@TG:
Once I recognized the liberal spin MASH took a giant step down on my “All Time Hits List”
Liberal spin? Please explain.
Anti-war.
Please, who isn’t until it’s the last option.
Anti-military.
Portraying everyone ranked above Hawkeye, BJ and Trapper as basically bloodthirsty, fools, idiots or insane(Col. Flagg, the insane Gen.[played by Harry Morgan pre-Col. Potter], the Korean Col.[?] just to name a few.
Of course they did personalize the idiotic, adulterous, drunken Col. Blake and the horse-loving old war-horse Col. Potter, as well as Maj. Winchester and Major Hoolihan.
Recall that MASH began it’s run in the fall of 1972 when the value of being anti-war had been pushed to the max by the liberal anti-war news media. So the CBS(?) network cashed in on it.
Lots of veterans see some value in MASH as it shows a little of the brutallity of war. But it is the human humor that I enjoy the most, not the military humor(though occassionally they get that right, too.)