“WHEN YOU’VE LOST NORMAN LEAR, IS THERE ANYTHING LEFT TO SAY?” Lear was America’s premier SJW in the first half of the 1970s, in that far more than any other producer at CBS during that period, his comedies pushed forced leftwing agitprop over laughs. As a result, of all of the sitcoms to air on CBS in the early 1970s after the “great rural purge,” his series stand up today the least. In contrast, M*A*S*H, Mary Tyler Moore and (arguably) Bob Newhart all leaned to varying degrees to the left, but all (including M*A*S*H during the earlier funnier days when Larry Gelbart was its showrunner) emphasized comedy first, before any social messages. Today, as with fellow leftist Jonathan Chait’s blue on blue cri de coeur earlier this year, and Jerry Seinfeld’s similar rebuttal, Lear is simply angry that the SJWs have begun pounding on his doors, rather than, like Lear in the 1970s, exclusively aiming their attacks on the right.