[oh8eleven]

Amazing the number of far leftwing shows that appear to be among FReepers favorites? All in the Family? M*A*S*H? and so on.....
You couldn't be more wrong.
All In The Family was supposed to make Archie out as racist and Meathead the hero.
In fact, it turned out that George Jefferson was the real racist and Meathead a pinko-commie.
MASH was anti-war, not anti-soldier, not anti-draft. That's who/what the leftwing, scumbags protested.
As VN combat vet, I appreciated MASH's anti-war comments more than you'll ever know.

[Kartographer]

OH I could be more wrong.

I surprised Maude and West Wing isn't among the favorites. What did the Author H. Richard Hornberger think?

Dr. Hornberger modeled the character of Capt. Benjamin Franklin (Hawkeye) Pierce after himself, his son said. Partly for that reason, he disliked the television series and almost never watched it.

''He liked the movie because he thought it followed his original intent very closely,'' William Hornberger said. ''But my father was a political conservative, and he did not like the liberal tendencies that Alan Alda portrayed Hawkeye Pierce as having.''

''My father didn't write an anti-war book,'' he added. ''It was a humorous account of his work, with serious parts thrown in about the awful kind of work it was, and how difficult and challenging it was.''

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/07/arts/h-richard-hornberger-73-surgeon-behind-m-a-s-h.html