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@@a.c.6192 r/ihavereddit

@@a.c.6192 yes

Now they might be

Horacio Ortiz I was just thinking that lmao

​@@gallectee6032I will point out that it was only like two people, North and Regan, that disobeyed Congress, consisting of over 500 people. It is always nations that put too much power into too few people.

its not as much abt getting

​@@gallectee6032how much is Putin paying you?

@@hyenaloaf1858 University of Chicago

@@hyenaloaf1858 They have a lect with 29 mill views. It explained everything that then happened many years later. Should be first or second option. (First comment was supposed to be second)

Look up whitest kids you know kitty history if you wanna keep learning

its crazy how American Dad copied your video

Damn I just finished watching your video

you just realized your just made a video about the Iran-Contra Affair.

I love that you used clips from this in your Iran-Contra video you just released.

R. Reagan was the Devil!

@@aceous99 he wasn't.

@@aceous99 Reagan was a hero

@@aceous99 that was kenyan marxist

@@mfsalatino how?

Well, at least it wasn't...light...treason.

Yeah but technically doesn't count, which is why he got off like a rich white dude in a Saigon cat house

But the best kind of treason. Not high technically

But it was totally justified.

Wonder what low treason would be.

Corey O'Bryan not anymore....😒

Corey O'Bryan Iran did a great move against the US, Fuck the US Government

Comrade_ Savage15 You are now being monitored by the United States Government. Every website you visit, every text, phone call, voicemail, every sound within a 30 foot radius of your phone's microphone, and everything within the lens of your phone's camera is being recorded at all times.

ZeranZeran The United States can't monitor foreign enemy territories, they try and Russia will DDOS half of Servers in United States Government facilities

Comrade_ Savage15 You're a cute kid. If I were you, I would start destroying any hard drives, sd cards, phones, RAM, anything that holds memory. You have a few weeks max.

Don't forget about the great abundance of cartoon slapstick and metaphors. I remember how Looney Tunesesc The Shot Heard Around the World was.

It looks like it was ripped straight out of the interjections song

Oliver North did nothing wrong.

I would love to see him do a parody of schoolhouse rock

@@gamer10137 I know I was meaning a full tv show

0:44 was the Schoolhouse Rockiest of them all’

Nope

I thought the same thing about the School House Rock part, when I first saw this.

Well Rocky 4 was American propaganda lol

@@Pandora234able Was it? Do you recall what Rocky says to the audience when the match ends?

same here it help really set the scene well

@@Pandora234able no it wasn't lmao

@@Pandora234able propaganda is outrageous Apollo died and it was a dramatic boxing film about both sides going vs each other for brownie points wolf warrior or something crazy about a nation only would be propaganda meanwhile rocky 4 was about avenging a dead friend and being forced into the sole role of reping a whole country.

Honestly about sums up late 1900’s politics as a whole.

America backed the Sandanistas until January 1981.

Most logical Cold War proxy war

@@ticklemedaddy Romania was always trying to snuggle up to the Americans and Canada is about as communist as you get in the West.

An under 2 minute funny cartoon song doesn't give a deep look into the Iran-Contra scandal as well as their governments and war crimes. On a more surprising note, it rained today in London, England.

Well obviously political but fair enough.

​@@johnnotrealname8168no shit, it's a political controversy

@@bigfloppa9594 Sure but a political cartoon? If to show the aftermath then fine but this only shows one side.

@@johnnotrealname8168 it shows the correct side lol

@@bigfloppa9594 Yeah if you listen only to the media.

Like President like Colonel

Alzheimer's. Sure, let's go with that.

@Shawn Dominique ... Yes. That would be the joke.

Never underestimate the sheer shamefulness and two-faced boldness of people of power and privilege. They WILL lie to your face because they know they can get away with this

Or he realizes the problems that stemmed from their actions and regrets it

Wow, I just learned while being entertained!

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not... but in case you're serious, you actually can! Obviously American Dad is supposed to be funny and entertaining, so sometimes it glamuorizes events in ways which are.. well, very controversial. But Seth MacFarlane is brilliant at covering actual historical events within the episodes of American Dad or Family Guy. Either that or covering current events in such a manner that it highlights real problems within the world today. Try "The Best Christmas Story Never Told"... it covers John Hinkley's shooting of Ronald Reagan and James Brady, and changes within the country which stemmed from that. One of my favourite episodes ever! There's also the song "You've Got a Lot to See" from Family Guy episode "Brian Wallows and Peter's Swallows"... it actually covers about 3 decades worth of highlights within the social and economical hierarchy and the changes throughout the years because of those significant events... sung by Brian to a woman who has been a shut in for about 30 years, and hasn't experienced these things because of being a shut in! :)

Couldn't agree more! He and his shows get shit on a lot by people, I suppose a lot of it is just the inevitable "Okay, this thing was popular and beloved for a while, now we've got to turn on it and label it 'passe' and move on to whatever the new thing is" cycle that the majority goes through, for whatever reason. But I love the way he (and the writers...American Dad in particular has very little to do with Macfarlane himself at this point, other than that he does the voices)manage to slip in so many references, whether flippant pop cultural ones or actual relevant social ones, all while being funny, and in 23-minute episodes. Still 2 of my favorite shows of all time (cartoon or live-action), and some of the only ones I'll consistently DVR to watch before I go to bed, and etc. Can't wait for the new season of AD to start, crossing my fingers it won't get canceled (again...)

Funny you say that, because his shows usually are at their best when isn't involved in the writing process.

111 111 Do you have any specific examples (in your opinion)?? I agree that a lot of the heavy lifting and ingenious stuff is done by a whole team that doesn't get enough credit, but I wouldn't go as far as to say he SHOULD be cut out. But maybe I just don't know

Fucking genius!

... until now I always thought he said **heartless** country

Yes sir

You know something? He DID say "well" a lot!

I know! It sounds just like him!

yup, that's why i'm here

Nick930 he’s not even allowed to conceal carry anymore is he? That seems kinda ironic

Beat me to it

But he was "acquitted" he is capable to carry.

mo. ack he doesn't want to carry weapons, he wants to sell them to Iran again

I actually agree... I dont mean this ironically but i actually learned more about this whole incident in this clip than i ever did anywhere else... It was both Catchy and factual..And a bit humorous too "You see North secretly sold missiles to a harmless country called "Iran" that would always be a grateful ally"

So all of this is true?

@@leonturner2598 yes Ollie North took the fall for this and ultimately escaped prison time

I was reading One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb when it got to a section going into detail about this and I remembered this American Dad clip. It succinctly nails what went down.

​@@kurtpunchesthings2411 the guy who took a hit for Reagan thus setting him up for life among the republicans since a lot of Republicans worship Reagan.

Most of us in the United States didn't learn about Iran-Contra in school, either. I guess the schools considered Iran-Contra to be too recent to cover in history class. Maybe by 2040 it'll be long ago enough for schools to care.

"...[Iran,] who would always be a grateful ally."

So every arms deal we have ever done with the Saudis is just as questionable.

@@kordellswoffer1520 No one reasonable is denying that

@@kordellswoffer1520 yup. Yes it is

@@mleonee so should obama be impeached and should anyone who supported thus bill and passed this bill also be punished.

I dont think were still pals with iran tho

@@thatguyoverthere8441 america never was thats part of the reason why it was so controversial

@@1313tennisman Hey! We were friends with the dictator we installed until Iranians overthrew him

@@1313tennisman we were before the Ayatollah came to power.

This happened wtf are you on about.

Wow, that’s cool

It does an excellent job encapsulating the situation for young learners, which is why it’s not just good entertainment but educational.

Kiwi here, my uni lecturer even used it!

Same

Good

There was, it was called Schoolhouse Rock, which I think was what the song was also parodying.

@@UnchainedEruption School house rock teaches math and proper sentence structure not corruption

If you want another video like this someone made a school house rock parody of the JFK assassination

... and punish those corrupt government people? (Well no because that's too hard)

Yes!! Haha (super unpopular opinion I know-- but I kind of sorta LOATHE Family Guy and most of McFarlane's "our only source of providing humour is RANDOMNESS AND FARTS!" shows and movies) yet this was AMAZING and I absolutely loved it. Fuck Ollie!!!! Fuck all those insane extreme right wing narcissist, sociopath NUTS.

@@DarleyHavidsun You should try Dexter's lab, Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken (where he wrote and directed some episodes) and Cosmos

@@Doctorkilledbydeath OMG he wrote and directed some those classic toons??! My mind has fully combusted. That is amazing wooooowwww. The man was ALWAYS there, throughout my entire childhood and I didn't even know it!! Ok I'm liking Seth more and more now.

Lusty Argonian Maid lol commie

@@DarleyHavidsun You sound like a Schizo, calm down.

Amen to that!!

If that's true, then you're fairly ignorant! For one thing, this song isn't entirely accurate... it's a whimsical representation loosely based on historical facts. Although it does have its purpose in giving one a GENERAL overview of the concept of the cold war and what happened between Nicaragua and the US, plus the ensuing scandals - and it's certainly intriguing - one would definitely benefit from doing their own research using actual reliable sources of material! Another important thing to remember is that the character of Stan is a right wing extremist, as was President Reagan. So he always glamorizes everything that Reagan and other right-wing extremists do or say, but it's a bias perspective! Of course, the same would be true if the character were a hard-core liberal, and constantly praised Obama whilst trashing Reagan, Bush and the rest, as that's how bias works! Actually, as Hailey is a hard-core liberal, any episode which features her voicing of her opinion always includes the portrayal of any action or speech of a right-wing politician in a negative light. The gun control episode in season 2, for example... she refers to Stan and the CIA as "right-wing lunatics!' Not really a very nice or neutral thing to say! So at least we know that the bias in the show itself goes both ways, lol. But the cartoon mainly centres around Stan's bias, so we are shown bias in favour of the actions and speeches of the right-wing extremists. So I'd honestly suggest it would benefit you to not claim that 'most' people only know anything about Oliver North through a whimsical portrayal in a 90 second song with a major bias and featured in a cartoon! 'Most' people probably wouldn't appreciate being portrayed in such a ridiculous manner! At least use this as a jumping off point to do some proper research, if your history classes don't cover this, or you haven't gotten to that class yet. I'm sure that's what 'most' people do, lol. I myself have been intrigued by political or historical events portrayed in this cartoon and gone and done more research. I don't live in America, so not all of the the political events are taught in non-American schools (although the significant historical ones are). Major props must be given to Seth and all the writers and other creative consultants for their genius in being able to take off where real life ends, and actually discuss very controversial subjects in a way which doesn't really come across as insulting, even though they're kind of making fun of serious things at times. Family Guy does it too, but I think I enjoy American Dad just a bit more because of the character being a very politically minded character, so hence the show actually teaches you a few things that you can go away and research if you're interested! Peter Griffin doesn't really know anything about anything, honestly! He's literally nothing but a comic relief character! :p

history = his story, the political machine is geared to give you a micro revolution every 4-8 years that accomplish's nothing... you know, not enough to water to tree of liberty but just enough keep it alive so you think your still free.....

dmf1301 Shut your Liberal ass up Reagan is one of the best presidents ever sure better than Obama.

Not a liberal supporter. Never have been. Although they did finally push the SSM referendum through Parliament, so they get one point for that! :p

Yea

it's a schoolhouse rock parody, both in art direction but also song and storytelling design

agreed!!!!

Yes

It’d be funny to see it’s take on the Vietnam War, and the other Cold War/Post-Cold War conflicts.

It’s biased and misleading

By the way, he also ran for the United States Senate from Virginia in 1994. And he almost won.

Soldier? As in the Army? He was a marine...

Richard a marine is a soldier to

@@mattyboy3576 soldiers are members of the army, marines are members of the marine corps

North wasn't a soldier, he was a marine. You don't call marines "soldiers".

Much like with Bethesda I feel like Seth missed a good opportunity by not making college level educational cartoons. School house rock for college students.

He literally was all over the news, r u Amish

​@@BaseballPlayer0 Doesn't it occur to you that they could be either not American or too young to remember

@@willch.2259 no excuse

​@@BaseballPlayer0 actually that is a good excuse, sorry this person doesn't know everyone you know

that...that's the whole point. the entire thing is designed to parody a schoolhouse rock episode

PinMike8666 yes

His now the leader of the N.R.A

@@LazyPirate8 not anymore

Me

You don't even love cartoon Drago.

+bananaduck27 He looks like Roger Ramjet :P

I love Stan all the time.

Hate to be that guy but School House Rock came out in like the 60’s

because what we will do without the americans, have free elections? xdxd

Makes a nice change from all super left-wing leaning colleges

It's not our job, it's our duty. The problem is we do a terrible job of it. This song being an example.

@@SuperKiao Well, in the sense of hearing idiocy of a right wing flavor instead of left, but okay...

@@mattsodano6264 No offense as a non-american but if your elected officials can pull stuff like this, the war on drugs, or the patriot act and get away with it then maybe you should try and sort out your own democracy before messing with anybody else's turf. Like the problem with Iran-Contra wasn't only the fact that they were funding terrorists, it was the fact that it was actively treasonous to the very country that elected them but they ended up getting off scot-free for something that an average citizen would probably have been executed for. "Rules for thee but not for me."

So...in your logic...¿ Star wars plagiarized every dramatic novel with scenes like "He was his brother" or "The murderer of my friends was my own father"

You're right, I don't doubt it, but putting references is not bad, even if they are a bit meticulous (I don't blame the person who teaches and doesn't see American Dad), it's like looking at an old chapter of the Simpsons, even if you're a person With a lot of culture, it is impossible to understand absolutely all the references, since they can go from referring to a film of the 50s, to another one of a book or a painting.

Kyle Starr taking inspiration from a generic sentence without any real relevant content isn’t plagiarism.

Did you properly quote and cite that?

Well that's due to the officer Robert McFarlane

@@noobguy57 Yeah, I know. Just thought it was an interesting coincidence.

@@JamVar Got to love it when reality throws in it's own easter eggs like that

Technically aiding enemy is totally justified if you are POTUS or dear friend of POTUS 😂

@@peter.p. They also trafficked cocaine into the US which was insane given the MASSIVE push for mandatory minimums on drug related crimes like say trafficking cocaine into the country....

Agreed. If I need a quick giggle I watch this

And (relatively) historically accurate.

It’s a good spoof of schoolhouse rock

David Cohen I gotta admit, the irony is freaking hilarious.

lol i kinda like him tbh

I'll pick him over Wayne LaPierre but still Oliver North is a tool. Literally and metaphorically a tool.

I need a hot secretary with a shredder. I'll take a regular secretary with a shredder. I just need someone to operate the shredder while I am being indicted for high treason and/or war crimes.

Was her name Fawn Hill??

Same

Oh yeah it gets even better (worse) basically the US used everything they had in their toolbox to try and halt the Soviets at every turn such as: The US hired former Nazhi scientists such as Klaus Barbie to help with their aeronautical and rocketry engineering

@@rejvaik00 yeah America was really desperate lol but to be fair wasn’t the Soviet Union also desperate I don’t really know much about their perspective on the Cold War or what they’ve done, regardless the 1980 miracle on ice is what took it home 😂

@@oogalaboogala8408 oh yes the USSR was definitely just as desperate, they likewise tried everything within their power to ensure a communist victory Like when they rolled over protestors with tanks in Prague

@@rejvaik00 wow I never knew about that, sounds just like Tiananman square. Crazy that we’re never taught a whole lot about the Cold War in school especially since it was not long ago and people can still feel the affects of it today

@@rejvaik00 One correction, the stuff about Nazi scientists being recruited by the Allies is true. Even the Soviets did it. However, Klaus Barbie was not a scientist, you may be confusing him with Werner Von Braun. Barbie was involved in the political repression that permeated South America for much of the 60s and 80s.

I know magic right.

Still good.

☢ KAZUHIRA EVAN ☮ Add ten to that, imagine how I feel.

Wow, I was 24 back then... Jeez

The "increasingly rapid time" thing is universal, but I feel like starting around 2000, it's become even more heightened in the cultural sense, in the sense that the decades are no longer cleanly broken up into periods anymore. By as early as '94, you can see movies etc where they refer to "The Eighties", and what that whole decade was about style-wise, music wise, how different it is ideologically from "The Nineties". But even now, 6 years into the next decade...what the hell was 2000-2010 about?? What do we even call it?? What are the laughable, now-outdated styles?? It's all a fucking hodgepodge

Ryan Taylor also don't forget they were fighting a regime that murdered 20 million men, women, and children in the Siberian Gulags and 60 million men, women, and children in China during Mao's "great leap forward"

@@gandhithegreat328 I'm pretty sure the Sandinistras didn't kill 20 million people in Siberia or china.

Jackluck2 No but Communism did and had Communism been allowed to take over Nicaragua it would have ended up like Cuba. Instead it's been a Democracy thanks to Reagan

Sammuel Parris and Oliver north

@@gandhithegreat328 pretty sure Cuba has better HDI than Nicaragua so...

lol

I believe the implication was that the details of the Ollie North story (that should've been a bigger controversy), which are more or less laid out fact-by-fact in the song itself, were remembered by his brother because of it, so he could use that historical info on the exam. However, bonus points should be granted if he included Roger and Klaus in the description lol

bill bixby Insightful

Is your brother a little slow?

You mean grade 11

The USSR had minimal involvement in Nicaragua, but they always use such propaganda to fervor blind patriotism (the exact same thing is done to China now). So that they can do anything with the publics' support. In reality it was the Nicaraguans themselves who rose up to slightly change their economic system to improve their living standards, like the US and other western powers themselves have done during the FDR/New Dealers era and their equivalents. But the so called democratic free world cannot permit such things to others, particularly their colonies, so they labeled the Sandanistas communist Marxist terrorists and funded the fascist forces in Nicaragua (the Contras) to militarily defeat these reforms and to terrorize the public, destroy infrastructure, and all the rest. Edgar Chamorro was a leader of the Contras and became a dissident because the Contras had no vision for the country, when he asked his soldiers why they fought for the Contras, they'd always reply that it was because they were getting paid. The Sandanistas were the complete opposite (even though they won, going against these powers you can never win long term. They always destroy these countries in the end). A lot of people are unaware of the fascist dictatorships that were couped and instated by western powers all over the world, from Latin America to the Middle East. And still so to this day. Ukraine being one of the most recent examples (Maidan Revolution in 2014). It was an internationally engineered coup leading to a war by and for western elite interests (e.g. taking Russia's energy market share in Europe, providing a stimulus to US weapons manufacturers, throwing Ukrainian bodies at reducing Russia's influence, and etc). The Central Intelligence Agency is probably the most evil terrorist organization that there is and ever will be.

@@gallectee6032what does this have to do with American Dad being Seth McFarlands best show?

@@Tacotime478 Because they're saying this is an example of why it's one of the best Seth's shows, even though in this part they're propagandaizing the public...? I'm not saying it's intentional, as that was the narrative painted by the state and media. But that's still what it is. Imagine painting forces that terrorized a public as the good guys. The United States funded those terrorists and forced the Nicaraguan public to fight for better living standards. Which even though they won, were then sanctioned out of the global economy to make sure they wouldn't achieve them anyway (and they didn't - the benefits were short lasting). This is pure evil. If Seth criticized such acts rather than paint Congress as the problem (who blocked funding these terrorists), I would have nothing to say.

@@gallectee6032 American Dad really is an ironic show. He doesn't glamourize the USA with it, and the main character really is satire.

@@gallectee6032 because all says here is 100% wrong. All “socialism reform” is funded by ussr and use terrriosm force to undergo dictatorship reform.

I wonder where they found that...

TheFiresloth kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h8B5hZCWv8rad58.html

Oshabot 16 Guess who doesn’t really give a shit what you think? That’s right, it’s me.

Bentley_Brant this isnt something to learn dude :¥

Marco Rodigues explain why not

Bentley_Brant Left or right?

Legend27 left

your parents are morons, I bet they watched "FRIENDS" and stupid shit like that

nope, other 49% was random history songs on the internet, and 1% was his entire education in history from all his teachers.

sounds like easy tests.

The other half is form "little Hitler" form robot chicken

I highly doubt Iran Contra is more than a footnote in any US history course.......

How much time did you spend studying Ollie North?

I just know that in another life he was a Broadway star.

he actually makes music as well

+SgtBaker16 Or he isn't a revisionist.

What he did was wrong but did your teacher teach you about all of the socialist dictators throughout the world including Saddam Hussein and the Baath party?

@@drumyogi9281 Saddam Hussein? Is this the former ally of the United States and who banned the Communist Party in his country?

@@impervas5801 That was pretty funny

@@adrianccone NPC with no valid Argument

duh! exclamations

okay

William Hartnell You are my favorite doctor.

The schoolhouse rock video about interjections.

Aren't you special!

Meat firework 😢

Talking about narcos?

@@powderedphantom5765 No; it’s a recent Netflix doc; Crack.

@@TonyDSaint k

And Reagan is the major reason why the crack epidemic of the '80s was as bad as it was.

Yup. It was more a boat full of dinosaurs load. Or rather just literally entire literal military planes

Neos4500 nah it was solid snake!

Neos4500 war.....has changed....

Hoang Vo War. War never changes.

XD

Mark Maxim the enclave can change that

They definitely weren’t.

me too

@@Derekivery omg you replied..

@@Derekivery 12 years now

@@Derekivery dog I'm watching in 2024 and will be recommending this video for at least the next 50 years

Plus, George Sr. was Vice President at the time.

Isaac Mounce calm down we all have a right to have an opinion, him and I choose something different than you, is that so bad

Adam Sarris I believe he is

Some reason he looked like Rumsfeld to me.

Reagan most likely had no idea this happened, he signed off on the Boland agreement and likely knew how fucked the contra were. My guess is that north was to blame.

So they pretty much admit Fawn Hall, the old ass secretary who's still alive by the way who destroyed the evidence against Oliver North, is guilty of destruction of evidence. However, Oliver North is also guilty of high treason because of the MacFarlane affair caused by selling weapons to Iranians.

beside the fact that iran killed us soldiers before this

Literally. People forget, the tensions in the 80s and 90s was mostly a civil war in Russia with itself. They were fine with us. Hell Ole KC! Loved us so much he put a Pizza Hut in Moscow!

Yep. Remember when you played a Communist War Hero in WAW, planting the red banner on the reichstag? Now its just "commies bad". Meanwhile, games that kill nazis are getting less and less. We need more nazi killing.

@@kurtberliner7049 Honestly, I prefer playing games as both sides of the story. Knowing war, the Wermacht soldiers, some of them did it for the love of their country or defence of their families. Even the Japanese did the same. Such as Okinawa for instance, civillian suicide bombers because of Japanese Propaganda protraying the Americans as devils. Which fueled by undiciplined Marines did war crimes. But war is war. Both sides had this. But then again... KILL THEM NAZIS! WHOOOOOOOOOOOO

@Brady Fries Come on comrade you don't mean that. I mean no one so fragile about their own skin color, would openly oust themselves as someone that would rather kill communists than nazis. That'd be embarrassing.

Fun fact Oliver North was a military consultant for Black Ops II. He also makes a cameo and is voiced by himself.

unlike the US iran not invaded anybody in last decades.

Obama's buddies.

@@viraloracle5151 the w bush administration did nothing but help iran. They got rid of saddam hussein and the talibans. They both hated iran and now these countries are pro iran

Imagine being this stupid?

@@viraloracle5151 not Because they dont want to.

We have not been on speaking terms with Iran since 1979

Just look at all key word ALL of 2019 alone In May they attack an oil tanker in the gulf June they shoot down a US drone July they seize a British oil tanker September they attack Saudi state run oil co. December they attack US military bases in Iraq, and storm US embassy in Iraq.

Seymour Lewis And then we filled their military leader with shrapnel.

@@Krosstic that boi was vaporized.

The US supported the Shah of Iran, and tried to overturn a democratically elected president with a coup in 1953.

Luis X epic

Genius!

xXSilentAgent47Xx found ya again

Yeeee...

What was THAT?

I think you missed the point about the treason

@@gorginhansona little treason never hurt anyone

What American hero hasn’t committed treason? High Treason especially!

@@gorginhansonOliver North was a hero!

That's Seth trying to do a Kronk impression

Now they gotta update it to "And now he's the president of the NRA!"

Yeah it's called schoolhouse rock