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Time's Mother's Day List of Best Pop-Culture Mothers Has Gaia Instead of Mrs. Cleaver
newsbusters.org ^ | May 07, 2011 | 12:55 | Tim Graham

Posted on 05/08/2011 6:51:58 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

For Mother's Day, the Time magazine website decided to make a list of the ten worst and best mothers in popular culture. The worst list was pretty standard, but the best list was at times bizarre. For example, the number ten best is... the savage Queen Mother from the Aliens movies? Number eight is....Hester Prynne, the single-mom adulteress of The Scarlet Letter? There's no Mrs. Cleaver or Mrs. Huxtable, but a savage killer? Then there's the number three best mother: Gaia, or Mother Earth. Caryn Brooks wrote:

Greek gods and goddesses have their own set of morals that have nothing to do with how things roll in the world of mere mortals. So don't hold it against Gaia that she married her son Uranus (look it up, it's real), and had him later castrated — that's just how the Greek deities did their thing. What is important here is that Gaia, also known in English as Mother Earth, is responsible for the things we love on this planet. Things like: the oceans, the skies, the fields, the plains. Respect Mother Earth and you respect yourself.

Mary, the Mother of Jesus? No spot. Here's the Caryn Brooks summary of why the Queen alien is a great mommy:

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Politics
KEYWORDS: cnn; gaia; liberalmedia; mag; mother; progressive; propaganda; time

1 posted on 05/08/2011 6:52:03 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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TIME MAGAZINE: Best & Worst Moms Ever
2 posted on 05/08/2011 6:55:06 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Allen West 2012 Make it happen!)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

No more Time Magazine.... EVER !!!

3 posted on 05/08/2011 7:06:38 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
That they pick fictional moms for either list reveals the immaturity of the author...

Full List

Full List

10 Worst Moms Ever

Mom on Futurama

The Mother in Pink Floyd's The Wall

Mrs. Robinson

Gertrude from Hamlet

Sophie Portnoy

Livia Soprano from The Sopranos

Medea

Enid Lambert in The Corrections

Margaret White in Carrie

Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest

10 Best Moms Ever

Dumbo's Mom

Moms of The Joy Luck Club

Gaia

Rusty Dennis in Mask

Jochabed, Mother of Moses

Florida Evans

Whistler's Mother

Hester Prynne from The Scarlet Letter

Marge Simpson

The Queen Mother, From Aliens

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1738178,00.html#ixzz1Lll4WQiY

4 posted on 05/08/2011 7:12:03 AM PDT by raybbr (People who still support Obama are either a Marxist or a moron.)
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To: raybbr

Okay, I missed it’s from “Pop Culture”.


5 posted on 05/08/2011 7:14:11 AM PDT by raybbr (People who still support Obama are either a Marxist or a moron.)
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To: raybbr

Well, it is a pop culture list so you should expect some fictional characters.

But I’d be hard pressed to identify 50% of either list.

I’m so out of it.


6 posted on 05/08/2011 7:18:09 AM PDT by hattend (Obama is better than OJ... He found a killer while on the golf course.)
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To: raybbr
Who are these people?

and where is Molly Weasley? (do not threaten her daughter)

7 posted on 05/08/2011 7:27:03 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Monarchy is the one system of government where power is exercised for the good of all - Aristotle)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

It’s called “pop-culture” right? When I think pop-culture, one of the things that comes to mind is that it needs to be relatively current. I would bet that if you took a picture of Mrs. Cleaver into any American High School, not one kid could tell you who that woman was or the name of the actress playing her. But on the “plus side” they all know the lyrics to the latest “Lady” Gaga diatribe.


8 posted on 05/08/2011 7:27:22 AM PDT by Grunthor (http://www.hermancain.com/index.asp)
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9 posted on 05/08/2011 7:28:58 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Allen West 2012 Make it happen!)
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To: Oztrich Boy

Lots of very famous good and bad moms on my list. My favs: Gertrude and Livia Soprano. Sadly, my mother is almost a replica of the bad-tempered, unsupportive, negative Livia.


10 posted on 05/08/2011 7:30:18 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (.)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

Um.....okay.


11 posted on 05/08/2011 7:30:39 AM PDT by Grunthor (http://www.hermancain.com/index.asp)
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The UN can worship this I ain't LOL


12 posted on 05/08/2011 10:03:50 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Allen West 2012 Make it happen!)
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To: raybbr

No June Cleaver or Wilma Flintstone?


13 posted on 05/08/2011 1:40:10 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Allen West 2012 Make it happen!)
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