Posted on 03/19/2008 11:36:17 PM PDT by L.A.Justice
Did anyone else watch the LAW & ORDER episode on Wednesday night? I managed to catch last 30 minutes of it.
Jason is accused of stoning his mother to death because she was having an affair. He is a student of a pastor who runs a Christian camp for children. DA people play a videotape of the pastor's sermon...The pastor tells the children that we are in a "war" with Islamic fanatics. He speaks out against "hypocrites". Prosecutors shake their heads...The deputy prosecutor states that one doesn't have to go to Middle East to find a school for extremists.
Jason accepts the deal for 15 year jail sentence. The DA's office charges the pastor for inciting the murder of Jason's mother.
There is a trial. The pastor, on the stand, states that we are in a struggle against radical Islam...The prosecutor accuses the pastor of brainwashing kids. One woman stands up and tells the prosecutor that he will go to hell.
The jury goes into deliberation. A problem...One juror is busted with a bible. The prosecution asks for mistrial. The judge refuses. The jury refuses to convict the pastor...DA McCoy says that our "radicals" will go up against their radicals...McCoy wonders when the war would end.
This was a silly episode. The message seemed to be that "radical Christians" were just as dangerous as "radical Muslims". Moral equivalency? This episode portrayed Christians mostly as wackos...I guess that's not really new in Hollywood...
I remember that episode. It was the last episode of Law & Order that I watched. They’ve been making a lot of hard-left turns for a long time, but that was so obviously insulting over the top that it took the cake. The worst kind of moral equivalence.
Criminal Intent is the only iteration I will watch these days. (whenever they show new ones).
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Gross understatement. It's old hat for that show.
I was never interested in watching CRIMINAL INTENT...It also didn’t help that I read an article about Chris Noth. In the article, he is unhappy that the media is not aggressive enough in dealing with conservatives...
This is why I no longer have television.
Unbelievable.
I thought she was cute, but she’s gone this year, replaced by a hot redhead.
stepping back in time to a snaphot in time...
USDOJ/OIG Special Report: "BOMBS IN BROOKLYN: HOW THE TWO ILLEGAL ALIENS ARRESTED FOR PLOTTING TO BOMB THE NEW YORK SUBWAY ENTERED AND REMAINED IN THE UNITED STATES" (March, 1998) (Note: This url is 404 and may have expired.)
CatStevens.com: "CALL FOR ISLAMIC CHARITY AND A UNITED UMMAH" by Zakiah Koya, New Straits Times, Kuala Lumpur, December 12, 1997, Courtesy of Kirby
"TRANSCRIPT OF OSAMA BIN LADIN INTERVIEW BY PETER ARNETT Transcript of Osama Bin Ladin The first-ever television interview with Osama Bin Ladin was conducted by Peter Arnett in eastern Afghanistan in late March 1997. Questions were submitted in advance. Bin Ladin responded to almost all of the questions. CNN was not allowed to ask follow up questions. The interview lasted just over an hour." (March 1997)FOX NEWS.com: Washington - "DOCUMENTS SHOW STATE DEPARTMENT WARNED CLINTON ABOUT BIN LADEN" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The State Department warned the Clinton administration in July 1996 that Usama bin Laden's move to Afghanistan would give him more fertile ground to spread radical Islam, according to newly declassified documents." (August 17, 2005)NEWSMAX.com: "IRAQI GENERAL: BIN LADEN VISITED BAGHDAD" by Carl Limbacher with the NewsMax.com staff (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Speaking in halting English, former Iraqi Gen. Georges Sada described the bin Laden visit to ABC Radio's Sean Hannity. "I can make sure one thing - I know - I have seen by my eyes. It was in '84, '85, Osama bin Laden himself was coming to Iraqi air force headquarters. "Gen. Sada explained: "At that time he was looking for contracts to build air fields in Iraq."") (January 27, 2006)OSINT.INTERNET-HAGANAH.com (YNETNEWS.com): "ISRAEL WARNED U.S. OF BIN LADEN [IN 1988]" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The name Bin Laden became familiar to the Israeli Mossad in the years 1986-1987, Bar said. At that time Israel had been gathering written material in Gaza and the West Bank, and came across the name of Bin Laden, who was described in one of the documents as a Saudi millionaire who joined Sheikh Abdullah Azzam's Mujahidin that ventured to Afghanistan to aid in the war against the Soviets. The document referred to Bin Laden's preaching and his fatwas (Muslim law rulings). Mossad investigators realized at that point that Azzam's movement represented a problem, and that anyone involved in it could represent a threat to the western world.") (January 25, 2006)
Looks like Fred Thompson should go back to the show!
How did they write Fred Thompson out of the show?
I stopped watching a couple of weeks ago when a woman was killed by a bomb near a clinic that identified “gay” fetuses.
The first thing the cops asked was “have you gotten any death threats from Christian youth groups?”
I hate the Dick Wolfe stereotyping of anything Christian as violent and evil.
I stopped watching after that show, and I won’t watch again.
Ed
Didn't see the last show of last year or first show of this year. Apparently Arthur Branch was appointed to a higher office, and his Executive Assistant Jack McCoy was appointed to fill out his term. I don't know all the details.
I’m a Law & Order addict. It’s getting hard to find an episode I haven’t seen. I have been disappointed in some of their shows, which have plots that could have been written by an 8th grader.
‘Law and Order’ has always been the most liberal offering in the franchise, but it has really been in decline since Jerry Orbach passed away. And now, with the conservative balance of Fred gone, Jesse Martin and Epatha are the only shining lights left. (Personally, I think Sam grimaces at some of the lines he has to read, but after all this time he should have the pull to force adjustments.)
‘Law and Order: SVU’ is far superior and generally (with only a few lesser exceptions) stays away from the kind of political goofiness that you find in the original L&O, and even when it does occasionally stray into liberal la-la-land, there’s always Stabler there to smirk it off. The show has the best cast on TV, in my opinion. (’CSI: Miami’ is a close second.)
Even ‘Law and Order: Criminal Intent’ keeps getting better. (I know, Vince can be tough to take sometimes, but his psycho character has grown on me over the years.) And despite Vince, L&O: CI is probably the least political of the three L&Os. The alternating casts (the other cast being Chris Noth and his partner du jour) helps keep the show fresh.
Two out of three isn’t bad.
My girl friend watces this garbage religiously. (pun?)
I found this program to be dull. All of the characters, men and women act in the same drab manner. There is no intellectual or emotional differentiation among the characters. Men and women are portrayed in a sterile
social manner.
Chris Noth is my girl’s heart throb. I said he can’t be
too macho. He’s a liberal weeny...now I’m in the dog house.
Maybe she saw him in Sex and the City? The movie version is coming out soon, I hear.
Nope... Stopped watching Law & Order because it’s a propaganda machine. The social messages got very old.
Hi, Cindy,
That’s a great post but I’m pretty sure you posted to the wrong thread....
FRegards,
LH
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