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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-29-11 01:24 AM
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Sesame Street's pinko puppets brainwash our kids
Sesame Street's pinko puppets brainwash our kids
That's the claim by a right-wing author who says he's exposed a left-wing plot behind some top TV shows
By Guy Adams
Sunday, 29 May 2011

The TV series Friends undermined family values; Sesame Street taught ethnic minorities about civil disobedience; Happy Days had a subtle anti-Vietnam subtext; and the 1980s cop show MacGyver tried to persuade pistol-packing Americans that guns are bad. That, at least, is the considered opinion of Ben Shapiro, an investigative author and right-wing columnist who will publish a detailed exposé tomorrow telling how Hollywood producers, writers and actors have been secretly using TV to promote what he calls a "radical" left-leaning political agenda.

Shapiro's book, Primetime Propaganda runs to 416 pages and revolves around comments by 70-odd industry heavyweights who he approached for interviews. The book promises to "profile the biggest names in showbusiness over the past 50 years" and includes a series of "gotcha" moments, in which the architects of the best-watched TV shows of modern times tell how they tried to use the medium of broadcasting to, as Shapiro puts it, "shape America in their own leftist image".

"I was shocked by the openness of the Hollywood crowd when it came to admitting anti-conservative discrimination inside the industry," Shapiro told The Independent on Sunday. "They weren't ashamed of it. In fact, some were actually proud of it."

The book's contents will only add weight to allegations – often aired by conservative Americans – that Hollywood is the exclusive domain of leftie propagandists. Earlier this year, Republicans called for funding cuts to the public broadcaster NPR after one of its executives was secretly taped calling supporters of the Tea Party "racist".

More:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/sesame-streets-pinko-puppets-brainwash-our-kids-2290418.html
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RandomThoughts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-29-11 02:07 AM
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1. Function not data.
Edited on Sun May-29-11 02:54 AM by RandomThoughts
There is something deeper there.

If you believe society should be some way, and someone else does not. And you put that in a movie, they would call that a bias or a social agenda.

Disney took stories found the better parts of them and put them on film.

The matrix crew totally disliked the Hollywood system, probably so did Clint Eastwood, who had to make his own film Crew to make movies.

The easier way to understand it is knowing that film makers like symbols.

Watch this interview, if you been seeing my posts you might understand it. Where he talks about a director going a bit nuts on symbolism.

Kevin Smith about talk Superman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgYhLIThTvk

If Hollywood is a bunch of consolidated controls, at the top will be the nuts. But there are many people that can bring new ideas, and innovation into any sector. Only consolidations with delusions at the top might try and stop the good stuff.

Narwhalls!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykwqXuMPsoc






Here is a beautiful singer, Singing about love :) I don't see any spiders or polar bears, but lots of flying.

Sarah Mclachlan - Winter Song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuTWA6SBupY

Sarah Mclachlan - Loving You Is Easy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WUCywTTRCc

:loveya:

It really is a great song, you have to see the Love, not the nightmare. I know some don't see that, and there are lots of censors and editors that are trying to make it seem like a nightmare, when it can be about hope and love. And honestly, if songs like that, and many others weren't out there, I never would have made it through.
:loveya:





Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1414069/brothers_in_arms_dire_straits/

Bonnie Raitt - I Can't Make You Love Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW9Cu6GYqxo

Bonnie Raitt - Nick of Time
http://www.123video.nl/playvideos.asp?MovieID=407128

Nickelback - If Everyone Cared
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IUSZyjiYuY
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Diclotican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-29-11 01:27 PM
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5. RandomThoughts
RandomThoughts

Still one of the best (Dire Straits) It is a great song, with a meaning in the lyrics.. Something that I miss today in most of the music... It is maybe a reason, Dire Straits is still selling a lot of music, even tho, its longe since they was a group..

And to the claims that the "left" have been using the media for their own left-leaning things.. How silly it is.. If the left have had that power over mind, US would have been a far better nation today, WITH healt care for everyone..

Diclotican
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democracy1st Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-29-11 05:04 AM
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2. K & R thanks for the info!
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Meeker Morgan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-29-11 06:42 AM
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3. Was there ever any doubt?
:evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin:

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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-29-11 12:55 PM
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4. Some other books you'll want to read:
Howdy Doody, Leninist Sleeper Agent
Kukla, Fran, and the Sexual Revolution
Bozo's Red Wig: LSD, Evolution, and Unisex Toilets
How Mr Green Jeans gave the Communists the A-Bomb
Oscar the Grouch's Secret Plan to Destroy America by Recycling

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lame54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 07:35 AM
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9. what about Gumby's right wing dog NOpey
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nxylas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-29-11 02:14 PM
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6. And the teabaggers will lap this shit up
Anything that tells them how persecuted they are will sell in (swift)boatloads.
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starroute Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-29-11 03:45 PM
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7. Then the right shouldn't let their kids watch tv or go to movies
Problem solved.

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lame54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 07:34 AM
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8. he was caught quoting republicans calling teabaggers racists...
of course that part of the video was cut out
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