People Too Stupid To Be Allowed to Watch TV
Those people being the Corner's Tim Graham and Media Research Center's Brent Baker.
First, here's Tim:
From the LAW & ORDER: LIBERAL INTENT [Tim Graham]
MRC's Brent Baker has the goods on last night's gratuitous Tom DeLay slam on the season finale of Law & Order: Criminal Intent, complete with video. The script writers trashed DeLay as a hero to white supremacist gun nuts suspected of murdering two judges, one of them black, and who had expressed the view that the white woman judge who was murdered was a "race traitor" who raised her family in the "Zionist enclave of Riverdale." The chick-detective character suggested to her fellow detectives and an Assistant District Attorney: "Maybe we should put out an APB for somebody in a Tom DeLay T-shirt."
Posted at 12:31 PM
Tim probably didn't see the ep, and is just relying on the first paragraph of Brent's report for his Corner post, since there are remarkable similarities between the two items.
Here's Brent:
Law & Order: CI Tags DeLay as Hero to White Supremacist Murderer
The season finale of NBC's Law & Order: Criminal Intent, which aired Wednesday night, portrayed House Majority Leader Tom DeLay as a hero to white supremacist gun nuts suspected of murdering two judges, one of them black, and who had expressed the view that the white woman judge who was murdered was a "race traitor" who raised her family in the "Zionist enclave of Riverdale."
When the ballistics on the bullet which killed the black judge showed it was fired by the same rifle which was used to kill the white judge, New York City Police Department "Detective Alexandra Eames" suggested to her fellow detectives and an Assistant District Attorney: "Maybe we should put out an APB for somebody in a Tom DeLay T-shirt."
IMHO, Brent (who is not to be confused with Brent Bozell, the head of MRC) shouldn't try to analyze shows aimed at grownups, since he apparently can't follow the plots. The ep, which is sorta ripped from the headlines of the Lefkow case (with some "D.C. sniper" for added tension and pathos) begins with the murder of a judge and her son. At first, the authorities suspect that a jailed white supremacist gun nut ordered the hit, but this is ruled out very quickly, because the white supramacist gun nut knew that the judge had moved to the Zionist enclave, while the real killers had first tried the judge's former home.
And then a second judge is killed. It turns out that the second judge had just ruled in a controversial euthanasia case. It is clear from the context that Detective Eames makes the quip about Tom DeLay not because Tom may or may not be a hero to white supremacist gun nuts, but because of his anti-judge rhetoric.
Remember this, Tim and Brent?
The majority leader said Thursday he wants to examine what he called the "failure" of state and federal courts to protect Schiavo, who died 13 days after the court-ordered withdrawal of her feeding tube.
DeLay issued a statement asserting that "the time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior." He later said in front of television cameras that he wants to "look at an arrogant, out-of-control, unaccountable judiciary that thumbed their nose at Congress and the president."
As in the Lefkow case, the white supremacist gun nuts were innocent of the killings. The real killers had started off by murdering the judges who had ruled against them in family court matters, but then decided to follow DeLay's advice and hold responsible those judges whom they thought were being arrogant, out-of-control, and unaccountable. Hold them responsible PERMANENTLY!
(Note: the killers in this ep actually had a Libertarian view on how the judiciary should operate, and wanted judges to stay out of family matters. So, they would have been killing DeLay and those who involved themselves in the Schiavo matter, not the judges DeLay was railing against.)
Anyway, I hope Tim and Brent have found this helpful.
P.S. Last week's CI ep was the second time the L&O franchise ripped from the Bernie Kerik headlines. This time, Judith Regan was his ambitious PR person, not his publisher. She found out about his other mistress from a note left in the Ground Zero love nest (just like in the real Kerik case, only in reverse), and manipulated Kerik into killing the other mistresses's husband by playing on his mother's sordid history. And then they killed the mistress together, to protect his political career.
The message is clear: taking up with Bernie Kerik can be dangerous to your health! As you will recall, in the "L&O: Original Recipe" take on the story, Bernie killed his two mistresses, Judith Regan and Jenna Jameson, when they threatened his Homeland Security gig. (I think L&O writers love the Kerik saga mostly for the "juggling two mistresses" aspect.)
Personally, I'm waiting for the "L&O: Trial by Jury" version, where Bernie kills his two lovers (Judith Regan and John Bolton), and then claims that he did it because Tom DeLay told him to.
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