With regard to Archie Bunker, the lead character of the American television show "All In The Family", wasn't that character and that show based on the British television show

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TILL DEATH US DO PART

In the 1960s, an MP told the House of Commons that the only sensible political debate in this country was taking place on Till Death Us Do Part. First screened in 1965, the sitcom landed like a meteor on the BBC's cosy TV schedule. It was trouncing Coronation Street by its second series, pulling in almost 20 million viewers.

Its star character was Alf Garnett, the brash, working class reactionary, described by one TV critic as "everything most hateful about our national character - xenophobic, illiberal, racist, anti-Semitic, toadying, authoritarian".

Writer Johnny Speight had meant it as a satire, but millions failed to spot the irony, preferring instead to see Garnett as a champion of the downtrodden, white, working man. Both sides saw the clear message that Britain was struggling to come to terms with immigration."

Number 2 in the BBC's list of "10 key moments in UK race relations".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1517672.stm


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Perhaps "Till Death Us Do Part" and "All In The Family" are still considered seminal because they portrayed what some racists are like "xenophobic, illiberal, racist, anti-Semitic, toadying, authoritarian", but also family loving, and nice to those who meettheir rigid standards-sometimes even including a few minority persons who they view as an exception to the rule" (like Archie Bunker came to feel about George Jefferson and his wife "Weezi").

I think that may account for the "appeal" that Glenn Beck has for some people-but certainly not for me.

And that's what makes the Glenn Becks of the world so dangerous.