Oh, man, do I remember this guy! His name was George Putnam and he was a well-known fixture on Los Angeles television. I remember watching him as a newsreader in the 60s and 70s on a few independent TV stations:
In the mid-1960s, Putnam moved to KTLA Channel 5, although he returned to KTTV after about two years and then moved back to KTLA in the early 1970s. Brief stints at KHJ Channel 9 and KCOP Channel 13 followed, including co-hosting “Both Sides Now,” a short-lived talk show with comedian Mort Sahl.
Despite his public hard-line stance on many things, resulting in some people thinking he was a Republican, he was nothing of the kind. He said once:
“I detest labels,” he said. “I’ve been called many things in my career: right-wing extremist, super-patriot, goose-stepping nationalist, jingoistic SOB. And those are some of the nice things! But those people have never bothered to determine my background: Farmer-Labor Party, Socialist Party, lifelong member of the NAACP, member of the Urban League. I went through the Depression, and my father was reduced to selling peanuts door-to-door. Then, because of that, I fell in love with Franklin D. Roosevelt. I’ve been a lifelong Democrat. I’m a conservative Democrat.”
That all may be true, but it's his public persona that people remember, and that's what's important.
And he was correct. It has completely destroyed marriage it has completely destroyed procreation. Most of the people that were alive and having families then have very few children and demographically are being genocided and a lot of it has to do with these crazy morals where people are just f****** like crazy without marriage and children.
Try to imagine if you can a world where people actually believed you should not have sex before marriage and most women didn't and neither did most men. Is unbelievable as that sounds today that's actually the way it was until about the mid 60s.
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Despite his public hard-line stance on many things, resulting in some people thinking he was a Republican, he was nothing of the kind. He said once:
That all may be true, but it's his public persona that people remember, and that's what's important.
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Try to imagine if you can a world where people actually believed you should not have sex before marriage and most women didn't and neither did most men. Is unbelievable as that sounds today that's actually the way it was until about the mid 60s.
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