Is Hollywood 'White-Trashing' American Television?

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2014/03/18/is-hollywood-white-trashing-american-television ^ | March 18, 2014 | John Nolte

[This Just In]

In the Weekly Standard, John Podhoretz identifies television shows like "Justified," "True Detective," "Breaking Bad," "Sons of Anarchy," and "The Walking Dead" as "Hollywood folk making mincemeat out of poor rural folk" and part of the "ongoing American culture war that should not go unremarked." Podheretz notes that "[e]ven Mad Men’s Don Draper, the well-to-do man from Westchester, was damaged forever by being born to a hooker in rural Illinois and raised by a vicious farmer who beat him regularly."

[jsanders2001]

> Yes, Duck Dynasty is classier.

Because they are camouflaged businessmen with degrees and have more smarts than they let on. They are acting ‘redneck’ and exagerrating it for entertainment value. There is a difference...

[HiTech RedNeck]

Redneck is a culture thang. They probably don’t live in trailers and so what.

[wardaddy]

How old are you gator?

[dfwgator]

Just like Larry the Cable Guy.

[dr_lew]

I was just going to ask the same thing! ( Just once , though :-)

[BeadCounter]

Looks like many if not all of those are on satellite vs. Network.

[ConservativeStatement]

TV ads are obscene. How about the business owned by a black female in which she “puts out fires,” then a white male is shown burning and she comes to the rescue with a fire extinguisher?

[re_nortex]

"Hollywood folk making mincemeat out of poor rural folk"

Saul Goodman is poor? Rural? ABQ isn't exactly Mayberry RFD.

[jsanders2001]

And getting rich by acting dumb. Hey, why aren’t I rich?

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Sy Robertson, two tours of Nam. I’ll take him over any Hollywood dildo any day.

Damned they are funny, esp. Jase. The women look like real women, the children are dressed nicely and look clean (not a lot of makeup for the girls), and they appreciate what they have.

Phil Robertson has a Phd and turned down playing in professional football. And he’s still a millionaire.

Jeff Foxworthy and his cohorts are extremely funny, and usually get by without any cussing in front of mixed audiences. Let’s see who among the other comedians can do this, other than Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno.

Hollywood and the TV industry have “Red-Neck Envy”. They envy the freedom these people have to live their lives the way they want to, essentially free of crime, divorce, sexual deviance, the right to own a gun and carry it openly, to treat their women proper, to value education esp. for those who couldnt’ get a decent one, and to be patriotic.

Everything Hollywood and its leftist progeny hate, and envy. Do you think that Alec Baldwin is a normal person? But he is representative of a lot of Hollywood. Charlie Sheen (who I like as an actor)? Lady Gag Me? Madonna (who I loved in her earlier career)? Jerky Cyrus? Her father should be ashamed of her acting like a teenage slut.

Anyone from the “Housewives of ...” series. I’ve never seen more decadence and stupidity in a show than these, and they reflect horribly on America. The Communists couldn’t have come up with anything more devastating to our image.

Where the hell are our “Archie Bunker” shows; “Good Times”; “Moving On Up”; Ozzie & Harriet; “Dragnet” where the cops were the good guys and supported by the people, not out of control Gestapo running rampant over our Rights (Oh, sorry, Obama is in charge of that)?

They didn’t call the 1940’s and 50’s “The Golden Age of Comedy” for no reason. Those shows were intelligently written, humorous, often taught lessons in morality and friendship, and were entertainment for the whole family.

Today I can only watch “SpongeBob Square Pants”, “The Three Stooges” and “Duck Dynasty with my young granddaughter. And we have a ball doing it.
Most of the other stuff for kids, outside of some non-PC science/educational shows, are leftist crap.

What a sad state our country is in.

[This Just In]

We owned Duck Dynasty DVD’s, and have watched bonus material featuring the Robertson’s background and college education.

Actually Jerry Seinfeld’s standup routines include swearing and using the Lord’s name in vain. One comedian whom we enjoy is Brian Reagan. He is funny, and basically clean. Also check out Christian comedian Tim Hawkins.

Our family loves Bob Hope. He is-bar none-one of the funniest comedians in the world.

Back in the day—we enjoyed watching SpongeBob...until one bizarre episode in which Patrick Star played the lazy no good husband, and SpongeBob was the nagging “wife”. They actually had a baby. It was a disturbing episode. We discontinued watching the series after that weird stunt.

This is one reason we love DVD’s. We either rent or buy films, concerts, documentaries that our family would never see on televised programming. It’s a great alternative and resource.

[98ZJ USMC]

I also have never seen one episode of Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, etc.

Never. Have never seen a one... and don't care.

When I do watch TV, it is vintage/classic TV shows and old movies.

My TV rarely comes off of TCM, FXM or AMC (Movies only). I don't even watch FOXNews anymore.

[kearnyirish2]

“How about the business owned by a black female in which she “puts out fires,” then a white male is shown burning and she comes to the rescue with a fire extinguisher?”

I haven’t seen that (I rarely see commercials, due to the remote control), but I know the type. If one of them comes on when my children are present, I point out the absurdity of it by pointing towards nearby Newark NJ and telling them how many minorities we feed there every day. These commercials may boost the self-esteem of minorities or women, but they are a useful tool for demonstrating the lies of the media for young minds (especially if the ugly truth can be readily seen).

[kearnyirish2]

“Back in the day—we enjoyed watching SpongeBob...until one bizarre episode in which Patrick Star played the lazy no good husband, and SpongeBob was the nagging “wife”. They actually had a baby. It was a disturbing episode. We discontinued watching the series after that weird stunt.”

That was definitely a homosexual/deviant show; at the end of the movie itself, Patrick shows up wearing fishnets and whore boots (with no explanation or reason), and in another episode he cross-dresses to work as a waitress. Definitely bizarre for a children’s program...

[kearnyirish2]

“Where the hell are our “Archie Bunker” shows”

The liberal who produced that show was not happy that many people identified more with Archie than the younger libs; don’t expect to see another version of that show any time soon.

[Russ]

Don’t forget “Amish Mafia” on that list. It degrades that sect and religion like no other.

[napscoordinator]

Just to prove how silly it is.

[PotatoHeadMick]

You know last year I was at a parents/teacher meeting with my kid’s teacher (this was not in the US) and the teacher suggested to my wife and I that we needed to take a firmer hand with our boy’s TV viewing. I agreed as I had long objected to a particular nihilistic, amoral cartoon called “Adventure Time” that Nickelodeon (I think) aired.

The teacher agreed that this and a few other violent cartoons should be off-limits but when she suggested that “Spongebob” was a problem I admit I laughed out loud. In all seriousness she explained that the cartoon gave out confusing and inappropriate gender signals and cited the marriage episode you mention (I did tell you this wasn’t a US school).

I had no idea that Spongebob was problematical but what you say is interesting, these things are never simply meaningless, anyone who believes that the producers of these hugely expensive programs haven’t put a lot of thought into every scene and the message they are trying to inculcate in young minds may well be very naive.

It’s worth bearing in mind.

[kearnyirish2]

“I had no idea that Spongebob was problematical but what you say is interesting, these things are never simply meaningless, anyone who believes that the producers of these hugely expensive programs haven’t put a lot of thought into every scene and the message they are trying to inculcate in young minds may well be very naive.”

As the other poster indicated, the two of them were raising a “baby” (a clam of some sort). The messages were: two guys can raise a kid like anyone else, and it was implied that the “husband” was a lazy POS (towards the end it was shown that while he was claiming to go to work every day, he was actually going to his house next door and watching TV). If you can “translate” these for the kids while they’re watching, then I wouldn’t worry; nobody should assume that their children aren’t being indoctrinated by “kids’ shows”.

[Mycroft Holmes]

Excellent Redneck TV:

Rocket City Rednecks is led by Travis Taylor and his team of redneck geniuses. In his younger years, Travis started out cleaning chicken coops, but for the past two decades he’s been a research scientist with the Department of Defense and NASA.

Sometimes big science moves too slow for Travis, so come the weekends he “gits” together with his father, brother-in-law, nephew and best friend to combine a little hillbilly ingenuity with advanced engineering and physics to tackle real-world scenarios. With their thick accents and distinctive vocabulary, the tight-knit group brings their own unique style of southern charm to science and technology.

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