Bunker/Nixon

A few weeks ago I posted a clip from an episode of All In The Family wherein Archie Bunker manages to insult the entire planet in the span of about five seconds. His tirade begins when Gloria and Meathead want to invite to dinner a friend of theirs who Archie suspects is a queer.

Archie meets the queer, an ascot-wearing, swooshy type dude, and all his stereotypes about homos are validated, to Archie's smug satisfaction. After dinner Archie goes to the bar to gossip to his buddies about the fairy. This is when he finds out one of the guys from the bar, a manly, football-playing model of masculinity, is gay. Per the premise of the show, Archie's mind blows up just in time for the closing credits.

Anyway, I stumbled across this recording of Richard Nixon discussing that episode with his staff. It's pretty rich. The level of paranoia is scary and hilarious at the same time. Here's a taste of Nixon talking about how all the clothes designers have gone gay:

One of the reasons that fashions have made women look so terrible is because the goddamned designers hate women. Now that's the truth. You watch.

(Hat tip: Andrew Sullivan)