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JoanofArgh

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Tue Oct 18, 2022, 06:56 PM Oct 2022

Norman Lear turned 100 years old recently and is tweeting [View all]

Producer of All in the Family, Good Times, One Day At A Time, The Jeffersons, Spinal Tap, Stand By Me, Princess Bride - Author of Even This I Get to Experience


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Norman Lear
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I was 9 years old when my dad was found to have committed fraud & was sent to prison for a few years. Alone in bed one night, my father away, I was playing with a crystal set radio and came across the vicious antisemitic voice of Father Coughlin railing against American Jews. 1/3

I’m confident that that horrifying moment resulted in my early enlistment in WWII and the 52 combat missions over Nazi Germany that followed. 2/3


Norman Lear
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Today, having recently turned 100, I read Donald Trump’s appalling words about American Jews, and I am nine years old again. The phrase, a horse’s ass, was an everyday expression when I was nine and it occurs to me again now. 3/3
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Of course he must have heard that horrendous "Father" Coughlin. He's seen & heard a lot of good hlthe2b Oct 2022 #1
I can't imagine hearing that stuff at the age of 9. yellowdogintexas Oct 2022 #13
I will check it out. Thanks. Rachel Maddows ULTRA podcast is touching on all this as well hlthe2b Oct 2022 #15
I was going to recommend that podcast too Sanity Claws Oct 2022 #23
This message was self-deleted by its author yellowdogintexas Oct 2022 #26
I started watching Ultra last night. Eagerly awaiting the yellowdogintexas Oct 2022 #30
Excellent book. cbabe Oct 2022 #19
aha! someone else who has read it! nt yellowdogintexas Oct 2022 #28
Just downloaded this. Thanks for posting. JoanofArgh Oct 2022 #29
I remember Rev Carl Mcintire SCantiGOP Oct 2022 #17
Norman Lear has done so much to fight hatred Marthe48 Oct 2022 #2
All in the Family was a monumental accomplishment Mysterian Oct 2022 #18
I recently had a discussion with someone about All in the Family. Jedi Guy Oct 2022 #21
Maude was a spinoff LisaM Oct 2022 #24
Good on Norman Lear!💙🕯🕊🌈 nt Cha Oct 2022 #3
An American treasure! mcar Oct 2022 #4
He certainly is. We need more just like him nt yellowdogintexas Oct 2022 #14
K&R MustLoveBeagles Oct 2022 #5
He also runs a very good organization started in 1981: People for the American Way blogslug Oct 2022 #6
K&R Solly Mack Oct 2022 #7
IIRC, when he turned 90, someone brought up the poem Edward Lear wrote soldierant Oct 2022 #8
back to page 1 Behind the Aegis Oct 2022 #9
K&R, uponit7771 Oct 2022 #10
Norman Lear did so much good with the character of Archie Bunker nightwing1240 Oct 2022 #11
Compare Lear's work with the crap that was on tv at the time. He did good. Hermit-The-Prog Oct 2022 #25
Too bad we can't go on bombing raids over Mar-a-Lago. 70sEraVet Oct 2022 #12
Indeed! calimary Oct 2022 #20
As disgusting as it is I think the Orange monkey sent that tweet out because K West Heather MC Oct 2022 #16
I was 5 and I remember hearings by the house on burrowowl Oct 2022 #22
Same here with Army-McCarthy hearings (I was 8) yellowdogintexas Oct 2022 #27
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