Posted on 08/23/2013 7:49:27 PM PDT by xzins
While HBO’s “Newsroom” is surely today’s leading liberal fantasy news show, it is following in a format pioneered by the overwrought crime drama series “Law and Order” and its various clone shows.
The producers of “Law and Order: SVU” reminded everyone of that recently by actually writing and filming an episode in which a character based on Paula Deen kills a Trayvon Martin character.
You can’t make up this kind of absurdity in a humor setting. People wouldn’t find it credible. The only thing missing is a George Bush or Dick Cheney character in there engaging in a serial killing spree of some Muslim characters.
The absurd plot is not mere speculation, however. The executive producer of the show, Warren Leight, confirmed that the episode is in production right now and set to air in October and that actress Cybill Shepard will portray the Deen character.
Readers will recall that celebrity chef Paula Deen became the focus of liberal outrage ostensibly for disclosing in a court case that she had used a racial slur 30 years ago. Around the same time, left-wing actor Alec Baldwin actually used an anti-gay slur against a British reporter on Twitter and it received one-fourth of the coverage. Probably the real reason that Deen, who is a Democrat, got flayed in the press was that she embarrassed First Lady Michelle Obama in 2012 by disclosing that she “probably ate more than any other guest I've ever had on the show.”
Writing show scripts based on current news stories has been something of a trademark for the shows but in reality, it is an extremely lazy writing device because it allows the show to avoid the laborious task of constructing believable characters. Even more lazy is that the show writers then re-imagine actual crimes in ways that almost invariably parrot tired left-wing shibboleths.
As a 2005 study by the MRC’s Business and Media Institute found, on the shows, businessmen were five times more likely to commit crimes than terrorists and four times more likely than gang members. Looking at “Law and Order,” “SVU,” and “Criminal Intent,” the study found that almost 50 percent of all crimes committed were committed by businessmen.
While there have been a few politically fair episodes over the years, portraying people unpopular with liberals as literal criminals has been standard fare for the “Law and Order” shows. A 2010 episode of “SVU” portrayed devout Christians as murderous sex addicts, a 2009 episode of the same series specifically went after talk show hosts Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Bill O’Reilly as “like a cancer spreading ignorance and hate.”
No one has ever confronted the series’ creator, Dick Wolf, about his shows’ obvious ideological bias but it is worth noting that one of the former actors on the original series, Michael Moriarty, has denounced the shows:
“I hardly expected my old television series to be the clown act that leads the American viewing audience into an increasingly predictable pile of hard left propaganda,” he wrote in a long-form essay decrying the politicization of the shows.
René Balcer, a long-time executive producer of the series has denied that the show has a political bias. In response to the post above which was prompted by a “Law and Order” episode condemning the Bush Administration’s approval of waterboarding for known Al Qaeda terrorists, Balcer claimed that his series was not partisan or ideologically unfair.
“What many of these critics fail to realize is that Law & Order has always been an equal-opportunity offender, and if a Democratic administration had implemented this despicable policy, our show would have taken them to task for it,” he told Harpers magazine.
It is too bad we can't get a judge to throw out that ridiculously false argument.
(Photos from the set shooting courtesy of Buzzfeed which first reported on the Paula Deen episode.)
Paula and Jeantel get in an accent contest, Trayvon tries to give Jeantel some Watermelon Meds for an edge, Paula gets mad, follows him in a Food Truck ignoring Bobby Flay’s instructions not to pursue. Trayvon attacks her in the food truck and standing her ground she fries his ass with a NuWave Oven.
Sounds like wet grass, y'all.
No blacks, Hispanics or homosexuals. Regardless of the storyline in the end it is always the white, hereto, Christian, male. Harigty’s character does push the prolife line on occasion because her character is a product of rape. Munch’s character is a conspiracy black help guy which is entertaining.
Not you bad memory at all 2DV. There have been just so few that you may well have missed their appearance. In the case of SVU, I can only recall *one*...
the infowarrior
A new record is set in wacky. Now does Deen then fricasee the lad?
I think a mongo sheep-goats split is taking place here.
Those who heed the call to salvation are going to soon get spiritually intense. If an oaf like me can, then certainly others will.
Those who balk... they are going to be up poop creek sans paddle.
OMG THAT IS AWESOME!!!! ROFL ROFL
lolol....good storyline....I just might watch it.
Early Law and Order was less political overall in that every other episode wasn’t a thinly veiled hour of left wing propaganda on a given issue. Most episodes were crime stories without a political agenda, except maybe that the killer was usually a white guy, when of course the vast majority of murders in NYC are committed by non-whites. There were episodes that dealt with issues like abortion, and it definitely took a pro-choice stand overall and gave the pro-choice characters betters lines. But there was also an episode where they dealt with the Tawana Brawley hoax, and they came down pretty hard on the Sharpton-like race hustler. They even gave Michael Moriarty’s character a great line where he said that the source of most racism today was from the professional agitators. The first two seasons are definitely the best.
However, as the show went on it became a consistent hour of liberal garbage. Entire episodes were constructed for the obvious purpose of pushing the liberal view on some big issue of the day. Gun control, gay marriage, abortion rights, mass immigration, and many more; they all got their own episode or episodes. Not surprisingly, the plots of these episodes were thin and laughable in their absurdity, but they became more common as the show went on.
The show’s use of dialogue was also heavily biased. Even when they would let a more conservative character (like Fred Thompson’s DA) utter a decently written conservative line, they would almost always be trumped by a better written line for the liberal response. And the liberal character would almost always get the last word.
But often times they would present a caricature of conservative thought. This was usually done by having some bit character (like a beat cop on the scene) say something indicative of the way a liberal imagines that conservatives think, only to have one of the main characters slap them down with a snappy liberal retort. In other words, the conservative rube would tee up the smart liberal with some stupid remark, and then the liberal would knock it out of the park.
Law and Order SVU followed pretty much the same path. Eventually they both became unwatchable.
Another TV show that I will not watch
White Guilt Liberals not only pushing the Black Ku Klux Klan agenda...but also LYING about 2 seperate cases at the same time
Yeah... haven’t seen Richard Belzer go off on a rant on THID administration even he does exact same as Bush.
Heart attack from too much butter pie?
What next, Law and Order SUV? Killer cars?
LOL, my mom accidentally says SUV all the time.
Throw out your TV. You aren’t missing anything.
I got rid of my television during the 2008 election cycle. Haven’t looked back.
Well done. I did NOT do an Elvis on mine, but I was tempted.
It died. I didn’t bother to “upgrade”. I prefer a picture tube picture to the new fangled sets. They can give me a headache (especially when watching something in black and white).
I mostly watch netflix on my laptop or at a friend’s on occasion.
Sharpton DO like his Rabble to Rouse..of that we much be must assured!
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