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'All in the Family' star Jean Stapleton dies at 90
Chicago Tribune ^ | 06/01/2013 | Claudia Luther

Posted on 06/01/2013 1:21:54 PM PDT by Monty22002

Jean Stapleton, who played Archie Bunker’s long-suffering wife Edith in the long-running 1970s television series “All in the Family,” died Friday at her New York City home. She was 90.

Stapleton died of natural causes, her family announced Saturday.

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To: ansel12

My understanding is that the show was originally created to mock conservatism, but backfired. Everyone loved Archie and hated Meathead.


101 posted on 06/01/2013 4:38:38 PM PDT by Manic_Episode (Some days...it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps....)
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To: ansel12

Do you recall that eventually Meathead was shown to be a philanderer? He was cheating on his wife and their marriage ended. After Edith died Archie was the complete and utter moral center of the show (then called Archie Bunker’s Place).


102 posted on 06/01/2013 4:40:32 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Hot Tabasco

They didn’t reshape it, they mirrored it........

Bull. They didn’t mirror it then any more then they are mirroring it now. I didn’t know one single person with an IQ over sixty five as ignorant and delusional and hypocritical as Archie Bunker.


103 posted on 06/01/2013 4:41:32 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: exit82; Borges
Brilliant description, and accurate, well done.
104 posted on 06/01/2013 4:41:45 PM PDT by ansel12 (Social liberalism/libertarianism, empowers, creates and imports, and breeds, economic liberals.)
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To: ansel12; exit82

I agree with that description of Archie completely.


105 posted on 06/01/2013 4:43:14 PM PDT by Borges
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To: exit82

Brilliant post...could not agree more.


106 posted on 06/01/2013 4:45:25 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Borges

How mind blowingly ignorant, you are trying to portray Norman Lear and All in the Family as PROMOTING CONSERVATISM, AS BEING PRO-CONSERVATIVE, PUSHING A WHOLESOME CONSERVATIVE, PRO-AMERICAN VIEW, RATHER THAN BEING CREATED TO SERVE THE LEFT, AND SUCCEEDING BRILLIANTLY.

I asked you before, do you have any conservative instincts at all??

This is nutburger stuff.


107 posted on 06/01/2013 4:46:08 PM PDT by ansel12 (Social liberalism/libertarianism, empowers, creates and imports, and breeds, economic liberals.)
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To: ansel12

I’m not claiming it was ‘pushing’ anything. Only that it was effective comedy/drama and transcends whatever politics the creators had.


108 posted on 06/01/2013 4:47:28 PM PDT by Borges
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To: exit82

Keep in mind that the show’s first pilot was made in 1968. It was based on an earlier British show that had the exact same premise.


109 posted on 06/01/2013 4:49:33 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Albion Wilde

Wonderful photos from the series.

Thanks so much.


110 posted on 06/01/2013 4:52:40 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: Manic_Episode

No, AIF did not back fire and accidently become a Norman Lear, Carroll O’Connor, Rob Reiner, Jean Stapleton, Sally Struthers show promoting conservatism and conservative defenses to the American public in our time of need.

The show was created to bring up “its depiction of issues previously considered unsuitable for U.S. network television comedy, such as racism, homosexuality, women’s liberation, rape, miscarriage, abortion, breast cancer, the Vietnam War, menopause, and impotence”, and conservatism was to never win the argument, Archie was to always survive and remain likable, but the audience was to have moved a little farther to the left each time.


111 posted on 06/01/2013 4:59:02 PM PDT by ansel12 (Social liberalism/libertarianism, empowers, creates and imports, and breeds, economic liberals.)
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To: TalBlack
If you haven't learned the essence of humor by now and continue to view the world thru your own myopic political microscope then you are one pathetic and boring individual.

My suggestion to you is to either get laid, get drunk, get high or get a life.........or all of the above. Maybe you might start enjoying life...........Sheesh!

112 posted on 06/01/2013 5:01:08 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (This space for rent)
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To: Borges

It was pushing the left’s view into middle American living rooms, just as it was intended to and being very effective at it.

You seem determined to keep pretending that it wasn’t liberal, I think that you are just a committed anti-conservative, that supports the Hollywood agenda and methods.

You never stray from that single minded position.


113 posted on 06/01/2013 5:03:42 PM PDT by ansel12 (Social liberalism/libertarianism, empowers, creates and imports, and breeds, economic liberals.)
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To: PieterCasparzen
It worked so well many "conservatives" on this thread don't even realize it worked. It subtly yet successfully chipped away, one tiny bit at a time, at their morals.

No kidding, it worked, and is still working on some.

I wonder how many of these people grew up on Sesame Street and PBS, and Ted Turner kiddie cartoons indoctrinating them.

114 posted on 06/01/2013 5:07:49 PM PDT by ansel12 (Social liberalism/libertarianism, empowers, creates and imports, and breeds, economic liberals.)
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To: ansel12

I have no interest in its politics at all. I have even less interest in the politics of the creators. None. I only know that it as effective at comedy/drama. If you only ‘like’ art with who’s socio-political outlook you completely agree then there won’t be much to absorb. Wagner’s operas are morally repellent but are still great operas that I enjoy.


115 posted on 06/01/2013 5:08:03 PM PDT by Borges
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To: ansel12

BTW you didn’t answer my earlier question. Rod Serling admitted that he wanted to push progressive values on the general public via The Twilight Zone. Many of the episodes are blatantly nothing but Serling preaching at you. Yet I would wager that most people who post here also love that show. Do you feel the same way about that show?


116 posted on 06/01/2013 5:09:58 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Hot Tabasco

My suggestion to you is to turn off the TV occasionally and do some reading about Hollywood and television and cultural and political influence.


117 posted on 06/01/2013 5:12:08 PM PDT by ansel12 (Social liberalism/libertarianism, empowers, creates and imports, and breeds, economic liberals.)
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To: Borges
I have no interest in its politics at all. I have even less interest in the politics of the creators. None.

Well, this is a conservative political site, an activist's site, we are pro-God, pro-Life, pro-Family, pro-Country and pro-Liberty, politics is what we do here.

118 posted on 06/01/2013 5:16:45 PM PDT by ansel12 (Social liberalism/libertarianism, empowers, creates and imports, and breeds, economic liberals.)
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To: ansel12

I do have interest in my own politics and the politics of politicians who have an effect on my government.


119 posted on 06/01/2013 5:19:52 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

Judging from what we can pick up from threads like this one, I think that it is obvious that you have your own subtle way of promoting your political views.


120 posted on 06/01/2013 5:25:56 PM PDT by ansel12 (Social liberalism/libertarianism, empowers, creates and imports, and breeds, economic liberals.)
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