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3:50 pm - 01/21/2013

Downton Abbey "Poses A Threat To The Left" Because It Portrays Nice Rich People, So Says Fox News



The popularity of Downton Abbey in America is a threat to progressives because it celebrates rich people, according to FOX & Friends:

“Rich people, powerful people, in America today, are reviled,” Varney said. “They’re dismissed as fat cats who don’t pay their fair share.” The general consensus is that “rich people are evil.”

Then comes along Downton Abbey… making rich people seem nice. The characters in the show are kind and generous. “They create jobs, for heaven’s sake. They’re classy, they’ve got style.”

“It poses a threat to the left, doesn’t it?” he asked. Because the left says we must hate rich people.

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suzycat 21st-Jan-2013 10:05 pm (UTC)
What Faux fails to realise, not being English, is that Downton is set at a time of massive social change, where the world of the British elite was unravelled and irrevocably altered by WWI, and it was all middle class and blah by the end of WWII. IF the series continues, they'll have no staff and have sold the country house by the end of it. I saw Upstairs, Downstairs. GHOD.
freeze_i_say 22nd-Jan-2013 07:23 am (UTC)
ia but the series hasn't gotten up to WWII yet, it's still set in the 20s although it is reflecting the change you mention. If and when they go into WWII, I'm more than certain it will conveniently *forget* to mention all the aristos who thought Hitler was brilliant.

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/126784/Hitler-s-aristocratic-admirers
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