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You might want to sit down for this, but according to a new book, Primetime Propaganda<\/em>,\u00a0due out soon<\/a>, it looks like liberals were not only producing the TV shows America has been watching for 40 years, but have been using these shows to advance their social and political agendas.\u00a0 I know.\u00a0 That\u2019s like finding out water is wet.\u00a0 That MASH<\/em> had liberal and anti-gun and anti-military agendas, that Alex Keaton on Family Ties<\/em> was the bad guy because he liked Reagan, that Rosanne<\/em> and Desperate Housewives<\/em> promoted radical feminist and gay rights agendas, that any one of a thousand shows twisted stories, hired actors, and censored ideals in order to advance a leftist agenda should be news as old as the passing of the butter churn.\u00a0 Still, it\u2019s interesting to hear them actually admit it.\u00a0 When Chevy Chase admitted that \u2013 horrors! \u2013 Saturday Night Live<\/em> was pretty much liberal and used its writing to dig at non liberals, everyone seemed as shocked as when Paul McCartney admitted he and John were mostly in it for the money (you know, imagine no possessions! he, he, he).<\/p>\n

But by now,\u00a0with DVDs of old TV shows and cable replaying old episodes, it\u2019s obvious that television fell into two categories.\u00a0 One was the obvious preaching category of Family Ties, All in the Family, MASH<\/em>, Maude<\/em>, West Wing<\/em>, and others that used the platform to stack the deck and advance obviously liberal, often secular agendas.\u00a0 The others were shows like Cheers, Frasier<\/em>, and Seinfeld<\/em> that didn\u2019t advance agendas as much as simply assumed a liberal universe sans traditional values.\u00a0 Either way, the shocking thing continues to be that with our education system, our new media, and now obviously our entertainment industry so firmly in bed with a single ideology, that there are still many Americans who reject it.\u00a0 Goes to show just who the free thinkers might actually be. <\/p>\n

By the way, kudos for the book and article for admitting what many also suspected, that ideological nepotism was par for the course, as in Dwight Schultz (of A-Team<\/em> fame) being turned down for St. Elsewhere<\/em>\u00a0because of\u00a0his support for Ronald Reagan.\u00a0 Nice to see liberals who talked the talk about tolerance, diversity, and open mindedness were so afraid to actually walk the walk.\u00a0 Makes you wonder just what other lofty beliefs they trumpeted but nonetheless had no intention of living.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"