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    Re: Dan Rather is a Useful Idiot Extraordinare —Larry Pieniazek
   (...) My biggest beef with MASH is that it was rather blatant in its bias, and worse, it was good enough that it made Alan Alda and Mike Farrell (useful idiots both) and other fellow travelers shedfuls of cash. But it's a pretty funny show (...) (21 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Dan Rather is a Useful Idiot Extraordinare —David Koudys
     (...) The MASH movie, as intended by the director, wasn't suppose to mention that it took place in Korea at all to 'blur' the line between thinking it was about Korea or about Vietnam. Another interesting tid-bit about the movie was that there was (...) (21 years ago, 1-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Dan Rather is a Useful Idiot Extraordinare —Dave Schuler
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes: **snip of some stuff, including a good reminder about North Korea*** (...) It should be remembered that one can (or can prefer to) watch a program without swallowing its "message" hook, line, and (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Dan Rather is a Useful Idiot Extraordinare —David Koudys
     In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes: <snip> (...) Or when Harry Morgan was cast as a 'crazy general guy' and, like 4 episodes later-ish, he was the commanding officer of the 4077th. Think anyone would notice that? There was a website I (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
    
         Re: Dan Rather is a Useful Idiot Extraordinare —Maggie Cambron
     (...) Well then they must have said something about Hawkeye making some remark about credit cards-- which I don't believe were around during the Korean war. Maggie C. (21 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
    
         Re: Dan Rather is a Useful Idiot Extraordinare —Dave Schuler
     (...) Ugly John also played Captain Muldoon, in a later-series one-shot in which the doctors had to run Rosie's Bar while she recovered from cracked ribs. They played Revolving Asians, too. Mako portrayed three different roles that I can think of, (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
    
         MASH Goofs--Re: Dan Rather is a Useful Idiot Extraordinare —David Koudys
     In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes: <snip> (...) Here's a site that I came across when this topic came up (URL) has a good list of goofs--I think the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com) probably has another such list. Regardless of (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Dan Rather is a Useful Idiot Extraordinare —Larry Pieniazek
   (...) It would also be a mistake to think that they weren't at least unconsciously influenced by it... (21 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Dan Rather is a Useful Idiot Extraordinare —Dave Schuler
   (...) Perhaps it's a case of the program showing what the viewers wanted to see, so that the program was in turn influenced by the viewership? This is obviously similar to The West Wing. I haven't seen even one second of that show, but does it (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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