Television: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The Judge Report ^ | 12/08/2005 | Robert N. Going

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I managed to arrange my schedule over the last week to watch three adults and I forget how many kids play John Paul II on the dueling docudramas from ABC and CBS.//Having read Weigel's biography, I can see how it would really take a year-long miniseries to truly capture all the drama and importance of this great man's life and teachings, but for the time allotted I must give CBS applause for an outstanding and faithful effort.

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Unfortunately, due to the football-delayed Sunday schedule I was forced to endure what is truly one of the most grueling hours on tv today, that incredibly bad Cold Case show, where, on the night when they were presenting the champion of the Culture of Life, they produce an episode in which a high school couple conceives a child, but the wicked and obviously crazed school nurse shows fetal pictures to and otherwise talks the guy out of financing an abortion. The cops naturally greet this story with horror and disgust. I flipped it off and read a book when the nurse became the chief suspect in the lad's murder.

Then on Tuesday, Law and Order, SVU, lately the best written of the three regular series, turned itself over entirely to the gay/lesbian/wacko lobby with a plot and dialogue so preposterous that I hesitate to even attempt to summarize it. There were many kickers, but probably the worst was when the grandparents of the girl with two mommies find naked photographs of the little girl with the lesbian partner stroking her thighs. With the help of their lawyer, they commence a custody battle, after which they are, naturally, charged with felony hate crimes.

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Not since Mission to Moscow have I seen such an unadulterated propaganda piece.

Read the whole piece here.

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