Because Archie Bunker Was Right About Gun Control All Along

[twyacht]

 

Amazing.....A sitcom,...actually got it right.... Speaking On Behalf Of Guns For Everybody..

After all he ain't got no superiority, so he ain't gonna be pullin' no rod.....(spoken like a once former New Yorker)...



Posted before, but worth a holiday tribute to Meathead....

 

[tombogan03884]

Archie was right more often than not.

[fightingquaker13]

Give 'em hell Archie!
FQ13

[tombogan03884]

Give 'em hell Archie!
FQ13

You should pay more attention to what Archie said instead of following the Meathead's lead.

[Pathfinder]

For FQ's benefit, as well as others here, you do realize that the fact that Archie was right is completely irrelevant, right? This clip is right out of Alinsky's playbook.

Carrol O'Connor and Norman Lear were 2 huge libtards from the get go. They portrayed Bunker as an ignorant buffoon such that his opinion would be that of an ignorant buffoon. Note the mis-pronunciation and mis-use of words (given his typing skills, points perhaps overlooked by FQ  ), the goofy looks on O'Connor's face as he struggled to get the dim thoughts out to the camera. This is classic, a complete disparagement of the man, Archie Bunker, and therefore his ideas.

We can enjoy it now, especially as we agree with the basic ideas espoused by Bunker, but let's never forget how Lear and O'Connor used that show to attack American values.

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[fightingquaker13]

True, but Path you are making a fundamental mistake. You are confusing intent with effect. First, I'm not sure that Arch was meant tobe  a cartoon. More often than not he was shown as a man who deeply loved his family and worked hard to support them. Politically though, he was smeared. Still, while that might have been Lear's intent, Archie was treated as a hero by a lot of folks even back in the day. He may have mispronunciated words and was misunderestimated  , but a lot of folks from the first runs till today think Archie was right more  often than not. What Lear intended to do, and what actually happened were two different things. Archie gave a sort of voice to the folks who became the Reagan Democrats. Hard hats who'd had it with interest group liberalism and voted GOP for the first time in their lives in 1980.
FQ13

[tombogan03884]

I think they screwed up my Heart meds, I have to agree with FQ on the point he made.
Archie was intended as a lampoon of the "unenlightened", but he was the only voice of Nixon's "silent majority".

[Timothy]

I think they screwed up my Heart meds, I have to agree with FQ on the point he made.
Archie was intended as a lampoon of the "unenlightened", but he was the only voice of Nixon's "silent majority".

It wasn't much of a silent majority.  Nixon won re-election in a monstrous landslide over McGovern!  The largest margin of victory in modern politics, even makes Reagans win look normal.

[tombogan03884]

It wasn't much of a silent majority.  Nixon won re-election in a monstrous landslide over McGovern!  The largest margin of victory in modern politics, even makes Reagans win look normal.

That may be, but did you see a Patriotic reaction to the anti war movement ?
Did you see a "TEA Party" type reaction to the theft of Social Security, or the increased taxes to pay for the welfare programs ?
Did you see any one up in arms over the GCA - 68 ?
Did you see any one question the deposing of Nixon ?
How about a counter to the 20 years of leftist propaganda that followed in the media ?
They may have given Tricky Dick an overwhelming majority at the polls but otherwise they kept their mouths shut.

[Timothy]

That may be, but did you see a Patriotic reaction to the anti war movement ?
Did you see a "TEA Party" type reaction to the theft of Social Security, or the increased taxes to pay for the welfare programs ?
Did you see any one up in arms over the GCA - 68 ?
Did you see any one question the deposing of Nixon ?
How about a counter to the 20 years of leftist propaganda that followed in the media ?
They may have given Tricky Dick an overwhelming majority at the polls but otherwise they kept their mouths shut.

I was fifteen....and thinking 'bout boobies Tom!

 

I have little doubt my Dad voted for McGovern though!  Mom most certainly voted for Nixon!  They always cancelled each other out on elections.