# Most right and left wing TV shows? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 5, 2009, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-right-and-left-wing-tv-shows/505476 "2009-08-05T22:18:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-right-and-left-wing-tv-shows/505476/101 "2009-08-17T02:56:23Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > You forgot about the black people in the parking lot with their bongos though. Those were the Mexicans. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-right-and-left-wing-tv-shows/505476/102 "2009-08-17T03:07:27Z")
> [@Stan\_Shmenge](#): > > Apparently Family Guy is going to take a turn to the right. Brian is slated to have a political conversion and become a Limbaugh fan in the upcoming season. Well, even if one of the characters becomes right wing, that doesn’t mean the show will be. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-right-and-left-wing-tv-shows/505476/103 "2009-08-17T03:17:34Z")
[QUOTE=Max the Immortal] Was M_A_S\*H really super-left? Anti-war, definitely, but it wasn’t consistently left-leaning. For one thing, the army administration was portrayed as a gigantic, comically inefficent government bureaucracy, and never in a positive way. Smart protagonists constantly found ways to accomplish their goals despite the government making it nearly impossible. Most of the draftee doctors lamented having to work for the government, rather than being free to run a lucrative private practice; in one episode Hawkeye even (facetiously) tried to bill the government for what he calculated his services were really worth. That strikes me as more libertarian than anything. While Burns was a knee-jerk, better-dead-than-red conservative and almost always an unsympathetic character, Winchester was altogether different. An old money type of fiscal conservative, he was generally shown to be intelligent, sophisticated, and highly competent. While often stingy when it came to sharing the luxuries his family sent him, he always chipped in when they twisted his arm, and practiced charity for its own sake rather than to look good in front of his colleagues. Houlihan’s politics were probably more right than left, and I reckon that she’s the most-developed character in the entire series, and was always portrayed sympathetically once Burns left. [/QUOTE] Nuance is always liberal. ---
**Author:** ![LonghornDave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a87d85/32.png) [@LonghornDave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonghornDave)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-right-and-left-wing-tv-shows/505476/104 "2009-08-17T16:00:14Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > I have known a few Boomhauer types in my time. The character is probably based on a real person or an amalgam of real people in Texas and the South in general. They do exist I assure you except the speech pattern may be a little exaggerated for a few of them. I loved his description of the web back in the 90’s. I know some people in far east Texas that talk almost exactly like Boomhauer. I’ve never seen that type of speech pattern from central Texas though, which is where the town of Arlen supposedly is located. ---
**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-right-and-left-wing-tv-shows/505476/105 "2009-08-17T21:37:35Z")
> [@](#): > > Another show built upon conservative ideology, even if it wasn’t explicit, would have to be _Dallas_. The endless pursuit of money and oil, at whatever cost. The endless pursuit of money and oil, huh? I think you have a pretty simplistic outlook on the world. Think Tim Geithner, Tom Daschle, Charlie Rangel, _liberals, all_. Oops those guys weren’t greedy, they made just made “mistakes”. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-right-and-left-wing-tv-shows/505476/106 "2009-08-17T23:54:24Z")
> [@Fleetwood](#): > > The endless pursuit of money and oil, huh? I think you have a pretty simplistic outlook on the world. Think Tim Geithner, Tom Daschle, Charlie Rangel, _liberals, all_. Oops those guys weren’t greedy, they made just made “mistakes”. Maybe they just weren’t very GOOD at being Liberals? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-right-and-left-wing-tv-shows/505476/107 "2009-08-18T17:25:03Z")
> [@LonghornDave](#): > > I know some people in far east Texas that talk almost exactly like Boomhauer. I’ve never seen that type of speech pattern from central Texas though, which is where the town of Arlen supposedly is located. You are probably right about that. I grew up right on the Louisiana/East Texas border and I knew a few of them. I could have legitimately claimed that I was bilingual growing up because I could understand what they were talking about but it is much harder now since I moved far away. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-right-and-left-wing-tv-shows/505476.md?page=5)