Posted on 07/17/2014 6:30:47 AM PDT by rktman
Anthony Mason spotlighted the death of comic book character Archie Andrews on Wednesday's CBS Evening News, and pointed out that "it all ends...when an adult Archie takes a bullet aimed by a stalker at a gay friend." Mason turned to the comics' publisher, Jon Goldwater, and wondered if he was "trying to make a political statement with this comic book" [MP3 audio available here; video below the jump].
Goldwater denied that he was doing so, even though he underlined that "gun violence is too prevalent in this country, and we should do everything we can to prevent it." However, just hours earlier on NPR's Morning Edition, he hinted that he was indeed making a political statement:
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........as soon as I ran into the word “gay”, as always, I quit reading.........!
Who stalks a gay man? Usually an ex-boyfriend.
Betty could have given birth and put the baby up for adoption.
Mr. Goldwater is a drama queen.
I outgrew Archie at around third grade.
I’m glad he didn’t take a “flesh bullet” from behind.
It seems like just about everything nowadays has a political statement.
Why is Archie getting shot, and saves his homosexual friend in the process?? Why is it the homosexual, of all of the characters, who gets saved?
Why do so many TV shows have homosexual characters nowadays? And why are those characters invariably cast in only a positive light???
Why are clergy on TV frequently presented in a negative way?
None of this is coincidence. Liberals are now to the level of using comic books to indoctrinate people.
I read Archie comics when I was young, many years ago. I fondly remember the adventures of Archie, Betty, Veronica, Reggie Mantle, Jughead. I remember Miss Grundy and Mr. Weatherbee from Riverdale High School.
At the risk of nostalgia clouding memory, I certainly don’t remember any political statements being made about social/political issues, such as they have decided to do with homosexuality nowadays.
In 1975, there were probably twenty-five million Americans who knew Richie Rich and Archie. Today? I’d put the number closer to 200,000.
If you go browse around the internet, the Archie company won’t even discuss current readership...which might be a red-flag that they are way down on monthly sales.
To bring the numbers up? Well...honestly....Archie would have to take a bullet for a gay Hispanic guy from the Ozarks who really wants Jughead bad, drives a black Camaro, cleans Veronica’s Mom’s car every Saturday while wearing spandex, and is a re-re-reborn Christian but won’t admit it in public.
Seriously, I just can’t imagine any eleven-year-old kid today....reading Archie unless they are stuck at Grandma’s house for the summer and she’s buying this comic book stuff in discount from the local grocery.
I garon-dam-tee that the demographic committing the 'gun violence' in this country has no clue what an 'Archie' is and will never see Jon Goldwater's social lesson. This is merely preening for leftist status as king of the moral hill. "Gaze upon me for I am more moral than thee."
That raises a good question. Who is the audience this bunch is trying to reach? I can’t believe kids would be attracted to stuff like this. Who exactly is buying this?
There have been so many instances of comics pushing the PC-agenda, but this really crosses over into a kind of ham-fisted propaganda that just doesn’t seem, at its core, innately “American” anymore.
Archie is an iconic character, one of the first cultural manifastations of “teen” culture (although Henry Aldrich precedes him by a few years), which really didn’t exist before the 1940s. Even in the 60s/70s and perhaps 80s, it was a strip that reflected nothing but a sense of innocuous, “carefree” humor. That was virtually its reason for being. Now being used as a platform for a truly sick political/social agenda is a reversal of everything it once represented.
It really is depraved, what’s happening to the culture.
Until they transform her into a comic version of Sandra Fluke. Or a dyke.
I feel sorry for the ww2 generation. You fought for a society that would eventually turn around and spit on everything you held dear. Patriotism is seen as brutish. Christianity is talked of as narrow minded. The idea of a family environment is thought of as an antiquated idea.
And now even icons of the post-war era have been debased into political props.
That loss of the cultural war in the 60s may well have been the most devastating loss America ever suffered.
His “friend” is a gay married military man against guns.
No agenda. Nope. Nosiree!
LOL
This is NOT the Archie of old.
http://generationexploitation.blogspot.ca/2006/06/history-of-christian-archi_114951302719460209.html
Yeah, but then planned parenthood wouldnt have gotten paid.
Archie takes a Protein Torpedo in the bum.
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