Posted on 08/02/2015 8:46:08 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Legendary TV producer Norman Lear stopped by the Television Critics Association’s press tour in Beverly Hills to promote an upcoming PBS documentary covering his career . But what seemed to most impress reporters was the 93-year-old’s opinionated tangents, covering politics, TV, America and mindfullness.
On politics “Everybody knows me to be a progressive or a liberal or lefty or whatever. I think of myself as a bleeding-heart conservative. You will not f— with my Bill of Rights, my Constitution, my guarantees of political justice for all. But does my heart bleed for those who need help and aren’t getting the justice that the country promises them and the equal opportunity the country promises? Yes. I’m a bleeding heart, but I think myself to be a total social conservative.
The people who are running just don’t seem to have America on their minds, not the America I think about. When I was a kid we were in love with America. As early as I can remember, there was a civics class in my public school. And I was in love with those things that guaranteed freedom before I learned that there were people who hated me because I was Jewish.
I had a Bill of Rights and a Constitution, those words out of the Declaration that protected me. And I knew about that because we had civics in class. We don’t have that much in the country anymore.
So before World War II or shortly after, we were in love with America because we understood what it was about and that’s what we were in love with. I believe everybody’s patriotic today. Everybody loves America. But I don’t need their flag plans to prove it. I’d like to go back to civics lessons.”
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He was the creator of hits like All in the Family, The Jeffersons and One Day at a Time; none of those shows could be televised today in the ultra PC Gestapo world in which we live.
Very interesting, and a bit surprising coming from the man that gave us meathead.
Well, hallelujah! It's okay to be a total social Conservative!
All In the Family presented both sides of the argument and left it to the viewer.
There were several shows that it may have been a bit preachy for the liberal side, but overall it was fairly even-handed.
That is why there are cable channels that show those old shows.
Please don’t make me click on the link. Can you nutshell the opinions for me?
You’re right. Perhaps my perspective is skewed by some of the actors and their real life views.
On politics: “Everybody knows me to be a progressive or a liberal or lefty or whatever. I think of myself as a bleeding-heart conservative.
Yet the meathead Lear gave us was not a sympathetic figure while Archie gradually became one.
Even back then, what we called “liberals” still at least for the most part, loved this country. Liberalism back then was more about ‘championing the underdog.’ It got way twisted since then.
Can’t say that anymore.
All In The Family left it to the viewer? I think not. Archie Bunker was portrayed as a chauvinistic, illiterate, card-carrying, Nixon-loving Republican. Meathead was the liberal - elite, educated, articulate. I hardly call that unbiased.
Thanks for saving me valuable time. The give-away was “I think of myself as.....”
Men like Lear created the monster.
Now that’s its back to tear down his ivory tower, he’s pissed off.
Meathead was frequently portrayed as a freeloader taking advantage of Archie, who worked to put food on the table.
There was a scene where Meathead was so upset about something that he couldn’t even eat his third egg.
Then Archie goes to Edith, “Did he really eat three eggs?”
Men like Lear created the monster.
In part, yes, hard to disagree with that statement.
Took him 93 YEARS to get his head right...??
How many years too late is this boob waking up? Isn’t he like four hundred and ninety-three?
He has always been a liberal. There is nothing compassionate or “bleeding heart” about giving away other people’s money.
I don’t think I’ve met one Archie Bunker in my life.
I’ve met plenty of meatheads.
Archie was an angry at life doesn’t exist man instead of the Joe Everyman Leer wanted folks to think of him as. He had very little respect for Edith, Meathead, or his daughter. His views didn’t even represent the right in many instances. They represented the Left’s view of a Conservative. He was used to set up, then ridicule the Conservative.
Meathead was positioned to be the guy people identified with. His were the views presented in sympathetic fashion. I say this because the situation was set up as three against one. Bunker was always the one the other three disagreed with. He was portrayed as unreasonable and yet loved despite it in most instances.
Bunker was inarticulate and a boorish boob.
Meathead was a soft-headed thinker who just happened to be right.
Which of these two men did Lear side with?
He can tell me he’s a social conservative every second for the rest of his life, but we know damn well what Lear was all about.
Conservative on social issues? What’s his views on abortion?
He loves television today. Any questions?
Lear loved his civic’s lessons, because he drew from them his right to trash the cornerstones of our nation.
This man is acting the part of a fraud.
Don’t sucker for this idiot’s lies.
Lear was furious at how people identified with Archie; even back then they knew the WASP culture was under assault by Bolsheviks, and while it wasn’t PC, Archie was right on just about everything. History has vindicated Archie Bunker.
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