Liberal Propaganda

We were watching Wife Swap tonight. Usually, the show gives us a lot of entertainment. Tonight, it gave me some food for thought. In case you've never watched the show, they take the moms from two very different families and have them swap lives for two weeks. The first week, the moms have to follow the "house rules" of the family who lives in the house and the second week, they get to change the rules and try to give the family a different perspective.

Tonight's show pitted a very liberal, pacifist mom against a former military, pro-Bush family. As I watched, I found it interesting the differences in the way they were portrayed. The liberal family was shown as being a little "cuckoo" with an out of control anarchist son. The more conservative family was shown as hard-working, God-Fearing, and patriotic.

I found it very interesting that the military mom made the liberals get rid of all their peace signs and even their gay acceptance flag. When she heard it was for gay acceptance, she said "Well, that has to go then." What in the world is that? Of course, as she pulled it down, she said she wasn't homophobic. Whatever. The voiceover even talked about how she was having them get rid of their liberal propaganda. A peace sign is "liberal propaganda?" The spin permeates everything, I suppose.

Liberal Mom didn't make them pack up their W mugs. Liberal Mom just took away the toy guns and weapons. Then Liberal Mom let the kids PLAY. Play was something that wasn't allowed in the house before. They were always cleaning. Interesting that the conservative dad seemed to like what she brought to them.

I'm still thinking about the "liberal propaganda." It bugs me. Yes, it bugs me a great deal. At least the angry son did get in that the 9/11 hijackers were not from Iraq. He was mean and angry, but perhaps someone heard.