Posted on 05/27/2005 5:52:40 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
The season finale of NBC's Law & Order: Criminal Intent, which aired Wednesday night, portrayed House Majority Leader Tom DeLay as a hero to white supremacist gun nuts suspected of murdering two judges, one of them black, and who had expressed the view that the white woman judge who was murdered was a "race traitor" who raised her family in the "Zionist enclave of Riverdale." When the ballistics on the bullet which killed the black judge showed it was fired by the same rifle which was used to kill the white judge, New York City Police Department "Detective Alexandra Eames" suggested to her fellow detectives and an Assistant District Attorney: "Maybe we should put out an APB for somebody in a Tom DeLay T-shirt." Another detective then presented evidence the shooter came from the West, prompting Eames to point out: "Home of a lot of white supremacist groups."
Update: On Thursday, DeLay sent a letter to NBC Universal Television Group President Jeff Zucker. DeLay complained: "This manipulation of my name and trivialization of the sensitive issue of judicial security represents a reckless disregard for the suffering initiated by recent tragedies and a great disservice to public discourse."
NBC Entertainment President Kevin Reilly responded: "The script line involved an exasperated detective, bedeviled by a lack of clues, making a sarcastic comment about the futility of looking for a suspect when no specific description existed. This isolated piece of gritty cop talk was neither a political comment, nor an accusation."
Not a "political comment"?
Dick Wolf, creator of all of the Law & Order shows, took a swipe at DeLay over ethics charges against him: "Up until today, it was my impression that all of our viewers understood that these shows are works of fiction, as is stated in each episode. But I do congratulate Congressman DeLay for switching the spotlight from his own problems to an episode of a TV show."
Of course, no one's attention would be on the name in the show if Wolf's writers hadn't put it into the script themselves. And when "fiction" employs the names of real-world figures how can the fiction writers expect to avoid real-world scrutiny, especially when they hold that real person up as a hero to racist murderers?
For a May 26 Reuters story on the statements issued by all the parties: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050527/us_nm/media_nbc_delay_dc_4
For a May 27 Washington Post story by Lisa de Moraes: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- dyn/content/article/2005/05/26/AR2005052601649_3.htm(page no longer available)
Reminder: The MRC has posted video of the scene in question, in both RealPlayer and Windows Media Player format, as well as an MP3 audio clip. Go to: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2005/cyb20050526.asp#6
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Paging NBC's advertisers...
Works of fiction "ripped from the headlines," Dick, and transmogrified so that the perps are usually white males.
Shouldn't we viewers come up with a 'nuclear option' regarding these insufferable insertions of personal political agendas? Like synchronized mass exodus..."Ready, 5,4,3,2,1...REMOTES TO OFF!
I haven't watched this program for a couple of years now. I just got fed up. And it's not like I miss it :) What NBC's advertisers are thinking is beyond me. They may not be losing much in terms of audience, but they sure ain't growing.
(That's a line from a piece of fiction I'm writing)
Again, I think that letters to the advertisers are in order. I think everytime this kind of crap happens, a little advertiser boycott is just the thing to shake up folks like Little Dick.
Well,maybe not......
That is not the way I took it. I thought it tied back to DeLays's threat against judges he didnt like after the Schiavo decisions. If he doesnt want to be characterured, then he ought to think before as a House leader he opens his mouth.
Gee, I guess I just dont get it. A toss away line in a show that relatively few watch and some of you are in hysterics. But let Rush do a spoof on Ted Kennedy's drinking and driving expertise or someone here bring up the list of people that the Clinton's supposedly murdered and you cheer. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Repeat: Its only a TV show. It's fiction. It's not real!! Try worring about something real.
NBC is in a quiet panic, kind of like some cute little criminal waiting for the transfer to Attica. The Dick Wolf juggernaut is all the network has (four separate prime time slots). If/when L&O jumps the shark the network will find itself naked in a crowded shower...and they know it.
I loved it when Fox & Friends commented that this could be why nbc ratings are 4th.
I stopped watching the "Law and Order Criminal Intent" and the original series when I realized what a liberal bent they both had. The answer to these kind of television shows is always to turn off your TV and write letters of concern and outrage to the producers.
A husband who is having an affair with another woman beats him wife into a persuasive vegetative state. To make it possible for him to remarry and live off the monies from a medical lawsuit he conspires with a hospice and a corrupt judge to legally execute the women by starving her to death.
in its early incarnation L&O was a very enjoyable show...at some point, liberal themes and talking points seemed to get into the writing and now of course it is hopeless, along with its sister series, this one.
I think the producers did this on purpose because they knew it would draw publicity to a show with sagging ratings. Still waiting for the off hand comment by an exasperated detective linking a rape to a young Kennedy.
Actually, CSI had a Chappaquiddick reference.
On seeing a staged crime scene, Grissom comments: "That's phonier than a Chappaquiddick neck brace"
Best line of the show!
I haven't watched this show since approximately 1995. I just don't watch network TV, and watch very little TV, period. Gives you more time to do other things, and keeps you from supporting the schmucks who produce this garbage.
All of the Law and Order series are well-written and well-acted, but the content, tone and political commentary contained therein have gotten out of hand in the past several years. Between "Jack McCoy" making pharmaceutical companies the scapegoat for just about every crime committed by an individual, Vincent D'Onofrio's mental meltdown over Kerry's loss and this latest libelous disgrace, I agree that our time would be better spent viewing other programs or doing something else altogether.
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