Posted on 06/15/2011 3:36:59 PM PDT by mojito
Not all TV shows are liberal. Some are, in fact, conservative — even if they don’t know it. It’s time to give credit where credit is due. Here’s a list of my top dozen conservative series in television history. These are not the most conservative shows in television history — they are the best shows that happen to carry conservative messages. My criteria, in order of importance: (1) portraying traditional American values in a positive light — values points; (2) taking on liberal sacred cows with total abandon — skewering points; (3) creating memorable conservative characters — we’ll call these sympathy points. They had to be good, too (sorry, Hogan’s Heroes). And no reality shows. I’ve tried to span the history of television (if we really did the top twelve conservative shows, the list would skew heavily to the 1950s). Also, I decided no creator could make two shows on the list.
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No kidding! LHOTP should have been listed FIRST!!!!!
And who can forget......as God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.....
Hmmm.... I didn’t see the Beverly Hillbillies listed.
No “The Equalizer”?
Those are his 12 “best”, not 12 total. Heck I could probably come up with 12 current. I could probably come up with 12 current and not leave the Discovery family of networks, they’ve got a lot of cool shows revolving around guns that do a really good job of demystifying them, and a bunch more that revolve around work a day people earning their money the old fashioned way. And Discovery even owns the most leftist channel ever Animal Planet and I could still come up with 12 conservative shows.
I agree with the Waltons being liberal. There was an episode about the teaching of evolution, and of course the parent of a girl who vehemently objected was painted as a nutcase. Evolution taught on Walton’s Mountain in the 30’s...not buying it.
However-I do like a show called “The Middle” with Patricia Heaton. Normal Midwestern family with quirky kids...not political that I’ve noticed...
Jericho was a great show. Simon and Simon was good also. What about Major Dad?
“V” showed promise, but was axed. Firefly was another show with conservative leanings.
I’ve seen instances when someone on NCIS will make what I consider a leftist remark. But they’re few and far between. It doesn’t come across as either left or right. It just provides a good value system through the character of LeRoy Jethro Gibbs.
I can’t say I’ve ever watched Barney Miller. At the time I really wasn’t in to commercial TV shows. Nor have I seen The Closer. Needless to say, except for a select few, TV is not a medium I follow any longer.
I actually saw the LOST episode where Sawyer actually said to Kate ‘I never voted Democrat”....
I almost fell from my chair when I watched it.
Because NCIS skewed LEFT when Bellisario left his direct producing duties and CBS hired lefty writers. Remember the Palin dig 2 seasons ago?
13 - Max Headroom!
Matt Frewer (Max Headroom/Edison Carter) takes on the powers-that-be in a “futuristic dystopia ruled by an oligarchy of television networks. Even the government functions primarily as a puppet state of the network executives, serving mainly to pass laws.”
Selleck was the rare Hollywood Republican. Perhaps more ‘moderate’ than your average FReeper. But to be even moderately conservative in that business... well, to survive I guess you have to look like Tom Selleck.
Magnum was chosen for the list because it was the first time VN vets were shown in a positive light. Not that it really slanted one way or the other, or was particularly political, but that it could show VN vets as ‘normal’ people.
I don’t subscribe to ranking lists on ANY entertainment.
It is, and ought to be, a very personal and subjective process.
So, why make them and debate and argue over them and their ranking.
If a list of “what I like” must be made, just make it, without ranking the items on the list; admit you have others you could put on the list if you could make it longer; and then invite others to add their favorites. No first, second to nth place items; just “here’s some of our favorites”, period.
Yeah, I said in post #28 that I’d seen comments on NCIS that had a left slant. That may well be the reason. We still love the show, but Gibbs still seems his old self.
Okay, two stable two-parent heterosexual couples (later on, three) and it didn't devolve into liberal talking points. But the show really had an edge. Harridan, horror, weakling, bully is right.
I'm not saying I didn't like the show or it wasn't a good show or that it was somehow a liberal show, but there was an awful lot of deep ambivalence or ambiguity on that show. If it weren't officially a comedy, it could have ended in real violence. I guess you could say the same for The Honeymooners, which didn't make his list.
As for The Waltons, it wouldn't make any "best of" lists of mine, but Will Geer's politics wouldn't be the determining factor over whether it was conservative or not. No more than Lionel Stander's red ties and blacklisting made Hart to Hart Communist propaganda. It was a little fake -- the producers were riding a nostalgic trend, just as they'd ride the Dallas trend with Falcon Crest in the 1990s -- but I must have missed any big liberal messages.
Of his list, we loved 24 best. That was a great show.
We watch some of the reality shows faithfully and there is one very conservative thing about the ones we like. You get ahead through actual talent and hard work. Even though on the Biggest Loser, the trainers are personally liberal politically, they don't pity or accept excuses from anyone, so they are in fact ACTING along with the conservative value of EARN your MERIT. And that is what happens. You stay on the ranch by your hard work and determination, but if you play poorly with others, that can also affect your stay.
My personal favorite is So You Think You Can Dance, and though you would not think it would interest a conservative audience, with probably every judge an Obama voter and definitely a gay marriage proponent, and with many of the dancers gay as well, surprisingly the same thing occurs: no one gets favored due to a sob story. There are people from every race working hard together and no comment is made about it; it's a melting pot of American/world culture, with Bollywood, Hip Hop, and Waltzing all on the same episode. You have to get out there and do the hard work that will wow the judges. Your sweat, your personality, your perseverance are what will get you ahead. It is ironic how many liberals, when it comes down to "life" and who gets ahead, will vote for hard work and determination every time, even though their votes subsidize a "pity" economy in which the hardworking should support the lazy. They would never let this happen on their show.
Such a list is useless without R. Lee Ermey’s Mail Call and Lock n Load in it.
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