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NBC Casts Ex-POW Arizona Politician as Murdering Cannibal
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kristen-fyfe/2008/03/04/nbc-casts-ex-pow-arizona-politician-murdering-cannibal ^

Posted on 03/04/2008 12:17:41 PM PST by chessplayer

Monday’s NBC psychic crime drama "Medium" featured a plot line in which an Arizona senator and former POW is discovered to be a two-time murderer and a cannibal. While it is safe to assume that the story was written before the Hollywood writers’ strike, and before the rise of John McCain to front-runner status for the GOP presidential nomination, the blatant use of McCain’s personal history, as a politician and Vietnam POW, as grist to feed the murderous plot is obvious.

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To: Kirkwood

Law and Order did do a show where they arrested a toe tapping Senator in a men’s room. They basically reenacted the whole Craig episode.


21 posted on 03/04/2008 12:32:32 PM PST by JZelle
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To: beefree
I reckon they are seeking tolerance of all manner of sin.

I reckon, rather, that they are attempting to plant a seed in peoples minds that maybe this happened...total scum.

There would be hell to pay had the subject of the plot been a black senator from Illinois...

22 posted on 03/04/2008 12:32:39 PM PST by maine-iac7 (",,,but you can't fool all of the people all the time" LINCOLN)
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To: chessplayer
While it is safe to assume that the story was written before the Hollywood writers’ strike, and before the rise of John McCain to front-runner status for the GOP presidential nomination, the blatant use of McCain’s personal history, as a politician and Vietnam POW, as grist to feed the murderous plot is obvious.

From the sounds of it, it may have been written during the strike ...

Gregory Itzin, who was the bad President on 24, plays the Senator, so it's obvious what the people who put this series together are after ...

23 posted on 03/04/2008 12:33:17 PM PST by x
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To: chessplayer

John Kerry write this?


24 posted on 03/04/2008 12:34:04 PM PST by Doomonyou (Let them eat lead.)
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To: chessplayer

So glad I haven’t watched network television since the late 80’s. Back to Paula Deen on the Food Network...


25 posted on 03/04/2008 12:35:01 PM PST by COBOL2Java ("McCain is a war hero. He's also a useful idiot for the Democrats." - Mark Levin)
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To: jubail

LOL!


26 posted on 03/04/2008 12:35:39 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: chessplayer

Medium is the most driven anti military show on TV, even worse than Law and Order.

On medium her brother and his friend murdered their sergeant in Iraq.


27 posted on 03/04/2008 12:36:32 PM PST by ansel12 (Ronald W. Reagan and William F. Buckley Jr., both were U.S. Army veterans.)
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To: chessplayer

It’s all part of the media and entertainment “full court press” on McCain.


28 posted on 03/04/2008 12:36:33 PM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: Hegemony Cricket
I agree. It’s outright political agenda driven propaganda. IMO it isn’t for ratings or the cash.
29 posted on 03/04/2008 12:36:49 PM PST by endthematrix (He was shouting 'Allah!' but I didn't hear that. It just sounded like a lot of crap to me.)
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To: chessplayer
I neither like nor trust McCain. I will fight like a mother bear for him if this runs. sorry in advance. He's a Viet Nam vet. I swore. I don't break promises.
30 posted on 03/04/2008 12:37:40 PM PST by cake_crumb (I will criticize Obama as much and as often as I want.)
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To: chessplayer

Could you imagine if they wrote a storyline casting a charming but vapid black Illinois senator as a coke-using, America-hating socialist intent on destroying our way of life?

I mean, just imagine that !!!


31 posted on 03/04/2008 12:42:31 PM PST by AbeKrieger (There is a special place in Hell for Lyndon Johnson.)
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To: chessplayer

This is an outrage. For those FReepers who will not vote for him, how about a little respect for the man.


32 posted on 03/04/2008 12:43:54 PM PST by MattinNJ ("Conservatives" will stay home in November and hand the socialists the election. Unbelievable.)
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To: chessplayer

33 posted on 03/04/2008 12:45:37 PM PST by mirkwood (Good gun control is a sharp eye and a steady hand)
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

“full court press” on McCain

and decency


34 posted on 03/04/2008 12:46:30 PM PST by beefree (AMERICA BLESS GOD)
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To: Hegemony Cricket

I’m with you. The plotline is reprehensible, but then some of the comments on this thread are too. Unfortunately, I’m finding this more frequently on FR.


35 posted on 03/04/2008 12:47:48 PM PST by oneamericanvoice (Support freedom! Support the troops! Surrender is not an option!)
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To: chessplayer

And we’re supposed to be surprised because....


36 posted on 03/04/2008 12:48:27 PM PST by oneamericanvoice (Support freedom! Support the troops! Surrender is not an option!)
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To: AbeKrieger

...or a viscous, soulless, Stalinst, dike &*@# Senator from NY


37 posted on 03/04/2008 12:50:08 PM PST by MattinNJ ("Conservatives" will stay home in November and hand the socialists the election. Unbelievable.)
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To: Tribune7

I’m voting for him too. Wasn’t my first choice, but he will be the nominee. I know that my work is cut out for me, but not as badly as if Hillary or Barack wins.


38 posted on 03/04/2008 12:54:09 PM PST by oneamericanvoice (Support freedom! Support the troops! Surrender is not an option!)
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To: endthematrix

NBC’s lawyers would have a hard time defending a liable suit, IMO.


39 posted on 03/04/2008 12:57:18 PM PST by cake_crumb (I will criticize Obama as much and as often as I want.)
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To: oneamericanvoice

Who cares about surprise? This is over the edge and into the Abyss stuff...yes, in the manner of Genghis Kahn.


40 posted on 03/04/2008 1:00:31 PM PST by cake_crumb (I will criticize Obama as much and as often as I want.)
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