Trump way out of line with Rob Reiner comments
The grisly murders last week of Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele, allegedly at the hands of their deranged son, moved me to go back and watch two of my favorite “All in the Family” episodes. They are both from Season 2. In the first one, “Edith Writes a Song,” a pair of thieves, Demond Wilson (“Sanford and Son”) and Cleavon Little (“Blazing Saddles”), break into the Bunker home and discover that the homeowner has some racist tendencies. “Look what we done found here,” the Cleavon Little character says. “A genuine,100 percent, died-in-the-wool bigot. Come on, say something bigotty.” “I ain’t no bigot,” the host, Archie Bunker, responds. “I’m the first one to say that it ain’t your fault youse are colored.” The second episode, “Sammy’s Visit,” features the legendary Sammy Davis Jr., who leaves his briefcase in a cab Archie was driving. When he comes to the Bunker home to retrieve it, he makes the same discovery, even as Archie’s Black neighbor, Lionel, comes to his defense. “He’d never burn a cross on your lawn,” Lionel s
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