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Showing Original Post only (View all)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
Im 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 Trumps appalling words about American Jews, and I am nine years old again. The phrase, a horses 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 will check it out. Thanks. Rachel Maddows ULTRA podcast is touching on all this as well
hlthe2b
Oct 2022
#15
He also runs a very good organization started in 1981: People for the American Way
blogslug
Oct 2022
#6
Compare Lear's work with the crap that was on tv at the time. He did good.
Hermit-The-Prog
Oct 2022
#25
As disgusting as it is I think the Orange monkey sent that tweet out because K West
Heather MC
Oct 2022
#16