Freepish Law & Order Rerun

[GiovanniC]

Anyone catch the first Law & Order rerun on NBC tonight? An anti-war protestor is killed after he runs around calling soldiers murderers and thugs and insults a man's son who died in Afghanistan. He (the anti-war protestor) drives an SUV with a bumper sticker saying "France Was Right". He's portrayed as a major league asshole, a clueless rich kid who never had to work for a living.

The guy who killed him is a blue-collar decorated war hero and a grieving father.

The jury can't convict him. There's a mistrial.

At the end, the lead prosecutor says that the reason there was a hung jury was because the jury had too many blue-collar people on it that identified with the defendent. His reason? "The people who avoid jury duty are the same people who avoid active duty."

I kept waiting for them to present the other side. Nothing. No rabid, frothing-at-the-mouth Freeper types. The anti-war protestor is presented as someone who hates America and the military -- the "spit on the soldiers" stereotype.

I know it's just a show... but it irritated the hell out of me anyway.

[okieinpain]

1. I saw it. it's a good episode for all to see. that is exactly how the

repugs get away with all of the crap they put out. the show called them blue collar, I call them swing voters.

[GiovanniC]

3. The Way The Show Told It

All the right-wingers were blue collar and all the anti-war people (especially the murder victim) were white bread uptown spoiled rich kids. They really made it sound like the anti-war guy had it coming to him because of how much he hated America.

[nosmokes]

2. and what type shows do you think the * campaign is

buying air time on?

the vast left wing media bias is insidious, ain't it? /sarcasm

[GiovanniC]

4. Law & Order Usually

Has a pretty even hand with these things. That's why this particular episode surprised me.

[Behind the Aegis]

5. how interesting!!

This episode did not play in Oklahoma tonight!

[DrWeird]

6. I've always thought it was a pretty freeperish show.

Can't remember any specific examples off the top of my head. Stopped watching a long time ago.

[stanwyck]

8. Maybe it was Angie Harmon

she's freeperish in real life. Seriously, I used to watch. But had the same feeling you had that the show was drifting toward freeperland. Plus, after Chris Noth left my interest definitely waned.

[slor]

9. That beautiful woman is a freeper!?!...

say it ain't so!!

[GiovanniC]

10. Big Time

Just like the anorexic prosecutor from The Practice.

[Skittles]

11. she is a nasty piece of work

very ugly inside

[GiovanniC]

12. If It Was, There's No Way

I'd be able to stomache it. But I love that show. They're not left or right usually, they're right down the center. One cop seems to be left-wing, the other one right-wing, and the same with the prosecutors (although with the cops, it's always the same guy who's left-wing and the same guy who's right-wing; the prosecutors both seem to have a mix of left and right viewpoints).

[DemWitch]

7. McCoy was pretty much in arms about it...

He demanded that Murder II be one of the charges for the jury to consider. When they deadlocked on Man I, and then a mistrial had to be called, I thought that shit...

But if you look at the trila itself, they got the idea accross that they guy wasn't out of control, wasn't under mental duress, etc.

I took the show to be more of a slam against the pro-war crowd. They were willing to let a murderer go free because a vet killed a anti-war protester.

Either way, it's just a show.