TV's Law & Order Cracks Down on White Men

Toogood Reports ^ | 29 December 2002 | Nicholas Stix

[mrustow]

See also:

It's a White Male Crime Wave ... on TV!

[L.N. Smithee]

One secondary aspect of this episode was, however, based on a true case. At one point, the jailed white supremacist, who has been forbidden from all contact with the outside world, except for his defense attorney (Tovah Feldshuh), uses her as an unwitting conduit to pass along the address of someone he has targeted for murder to an associate, who carries out the killing. However, Dick Wolf's creative team made a slight adjustment in the story. The subplot was based not on a white supremacist, but on the case of radical attorney, Lynne Stewart. Stewart has been arrested and charged with deliberately passing along instructions from one of her clients, Islamic terrorist Sheik Abdul Rahman, who was convicted of masterminding the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, to his confederates. Stewart was taped laughing about what she was doing.

There's another inaccuracy there, too. Anyone who knows anything about Lynne Stewart knows that Tovah Feldshuh is way too gorgeous to play a character based on the rotund and unfashionable Stewart.

Tovah Feldshuh

Lynne Stewart

[per loin]

Take a critical llok at the commercials too.

[mrustow]

Thanks for the pics, L.N. Tovah's in her fifties, but she's still a babe! Lynne is, well, Lynne.

[mrustow]

But it hasn't exactly worked out that way, joe. The easier the gov't. makes life for black males, the more they screw up. That's because the civil rights prism, whereby all problems are blamed on racism, was always false. Giving a group a free ride only encourages the worst in human nature; all the propaganda in the world won't change that.

[jjm2111]

Thanks for the pics, L.N. Tovah's in her fifties, but she's still a babe....and the product of lots and lots of elective surgery.

[F.J. Mitchell]

THe lies, damn lies and genuine horsehit churned out by the multimillionaires passing themselves off as starving art for art's sake, self proclaimed artists of today, challenges the claim to credibility that artists throughout the pages of history, claimed as their due. When we are fed what we recognize as fantasy by the art community and government of our time and expected to accept it as fact-we are challenged to question the entire history of art and discredit the pretense that it ever merited any support whatsoever from the taxes extorted from the wages of those who produced a service or product essential to the survival of humanity.

If a fungus that is lethal only to pretenders and their pretenses should descend like a plague of locusts upon the earth, only conservatism and truth would survive.

It is not bigotry to recognize that a majority of crime is committed by the black males of the minority-only the incurably insane would rant against the fact that the prisons are over ran with inmates of the minority that commits the majority of crime. Sorry if defending the truth against the fairytales of politically correct Hollywood sounds raciest, but that just shows you the power of those who earn their obscene wages in the pursuit of convincing the good that evil is better.

[Nick Thimmesch]

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[Paul Atreides]

At least I know that I'm still not missing anything by keeping the telly on FNC all night.

[L.N. Smithee]

You complaining?

[mrustow]

Thanks for the pics, L.N. Tovah's in her fifties, but she's still a babe....

and the product of lots and lots of elective surgery.

O.k., o.k., Detective. But if Tovah had never had ANY help, and I were single and had the opportunity, I still wouldn't throw her out of bed for eating crackers. Lynne, on the other hand, could get all the help in the world, and she'd still be ... Lynne. (I'm trying to mind my manners here.)

[mrustow]

Take a critical look at the commercials too.

Will do.

[mrustow]

We try and make a point of writing and calling sponsors of garbage like this, letting them know very clearly we will spending our money elsewhere.

I'll try and keep that in mind. Usually I don't look at the commericals.

[mrustow]

This episode's story line resided entirely in the fantasy world of Dick Wolf and writer Richard Sweren.

thats why its fiction. for those who can't tell, there's a disclaimer. "the characters and events are fictional ...blah blah".

If you ever watched the show, and paid attention, you'd know that this particular show is built on the oft-repeated claim that its story lines are "fact-based." The small- print disclaimer is to protect the producers against law suits, and is directly contradicted by the commercials and opening titles' trumpeting that the shows are "ripped from the headlines" and "fact-based."

[archy]

I understand now. Dick Wolf is a racist, and has been commiting hate crimes.

I guess I'll have to make a little note to be added to my local NBC station's Public Inspection file, to be considered as to whether the stations broadcastrs are *in the public goood* when their licence renerwal time comes around again.

Besides, that'll give me a chance to pull the info on who the local sponsors of that program are hereabouts. I wonder if they know what they've been buying with their advertising budget. Well, they will.

-archy-/-