I don't watch the Good Wife so I knew nothing about this episode. That is until somebody sent me this link.
I did a Google search and the only site that seems to have noticed it, much less been offended by it, is the one whose link I was sent earlier.
Here is their take, and I warn you ahead of time they are VERY defensive about the "liberal media" and how they portray sacred cows such as Palin.
Take a look for yourself:
Some more bashing of Sarah Palin on Sunday night’s episode of CBS’s The Good Wife, but the scene also managed to deliver an illustrative dramatization of liberals in a bubble displaying arrogant condescension toward those who dare stray from liberal orthodoxy – and how they learn to despise the Fox News Channel via Jon Stewart. (I'm sorry WHO'S in the bubble?)
A couple who are old college friends of liberal lawyer “Diane Lockhart” visit and meet her fiancĂ©, Gary Cole as Sarah Palin supporter, gun owner and ballistics expert “Kurt McVeigh.” An appalled “Francesca” despairs: “But his views, Diane. All his views. He supports Sarah Palin!”
She soon lectures, before getting cut off: “Issues matter. I know we’re all supposed to disagree and smile and go home and pretend it’s all some big tennis match, but people end up poorer, guns end up killing people. Global warming keeps destroying our-”
“Francesca,” and husband “Lyle,” played by left-wing comedian Robert Klein, meet “Lockhart” and “McVeigh” in a restaurant where they learn he owns a gun. “Francesca” exclaims: “So you don’t think Sandy Hook changed anything?”
Later, at the apartment of “Lockhart,” played by Christine Baranski, “Francesca expresses her disgust with how her soon-to-be-husband likes Palin. “Lockhart,” a fan of Hillary Clinton’s, laughs as she acknowledges, “I fell in love with a Palin supporter.”
To which “Lyle,” just after grabbing hold of Sarah Palin’s book, Going Rogue, on a bookshelf, scolds: “It’s not funny, Diane. Did you see her? She’s back on Fox.”
“Lockhart” points out: “Oh, you don’t watch Fox.” “Lyle” counters, showing where liberals learn about FNC: “They show clips on Jon Stewart.” (Which really is the place that MOST intelligent Americans see clips from Fox News by the way.)
Apparently this is not the first time this show has received backlash from the Right Wing and Palin-bots before for naming the pro-Palin character "McVeigh."
(Can't imagine why that would bother them.)
Anyhow I watched the clip and found nothing controversial about it at all. That is the same type of conversation that has been happening around the country ever since Snowdrift Snooki first burst onto the national stage.
Of course what do I know? After all I am pretty sure I am counted among the "liberal media bias" that this website is railing against.
And proudly so might I add.
That is almost a word for word conversation about Palin that I have heard countless times since she entered the VP race. It is simply hysterical how upset the Bots are. And, how out of touch they are too. Even my right wing uncle finds her ridiculously ignorant and goes off about how she sunk the race for McCain. LOL.
ReplyDeleteI have never seen this show either? Why so butthurt?
DeleteUnless palin is portrayed shooting rainbows (lodges) out her butt, it is bad?
These people are hysterical loons!
Oh we watch Jon Stewart so we know Bullshit on the the bullshit mountain? Bwhaahahhahaaa!
That right up there with: Libs keep a copy of "What's the name of that book" on their nightstand?
You know every book every lib has....
Oh yes, "Rulz for radicals"! I think that is it.
Hey at least libs read!
Interesting how one character supporting Palin and one disapproving construes "bias".
ReplyDeleteI guess it does in the same way that media outlets that don't bash Obama 100% of the time like Faux are clearly "in the tank".
"The Good Wife" has great acting, consistently interesting stories, and is strong enough to have a gun enthusiast and a liberal lawyer fall in love. What other dramas would allow for such challenging dialogue and character development?
ReplyDeleteGryphen -- it's in it's fifth season. Some years better than others, but definitely worthwhile. Set in Chicago, law and politics. Makes Sunday nights more than bearable.
Thanks for the info.
DeleteBy the way I loved your work during the Scopes trial.
I 100% agree. Great show, great cast.
DeleteAgree to all you say. And, have to ad that the Palin supporter, gun toting conservative is played by the always worth watching Gary Cole.
DeleteI watch the show and this isn't the first time palin has been mentioned. Also, this season, bristdull's picture has been displayed 2 or 3 times on a site (in the good wife) regarding "hot" political daughters. why aren't they complaining about that?
ReplyDeleteI thought it had to be tongue-in-cheek.
DeletePlus, they didn't include Willow!
I don't know how sacred Palin is . . . but she is most assuredly, a cow.
ReplyDeleteHow udderly true!
DeleteYes indeed, but inconsistently "udderly"--they come and go, seemingly at whim.
DeleteIf the Palins open their door on Halloween, can one shout, "Trick or Teat!!!" without being peppered with buckshot?
You guys are jealous my mom is hot.
ReplyDeleteNot as hot as the women who play her on TV.
DeleteAnd porn.
Trig, you have a better command of English than your fictional birth mother and you know punctuation!
DeleteA hot mess, and stinky. BWAHAHAHAHA.
DeleteRight a Hot Mess, and Stinky.
Delete4:52 PM Only in her head, Hon. Thanks for finding the period key-and using it.
DeleteFrom: 'Us Guys'
O ,T, This is going to be the NEXT victim's rant either on Sarah or Mini Me's facebook or blog. Uof Penn MOCKS Bristol
ReplyDeletehttp://www.phillymag.com/news/2013/10/21/bristol-palin-promote-virginity-sex-mad-penn-students/
Screech in 3....2......1. hold your ears!!!!
The only way Bristol would go to any college is if she is able to take her canvas tent and get fucked by the student body
DeleteThey've updated the post to say that the Bristol talk was a hoax. Gotta love the Facebook post congratulating the hoaxters on their "poster making skills and their flyer-ing tactics". LOL.
DeleteI LOVE 'The good wife' - in fact, I think I've had a crush on Julianna Margulies since ER.....sigh.
ReplyDeleteThis episode you're linking to is quite old.....you truly should watch the series - it's quite relevant to a lot of today's news!
This episode was on last night and was a new one.
DeleteOK, I just saw the clip and I may have been mistaken on how old it is. My bad.
ReplyDeleteYou should look at the episode(s) where she does meet this Palin fan guy though. Quite funny. She ends up giving him Obama's books!
The Lockhart/McVeigh on-and-off love affair has been going on for several seasons with their political differences the reason for the 'off' times. How sad the Palin fans completely miss the compliment that Palin was chosen to symbolize the tea party conservative movement, giving her far more recognition than I'd like. And they miss the other side--McVeigh's liberal bashing.
ReplyDeleteSarah: "We’re so proud of you for -- doing all this at once -- working so hard, going to school, and single handedly raising your wonderful son in such a wonderful way."
ReplyDeleteRumor has it that Bristol' is following in her sister's footsteps... she enrolled starting Oct. 10 at Penrose in Scottsdale.
3 days per week and tuition costs $13,000
http://www.penroseacademy.com/programs/esthetics/financial-aid/programs
How the hell can she work in Alaska AND go to school in Scottsdale. They are SUCH liars! Sarah's plastic surgeon (one of them) gives Bristol cover, period. She doesn't work.
DeleteWhile she's working fulltime at the dermatologist's office in Anchorage? WOW ! ! ! Now THAT's multi-tasking.
DeleteRaising her son or sons?
DeleteHope Piper doesn't follow Track's, Bristol's, Willow's, Sarah's, Todd's, Sally's and Chuck's footsteps.
DeleteSarah your daughter Bristol must be pulling another fast on you again. There are no classes starting in Oct.
DeleteSo if Bristol leaves again, check your camping gear to see if your canvas tent is missing.
Then I guess she is really no longer working in a doctor's office. ;-)
DeleteUh oh....I smell another Bristol the Pistol "reality" show in the works. Sarah laid it all out: hard-working, going to school, raising Tripp - all at once!!! Oh yeah, and Willow also too.
DeleteYeah, like "Life's a Tripp" 2 will hit the top of the charts. But I guess a grifter gotta do...
Why would Bristol go to hair school? Isn't she a doctor?
DeleteNo way would Bristol give up six figures in a medical office to give $9 haircuts.
Delete@ 7:17 PM: I think Piper is going to be worse than them all.
DeletePossible sighting at Penrose on Oct. 10?
Deletehttp://instagram.com/p/fTrTTloe0L/ (back row)
It looks like Tripp (& maybe Trig) no longer goes to school in AK. That was short-lived.
DeleteI don't see any liberal bias. I think it's kind of sweet, in a James Carvell/ Mary Matalin kind of way. The bots get wee wee'ed up over the dumbest things.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen the Good Wife before but I watched that episode. She married the guy anyway. Immediately. She didn't look stable. They'll probably be very happy.
ReplyDeleteRecently saw an early Modern Family with a reference to Babygate, with the middle daughter asking the mom something like, "If Haylee got pregnant would you say she had mono and then raise my nephew as my brother?"
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