was a real word?
George would vote, but only if it would impress his current girlfriend. Jerry would just wander by the precinct and get into random discussions with voters, not only missing his own chance to vote, but preventing others from getting in on time.
He called the woman a "ribbon bully", not a ribbon Nazi.
Andrew
It amazes me how people are content to take things at face value. American Psycho came out in a special edition last week, and the bonus features talked about all the fuss the book created. It was interesting that NOW was so upset with the book when the author considered it a feminist novel. Portraying something isn't being in favor of it. I guess reading between the lines is an art most haven't mastered.
Couldn't get into the show. Not sure why, but none of the characters were likeable or people I could identify with in any way.
In fact, they constantly irritated me. I maybe watched 3 episodes.
Exactly! The show was about "nothing". They even did an episode about it.
LOL!
He must be sponge-worthy. :)
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