Judge on CBS Prime Time Drama Cheers ‘Amazing’ Occupy Protesters: ‘I Salute Them’
Occupy Wall Street earned a shout-out Sunday night on a CBS drama, the kind of Hollywood affirmation the Tea Party could never dream of receiving. “Before we begin,” a judge announced in a Chicago courtroom on The Good Wife, “I want to take a few minutes to talk about something that is happening a mere one hundred yards from this courthouse: Occupy Wall Street!”
“Judge Charles Abernathy,” played by Denis O’Hare, continued to pay tribute to the leftist cause celebre: “Yes, these amazing young men and women are braving 36-degree weather, with the grit in their eyes of a shared cause, and all to challenge the system. And I, for one, I salute them.”
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The outburst came in a scene, but unconnected to it, of the judge overseeing a lawsuit against a software company which sold data-mining software to Syria which used it to identify and “disappear” American protesters.
Later in the February 19 episode, “Live from Damascus,” the judge loudly sniffles, leading him to explain: “Over lunch I went to offer moral support to Occupy Wall Street and it’s because of the pepper spray.”
Have the Chicago police ever pepper-sprayed the Occupy protesters?
Almost exactly a year ago (February 22, 2011), the show gave prime time legitimacy to the presumption the Tea Party is racist as a lawyer in a courtroom tried to discredit an expert witness (Gary Cole as Sarah Palin supporter “Kurt McVeigh”) who testified against a since-exonerated black defendant, by demanding he admit he’s “a member of the Tea Party.” The lawyer asserts “it is our contention that my client’s prosecution was racist,” citing McVeigh’s “membership in a racist organization,” namely the Tea Party. Video:
To illustrate, the program created a photo taken at “a Tea Party rally in Milwaukee last January” showing a man near “McVeigh” holding up a “Go Back to the Jungle” sign which the lawyer asks McVeigh to confirm “refers to our current President.”
The Good Wife, set in Chicago but produced in New York City, stars Julianna Margulies as lawyer “Alicia Florrick,” a “wife and mother who boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband’s very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail.”
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Wait.......so this is an
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 3:08am.
Wait.......so this is an 'actor' (and didn't Marlon Brando brand acting as a 'bums profession'??) pretending to be a judge, talking about supporting the OWS bowel movement, in some studio-made psuedo-reality court show??? WOW!!! You can't get any more authentic than this, can you??
Of course, I'll bet this guy's never been NEAR the dirty crowd - they might use his robes for toilet paper.
Obama's Ministry of Truth
Submitted by Kuso Jiji on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 3:47am.
...keep trying to pull the wool over the nation's eyes. by now, only the truly stupid amongst us and misguided socialist see the Occupy Movement in a positive light. is it any wonder that millions of Americans no longer tune into the crap that passes off as news and entertainment these days.
Ignorance
Submitted by Nonanon on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 5:42am.
The Democrat party depends on so many people being ignorant of or even hostile to truth and reality to stay in power. Their liberal platform and ideaology is preached almost everywhere. It is bad enough to be preached in entertainment, but the worst are to be passed off as news and to be pushed as church sermons. The (lazy) public won't look past the easy pickings to look for the truth, but will just suck up the lies that are fed to them.
I wish you were right
Submitted by Anneke9 on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 11:26am.
I wish you were right, but unfortunately you are not. I live near Oakland in the ultra-liberal East Bay. I hear that judge's remarks (“Yes, these amazing young men and women are braving 36-degree weather, with the grit in their eyes of a shared cause, and all to challenge the system. And I, for one, I salute them.”) repeated every day. Even people who claim to be "sick of the violence" at Oakland Occupy rallies will end their sentences "but I agree with their cause." Liberalism is a mental disorder, and these people will not be shaken from their fantasies.
braving 36 deg ??
Submitted by dmacleo on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 6:37am.
good lord.
its 9 outside right now and thats nothing. talk about false bravado..
Tiny mention on "The Middle"
Submitted by Tim Graham on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 7:19am.
On ABC's "The Middle," the youngest child Brick said they have a new teacher since the old one was "still at Occupy Indy." That was it, though. Just thrown in there.
I think the stupid among us give authority to these diatribes.
Submitted by jhandyman on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 7:44am.
I see this stuff going on in most tv shows and movies. All I can do is just shake my head and wonder how many mindless lemmings absorb this blather in their already brainwashed confused orbs. The left knows there are a large number of watchers that don't think for themselves and look for the elites to tell them what to do. This kind of thing used to be subtle; now they don't even try to hide it.
<rolls eyes>
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 8:15am.
"Law & Order" always liked to have their characters throw in comments on the news of the day, almost exclusively criticizing the Bush administration and/or (usually religious) conservatives.
Hollywood continues its pathetic attempt to make itself more than an entertainment industry, as if they're fulfilling a higher calling.
You know, so they're like, relevant.
<Yawn>
Talk about a natural.......
Submitted by Herbster on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 8:19am.
Meet the next Supreme Court nominee.......this guy's a natural!
You beat me to it.
Submitted by needle on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 8:33am.
You beat me to it.
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.
and furthermore
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 9:24am.
I'd like to commend the brave, young man that took a crap on a city police car. Kudos to the rapists and thieves too!!
A study in contrasts
Submitted by Unsane on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 9:38am.
Recently I had the displeasure of walking past another Occupy site full of these "heroes", these "brave men and women" looking to do nothing more than sit on their asses and cry and whine for America to be turned into a whiny, babying Nanny State because, ultimately, many of them are just pissed off at mommy and daddy...
That visit said it all for me. The Tea Partiers are barely heard from these days because they engage in their activism behind the scenes and after hours, for the majority of the Tea Party actually contribute to society: meaning, Tea Partiers have jobs and lives. Yet, we are to scorn them, and not the losers who sit around crying about how horrible America and capitalism is as they greedily suck the tits of both.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
⇒ Good Wife
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 10:33am.
Sorry, but Judge Wuss had me cracking up last night on the Good Wife.
They clearly had him parodied as the ultimate bleeding heart liberal caricatoon, respected by neither side of the courtroom. The humor was in how both sides scrambled to avoid stepping on the judge's sensitivities.
Exactly. The judge was not
Submitted by balboa on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 12:27pm.
Exactly. The judge was not portrayed as someone to take seriously but as a looney tune.
I don't get it, bal
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 12:39pm.
His act would have been funny on SNL.
"God bless them!" -Nancy Pelosi.
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 10:39am.
I guess they also "salute" this:
Occupy Your Homes Produces Predictable Result
God bless them! -Nancy Pelosi
Amazing OWS
Submitted by misterbee241 on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 10:52am.
Phooey. I suppose the young men and women in Afghanistan, bleeding and dying are not amazing.
A pox, an epidemic, a famine on Harlotwood.
In what galaxy has a judge..
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 11:09am.
Applauded, in his own courtroom, a bunch of liberal bums protesting and rioting right in his jurisdiction? Apparently, this guy never lived through, or heard of, the 1960's! This show is so liberal-first ep. was givng a shout-out to Dem pols, and all the GOP'ers were screwed up somehow. Plus, the daughter had a pic of O'Bozo in her room! That did it for me, never watched again!
Not to worry
Submitted by Tjexcite on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 11:16am.
Not to worry when GOP get the WH, senate and bigger house control. This will all go away. Oh wait that when the real evil will come out well before that. Not just praise for OWS and hate for tea party. It will be full lies as truth that there are dead people at the hands of the tea party in the streets.
Depends on whether the GOP
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 9:58pm.
Depends on whether the GOP takes over the WH next year. I fear for our counrty is Obama is reelected and the GOP is not in charge of the Senate. Obama has shown he will go to any lengths to implement his vision of America.
pathetic, desperate propaganda
Submitted by Tyler520 on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 11:31am.
CBS is as classy as a $5 whore
Oh please
Submitted by kch50428 on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 7:12pm.
Comparing SeeBS to whores is demeaning to whores. :D
Occupy Antarctica Protester Carries On in -50 Degree Temperature
Submitted by HollyW on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 11:41am.
According to a report in the Daily Rash, a young man stands alone in -50 degree temperatures to protest greed. http://www.thedailyrash.com/occupy-antarctica-protester-carries-on-despi...
Attention Staff
Submitted by Free Stinker on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 12:11pm.
Please ban this Serial Spammer.
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this show
Submitted by azgal602 on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 3:09pm.
is a perfect example of why I don't watch it. I give the show (writers) one chance, when I think they have crossed the line in my mind they are gone. I don't care what show it is. If I can't sit down during the evening and NOT have politics thrown into my face, I will watch the food network (only those who have kept their politics out of the conversation) or the Animal Planet. I will not put one red cent into those who try to use their so called status to tell me what or who to vote for.
Boston Legal
Submitted by golfer88 on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 4:02pm.
This is no different than all the closing argument rants that James Spader used to make on Boston Legal... It's Hollywood politics being foisted upon the republic as if they were the sole arbiter of all that is right and good. But it also falls under the category of "if you don't like it, change the channel...". Republican values say we have to take responsibility for our actions. Our actions should be to turn off TVs and advertisers on these types of programs...
Selective application
Submitted by Unsane on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 5:49pm.
The people who say "If you don't like it, change the channel" are people who selectively apply freedom of speech.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Nurse Hathaway
Submitted by Schofield Kid on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 5:46pm.
I watched 1 episode the first season, because I liked her in ER, but I could tell right off it had liberal leanings as do most CBS dramas. CSI isn't normally that over the top left but Ted Dansen ruined it for me. I see it now has Elisabeth Shue, so may be worth one last look. She all but disappeared after winning an oscar over 10 years ago.