Posted on 03/18/2014 9:56:45 PM PDT by 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."
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Indeed we did. And still are. When it comes to engineering, construction, maintenance, technical operation, and bookkeeping, rednecks rule.
Without us, North America would revert to prairies, forests, plains, and swampland. The remaining human inhabitants would become once again warring tribes, scrapping out a primitive, squalid existence.
There are actually locations on the planet where such a scenario has occurred, and within modern times.
Me, too. Never watched any of those shows. I have watched Duck Dynasty, mostly because liberals hate it.
I watch news and sometimes sports and old shows. Mostly I am on FR.:)
While a lot of these programs are just devices for Hollywood writers and producers to ridicule large parts of traditional America, there are some programs that I think are harbingers of its certain decline. “Real Housewives of (name your city)” is the penultimate example exceeded only by “(Anything) Kardashian”.
I’ll have to watch those. I already grab every science fiction book by Travis Taylor as soon as I see it. Where does he find the time?
I had no idea that Travis Taylor of NG was the same fellow who wrote the books. I have read and enjoyed all of his collaborations with John Ringo. Thanks for the information.
Yep, Travis S. Taylor. He’s written several very good books besides the ones with John Ringo, and he’s only about 45, so he’ll no doubt write a good deal more.
Ya got that right. What business would develop a 30 minute commercial for itself each week, and have millions and millions of homes waiting - excited, even - to tune into it?
Those guys are savvy.
And, for what it's worth, I like the show, too. I can watch it with my kids, without one finger on the remote to change channels for inappropriate content.
Visualize how many advertisers would allow themselves to be associated with a show that mocked black inner-city life.
Visualize the reaction of the Obama-administration FCC to such a show.
The first TV ad that I recall being absolutely repugnant was an insurance ad in which a woman was by her computer. She was spying on her BF through a webcam. When she saw him talking to another woman at a bar, she created a scissors and then cut his pants in the crotch. I don’t think it aired often and I hope people issued complaints.
Capital One, which I think is the company behind the ad I described earlier, has another ad. A black guy approaches a white female and begins a sentence with “Boss...” Message delivered. We get it: woman in power, males are secondary figures. But a feminized tattletale white male goes up to the pair and claims he saw another employee using staples (or some such thing) for something other than business-related. “Boss”? We get the picture on the people behind the ad exec industry.
And it seems every doctor is now a woman or minority, even in print ads. I saw one for a dental plan in white a black and white image showed a woman going to a white male dentist. Then, with the new plan, the images became colorized and the new doctor was a white female. Alas, a break through! Having to go to a white male dentist all those years, how did we survive.
Redneck TV is typically G or PG rated and entertaining. People are tired of the disgusting filth and political prpaganda they try to push semntically with homos in every episode...
Married With Children was a trend setter way back when; the family that put the FUN in dysFUNctional! Lasted eleven seasons.
This Isn’t new. In the very early 1960’s, there were a number of Hillbilly comedies, most notably “The Beverly Hillbillies” and “The Real McCoy’ s”, while Li’l Abner and Snuffy Smith had been fixtures in the comic pages. The fact that the ‘creative’ class has to keep going back to this well speaks more to their lack of originality than anything else.
Antenna TV, TV Land and Nick at Nite have some of those oldies.
Yep
I like gator but as someone who grew up in that era I find the show an exaggerated farce
Written by Gen X or Y libs who write it based upon assumptions that fit their modern progressive fairly gay world view
“Just to prove how silly it is.”
Now that’s silly.
Don’t forget Rosanne’s sitcom.
I see a difference between the early shows such as BHB, Green Acres, Mayberry and the sitcoms and reality shows of today.
In regards to Bob Hope one of the best things Mark Steyn ever wrote was his homage to him.
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Yes, definitely a lot of social engineering (wishful thinking) going on in the ad industry). While I’ve had a sharp female boss in the past, most females I see in management are tokens who are the last ones in and the first ones out when it comes to working (with the longest lunches in between); they are “playing boss”.
For many years I thought status at work was related to pay & titles; as I age I clearly see that the highest people in any company are the ones that deal with the least “tokens”. On top of that, I have the utmost respect for the white men left in any industry, because I understand the forces at work to unseat them - they must be damned good!
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