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*sigh* 'kay. I thought it was just Law and Order: Criminal Intent that'd gotten stupid but the regular Law and Order in primetime is totally unwatchable. :(
So, like when did they fire the good writers and replace them with conservative ditto-heads anyhow?
In this episode, they're making a thinly veiled stab at the whole Michael Jackson child molestation story. Lots of implication that all gay men fantasize about and rape children. Hurray! Stabs at Bill Clinton's first MONTH in office. I mean come on. The make sarcastic comments about what a $200 haircut would look like, then what sort of person would have one (more homophobic rhetoric) and segway right into the child molestation.
This is a fine example of spin and bias. The right wing squealed like stuck pigs that Mr Clinton got a $200 haircut right after he got in office. They have CONTINUED to make a stink about it to this day. Hence the much more subtle media whoring of Shrub getting a $6 haircut with 'good common' folk. But to STILL be seeing it subtly hidden in stuff TEN FUCKING YEARS later. AND being used to ever so subtely associate 'evil liberals' with something as vile as pedophilia REALLY bugs me.
Call it paranoia if you like, but hey. A fun exercise is to take any political news topic and examine the spin on it. With news.google.com it's much easier than it used to be. Read two or three articles from flamingly conservative sources about the topic. Then read the same number from flamingly liberal sources. Are people ProAbortion or Pro-Choice. Pro-Life or Anti-Choice. Is something believed to be fraudulent or possibly true. Pay close attention to how the words are warped to fit a particular viewpoint. Then go out and watch the mainstream news and your local news and look for references to whatever topic in TV. The results are extremely disturbing.
Sigh. Law and Order used to be good because it would often present the spin the the form of debate between the DAs but this episode and a couple others of the more recent ones I've seen have been nothing more than a conservative mouthpiece with which to spew agenda. :/ Think I may ditch cable soon. TLC and Discovery and stuff have been taken over by dullish guy shows like 'The biggest hardest battleship' and 'Some rednecks build a destructive vehicle.' *sigh* I think I'll go read a book. :/
So, like when did they fire the good writers and replace them with conservative ditto-heads anyhow?
In this episode, they're making a thinly veiled stab at the whole Michael Jackson child molestation story. Lots of implication that all gay men fantasize about and rape children. Hurray! Stabs at Bill Clinton's first MONTH in office. I mean come on. The make sarcastic comments about what a $200 haircut would look like, then what sort of person would have one (more homophobic rhetoric) and segway right into the child molestation.
This is a fine example of spin and bias. The right wing squealed like stuck pigs that Mr Clinton got a $200 haircut right after he got in office. They have CONTINUED to make a stink about it to this day. Hence the much more subtle media whoring of Shrub getting a $6 haircut with 'good common' folk. But to STILL be seeing it subtly hidden in stuff TEN FUCKING YEARS later. AND being used to ever so subtely associate 'evil liberals' with something as vile as pedophilia REALLY bugs me.
Call it paranoia if you like, but hey. A fun exercise is to take any political news topic and examine the spin on it. With news.google.com it's much easier than it used to be. Read two or three articles from flamingly conservative sources about the topic. Then read the same number from flamingly liberal sources. Are people ProAbortion or Pro-Choice. Pro-Life or Anti-Choice. Is something believed to be fraudulent or possibly true. Pay close attention to how the words are warped to fit a particular viewpoint. Then go out and watch the mainstream news and your local news and look for references to whatever topic in TV. The results are extremely disturbing.
Sigh. Law and Order used to be good because it would often present the spin the the form of debate between the DAs but this episode and a couple others of the more recent ones I've seen have been nothing more than a conservative mouthpiece with which to spew agenda. :/ Think I may ditch cable soon. TLC and Discovery and stuff have been taken over by dullish guy shows like 'The biggest hardest battleship' and 'Some rednecks build a destructive vehicle.' *sigh* I think I'll go read a book. :/
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I see what you mean about the right-wing agenda though. Via www.whatreallyhappened.com I see more and more stories abotu people getting silenced for speaking out against Bush (case in point: a media team from a French gaming channel was barred from covering E3 and deported back to France for what seems to be no reason other than they were French). It's getting to the point where even Hollywood is afraid to speak out against the Republicans, and that is truly scary.
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I don't know what annoyed me most about the L&O episode. The new DA, who's as dumb as a post; the new writing, which is ten years out of date; or the lack of direction which made the show feel... Dumb.
Detective: 'I Googled for [the kid] and look what I found.'
[made-up site name - note they even trashed the Yahoo! logo on the kid's computer]
'...anyone can put up anything they want. It's free speech.'
DA: 'I guess that's not what Bill Gates had in mind.'
WTF? The whole episode made no sense.
And that episode of Junkyard Wars is three years old. It used to be there'd be interesting things between the shows, but they've been dumbed down alot. Even the new stuff is sorta blah. History of the Harley motorcycle. Repeats on how children are made. Sexsexsex, dangerous animals, big burly guys and their big engines.
Guh. The best thing lately was the Pumpkin-Chunkin' report.
And that was awful.