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Hot_Water_Burn_Baby — 19 years ago(June 12, 2006 10:17 PM)
I believe it was mentioned straight-out in an episode that Gatling was a Democrat (although was also elected as an Independent). Given when the show began in the post-Watergate late '70s, there were very few Republican Governors at the time, and it made sense that Gatling would be a Democrat. One might say the "dead giveaway" was Gatling's attempt to hold onto power and do an end-run around the fictional state's Constitution to justify running for a 3rd term.
Interesting that it would've been truly groundbreaking tv for the 8th season if Benson had become the "first" modern-era Black Governor and would've breathed considerable new life into the show. Of course, as a political pundit, I know that the "real life" ending of the show would've had them both losing to the fella who fell off the elephant, since Benson DuBois and Gatling would've split the Dem vote. -
biglegal97 — 19 years ago(June 28, 2006 04:17 PM)
Actually, the first episode reveals that Gatling is a Democrat. When little Katie meets Benson, she says that her father is a murderer, and Benson responds "are you a republican?". This would mean that (methaphorically speaking) Gatling is a murderer in the eyes of Republicans, and thus a Democrat.
Gatling is dumped by the Democrats and runs for his second term as an Independent. In the final episode, Benson is likely the candidate for the Democratic party. -
ucladavid516 — 19 years ago(July 10, 2006 01:52 AM)
If gatling and benson are democrats or republicans, it makes that party look good and bad. It means that the party likes idiots (bad thing) but likable (good). It also means that he picked unlikeable clayton and taylor (bad). One could go on and on about this also.
You would also be offending many people if you did actually pick a party and portrayed the other side in a negative light. if you offend people, you lose views. Losing viewers equals possible cancelation. So it was a good thing that they never picked a side.
They also presented many sides of the issues positively and Gatling took many different republican and democrat positions. One example was that gatling cut the state workforce by 20% as he said he would do in a campaign promise(normally this would be a republican issue), but he showed how much he struggled with the firing of so many people and how it would affect their lives(normally a democrat issue). -
Pimperator — 17 years ago(September 08, 2008 04:24 AM)
"in one episode, he gave his $50,000 lottery winnings to charity and that right there made me lean most heavily towards him working in a democrat administration and not a republican one."
Give me a break. You have a warped view of what democrats are. Most rich jerks now vote dem. -
w22nuschler — 10 years ago(March 26, 2016 01:41 PM)
First of all, I cannot believe this is even being discussed. There has never been a show on Network Tv that would show Republicans in a good or fair light. Hollywood has been and always will be left wing liberals out to destroy conservative ideas and principles.
I had watched episodes of Barney Miller and Perker Lewis can't lose when I was young and I had remembered liking the show. I watch them now and they are some of the most offensive liberal based shows I have ever seen. I know now that if there are politics involved, they will always take the liberal side and make conservatives look like fools, or all about money, or starving the poor, or poisoning the air. I would laugh at these so called truths that liberals spout out about conservatives, but there are a lot of people that are drinking the kool-aid and believe it!
I have always felt Republicans for the most part look out for everyone, where as the dems look to pit one race against another, or one rich against poor, or they punish businesses for being sucessful. Businesses are run to make money and I guess that offends some people. I understand why they are forced to make deceisions that they do. I'm not saying there are not problems, but there are issues on both sides, for workers and the business. I make between 10 and 20 dollars an hour, so I am in now way rich or poor. I consider myself lucky to enjoy a good life up to now. My business has had plenty of problems and they have downsized a lot. I used to feel like a king with all the extra incentives we receieved. Now they are all gone. I still make a decent wage and have insurance, so I am thankful. I also work with good people.
It really urks me how other who posted on this blog, seem to believe that Dems give more to charity and care more about the poor and middle class. They have been in power more lately than Repub's and they don't care one bit. The facts are that Conservatives give more to charitiesa than Dems do, they just don't make a big deal about. It's like we live in a Bizarro world where people seem to think Dems are a better party, when in fact they are guilty of all of the things they say are the faults of Repub's.
I thought maybe Benson might be worth a watch, but after reading up on it, it looks like another left wing show from the 70's. Very sad. -
amyghost — 10 years ago(March 27, 2016 06:10 AM)
First of all, I cannot believe this is even being discussed. There has never been a show on Network Tv that would show Republicans in a good or fair light. Hollywood has been and always will be left wing liberals out to destroy conservative ideas and principles.
The Republican Party has done little enough in its history throughout the 20th century and on into the 21st to warrant its being depicted in a postive light anywherenot merely television.
And Hollywood has always cringingly followed the party line, kowtowing to whomever is in power at the moment; the 'liberal' trappings have always been purely superficial. Recollect the '80's, with Ron and Nancy, and Nancy's pet drug campaignsuddenly, the entertainment industry, which had freewheelingly followed the trends of the 60's and 70's culture got on its collective hands and knees to lick the couple's shoes ideologically, and media has obligingly followed along in the wake of the ever-increasing fetishization of the military and its culture of violence as the Republican Party has constantly clamored for same. Look at the spate of 'Biblical' and 'faith-based' films, a plethora of which have hit the screens in recent years in quantities unprecedented since the 1950's. Whose 'liberal' line is that trend following?
The rest of your post is such monumental BSparticularly that line about the Republicans' looking out for everyone'that it makes my gorge rise too much to even address it. Anyone with a whit of common sense can read it for the parrot-job it is. -
SealedCargo — 6 years ago(October 09, 2019 10:50 PM)
you actually think a black liberal would play a Republican on a TV series during a very liberal time?
wow.
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