Cal Thomas: Norman Lear and me
by Cal Thomas, Tribune Content Agency
Dec 12, 2023
2 minutes
Television producer Norman Lear, who died last week at age 101, probably could not get away today with what he put on the small screen in the ’70s with his iconic sitcoms“All in the Family” and “The Jeffersons.” As Mel Brooks did in his movies“The Producers” and“Blazing Saddles,” L ear undermined the power of bigotry with humor.
Lear also had a political side. It was politics that brought us
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