Phony “Good Wife” Slur: Newsbusters Unresponsive After Context Proves Their Charge False

David Horowitz's NewsReal Blog ^ | March 1, 2011 | David Forsmark

[Walter Scott Hudson]

When the lamestream media blindly runs phoney talking points by Media Matters, we call them out. Now, we reluctantly have to do it with Fox News and Newsbusters.

On Friday I challenged Newsbusters for running an out of context clip worthy of Alan Grayson to charge that Prime Time CBS Drama ‘The Good Wife’ Impugns Tea Party as ‘Racist Organization’. At the time, I was hoping that Bret Baker was operating on incomplete information, and would make things right.

By Friday afternoon, the estimable Megyn Kelly was hosting debates on Fox with two people who had never seen the show (3 including her) based on this false charge. Ironically, Megyn made the very point left out of the clip when she said all parties, including the Democrats had racists in them!

But despite being shown the whole context of the clip, Baker is unrepentant. He even ignored comments posted on his blog by one of the co-writers of the episode in question! Here’s a great quote from writer Robert King (more later in this post):

ROBERT KING, WRITER FOR THE GOOD WIFE: A character in the episode (in fact, an opposition lawyer and a bad guy) impugned the Tea Party, and he did it for a reason (defending a cop-killer) that was clearly unsympathetic. In fact, the Tea Party was strongly defended by the sympathetic characters on the show. This was in a section of the episode you didn't include (except in an edited transcript)...

[Lancey Howard]

I remember this “story” from a few days ago. It was posted here. After reading the episode excerpts and rolling my eyes, I wrote the whole thing off as the overzealous and reading comprehension-impaired rant of an idiot troll. There was simply nothing to it... it was lame as lame could be.

I cannot believe anybody bought that nonsense to the point where it was actually “debated” on Fox news.
Yikes.. How embarrassing.

[max americana]

The actual writer of the show actually defended the episode. Gotta give him props for that.

Now only if the writer for the recent episode of CASTLE came out and defended his lefty crap that American soldiers are deranged killers.

[KoRn]

Newsbusters needs to make this right, if all is how it appears here. You can’t call out propaganda machines like “Media Matters”, and the general bias in the liberal media if you are gonna do the same types of things. If they are found to be wrong about something, Newsbusters should be the first ones to admit to it, and make a retraction, and even an apology(if necessary).

[paltz]

LINK

Here is an excerpt from the NB article in question:

To illustrate, the program created a photo taken at “a Tea Party rally in Milwaukee last January” showing a man near “McVeigh” holding up a “Go Back to the Jungle” sign which the lawyer asks McVeigh to confirm “refers to our current President.” (large jpg image of the picture)

The February 22 episode marked the return of Cole’s ballistics expert “Kurt McVeigh” character as the love interest for Chicago law firm partner “Diane Lockhart,” played by Christine Baranski, a liberal who knows Hillary Clinton and has disdain for Palin.

[paltz]

I'm still wondering why the author made no mention of the "Go back to the jungle" tea party sign. When a commenter mentions the "don't tax me bro" and "go back to the jungle" signs the author only answers:

What's "wrong with don't tax me bro?"

[lentulusgracchus]

To illustrate, the program created a photo taken at “a Tea Party rally ....."

The wording is very confusing. If the program created the "photo" ..... then the photo wasn't "taken at 'a Tea Party rally's" anywhere, was it?

Verismo + [inescutcheon + more verismo] = dog's breakfast.

It's like walking into the middle of Inception and trying to grok what you're seeing on the screen.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Now only if the writer for the recent episode of CASTLE came out and defended his lefty crap that American soldiers are deranged killers.

I saw the show you're speaking of on Castle, and I looked on Google to see if anyone had written an article about it. I found nothing about it yesterday. I'll have to look again.

[GingisK]

Newsbusters needs to make this right...

Newsbusters in a comedy act that sometimes uses real news. Real news is often funnier than fiction; however, anyone who looks at Newsbusters as a source of real news is just fishing for trouble.

[max americana]

I think it’s on the Castle Tv site. I drop Tv shows immediately if they skew left like NCIS as an example.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

I drop Tv shows immediately if they skew left like NCIS as an example.

I hear ya. If Turner Classic Movies has something good on, I'll watch that.