[Hawkeye's Girl]

Just to note. In a law and order episode that was based on the Puerto Rican day parade, there was a large amount of controversy. People were screaming for Dick Wolf's head, he has since promised that it will never be aired, not even in reruns of syndication.

No, that was NBC. In a recent USA Today article, Wolf slammed the network for buckling under that pressure because "we insult everybody".

He has also gotten in trouble for a couple of episodes of Law and Order criminal intent for making the African American ADA look "disrespected by the white officers," "sleazy" and "out of the loop."

Well, A.D.A Carver is dumber than Detective Goren, who happens to be a white heterosexual male. But EVERYONE ELSE on the show is also stupider than Goren, so it sure isn't racism.

Its clear that Dick Wolf is liberal, but its also clear that left wing and liberal groups are more poised to protest any slight whether real or not that they perceive.

Oh, totally.

He is responding in the most politically correct and safest way. When law and order portrays pro-lifers as "kooks" (which, every single episode dealing with abortion has done).

I beg to differ. On Criminal Intent, both Carver and Goren are pro-life; it's the redheaded chick who is the pro-abortion Nazi as she demonstrated in an episode last season. Plus, on the original, if you go waaay back, there was a first season abortion episode that had Greevy and Stone on the pro-life side and Logan and Robinette on the pro-choice side.

There is no outcry, there is no protest, anything that trashes conservatives is generally left alone without much expressed anger or protest. However this does not apply to liberals. Maybe Wolf feels that conservatives have thicker skin, or that liberals are just overly sensitive. Either way, he is always going to play it safe and not risk offending the more vocal and sensitive groups.

Not really. Last season classic L&O featured an anti-environmental episode that was so against tree huggers I laughed my butt off for a half an hour straight. It featured such classic lines as "When will they grow up?" and "Ah Democrats, I've had problems with them before."

Bottom line, Law and Order really does insult everyone equally. You just have to watch enough episodes.

[Sonny M]

I'm pretty sure Goren isn't pro-life. I remember an episode where his partner asked him point blank, and he gave some vauge answer about he doesn't like it personally, but sometimes its nesessary and he understands that it has to be there. (Sort of like the mario cuomo answer). I do remember the first law and orders, Greevy was a solid pro-lifer who was also socially conservative on other issues too. Ben Stone came across as somone who was pro-life but had to do his job. The thing that got alot of african americans riled up on criminal intent was 2 episodes, one Goren basically insults Carver when Carver forced him to use force to get somone (it was ripped from the headlines episode about pardons) and another episode where Goren lies to Carver and makes him look bad (don't know which episode that was). On another note, you ever notice how when its a political thing involving real life dems, they change it to republicans? Example would be the pardons, were done by Clinton, in the episode it was changed to the NYS governor. They also had one where the politician kills somone (they made him a conservative) and gets off.