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22. More power to MG, and to Michael Landon.

Fri Jan 31, 2025, 09:14 PM

Jan 31

The video I'm linking to below is to YouTuber Steve Shives, whose content is mostly Star Trek-related stuff but is also but is also unabashedly anti-RW, an atheist recalling Michael Landon's first after-LHOTP show, "Highway to Heaven". And how it was "woke as hell" in comparison to RW religious exhortations of its time, much less the even more RW exhortations of time since.

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Meygn Kelly fears Woke Little House on the Prairie Reboot. Melissa Gilbert Replies [View all] Norbert Jan 31 OP

I think Kelly was referring to the cast. They only want to see straight, white people on their televisions. LonePirate Jan 31 #1

Ummm, I remember seeing people of color and disabled people haele Jan 31 #6

Good luck because many of those shows featured black people Dem4life1234 Feb 1 #40

I agree with you. I also think those of us on the left still underestimate how much white supremacy drives Republicans. LonePirate Feb 1 #43

We are truly in the idiocracy phase in the USA............... Lovie777 Jan 31 #2

Obviously Meygn never watched the original. Srkdqltr Jan 31 #3

Michael Landon was amazing thinkingagain Jan 31 #4

Have you seen the episode Mosby Jan 31 #9

Wisdom of Solomon & the boxer thinkingagain Jan 31 #10

An eye opener back then. Thanks for posting. oasis Feb 1 #37

See #22 below for a goddam celebration from an atheist to Highway to Heaven. JHB Jan 31 #24

Well, I'll be...I thought Megyn Kelly was still in storage with the rest of the mannequins. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Jan 31 #5

It's her turn to get to spend a month with actual human beings. Prof. Toru Tanaka Jan 31 #14

LOL! She's as much an attention seeker as her hero. Nt spooky3 Jan 31 #25

Megyn plays the role of the ultimate mean leftyladyfrommo Jan 31 #7

I so want to call her that "word". johnnyfins Jan 31 #13

She can play grown up Nellie Oleson!! catchnrelease Jan 31 #17

Megyn wants to see them slaughter natives and lynch black folks. Midnight Writer Jan 31 #8

Her, Laura Ingraham, MTG and Boebert should go shoot some puppies or something. They are all sick fucks. n/t Evolve Dammit Jan 31 #11

Megyn Kelly must not have watched that wildly anachronistic show LisaM Jan 31 #12

Aw Megyn. boonecreek Jan 31 #15

Fighting "Woke" sustains them Dorian Gray Jan 31 #16

They are like parrots finding whatever term and repeating it Dem4life1234 Feb 1 #41

So did Bonanza and High Chaparral and all those Figarosmom Jan 31 #18

You would be amazed just how 'woke' the old westerns were. Norbert Jan 31 #19

Yep Figarosmom Jan 31 #20

Grandpa Walton-Will Geer VGNonly Feb 1 #42

If reactionaries knew what "woke" really means... William Seger Jan 31 #21

More power to MG, and to Michael Landon. JHB Jan 31 #22

That was very good and interesting thinkingagain Jan 31 #31

Landon died in 1991, when Newt Gingrich was still a bombastic back-bencher... JHB Feb 1 #35

Megyn and her ilk long for an America that never existed. Crowman2009 Jan 31 #23

She probably never even watched it. madaboutharry Jan 31 #26

Tel me you've never seen Little House without telling me you've never seen Little House. Iggo Jan 31 #27

Megyn 'plasticface' Kelly can eat a bag ofdicks. NoMoreRepugs Jan 31 #28

The entire western tv show canon is about how social justice requires warriors. Simeon Salus Jan 31 #29

Heck! So was The Andy Griffith Show "woke", before woke was cool. SleeplessinSoCal Jan 31 #30

Lol this! Dem4life1234 Feb 1 #39

K&R UTUSN Feb 1 #32

K&R spanone Feb 1 #33

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Isn't Meygn the same moron that lost her shit over a black mall Santa? Hitorque Feb 1 #36

Bravo Melissa Gilbert and.... oasis Feb 1 #38