ABC’s DC Drama ‘Scandal’ Rabidly Anti-Conservative, Celebrates Gays in Military
ABC’s new drama set in Washington D.C. does nothing to encourage bi-partisanship. “Scandal” is another liberal product of the network, and is a blatant platform for lefty views and policies. The fledgling series is supposedly based on true events, and touts ruthless lawyer Olivia Pope, who was previously employed in the White House.
The debut episode centered on a murder case involving Medal of Honor recipient and Republican party poster boy Lt. Colonel Sullivan St. James. The veteran soldier was a staunch conservative, deacon in his church and vehemently anti-gay. Of course, the alibi proving him innocent of murder was a surveillance tape showing St. James kissing another man.
Pope’s die-hard lefty associate Abby displays the typical liberal “tolerance” for St. James, and wants to refuse the case because of his conservatism, but upon discovering the soldier’s shocking secret she becames his champion.
St. James would rather go to jail than admit he is gay and betray his conservative values, and this revelation prompts Pope and her team of “fixers” to do their true duty and convince the soldier to embrace his homosexuality. Pope told the war veteran that he was “living a lie” and he must “accept who he really is.”
Ironically, Pope was a liar herself and was keeping a secret of her own. She previously had an affair with the married President of the United States.
Predictably, by the end of the episode St. James saw the light, and openly and proudly gave up his conservative lifestyle. The last five minutes features a televised press conference, and the once voice of the Republican Party was all too happy to announce he was gay.
“I’m honored to be a gay man who served my country,” St. James declared on national television. Just in case you couldn’t see the lefty agenda ABC repeated this “heroic” line twice.
Obviously lefties only celebrate military heroes who cover themselves in liberal ideology, while they decry true acts of valor as military propaganda. The real propaganda here was the flagrant and unashamed heralding of liberal policies, and the left’s complete intolerance of contradicting views.
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Just another piece of sh...propaganda
Submitted by richflanj on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 3:30pm.
Joseph Goebbels would be proud.
sickens me
Submitted by dmacleo on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 3:33pm.
I got out shortly before DADT (out in 89) became an issue. kind of glad I was injured and not allowed to re-enlist.
some days its just damn discouraging and I wonder if we can ever unring these satan bells.
Did Jim McGreevey consult on this script?
Submitted by SickofLibs on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 3:40pm.
"I'm a gay American, and I had an affair with another* man."
The only network....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 3:50pm.
program we've watched in many years (since "Seinfeld" or was it "3rd Rock from the Sun"?) has been "The Office", and we turned that off last night because it was sooooo boorrring....zzzzzzzzzz.
A liberal lawyer show under their total control? How 'new'!
Submitted by Slyrr on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 3:54pm.
Gag me. This is 'new'? It's 'Law & Order' rebranded. Wonder if their commercials will say 'ripped from the headlines!!!'
A liberal network makes a liberal show about liberal lawyers in which they argue liberal issues in front of liberal judges and liberal juries, written by liberal script writers for liberal audiences.
Yeah - really bold and new, ABC. We've never seen anything like THAT before. Guess all that's missing is that 'dong dong' sound between scene cuts, and every scene opening captioned with the Friz Quadrata font.
That was predictable...
Submitted by sherlock1 on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 4:03pm.
That was predictable, and I wonder what the next episode will be about? Let me suggest a sure-fire winner:
"Republican AG from Texas sponsors a gun-running scheme that gets lots of peaceful immigrants killed, but then has an epiphany that guns must be outlawed after his son too becomes a victim - on the day of his gay wedding."
Hmmm - that might be a little too closely connected to current events, even for the kool-aid-chugging core constituency of this show, and perhaps even a little too subtle in its messaging, no?
Should copy right that so
Submitted by Sude23 on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 11:45pm.
Should copy right that so they don't steal it because you know their writers are reading this and are thinking, "Oh hey thats good!"
Nuanced thoughts on ABC's Scandal
Submitted by Henry Clay on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 4:35pm.
This storyline I believe demonstrates the compelling nature of human interaction within the boundaries that societal pressure puts unneeded emphasis on gender roles. Challenging cases sometimes lack the sophistication that many Americans lack understanding towards. May this be because a lack of traveling or a worldview that was taught to them since they were children. Fiction has always been the best educator of the masses to understand in common terms the trials that many Americans must suffer.
The homosexual Medal of Honor recipient in this program represents the tortured modern male. Which is, one who is asked to sacrifice but not to express the individuality; whether sexual, cultural, or politically. To many, he would be a symbol of homosexuals in the military service; but rather, a man denying his true self; and evaluating his self-worth within the guidelines that society has so cruelly mapped out for him. I either circumstance, by opposing the role that society has pre-determined for him, he is left with the decision to continue to live a powerful unfulfilled life, or to be regulated to normal and fulfilled.
Rather than be nuanced, Hank, ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 5:11pm.
if you're Gay, say so.
Shout it out, cuz nuance is not your forte.
'Course, neither is silly flowery language; but that ain't slowed you down any.
MD
Mathew, you are a Philistine
Submitted by Henry Clay on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 5:35pm.
Mathew, you are a Philistine that obviously lacks basic critical thinking skills to evaluate the layers within contemporary fiction. I have also found in my many adventures, that the most vocal anti-homosexual commentary comes from those who are closeted. The common layman would mistake this behavior for self-loathing; but I being an expert on a great many topics; have discovered that the anger stems from jealousy by an individual to live an open life. The manifestations come in many forms, either violent, verbal, or a bitterness of soul as tart as a lemon.
Henry..
Submitted by buttercup815 on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 5:47pm.
You are starting to remind me of this old bit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoglB5NRxTo
Say, expert on a great many topics, there are two "t's" in ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 6:15pm.
'Matthew'.
The "most vocal anti-homosexual commentary comes from those who are closeted." is as lame an observation now as it was when first used by flamers as either justification of their numbers or a limp-wristed toss off remark designed to put the opposition on the defensive.
With homosexuality and lesbianism so au currant, why would any "closeted" practitioner want to miss out on the glory days of the movement, Hank?
Your "many adventures", that provided you such insight into the practices of 'closeted' homosexuals took place where, again?
San Francisco bathhouses, you say?
If said "anger stems from jealousy by an individual to live an open life", Hankster, then try and get your head around how easy it would be in this day and age for a 'closeted' individual to step right on out and head up the next Gay Pride Parade.
Your attempts at convincing all and sundry of your wondrous erudition falls short, Mud man, for many reasons; not the least of which is because every time you set fingers to keyboard, faux pedantry shows prime.
At one time you were a hoot; now you are merely tiresome.
MD
Mathew
Submitted by Henry Clay on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 7:47pm.
To be counted upon the great monuments is but little reflection to when haste takes her nightly bow. Mathew with distinctively two Ts; may I call you Mat? For you have now become the doormat to my scornful wit. Stand aside amateur, for your bigotry will be the beginning of an unraveling. Yes, your web of deceit that you have spun wraps your words like a lasso around your argument. Do you not see injustice, man ! Do you not feel the pain of your fellow man who has long suffered to find inclusion, as any other wretch longs for? You speak a great deal about freedom and individualism as if they were two distinct terms; yet, those terms are interweaved into the fabric that makes America the envy of the civilized world.
Freedom as defined by Webster’s: (n) Possession of the rights or privileges of a citizen.
Individualism, again defined by my old friend Mr. Webster: (n) the conception that all values, rights, and duties originate in individuals, and not the social whole.
Mat, we can conclude that modern conservatives view the gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, and transgender community as second class citizens. Poor souls who were born supposedly free on American soil but are denied their freedom. Marriage may not be a right, but it is certainly a privilege that should be afforded all citizens. Being homosexual may not conform to society as a whole, but where do rights originate at? I laugh with mocking derision at you conservatives that thump your chest and declare yourselves the protector of freedom and individualism while you elect those who seek to expand governmental powers on sub-groups whom you oppose.
By the way old sport, Mathew was a fantastic racehorse- but like most racehorses he was breed for speed and not for stamina.
You are a master Hank Mud
Submitted by sentry_99 on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 8:11pm.
I've never seen someone take that much bullsh*t, spray paint it yellow and call it gold at one time. Good job.
I'm pretty sure there was a
Submitted by bkeyser on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 8:31pm.
self-imposed climax after rubbing that one out.
Hank, old fart, if one "t" Mathew was a racehorse you ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 11:18pm.
approve of; he was likely a mudder.
You may call me anything you like, Henry 'Hank Mud' Clay, except late for dinner.
I see your "Mathew with distinctively two Ts; may I call you Mat? For you have now become the doormat to my scornful wit', and raise you one definition: One who is witless, has no wit.
Try again, flowery fopster; pedantic poseur, and Oscar Wilde wannabe.
MD
Bravo!
Submitted by Darks Shadow Show on Sat, 04/07/2012 - 12:07am.
Bravo, Mr. Dean. This Hank here is quite full of himself. It's nice to see him brought down a peg or two. But he's so witless, as you say, he probably still thinks he's above all the "silly, bigoted conservatives" he so clearly loathes.
Thanks, Shadow. ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sat, 04/07/2012 - 1:44am.
Ol Hank is pretty full of himself, that's for sure.
I used to think he was just puttin' on the dog and trying to pull everyone's leg in a jocular sort of way; but somewhere along the line he crossed over from playing the buffoon to being one.
Great tag line you have there.
MD
So if people are allowed to
Submitted by Sude23 on Sat, 04/07/2012 - 12:01am.
So if people are allowed to live the life of freedom they way they want it why should we be forcing people to come out if they don't want to? Sounds like you are imposing your beliefs on others.
You Found? Just like you
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Mon, 04/09/2012 - 12:08am.
You Found? Just like you found all guns owners are rednecks. Is this latest find based on more of your imginary research? Go back and tell your controllers you need better material. You lack the basic skills to even be a poor useful idiot.
Was that your swan song?
Submitted by SickofLibs on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 5:22pm.
"I can no longer tolerate life upon this cold-hearted orb and must now bid adieu. Goodbye, cruel world..."
< < bang > >
More like <<bang>>, "Drat, missed ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 5:24pm.
again."
Ol' Hank - once a doofus, always a doofus.
MD
Nuance is a lie
Submitted by RESTLESS 1 on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 2:30am.
Contrived by the pathetic to find meaning in that without existence.
When in an inclined enclosure, water may indeed appear to flow upward, but that eternal liquid does follow the laws of nature, and cares not your perception.
What you call "societal pressures" are nothing more than the age old right and wrong. Truths will not cease just because you wish them away through "nuance".
Nuance is nothing more than an contrivance of the ignorant to feign intellect.
The
Submitted by grammajane on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 5:26pm.
show was on and off within 5 minutes at my house
Should have done that.
Submitted by Bass_Man on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 6:13pm.
I ended up sitting through the whole thing, first thinking, "Oh, this looks interesting...", only to be disappointed with the obvious leftist slant. Especially the "I hate Republicans..." line by one of the characters.
I think I'll give this show a miss from here on in.
What!?!?!
Submitted by rgallegos on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 6:13pm.
A gay Republican member of the military! Wow never would have guessed that twist.
Next week on Scandal
Submitted by rgallegos on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 6:16pm.
A gay Catholic bishop....the next week a gay presidential candidate...the next week a gay (Fill in the blank)...
Filling in the blank, a gay NB poster masquerading as
Submitted by UpNorth on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 8:19pm.
an erudite member of the elite, laboring under the misconception that anyone, save maybe one of his sockpuppets, gives a shiite what he says, or how he can manage to draw out a 3 sentence statement into 4 paragraphs, or more? A poser who claims the name Henry Clay, but is actually no clearer than murky, watery soil, AKA Mud? That one?
Aint' Gonna Work
Submitted by rammingspeed on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 8:36pm.
They're killing themselves with this sh*t. People hate it. If they think they can get by on their splinter leftie audience, they're wrong. And it isn't the gay thing, it's the liberal hatred their main characters display. Pure sh*t.
Ugh. They don't decry "true
Submitted by balboa on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 9:36pm.
Ugh. They don't decry "true acts of valor." They critique a movie called "Acts of Valor."
Ugh, yes they do.
Submitted by UpNorth on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 11:51pm.
By the by, Bal, where's that proof? I thought you were going to lay it all out for everyone?
I'm waiting on you to go
Submitted by balboa on Sat, 04/07/2012 - 6:27pm.
I'm waiting on you to go first.
Yes true acts of valor like
Submitted by Sude23 on Sat, 04/07/2012 - 12:09am.
Yes true acts of valor like Obama going into Bin Laden bunker all alone to take him out with a blaze of glory! While our real heros are not herioc enough for the liberals because they believe in their mission, they are not corrupt, and contrary to popular belief they do die making the greatest sacrafice for their team and their country. But I do not think Liberals understand that or maybe they choose to ignore it take your pick.
I watched the promo's and
Submitted by sngnsgt on Sat, 04/07/2012 - 10:28am.
I watched the promo's and just knew this would be an election year joke. Have not and will not watch this trash.
?????
Submitted by pcnav on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 2:08am.
Now if they could only get the military to celebrate gay behavior. By the way, I was born with a propensity for cleptomania. I want to now start lobbying for legislation that condones my behavior too since gay behavior has opened the door for it. /[sarcasm off].