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SleeplessinSoCal

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30. Heck! So was The Andy Griffith Show "woke", before woke was cool.

Fri Jan 31, 2025, 10:00 PM

Jan 31

I've been watching it on Me TV and lessons that the right used to believe in are now considered Woke. Just a real slap in the face of Americana.

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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