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Tim (Allen) stuns H’wood with Bam slams
New York Post ^ | 10/12/12 | Sean Daly

Posted on 10/15/2012 9:10:57 AM PDT by Baynative

Comedian Tim Allen has an idea for a home improvement at the White House: Get a new tenant!

A rare Republican in Democrat-loving Hollywood — let alone in prime time — Allen delivers a comic smackdown in the season premiere of his ABC sitcom, “Last Man Standing.”

It’s the first sign the GOP may be making inroads in what has been nearly solid support for the president on the left coast.

In the episode, airing four days before the election, Allen’s uber-conservative character, Mike Baxter, tries to persuade his impressionable 18-year-old daughter to vote for Mitt Romney.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2012endorsements; allen; hollywood; obama; timallen; whitehouse
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"The Democrats will tax [your] inheritance and probably use that money to throw gay weddings for illegal aliens," Allen’s character tells the Kardashian-loving teen, who thinks Bill Clinton’s mother is secretary of state.

What a classic line!

1 posted on 10/15/2012 9:10:58 AM PDT by Baynative
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To: Baynative

Tim Allen is the voice for the fantastic Pure Michigan commercials.


2 posted on 10/15/2012 9:16:20 AM PDT by cdga5for4
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To: Baynative
Libs could never figure out why they Americans liked seeing this guy

smack down this guy


3 posted on 10/15/2012 9:16:29 AM PDT by freedomlover
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Allen said there are plenty of jokes aimed at Romney — because the network thought it was necessary to give the show some balance.

Balance? Like, oh, every other show on television, which is 100% liberal with no balanced anti-liberal jokes? You can see how networks operate. Have a conservative show? Well, make sure its "balanced."

4 posted on 10/15/2012 9:18:13 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: freedomlover

Carrol O’Conner was a SERIOUS Lib!


5 posted on 10/15/2012 9:18:31 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: freedomlover

Man, I loved that show. It’s still funny.


6 posted on 10/15/2012 9:18:56 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Baynative

Love his show! He had a line or two ripping on Obama last season. I loved the tree episode where the family stands up to some bureacrat. The most recent news is that the actess who plays the eldest daughter was replaced. I wonder if there was any conflict of a political nature??


7 posted on 10/15/2012 9:20:14 AM PDT by karatemom
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To: cdga5for4

Michigan has produced a couple of the Hollywood conservatives. Tom Selleck is another right off the top of my head.


8 posted on 10/15/2012 9:20:47 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: US Navy Vet
Carrol O’Conner was a SERIOUS Lib!

As was Norman Lear, the producer of AITF. But what the producer and the actors ALL failed to get was that even though their intent was to portray Archie as the bigoted ignorant right-winger, even their characature of a conservative was smarter than most libs.

9 posted on 10/15/2012 9:21:56 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: US Navy Vet

O’Connor is downright communist.


10 posted on 10/15/2012 9:23:11 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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He died in 2001 but, like his contemporary John F. Kennedy, he came from a wealthy liberal Irish Catholic family from the Northeast.


11 posted on 10/15/2012 9:25:16 AM PDT by Borges
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The first conservative Michigander off the top of my head is Ted Nugent.


12 posted on 10/15/2012 9:26:04 AM PDT by DManA
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To: US Navy Vet; freedomlover

Sure was. Gag me...

And FreedomLover, the show was really an attempt to stereotype people on the right. Tossed in with the skewed version of decent values was evidences of racism and other unjustified negatives that were focused to cast Conservatives as very bad people, even if they did get some things sort-of right.

Meathead didn’t fair much better, but we should point out that Carol O’Conner’s character didn’t really represent us. It represented the Left’s view of us, what they wanted the audience to take away concerning Conservatives.


13 posted on 10/15/2012 9:28:06 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (We should ignore the absurd peripheral, and focus on the absurd Obama. People died. He lied!)
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To: VRWCmember

One of my favorite characters on All in the Family was Lionel. There was an episode where they were playing this board game. Throughout the game Lionel exposes Mike’s faux liberal compassion for the condensending tripe that it was.


14 posted on 10/15/2012 9:28:19 AM PDT by karatemom
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He died in 2001 but, (snip)

Yeah, but he still votes communist!

15 posted on 10/15/2012 9:29:36 AM PDT by Yossarian ("All the charm of Nixon. All the competency of Carter." - SF Chronicle comment post on Obama)
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As was Norman Lear, the producer of AITF. But what the producer and the actors ALL failed to get was that even though their intent was to portray Archie as the bigoted ignorant right-winger, even their characature of a conservative was smarter than most libs.

I still remember an episode of the tonight show in which Rob 'Meathead' Reiner was a guest. The guest before him was actor Walter Matthau, who had already moved down a seat to make room for Reiner. Reiner was blathering about how AITF was so popular because it showed differing points of view, etc. Mathhau chimed in and said in his totally deadpan manner: "that's not why your show is so popular. Your show is popular because everyone agrees with Archie Bunker."

Meathead really lost it at that point, and was flailing about and shrieking "that is not true! That is absolutely not true!!!"

16 posted on 10/15/2012 9:31:26 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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To: DManA

He lived between Hanover and Concord Michigan when I was growing up. My Cousin was dating Sandra Nugent when she died.

They were just local people and nobody local bothered them. Toby and Sasha went to the same school as everybody else.


17 posted on 10/15/2012 9:33:49 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Baynative

I went to college with him in the 70s. Great guy.


18 posted on 10/15/2012 9:34:48 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: VRWCmember

Don’t forget Lou Grant(Ed Asner).


19 posted on 10/15/2012 9:37:59 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: freedomlover

In the end. Archie was right about Meathead all along.


20 posted on 10/15/2012 9:39:31 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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