1970 - According to FBI correspondence, the Carol Burnett Show was "contributing to the breakdown in this nation's respect for law and order..."
1973 - The Carol Burnett Show was targeted by a religious lobby called Stop Immorality on TV.
Stop Immorality on TV wasn't successful in their efforts to have the Carol Burnett Show canceled, but they succeeded in mobilizing a lunatic fringe to writer letters to the editor.
One viewer called the Carol Burnett Show "positively disgusting" to old and young alike.
1968 - When the Carol Burnett Show first premiered it was accused of being "vulgar, nasty" and "practically nude..."
1976 - The Carol Burnett Show was accused of being "in bad taste and very unfunny."
1973 - One letter writer wondered when the networks would "pull such trash" from the air.
1970 - J. Edgar Hoover appreciated those who wrote to him to complain about the Carol Burnett Show.
1969 - CBS censored Carol Burnett's appearance on the Merv Griffin Show because she made an appeal for World Peace on behalf of MLK's widow.
1970 - The FBI opened a file on George Carlin after his first appearance on the Carol Burnett Show.
1972 - While the FBI observed the Carol Burnett Show for subversive activity, and the Stop Immorality on TV campaign condemned the show as a "moral cesspool," Burnett was busy covering the songbook of Carole King:
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The campaign for a national healthcare system was opposed by the Canadian business community for decades. Before the system was implemented in 1966, they cranked out all kinds of propaganda, claiming universal healthcare would lead to Soviet rule.
1965 - Among the most strenuously opposed was the notoriously anti-Semitic Social Credit Party. Public opinion was against them.
1965 - Nine months before the universal healthcare system came to be, comedian Dave Broadfoot joked, “It’s going to be very exciting if ... we have socialism in Canada. It’s going to be very exciting watching the U.S. marines arrive.”
Bernard Herrmann. Nino Rota. Ennio Morricone. The only Mount Rushmore worth a dang.:
Bernard Herrmann was a legend in his own right, but even he was influenced by the great Morriconne. This soundtrack was an Ennio Morriconne rip-off, plain and simple: