{"id":1406589,"date":"2022-03-29T07:46:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T11:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1406589"},"modified":"2022-03-29T07:46:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T11:46:59","slug":"tom-tradup-im-glad-walt-disney-didnt-live-to-see-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tom-tradup-im-glad-walt-disney-didnt-live-to-see-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Tradup: I\u2019m Glad Walt Disney Didn\u2019t Live To See This"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftom-tradup-im-glad-walt-disney-didnt-live-to-see-this%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1406589&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<aside id=\"aside1\" class=\"left aside-wrapper aside-wrapper-950\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Like most Baby Boomers, I grew up happily fixated on the spellbinding showman Walt Disney from the time I could crawl.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I loved Mickey Mouse cartoons whenever I\u2019d be planted in front of our black-and-white Zenith television. A few years later, I would laugh and sing along as a member of the Mickey Mouse Club\u2026feeling like Jimmy Dodd and Annette Funicello really were my personal friends because of the ingenious way Walt Disney penetrated theso-called \u201cfourth wall,\u201d a performance <a data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dramatic_convention&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1648481576785000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0wGG3TnB540r--rH6ciyQe\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dramatic_convention\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Dramatic convention\" rel=\"noopener\">convention<\/a> in which an invisible, imagined wall separates actors from the audience.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As I entered my pre-teen years, Disney television shows still had their clutches in me\u2026as Guy Williams raced across the TV screen cloaked in a black cape and mask as \u201cZorro.\u201d (Naturally, my #1 Christmas present one year was an official Zorro sword which had an attachment on the end where you\u2019d affix a stick of chalk so you could scrawl \u201cZ\u201d on your sidewalks.)<\/p>\n<p>Most Americans shared my fascination with Walt Disney as the 1960s unfolded (launch of Disneyland in Anaheim, California) through the 1970s (Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida) and countless quality, family-friendly theatrical films including classics like \u201cBambi,\u201d \u201cMary Poppins,\u201d \u201cCinderella\u201d and \u201c101 Dalmations.\u201d \u00a0In an ever-changing world filled with Civil Rights demonstrations, the Vietnam war, political upheavals in both parties and the arrival of the \u201chippie\u201d drug culture,<\/p>\n<p>the one constant parents and kids could always count on was that the Disney brand would always be safe for the whole family.<\/p>\n<p>But cracks began to appear in the Disney veneer when eagle-eyed parents viewing 1989\u2019s \u201cThe Little Mermaid\u201d observed the brief appearance of the word \u201cSEX\u201d in a sandbank under the sea. Naturally, they were mocked as \u201cuptight conservatives\u201d who were \u201cobsessed\u201d over imagery\u2026but nobody ever ferreted out the animation perverts who included that in a kid\u2019s movie. A few years later\u2014in 1994\u2019s \u201cThe Lion King\u201d\u2014the character Simba swipes the dust with his paw, and again\u2026the word \u201cSEX\u201d clearly appears in the nighttime sky. (The lame explanation this time was that the animation actually said \u201cSFX\u201d as a subliminal message honoring Disney\u2019s Special Effects department. )<\/p>\n<p>But proving the old adage \u201cYou can\u2019t be a little bit pregnant,\u201d the floodgates continued to open: Disney-owned mass media outlets (including \u00a0ABC television and ESPN) increasingly loaded up their programming with anti-conservative jibes, including non-stop Trump-bashing from late-night \u201ccomedian\u201d Jimmy Kimmel. Programs like \u201cModern Family\u201d and others not only included\u2014but celebrated weekly\u2014gay and LGBTQ characters. Recently ESPN commentators literally gushed over the \u201cWomen&#8217;s Sports\u201d victories of biological male Lia Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>Disney-owned ABC News is ground zero for anti-Trump \u201creporting\u201d featuring such left-leaning \u201cjournalists\u201d as Jonathan Karl, Martha Raddatz, David Muir and others whose political opinions honeycomb their alleged news updates. But the real capper is former Clinton White House stooge George Stephanopoulos\u2026who reinvented himself as a \u201cnewsman\u201d who now hosts both \u201cGood Morning America\u201d and Sunday\u2019s \u201cThis Week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However as Ronald Reagan would declare, you ain\u2019t seen nothin\u2019 yet: workers at Disney\u2019s 3-D animation division Pixar recently walked off their jobs because a same-sex kiss in the upcoming animated film LIGHTYEAR had been edited out of the movie. \u00a0Instead of giving the workers 24 hours to come back and quit whining, Disney CEO Bob Chapek caved and the same-sex kiss will be restored before LIGHTYEAR is released to theaters. According to industry publication The Hollywood Reporter, one of the key activists within Disney\u2019s ranks is Dana Terrace, who in an un-Disney-like statement, said \u201cI\u2019m f**king<\/p>\n<p>tired of making Disney look good.\u201d \u00a0Nice, especially since she\u2019s the creator of the animated Disney Channel series \u201cThe Owl House\u201d which features multiple LGBTQ characters. Hardly a hostile work environment.<\/p>\n<p>Meantime, Chapek has now inserted The Disney Corporation into the Florida \u201cParental Rights in Education Bill\u201d controversy\u2026which the Left has misnamed the \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay\u201d Bill. This ginned-up tempers to the boiling point so that when my wife Lori and my son Ethan recently ordered an Uber ride from the annual CPAC convention in Orlando\u2026their driver (who identified himself as a public school history teacher!) flew into an irrational verbal tirade against Donald Trump and conservatives, and at one point threatened to pull over on the highway and end their journey right then and there. And THIS guy is a HISTORY TEACHER.<\/p>\n<p>Where will it all end? \u00a0Not in the foreseeable future. LA Magazine reports the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences is about to role out new \u201cwoke\u201d guidelines for future Oscar submissions. \u201cHere\u2019s how it works: Starting in 2024, producers will be required to submit a summation of the race, gender, sexual orientation, and disability status of members of their movie\u2019s cast and crew. If a particular movie does not have enough people of color or disabled people or gays or lesbians working on the set\u2014and what is \u201cenough\u201d will be determined by a knotty tangle of byzantine formularies\u2014then that movie will no longer be eligible for an Oscar.\u201d Nutty? You bet. Happening? Unfortunately.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings us back to today\u2019s Disney reality. From a myopic \u201cwoke\u201d CEO down to politically-engaged \u201ccast members,\u201d Disney World\u2014once the \u201cHappiest Place On Earth\u201d and a dream vacation for parents and kids alike\u2014now is a bloated, unmanageable theme park with little or no \u201cmagic\u201d left\u2026unless your idea of magic is standing in line for up to two hours for a ride on the Rockin\u2019 Roller Coaster or the Hollywood Tower of Terror..only to find they are \u201ctemporarily\u201d out of service about the time it is your turn. \u00a0The tab for lunch or dinner for a family of four at any sit-down restaurant will rival your most recent tab at Ruth\u2019s Chris Steakhouse or The Palm. \u00a0Reserving rooms for your family to Disney\u2019s Polynesian Resort will set you back a cool $800 a night. And on and on.<\/p>\n<p>Disney World\u2014once every American family\u2019s dream\u2014has long ago vanished. (I know, I know\u2026write the White House and Joe Biden will tell you the wildly-bloated, \u201csliding scale\u201d ticket prices are Vladimir Putin\u2019s fault.)<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: \u00a0A combination of corporate greed and spineless capitulation to idiotic leftist whining (like demanding Disney remove pirates chasing women from its classic Pirates of the Caribbean ride because the tableau allegedly \u201cencouraged rape\u201d) has devolved Disney World from a fun, affordable family theme park into a money pit that will erase any great memories once the credit card bills start rolling in.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I\u2019m holding onto my fond childhood memories. And I\u2019m very, very happy that Walt Disney himself did not live long enough to see how his once-magnificent empire has been tarnished in 2022.<\/p>\n<p><em>TOM TRADUP is Vice President\/News &#038; Talk Programming for Dallas-based Salem Radio Network. He can be reached at\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"mailto:ttradup@srnradio.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>ttradup@srnradio.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like most Baby Boomers, I grew up happily fixated on the spellbinding showman Walt Disney from the time I could crawl.Of course, I loved Mickey Mouse cartoons whenever<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1406589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1406589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1406589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1406589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}