This video is simple sweet nostalgia for me! I grew up watching the Andy Griffith Show, an innocent and sweet black and white (double meaning I was of course unaware of at the time) show about simple times, and apparently devoid of the undercurrent of racism and the raging debate of Vietnam occurring in our country at the time ... or so it seemed.
The morality plays within most of the episodes often, at least, subtly touched on the issues of the day and all the while simultaneously and deftly, taught tolerance, and held up to, albeit good natured, ridicule the intolerance and destructive division occurring in our country at the time. In a way that only sweet southern gentility could have pulled off. Floyd the Barber would approve this message.
For me personally, The Andy Griffith Show was a serendipitous coincidence and weird connection to Hollywood because it's make-believe town of Mayberry, North Carolina was modeled after my father's birth place of Mount Airy, a little hamlet near Pilot Mountain, and the town of the same name but referred to as, for probably legal reasons as Mt. Pilot in the show.
As we know, little Opie, played by Ron Howard, grew up on television to become Richie Cunningham on Happy Days, and then on to a fine and lauded career as a award winning director and producer. Andy Griffith, who taught English at my hometown's Goldsboro High School has had such a long and wonderful career as a comedic and serious actor, but perhaps is most famously known as Matlock, as the show is a running joke on The Simpsons. Weird, but interesting how random it is that some of our celebrity icons achieve the odd trifecta of such comedic, karmic, and pop culture relevance.
You are so right Steve. It is all the whites against Obama. Oh wait...maybe not. Nice 'B' carved into a McCain supporter's face.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/23/mccain.sticker/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
Way to keep reinforcing the stereotype you are resembling more and more. I'll buy you dinner if that story turns out to be true as I first heard about it on the Hugh Hewitt show... a really neutral source. PS I'm not saying the story is BS, though the B being backwards as if done in a mirror reminds me of another story... oh, Mort Downey the loud mouth TV show host that scrawled a swatztika in his own face for media attention.
ReplyDeleteLOL! I knew it, don't owe you dinner, even Michelle "Muslim/Black-Hatin'" Malkin is suspicious!
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And who the hell would sit still enough for someone to "carve" a perfectly formed, yet backwards "B" on their face? I'll donate $50 to the McCain Campaign (and post the verification on my blog) if this young woman's story turns out to be true.
ReplyDeleteWell I will apologize to you now. You know I used to think I was insensitive, but you are taking the cake. I remember being held at gunpoint before and I did not move an inch. I was too damn scared. So your logic about sitting 'still' enough was not valid.
ReplyDeleteBeing held and gunpoint, and someone actively cutting your face, are too completely different things. You generally do what you're told "usually hands up, don't move, give me your wallet," or some such... but if someone is cutting your face, I doubt you'd be lying perfectly still while they were doing so. And don't give me this projection crap about me being insensitive. Puhlease!
ReplyDeleteSeriously though, I've fallen for hoaxes when they seem to confirm my beliefs, that's natural, so don't feel bad. It improves your BS detector bit by little bit.