A friend just emailed me a link to a George F. Will column, in the Washington Post, which includes this amusing description of the new animated half-hour show “The Goode Family,” now airing on American network television, of all places:
Gerald and Helen Goode, their children and dog Che (when supervised, he is a vegan; when unsupervised, squirrels disappear) live in a college town, where T-shirts and other media instruct (‘Meat is murder’), admonish (‘Don’t kill wood’) and exhort (‘Support our troops . . . and their opponents’). The college, where Gerald works, gives students tenure. And when Gerald says his department needs money to raise the percentage of minority employees, his boss cheerily replies, ‘Or we could just fire three white guys. Everybody wins!’ Helen shops at the One Earth store, where community shaming enforces social responsibility: ‘Attention One Earth shoppers, the driver of the SUV is in aisle four. He’s wearing the baseball cap.’
Ah hoo ha ha ha…
The New York Times television critic disapproves. The show ‘feels aggressively off-kilter with the current mood, as if it had been incubated in the early to mid-’90s, when it was possible to find global-warming skeptics among even the reasonable and informed.’ That is a perfect (because perfectly complacent) sample of the grating smugness of the planet-savers, delivered by an entertainment writer: Reasonable dissent is impossible…
Less impossible now, apparently, even in the most public sphere. And that’s a good thing.
The end is near when they start mocking your ideas in cartoon form.
The global warming emperor is so naked.
Butt ugly naked.
When I saw the add for this on TV I was momentarily perplexed. It looked like a spoof (and it is) but I never thought the leftards who control the media/TV/Movie bus would let this air. That and leftard watermelon-envirowennies are hard to spoof as they are stranger than fiction (if you’ll forgive the mixed metaphor.)
The bubble truly has burst if this makes prime time.
Don’t count on the AGW Bogey Man going down easily.
Just look at our government leaders, ready to bow down and worship Baal at any given moment. Good lord, what are they thinking?
The next generation coming up will be to the Obamanics what mine was to the hippies. Sick of all of their crap and looking for something else.
Here’s a quote from the NYT:
“Who really thinks of wind power — an allusion to which is a running visual gag in the show — as mindless, left-wing nonsense anymore?”
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I know, I know, pick me, pick me, pick me! Or pick Scientific American…
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-renewable-energy-and-storage
“King of the Hill” is much better.
Its by the same people who do/did ‘King of the Hill’ Its a mirror image by the sounds of it – spearing the left. I saw the first episode and was prepared to be unimpressed – but it was actually funny. I don’t know if it’ll have legs tho. They have an adopted african child, ‘Ubuntu’ – the kid turns out to be a blonde afrikaner lol
Apparently the NYT has missed the ‘year of no summer’ that Accuweather is now touting.
via Drudge
http://www.accuweather.com/mt-news-blogs.asp?blog=meteomadness&partner=netweather&pgUrl=/mtweb/content/meteomadness/archives/2009/06/from_mark_vogan.asp
Five years from now when we are in the middle of a mini ice age the msm will blame the global warming hype on right wingers like Bush and Harper who were in power at the time. Their own cheer leading roll will be forgotten just as it was for slavery, Hitler, Communism, Y2K, etc.
We will be in the middle of a mini-ice-age in five years?
Mocking the shit out of absurdity is not only honorable but necessary. In this day and age the medium is animation and the message is that stupidity reigns.
Marshal McLuhan would be proud.
Syncro
An entertainment editor?????
Oh yeah riiiiggghht…..Suzuki is an environmental expert too…..
HeH HeH…..I bet the whachos are mad enough to spit…..or to kill (as if that was new)……..
Absolutely, syncrodox.
“The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by precedent, by implication, by erosion, by default, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other — until the day when they are suddenly declared to be the country’s official ideology.”
— Ayn Rand
EDB
As Tim from Vermont noted the next generation will swing the pendulum.
I work on the road with a crew of late teens and early twenties consisting of sons, nephews and pseudo adopted maratimers . These kids perform as a crew at a professional level well beyond their years but after work they indulge in video games and animation…South Park…Family Guy….Simpsons…King of the Hill…..
The interesting part is that they remember episodes word for word and display an understanding of the social/political implications of specific bits of smarm.
The spin doctors are being outmaneuvered by the cartoonists.
That seems appropriate.
EDB
As Tim from Vermont noted the next generation will swing the pendulum.
I work on the road with a crew of late teens and early twenties consisting of sons, nephews and pseudo adopted maratimers . These kids perform as a crew at a professional level well beyond their years but after work they indulge in video games and animation…South Park…Family Guy….Simpsons…King of the Hill…..
The interesting part is that they remember episodes word for word and display an understanding of the social/political implications of specific bits of smarm.
The spin doctors are being outmaneuvered by the cartoonists.
That seems appropriate.
Syncro
ooops
Syncro
Friday evenings @ 8:30 on ABC and CityTv.
The Phantom comments upon this here:
http://phantomsoapbox.blogspot.com/2009/05/sometimes-i-hate-being-right-but-not.html
I’ve said it many times now. Global warming is -over- as a political cause for the professional Lefties, just like gun control died with Algore.
No doubt it will take a while for it to penetrate with Iggy and Smilin’ Jack. They’re not too quick, I’ve noticed.
And yet, in today’s Edmonton Journal, Graham Thompson is back after a year’s sabbatical totally convinced that climate change is real. And he’ll spend the next bunch of columns selling it to us.
Sorry no link… actually no apologies, as who’d want that link?
A perfect guest character for The Goode Family would be Chris Walker, a woman I heard on CKNW here in Vancouver today. Apparently she’s from Toronto so perhaps those of you in Ontario have heard of her before.
What a nut! Paraphrasing, she said this at one point: “We’ve already made people feel guilty about recycling containers and other household products. Now we need to find all kinds of other things to make them feel guilty about.”
I was driving at the time and almost crashed the car. Is this REALLY where we’ve come to in our evolution … errr “devolution”? I’d like to think not but who knows.
One thing that has not really overtly been talked about is that this current mild recession is a TINY example of what environmentalists would ideally like to see our society and economy recede by. For if they got their way, the economic devastation would be MUCH WORSE!
Robert I don’t know how you do it,
I can’t stand ‘NW except for Adler and the money talks guy.
Bill Goode could be a guest.
why else is political satire banned in totalitarian states?
because it is the very thin edge of the wedge. the effect resides in that area, the inner mind, that the bosses in the capital can’t readily examine.
gawd help us when there are no more of the edgy stinging editorial cartoonists at work in the main stream. and I dont mean doonsebury or dilbert.
Oh, I cannot wait for three or four years down the road(or whenever it is) when the inevitable backlash against a current president starts to seep in and we see more shows like this, taking shots at a sitting administration, the left’s heads will explode trying to defend gov’t policies.
Robert W – it is that bad
Let’s hope that Alberta can maintain a semblance of sanity for the next twenty years
Wanna move here??
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PS – Bernie – money talks guy is the brother of the premier of BC!!
Here is a nice video from “money talks”
Hope is shows OK
My hero – Milton Friedman – a guy who died too soon – and mentored Thomas Sowell.
What a great thing to watch!!
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Yeah … remember when the Flintstones was really EDGY ?
I read about the Goode family in the NatPost last week. In one episode Mrs Goode accidentally purchases a roll of 2-ply toilet paper and upon realization thereof, promptly spends an hour separating it! 🙂
Don’t move to alberta yet, wait until we somehow manage to shed our closet liberal premier.