Mr. Jefferson was the only one who was movin' on up
To the east side
To a deluxe apartment in the sky
Posted on 10/08/2023 1:38:41 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Like most of the citadels of culture, Hollywood is in thrall to liberalism, whereas those who consume its products are, like the country itself, a grab bag of Left and Right. Every once in a while, waking up to a constituency it ignores or belittles, the entertainment industry acknowledges the great unwashed: those who value honest work, hold true to traditional values, maintain confidence in the American experiment, even when it fails them, and, by and large, vote Republican
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My parents were good republicans, except for 1960, they voted for jfk, because he was catholic.
My mother threw the biggest Christmas party in town, outdoor lights and 9 foot tall bespeckled Christmas tree, and she always invited the doctor and his wife, and the wife of the doctor would say, "I love all the lights".
Wonder what my dad would say, about hamas's actions yesterday.
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Most viewers never knew Archie Bunker was created to belittle
and demean like-minded conservatives who thought like him.
In recent years his creator has toned down his rhetoric....a little
Archie Bunker would have been on Team Trump........so says Norman Lear, the creator of “All in the Family,” the landmark sitcom that made the bigoted but beloved family man Archie, played by Carroll O’Connor, a working-class American icon.
In a commentary in the New York Times to mark his 100th birthday on Wednesday, Lear wrote about his hit show of the ‘70s and its signature character. “He probably would have been a Trump voter,” Lear said of Archie.
At the same time, Lear said that the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — and the more recent House investigation into former President Donald Trump’s role in it — might have provoked certain strong reactions from a Trump-supporting Archie.
The “sight of the American flag being used to attack Capitol Police would have sickened him,” Lear wrote. “I hope that the resolve shown by Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, and their commitment to exposing the truth, would have won his respect.”
Lear, who also created such shows as “Sanford and Son,” “Maude,” “The Jeffersons” and “Good Times,” has long been a liberal activist and supporter of progressive causes. He is a recipient of the National Medal of the Arts and was a Kennedy Center honoree.
Mr. Jefferson was the only one who was movin' on up
To the east side
To a deluxe apartment in the sky
Archie Bunker was an archetypal right-winger.....as imagined and portrayed by hard leftists. In reality he more accurately reflected the bombastic bigotry of Dhimicrats, not Republicans.
In one episode, Archie admitted he was for FDR, until he ran for a third term, “We didn’t know the guy was going to hang onto the job like a Pope!”
IIRC, Norman Lear said that George Jefferson was supposed to be a Republican.
Meathead was used to mock liberals.
There was a great episode where Lionel Jefferson chastises Meathead for only wanting to talk about race issues with him.
“Why don’t we ever talk about the weather? Black people have weather too, you know.”
“IIRC, Norman Lear said that George Jefferson was supposed to be a Republican.”
As will be George Jetson.
As for the All in the Family-The Jeffersons story line, George did not sit on his big chair and pontificate, he worked every angle, worked them hard, and made his fortune.
Creator Norman Lear originally intended that Bunker be strongly disliked by audiences.
Lear was shocked when Bunker became a beloved figure to much of middle America.
Lear thought Bunker’s opinions on race, sex, marriage, and religion were so wrong as to represent a parody of right-wing bigotry.
Commie pinko maybe that’s who Arche was speaking of?.
Archie Bunker was a construct of Norman Lear and Carroll O’Conner, both big libs back then. Let us not forget “Meathead” Rob Reiner. I’m sure all three of them were “Meatheads” in real life.
I quit watching TV in the 1970s and when the show ran I was only watching sports and movies on TV. I never saw it.
I was in a video store back in the 90’s and an episode was playing on one of the TV’s in the store. I watched a few minutes and I found it the most crude stereotyping propaganda; too crude for Goebbels or Stalin.
He was. He was running for local office as one on an episode of “All in the Family.”
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