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Downton Abbey: A Positive Portrayal of the Rich

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    FBN’s Stuart Varney sounds off on the popularity of the PBS program.

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Can you imagine a TV show that features rich people behaving well.

And the show -- smash hit.

Is my take on downton.

Consider this.

In America today wealth and success -- reviled the rich shopper traders -- Then money -- of those who don't pay that fashion that they are in the presence was just.

And then we have Downton -- a TV show it's all about an aristocratic family and that's ovens in an English country house 100 years ago that rich.

That good.

They want to employ people they offer generous support to -- -- opponents they almost they -- Clancy.

So in America today the rich -- bad.

But on the show that good.

-- -- nothing to write home about about that true but downton is wildly popular record audiences that are.

This is tough for the left to swallow how they explain away eight popular show that gives the rich a break -- -- well.

They just dismiss it it is just been so all -- -- -- say and so it is that and missing the point.

America it's hot does not reviled the rich this is not a -- society.

The president doesn't -- it that way of course he plays on the anger over the recession he blames wealthy people but deep down.

America wants prosperity America wants wealth.

That's -- -- showing the rich and entirely different life is so successful and so popular.

And that's why on this inauguration day there is a deep sense of anxiety.

About where we going today.

With this anger and resentment in America today -- for four more years against the --

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