A Daily Beast contributor feels all disillusioned with his childhood heroes. His list includes Pee Wee Herman, Hulk Hogan and Bill Cosby.
His conclusion- “You can’t believe in anything, folks.”
I suspect he’s projecting his disenchantment with the Obama Era onto the Reagan Era.
The idiot qualifies as an “ultramaroon”.
I would think a lefty would be proud of those people.
Criminals, sexual deviants and whatever a hulk hogan is. Never heard of him.
There’s only one thing for him to do – – commit suicide.
Compare and contrast the conservative’s hero from the 1980’s.
Pee Wee Herman? lol! The Left’s idea of a hero. haa ha aha!
Hey, just because there was a white privileged president Reagan, and there was yet to be the Kardashians, Lena Dunham, or Caitlyn, and MTV only had music videos because enlightening shows, such as White People, wouldn’t grace the airwaves until much later, even sans Obama, the 80’s weren’t so bad.
Kids today, tomorrow’s problem, yay Jeb! He will save us.
Jeb Bush, you’re our only hope!
FWIW A rare c130 just flew over the house when I hit send on that post.
My personal heroes of the ’80s?
Intellectual hero: Murray N. Rothbard
Adventurous heroes: Ben Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson, Larry Newman
Y’all ought to know Rothbard, but the adventure trio flew the Double Eagle II from Maine to France in 1978, the first trans-Atlantic balloon flight.
I watched Pee-Wee’s Playhouse back then and laughed, but my recollection of why is pretty hazy. I may have been somewhat, um, medicated.
Nice treat, old_oaks!
Heh! Saying Jeb is our only hope is like saying thrashing around like crazy in the water is your only hope when you’re surrounded by hungry sharks.
I will never understand the burning need leftys have to deify people they admire.
“Bill Cosby did this, Hulk Hogan said that…so now my entire childhood is shattered, I can’t believe in anything anymore, and there is no God.”
Hey asshole…Cosby, Hogan, and everyone else you mentioned? They are merely human. Stupid, shallow, imperfect humans who, in addition to all the great things they did to make you admire them, are also capable of doing stupid, shallow, imperfect human things.
Get the fuck over yourself, and stop building shrines to people. It’s fucking embarrassing.
No need to deify (no one qualifies, after all), but finding admirable qualities in others who can then be role models can be a good thing. Sometimes an individual with ability has trouble finding the right way to use it.
Just wait a little bit, you’ll see. Yes, I love areoplanes, I’m like Forest Gump. Run quick, run, what the heck was that!
I’m still brokenhearted about what happened to Colonel Hogan
let alone the Hulkster
Didn’t PeeWee have a hot blonde on the show? That must have been it.
Of course!
Miss Yvonne!
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Yup. Didn’t work. Miss Yvonne was played by Lynne Marie Stewart.
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