Truly, if EVER anyone deserved a patented Hale “Nice Rack, though...” it’s Adrienne...
Whoa....”
Really? HUMM, . Imagine this at dinner.... 
Posted on 07/09/2012 4:49:38 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Liberals really are a single-minded lot: In their view, the only possible explanation for a person hoping that Barack Obama loses his next election is racism. All things political are analyzed through a filter of skin color, putting today's left directly at odds with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream that his children "will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
Conservatives might argue that leftists are hypocritical on this score, that they are judging Obama by his skin color and judging his critics by what they perceive to be the content of our characters -- based on nothing but our opposition to a far-left president who happens to be black.
But what they are demonstrating is not hypocrisy, it is projection. Liberals assume that since race is so important to them, it must be equally important to the rest of us, that it must, if you'll pardon the pun, color our every political thought. This is of course particularly true of the liberal elite who suffer deeply from what Hayek termed the "fatal conceit," a symptom of which is believing that all intelligent people must think as "Progressives" do -- and that all people not intelligent enough to think as they do are suited to be ruled by them.
The moral yardstick for the American left is now "the color of your character."
To liberals, when it comes to non-leftist critics of Barack Obama, the fact that many of us are not black means little less than that we wish the South had won the Civil War.
But when the subject is Barack Obama, the fact that his skin is black (despite his mother having been white) trumps all;....
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Ping
The rest of that passage is particularly important, as it defines vanguardism:
.....all intelligent people must think as "Progressives" do -- and that all people not intelligent enough to think as they do are suited to be ruled by them. [Emphasis supplied.]
Or, if you will, "the dictatorship of the bien-pensant".
Which explains why there aren't too many street people and project-dwellers on the board of the John P. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Well, actually, All in the Family (in reruns on indie HDTV here in Houston) was the creation of Bud Yorkin and Norman Lear. Yorkin was a good old boy from Tennessee (doubtless a Harold Ford/Al Gore worshipper), but Norm Lear was/is a Jewish liberal, and the Archie Bunker character was their smear of other "old-ethnic" (not so "old" when they did it) urban whites from the East Coast, whom they used as a political punching bag.
Think of All in the Family as "Two Minutes' Hate" TV for liberal urban Jews -- instead of Orwell's Goldstein, they got Bunker, Bunker, BUNKER!!
Lear probably told himself he was creating "teachable moments" for the old-ethnic white guys he was using.
And nobody has yet put to Carroll O'Connor (who's dead) that he was, in fact, a white Stepin Fetchit for Yorkin and Lear.
Good insight, I had not thought of that. I think libs believed that O'Connor was a right winger in real life, but that seems to be inaccurate. Some of them were afraid that "Archie Bunker" would become a hero for the "silent majority."
paint white people as racists, and then spin off the jeffersons with a black racist who is always justified in his anger...
still one of my favorite lines of tv...
archie to mike..."sticks and stones may break my bones, but YOU are one dumb Pollock"...
thats ok for tv cause theres not many Poles of color i guess...
Great phrase...
One of my all-time favorites was when Edith was going through menopause and acting flakier than normal - going through (the change of life”.
Archie looks at her and says “Edith!!! Dat’s Enough!! You got any changin’ ta do, you got fifteen minutes to get it over with!!!”
I was a kid when AITF first aired in 1970 and now looking back I cant see how I watched any of those brainless TV shows in the 1970s, except maybe Bob Newhart. AITF is way over dated, Archie defending the already ending (and lost by Johnson) Vietnam War and Mike and Gloria protesting it, and Mike a vocal atheist, Gloria a complete fruit loop.
George Jefferson/Weezy and Archie/Edith?? Nuff said?
AITF had it’s moments.
Gotta be able to laugh at things occasionally...(yeah, I know...THIS coming from ME...Mr. Bile! Hahah!)
You are??
I am the one with negativity problem. It was bad in 2008 and it's got even worse now with Romney, Boehner and McConnell.
With those as friends who needs enemies?
you??? im here with the pessimistic outlook of the best days...
the glass aint even half empty... its another dish to wash...
Good point, maybe that's why I like you. With you I am not the most gloomy in the room.
“...You are?? I am the one with negativity problem. ...”
Oh yeah? I’ll betcha I can out-bile you...
well...then again, maybe not today. I’m in a better mood than yesterday...but I think I still have a touch of Pre-MANstrual syndrome...
My cramps hurt... :^)
“...Good point, maybe that’s why I like you. With you I am not the most gloomy in the room....”
I’m only gloomy when I’m PMS...
After the novelty of allowing previously forbidden words and themes, it became annoyingly predictable. IIRC Norman Lear was one of those characters who appeared on anti-Robert-Bork TV ads.
I thought one episode was going to be different, but the ending reverted to the same old formula. In Everybody Tells the Truth, 2 repairmen were working on the family refrigerator. In Archie's version, a George-Raft-like (gangster type movie actor) white guy with a gangster-type black shirt and white tie, and an afro wearing black guy with a big knife kept threatening him. In Meatdead's (the leftist son-in-law) version, the repairmen were absolutely innocent, while of course Archie insulted them incessantly.
If the episode had ended there, it would have been a pretty good story, something like Kurosawa's Rashomon (in which various witnesses tell contradictory versions of an incident). But Lear's ideology was stronger than his artistic side, so he resolved it by Archie's wife mostly agreeing with Meathead.
I will repeat my original point. All in the Family tried to paint traditional Americans as seeing everything in terms of race, but it's really the Left which talks that way, some of them sincere, and some just trying to use race as a political weapon. Lear's efforts to demagogue against "Archie Bunker" were proven unsuccessful when Reagan won in 2000, but they kept trying, and they might ultimately succeed via immigration/amnesty.
heheheh...Im tri-MAN-o-ballsall, and all three of em are killin me...
and gay bambam is intent on squeezing...
“..tri-MAN-o-ballsall, and all three of em are killin me.....”
Hahaha!!! Life with wives and daughters.
Mine get sympathetic periods...Oy... one’s whining, the other is crying, then the other is bitching, and the other is cramping and whining, back to whining, and bleeding all over the damn place... it’s hell...HELL, I say...
My son just...RUNS....to the Man Cave to kill Zombies on the PS3.
So do I, for that matter....and we lock the girls out.
Recall People for the American Way.
There was a AITF Lear spinoff that I thought entertaining in a campy way, it was a spinoff of Maude, where Maude was a spinoff of AITF.
Recall Good Times, It started with a two parent family in the Chicago ‘projects’ trying to survive and keep the family safe and together. But then John Amos and Esther Rolle got mad because like most black TV comedies at the time the scripts were becoming dumber and dumber appealing to idiot viewers (DYNO-MIGHT!) and so first they fired Amos for complaining (leaving a single Mom family in the projects, hard to find those) and a year or so they later fired Rolle too and the series degraded into total crap as Willona Woods took over as the lead adult (idiot) character.
Rolle came back for the final season to play Florida again (the character she started on Maude) and got to play in the series final where the whole family strikes gold (luck) and get out of the projects.
The other strange series I like that never gets shown is Maude. Those are weird characters. It was lear making fun of well off white guilty liberals which you could tell was unnatural for him. NFHale had a thing for Maude's single mom divorced daughter for obvious reasons.
“...NFHale had a thing for Maude’s single mom divorced daughter for obvious reasons...”
Adrienne Barbeau had a rack that brought tears - TEARS, I tell you - to me eyes...
Truly, if EVER anyone deserved a patented Hale “Nice Rack, though...” it’s Adrienne...
Whoa....
Really? HUMM, . Imagine this at dinner....
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