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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNot-So-Breitbart smears Norman Lear, gets PWNED by him.
That last line is a gem.
Breitbart Smears Norman Lear
Breitbart is trying to get over the embarrassment of attacking the wrong person that Obama picked to be the new AG, so what do they do? They smear Norman Lear.
Leave it to Breitbart.com to lie about a 92-year-old icon and to do it so pathetically. Well, that's the conservarazzi in a nutshell. Here's their headline about an interview Norman did on MSNBC:
NORMAN LEAR: ARCHIE BUNKER WAS NOT RACIST HATER LIKE TEA PARTY
On MSNBCs The Cycle, television writer and producer Norman Lear, who created the iconic 70s TV sitcoms, All in the Family, The Jeffersons, One Day at a Time and Maude, said his legendary conservative, blue-collar character Archie Bunker would have denied Tea Party because he was not a hater.
Lear, 92, famed creator of "All in the Family," appeared on MSNBC's "The Cycle" Monday to talk about his new memoir, Even This I Get To Experience, and reflected on how society and families have changed since the sitcom's heyday in the 1970s. When asked what the show's fictional lead character Archie Bunker would have thought of the Tea Party today, Lear said he would have "denied" it, because he didn't hate others, he was just afraid of change.
"He would have founded the Coffee Party," Lear quipped. "He was not a hater. And that was the secret of Archie Bunker, he was not a hater." Lear added that Archie Bunker was more afraid of "progress" than "bigotry."
When asked why he thought Breitbart would run such a headline, Lear answered: "The site is known as Breitbart, not Breitsmart."
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/11/breitbart-smears-norman-lear
Cha
(297,318 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)but, then turned off by them in the end.
niyad
(113,344 posts)noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)who was a miserable misogynist...until his three daughters grew up. then he changed his tune. some people actually do evolve and change for the better.
niyad
(113,344 posts)demwing
(16,916 posts)I guess I don't see the problem with the statement. It's not a direct quote, but so what if it were? Norman Lear doesn't need to clarify a damn thing.