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Was the A-Team a Right Wing Show

Started by Savonarola, June 29, 2009, 01:14:14 PM

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Was the A-Team a Right Wing Show?

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CountDeMoney

#30
June 30, 2009, 04:06:00 AM
It was a stupid, stupid show.  All that wasted munitions, and not a single person ever died.  Golden Girls had a bigger body count.
And I rooted for the evil Colonel looking for them, because he was vested with the power of the government.

Fuck the A-Team.

Jaron

#31
June 30, 2009, 04:08:14 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 30, 2009, 04:06:00 AM
It was a stupid, stupid show.  All that wasted munitions, and not a single person ever died.  Golden Girls had a bigger body count.
And I rooted for the evil Colonel looking for them, because he was vested with the power of the government.

Fuck the A-Team.

:blink:
Winner of THE grumbler point.

Viking

#32
June 30, 2009, 04:16:40 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 30, 2009, 04:06:00 AM
It was a stupid, stupid show.  All that wasted munitions, and not a single person ever died.  Golden Girls had a bigger body count.
And I rooted for the evil Colonel looking for them, because he was vested with the power of the government.

Fuck the A-Team.

lots of people died, they just were all shot off camera... and in the opening sequence.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

CountDeMoney

#33
June 30, 2009, 04:17:46 AM
Quote from: Jaron on June 30, 2009, 04:08:14 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 30, 2009, 04:06:00 AM
It was a stupid, stupid show.  All that wasted munitions, and not a single person ever died.  Golden Girls had a bigger body count.
And I rooted for the evil Colonel looking for them, because he was vested with the power of the government.

Fuck the A-Team.

:blink:

FUCK THE A-TEAM.

Warspite

#34
June 30, 2009, 06:11:05 AM
I can't remember the A-Team having a coherent political agenda.
" SIR – I must commend you on some of your recent obituaries. I was delighted to read of the deaths of Foday Sankoh (August 9th), and Uday and Qusay Hussein (July 26th). Do you take requests? "

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Viking

#35
June 30, 2009, 06:30:07 AM
Quote from: Warspite on June 30, 2009, 06:11:05 AM
I can't remember the A-Team having a coherent political agenda.

They didn't. But they were pro-military and pro-guns. So they must be right wing.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Savonarola

#36
June 30, 2009, 06:30:22 AM
Quote from: Warspite on June 30, 2009, 06:11:05 AM
I can't remember the A-Team having a coherent political agenda.

That never stopped anyone from being right wing; Mussolini didn'thave a coherent political agenda.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Caliga

#37
June 30, 2009, 06:40:16 AM
Quote from: Savonarola on June 30, 2009, 06:30:22 AMThat never stopped anyone from being right wing; Mussolini didn'thave a coherent political agenda.
Sure he did: rebuild the Roman Empire.  Not that it was even remotely realistic, but it had coherence in at least that respect.
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Savonarola

#38
June 30, 2009, 07:08:22 AM
Quote from: Viking on June 30, 2009, 06:30:07 AM
Quote from: Warspite on June 30, 2009, 06:11:05 AM
I can't remember the A-Team having a coherent political agenda.

They didn't. But they were pro-military and pro-guns. So they must be right wing.

They weren't pro-military, though, the army is their principle (if incompetent) antagonist throughout the show.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Warspite

#39
June 30, 2009, 07:28:35 AM
Quote from: Savonarola on June 30, 2009, 07:08:22 AM
Quote from: Viking on June 30, 2009, 06:30:07 AM
Quote from: Warspite on June 30, 2009, 06:11:05 AM
I can't remember the A-Team having a coherent political agenda.

They didn't. But they were pro-military and pro-guns. So they must be right wing.

They weren't pro-military, though, the army is their principle (if incompetent) antagonist throughout the show.

And they were pro-guns in the same way a carpenter is pro-saws.
" SIR – I must commend you on some of your recent obituaries. I was delighted to read of the deaths of Foday Sankoh (August 9th), and Uday and Qusay Hussein (July 26th). Do you take requests? "

OVO JE SRBIJA
BUDALO, OVO JE POSTA

Valmy

#40
June 30, 2009, 07:34:58 AM
Quote from: Palisadoes on June 29, 2009, 05:46:35 PM
I don't think it was right-wing at all, really. It was quite 'anti-authoritarian', and so I wouldn't say it was right-wing, since the right-wing is *usually* associated with being pro-authority.

Not in the United States it isn't.  Authoritarianism is embraced or opposed in the US by both the Right and the Left.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

charliebear

#41
June 30, 2009, 08:40:10 AM
Things were different in the 1970's:  sex was clean and the air was dirty.  Most large business were greedy and not very honorable.   The A Team set things right.  I don't believe they were right wing at all.

BuddhaRhubarb

#42
June 30, 2009, 03:49:03 PM
Quote from: citizen k on June 29, 2009, 02:11:48 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on June 29, 2009, 02:05:37 PM
The show almost always depicted corporations as evil; I'd have a hard time seeing it as libertarian.  Though maybe it was libertarian-socialist.
Maybe libertarian-anarchist. Kinda like Chaotic Good.  ;)

:yes: This is what'd I'd say based on my hazy memory of that show. do gooders, but fuckups at the rest of life, the whole bunch.
:p

Hansmeister

#43
June 30, 2009, 04:05:55 PM
Well, the actors who played Murdock and Face are very conservative.  The actor who played Hannibal was very liberal.  Mr. T is, well, Mr. T.

I Killed Kenny

#44
June 30, 2009, 04:11:14 PM
ahum?
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