Posted on 05/31/2011 5:39:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
Actually, no. Bones is much closer to reality than CSI, with the holothingy being the only overt concession to Hollywood. The lead character is based on real-life Forensic Anthropologist Kathy Reichs, who also produces the show.
I've never seen Glee, so I can't comment. I'm allergic to musicals.
I must have missed it.
I’ll be honest. I don’t know which aggravates me more, political bias in television, and yep, I’ve seen some. Or people who read bias into anything and everything, deserved or not. I’ve seen more of the latter.
A lot of folks up here in Canada are so brainwashed, that they believe the pure left wing media outlets and their corresponding opinions - are completely unbiased. What passes as leftwing thought to conservatives like us appears to them as middle of the road normalcy. So you can imagine what their reaction is to anyone who says anything outside of their paradigm. Yes, television has made them that obtuse.
Once upon a time, and for a brief time after she broke up with Hodges, Angela had a girlfriend.
I had a hunch that it was something extremely minor like that.
For the most part, I have not had the impression that “Bones” is pushing a leftist agenda. In fact, I think the interaction between Booth and Bones to be interesting. Bones being the logical, scientific minded one who does not believe in God, being schooled by Booth, the Catholic, ex Army sniper, FBI agent.
Over all, I like the show.
Me too. I also like how they’ve accurately portrayed the too-smart squints as being socially inept. That’s much more often the case than the hunky/beautiful depictions of what would be geeks in real life, you’ll find in most shows.
[We’ll all go see a popcorn flick, even if it’s Avatar, and even if it’s telling us and our children that the American military is imperialistic and evil.]
Nope, I won’t. I haven’t been in a movie theater for 15 years. I also watch very few TV programs...sports and FNC. That’s about that. I am just one step away from cancelling my Dish Network all together. They keep raising the price, and it is not worth $80 bucks a month.
I had to quit watching Private Practice and Grey’s Anatomy because the writer became so blatant with her pro-abortion and pro-homosexuality agenda.
That's because we Canadians use a mental shortcut that many other people use: if the presentation is calm and reasonable-sounding, we assume it must be unbiased. We expect biased people to sound emotional or unreasonable.
A bad habit, I know, but it's hard to shake off unless you're walked though it.
“...that any attempt to peek behind the television screen is McCarthyism.”
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Well, Shapiro, I see you buy the traditional LeftWad propagandizing deployment of “McCarthyism”.
Not surprised.
Dismissed.
“..but she hates it when start my conservative ranting and ruin her shows...”
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Hey, that’s my house.
I think, for one thing, women completely miss the anti-male, specifically the incessant, anti-white, Christian male bashing.
Wifey and I don’t watch TV together, anymore. LOL.
Much as I like South Park, it is heavily gay themed.
Given the influence television has in America, would it be a stretch to suggest that there might be some production companies being funded by certain government agencies? Or would this be beyond what we might accept as rational thought?
But the theory I’ve been promulgating these few months has been a twist on Rush’s idea of SCM - State Controlled Media. How far-fetched is it to say that we have an MCS - a Media Controlled State? Which is puppet and which is puppetmaster? And how to you formally distinguish the two possibilities? And can both said to coexist?
1. Christians are evil.
2. Women are to be valued only for their cleavage.
3. Traditional gender roles are artificial but feminism and homosexuality are government-protected lifestyles.
4. Self-esteem is paramount; government must undertake to guarantee each citizen-victim self-esteem no matter the cost.
5. The ACLU is good, because destroying religion and silencing believers are protected by the Constitution and the First Amendment; The NRA is bad because it defends the Constitution.
6. Standardized IQ tests are racist; racial quotas and affirmative action are not.
7. Conservatives are racists; everybody knows that Black people can't make it on their own without big-buck government assistance programs and Hollyweirdos to proselytize the message 24/7.
8. Abortion is a natural right. The Founders just forgot to put it in the Constitution.
9. Normal sex is perverted. Threesomes, bestiality, necrophilia, homosexuality are just new ways to get a thrill.
10. Moral indignation is a liberal's standard strategy for endowing our output with superiority.
11. Victimization is our basic belief by which we blame and find others responsible for our own personal failures, then expect taxpayers, deep-pocketed individuals, or the courts to bail us out. It feels good to be in the throes of "victimization" and either A) causing victims, B) concocting victims, C) playing victim, D) commiserating over victims, or E) creating another class of victims to bleed over.
12. It's a liberal's duty to treat Middle America in the manner of raising mushrooms, that is to say, keep them in the dark and feed them lots of horse manure.
13. Capitalism creates oppression; government creates opportunity.
14. The traditional family is archaic, constricting, with no redeeming value. Parents that try to guide their children's choices are restrictive. Kids need to be "free".
15. Don’t hire an actress who won’t act naked. Male stars can refuse to take off their boxers.
In the early nineties when I was still on the fence, but mostly voting for Dems, I too scoffed at the conservatives who railed about lib bias on the telly. You know what? They were right. It was only when I became a full-fledged member of the right-wing conspiracy that I noticed the lib bias. Actually, I had noticed it before like when Alan Alda would make a joke about Frank Burns being a Republican during a “Mash” episode. When I became a true conservative, the lib bias became obvious. And it is irritating.
I encourage Conservative parents to encourage their children’s artistic talents.
To win the culture war, we MUST raise talented, creative Conservative children....
I still think that some people are too easily offended. It seems to effect people from all walks of life and all political persuasions. Me, I’m not easily offended, so I have little to offer those who are.
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