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The Political Culture Of 'Judge Judy'

The Political Culture Of 'Judge Judy'

Everyone Loves A Bully Who Pushes Around People They Don't Like

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Jan 31, 2024
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In the late 1990s and early 2000s, MADtv, Fox’s answer to Saturday Night Live had a regular skit where Stephnie Weir played a character named Leona Campbell, a sassy elderly Southern woman hilariously perplexed by some of the craziest, nonsensical aspects of modern society. She once humiliated the grifting psychic Ms. Cleo (played by Debra Wilson) by as…

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