From Mediaite:
Unless you are a fan of CBS drama The Good Wife, you are most likely unaware of the plot line in this week’s episode which was “ripped from the headlines” of six months ago. The show featured a “Sarah Palin supporter“ played by actor Gary Cole named “McVeigh” who is also affiliated with the Tea Party movement. He is impugned by a bad guy opposition lawyer for standing near someone holding a racist sign. That’s a very short version of a much deeper context to today’s fiery debate hosted by Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly.
Let me get this straight. The character is a teabagger, who supports Sarah Palin, and is named "McVeigh?"
Damn how did I miss this?
Here watch this so-called debate for yourself. (In my opinion the "liberal" was told to take a fall before he could win the argument. Get a real progressive on there and the outcome would have been much different.)
Is this idiot suggesting that Hollywood went after Sarah Palin to show she was "stupid or ignorant or dumb?" Sarah Palin did that all by her lonesome WAY before Hollywood started taking shots at her.
So does he also suggest that Sarah looked like a complete ignoramus, that couldn't hunt, care for her own children, or resist being a spiteful bitch on her very own reality show because of "Hollywood?"
Kind of hard to prove that Hollywood was at fault when Palin herself was the executive producer with final say over the editing now isn't it?
Gryph, as long as we are wallowing in this Fox crap, you should find the video with Geraldo interviewing a Fox reporter who has been at the Wisconsin stand-off. I was flicking through channels and saw it. My jaw just dropped. The reporter was blathering on about how the protesters had hate in their eyes (Fox, we've really had enough of you and I'd have hate in my eyes too), how they were abridging his first amendment rights as a reporter by disrupting his live shot (does ANYBODY at Fox have a clue about the first amendment?), and that their only reason for being there was hate, or something like that. Geraldo just egged him on and agreed with him.
ReplyDeleteI've watched The Good Wife since it started. The McVeigh character is the very Conservative interest for the very progressive head of the law firm, Diane Lockhart. In the first episode that put the two together, he gives her a copy of Going Rogue, and she later responds by giving him Going Rouge. Obviously an injoke--which makes me wonder if *someone* on the writing staff isn't reading IM!
ReplyDeleteThe Good Wife is a great show that isn't afraid to tackle sensitive topics. One of my favs since West Wing.
Megyn Kelly has had an overdose of hydrogen peroxide that has destroyed he one and only brain cell. XST I thought the issue of if the Tea O'crats were racist was resolved long ago when they burned Obama in effigy the day after the elections in 08.
ReplyDeleteI don't watch anything that bold-faced liar, aka Me-gyn Kelly says. That woman has not an ounce of journalistic integrity and I'm not surprised that any debate over which she presides is fully loaded to support her flaccid view.
ReplyDeletewomanwithsardinecan@4:48, apparently FOX doesn't realize they are to report the news, not be part of it. their "live shot" should be what the crowd makes it, after all, the crowd is the news.
ReplyDeleteMegan Kelly is such a bimbo. Have you ever noticed that all the female news people on Fox are blonde, ample in the breasts, appear to have had plastic surgery, and wear short skirts or dresses and low-cut, short-sleeved or sleeveless tops? Murdoch requires the whole herd of bimbos to be eye-candy. Brains optional.
ReplyDeleteEven I know these Fox people are just stoopid.
ReplyDeleteWe didnt see the show/plotline in context. Even I could tell that there was a lawyer standing up defending the so-called racist...explaining why standing next to someone with a sign does not incriminate that person. But, then, most conservative people with whom I've tried to speak seem to have a trouble with nuance. Like if one does not hear the dog whistle, then its clearly not there...
Google up "Megyn Kelly and Fox NEVER using the Nazi referrance".
ReplyDeleteI'll bet she is still pulling egg out of her nose.
Hey, if Timothy McVeigh himself were to associate himself with any political movement of today, it would no doubt be the so-called tea party... Just sayin'.
ReplyDeleteAgreed 5:37 Anon
ReplyDeleteThe show has some very interesting "story lines". Politics, legal system theatrics, conservative vs liberal, etc. but also the fact there are shades of gray - not much in life is ONLY black & white. I loved the book swap last season - that was great!
I've never watched the show, had to look it up to see when it's on. Planning now to check it out, looks good.
ReplyDeleteClearly Megyn Kelly did not see the show or did not understand it . . . She pulled together a few odd pieces and baked up another Fox special ... crap pie. Yes, they used elements of reality but delivered no message about Moose Meat Mama. In the end, the McVeigh character, a recurring character, was shown to have done his best without regard to race and his error was caused by faulty evidence given him by the police/DA. This was just one more example of Fox poking their mindless masses with a stick to get a reaction . . . for ratings and advertising $$$$$.
ReplyDeleteI started a small collection of images gleaned from teabagger rallies in which the 'baggers themselves wear their racism on their sleeves, as it were, in the form of blatantly racist signs or t-shirts. Sometimes there are photos of these sickeningly bigoted images well within sight of the dais. And you know what? Not once did any of the speakers from the stage at ANY of these rallies denounce the racism or the anti Semitism that is front and center at ALL of these rallies. Folks like Boner, Bachmann, et al., didn't seem to object to these images.
ReplyDeleteAre teabaggers racist? Is Palin a fucking moron?
Goddamn yes to both.