A Week After Ann Coulter Episode, 'Law & Order' to Air Haggard-Inspired Plot

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A week after NBC's Law & Order aired an episode revolving around an Ann Coulter-like character (NewsBusters item with video) whose anti-embryonic stem cell research position so angered a student suffering from Parkinson's disease that he tried to kill her (but his gunshot kills an innocent student), tonight's (Friday) episode is inspired by the Ted Haggard case -- though with the added twist of murder. From TV Guide.com:

“A popular reverend is suspected of a gay actor's murder when it is discovered the victim threatened to out the pastor and expose his hypocritical stance on homosexuality.”

NBC.com's plot summary suggests the Haggard character may not be the real murderer:

“After a gay actor is found shot to death, Detectives Ed Green (Jesse L. Martin) and Nina Cassady (Milena Govich) arrive at the scene and discover an email that was sent to a well-known pastor. In the email, the actor admonishes him for speaking out against gays. Asst. D.A. Jack McCoy (Sam Waterston) discovers a note left behind that he suspects may be a cover for the real murderer.”

Law & Order airs Friday nights at 10pm EST/PST, 9pm CST/MST.


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Meh.-PJ

Meh.

-PJ

Haggard and Dobson have a big part is this crap...

Ted Haggard is as disgusting a personality as the now dead with no regrets Anna Nicole-Smith. His co-conspirator in this Haggard oriented propoganda campaign, James Dobson, is becoming an increasingly distasteful and dishonest man and my recommendations to CONSERVATIVES is...stay away from both of them.

What do I mean? Well not only did Haggard LIE repeatedly about his drug fueled homoerotic encounters, but lied about it and then when caught...still lied and lied somemore only to lie again about this being the only homosexual lover he has ever had and that he didn't DO the meth...enter...James, "The Truth Thief" Dobson.

Dobson steps in to advocate for Haggard. Supposedly Dobson is a therapist, a specialist in human behavior and couldn't see this coming? Good Lord Dobson are you so naive on purpose or do you make a living being deliberately stupid?

The fact is both are excuse makers and blame shifters...anything but them. They are the moral whiz kids for everyone else (but themselves except when treating Haggard for his lifetime of homosexual activities)..so much so that Dobson's counseling has "cured" Haggard and after a little over 2 months of silence and...get this...3 weeks of intense counseling...Haggard claims to be 100% heterosexual. And James Dobson, while holding Haggard's hand...announces this.

Haggard and Dobson only have themselves to blame for taking Christianity, God, the Bible, and psycho-threrapy on a circus ride and making it all a joke. You gullible and naive fools....and they are playing you for this.

I really don't care for the excesses of the MsM and they are obvious but in this case, these two fools (Dobson isn't named as a personality for the show but deserves a character) have brought this on themselves and are nothing but a black eye to conservatism and evangelicalism and should be slapped in the mouth on the next 50 ocassions they dare to open it and make a public statement.

I make no bones about it, I too am a born again Christian...saved...regenerated, trust Christ as Savior...whatever other synonym you want to use. These clowns don't represent anything remotely close to the perspicacitous life of integrity, honesty, and ethics espoused in Scripture which they loudly and eagerly preached yet spit on so often with their contemptable behavior, lies and excuse making. They are disgusting examples of plates of theological sh!t (if your fragile senses can't take an expletive now and then I don't recommend the writings of the wonderous theologian named Martin Luther) served up as sound bible doctrine. It doesn't excuse the excesses of the MsM but it sure makes it a strong case here.

If you claim to be a conservative, please don't disgrace yourself and conservatism by thinking and arguing like a liberal. Go Rudy!

GAT - Haggard etal

IMHO, those who profess to be our spiritual and moral guides must be held to a stronger measuring stick than those who follow them. Betrayal of trust is , to me, one of the greatest of all crimes.

"They are disgusting examples of plates of theological sh!t " aptly describes them.

"Truth exists, only fasehoods must be invented."

Dobson was not part of counseling Haggard

While Dobson was initially slated to be part of Haggard's counseling team, he dropped out shortly thereafter.  That makes your conspiracy theories about Haggard and Dobson rather suspect. 

Another point:  If Haggard managed to fool his wife, isn't it possible he fooled Dobson as well?  Dobson's initial reaction was to suspect that Haggard was being hit as a political dirty trick, but when Haggard admitted the truth, Dobson backed off from his defense and expressed sadness.

It sounds as though you've accepted a lot of bilge from people who hate evangelicals.  Haggard brought a lot of this on himself, though Christian haters still manage to be over the top in their reactions.  As for Dobson, he is widely respected, but widely villified by people who are scared of his influence.  Just these few factual errors poke some big holes in your post.  Perhaps it's you who is gullible and naive.

My friend...

Haven't you heard...Dear Old Dobson supports Haggard's new claim of a clean wash...it isn't me that is naive.

If you claim to be a conservative, please don't disgrace yourself and conservatism by thinking and arguing like a liberal. Go Rudy!

Dobson

I have not been able to find any statement to that effect by Dobson, or anything Dobson may have said about the most recent stories on Haggard.  If you can document it, please do.

I've read several versions of the story.  All suggest to me that Haggard says his much publicized episode was a one time thing, and that he didn't follow it through to the end.  The stories all say "Haggard believes" he is completely heterosexual.  Neither you nor I nor anyone here knows his heart in this matter.  The fact remains, Haggard is not returning to his old pulpit nor going back into ministry.  He did something stupid, he deserves to pay for it, and he is paying for it--even if his payment doesn't satisfy you.

Well my friend...

Well my friend...remain in naivety as long as you wish.

If you claim to be a conservative, please don't disgrace yourself and conservatism by thinking and arguing like a liberal. Go Rudy!

caught ya, guy, art & tom

There is no wondrous theologian by that name.

You believe him, he's very famous, but he was in error. No, not referring to Al Gore. I refer to Martin Luther.

Of course, his theology was fine while he was in the Catholic Church; (Did you know he was very devoted to Mary, the Mother of God?) -- Then he went into a spin. He made many mistakes, and yes, he could lob an expletive for emphasis. Gore prolly does too, off camera.

Dearest Lord...

Dearest Lord...

May it be soon that tumbler, a man born out of time, may be sent to 1200 AD to join the Crusades and fulfill his true calling...; )

If you claim to be a conservative, please don't disgrace yourself and conservatism by thinking and arguing like a liberal. Go Rudy!

Do these creepy-critters neve

Do these creepy-critters never quit?

Enough already.

I never have watched the show and never will.

These pathetic soulless people who espouse this tripe are the dregs on this planet.

Agenda agenda agenda.....

BT..Im with you girl. I have

BT..Im with you girl. I have never watched trash TV, nor movies either for that matter. The show I am waiting for them to come out with is one of an guy that likes to fish, but has to work to afford to. Curse those liberals...they give everyone anything they want except me!!

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

On the next Law and Order:

On the next Law and Order: A black man in Louisiana that stashes money in his freezer, but is it just to divert attention from the bodies he has in his cellar? The next Law and Order...

^^ Too subtle?

I'm starting to dislike Dic

I'm starting to dislike Dick Wolf.

I just got up from the TV. I

I just got up from the TV. I did not realize the show would be slamming the religious right again.  The way I see it is that the people who preach should be like cops and held to a higher level of behavior. But…. There is nothing the left loves better then someone falling down from high places. We on the right demand better. Look at how we treat our politicians. You do something wrong they quit or we vote them out. If you are from the left, no problem. You can have $10,000 cash in your ice box and ….well you have cash in your ice box.  We have a politician the e-mails pages dirty messages, and he is gone. I think I will stay with the straight and narrow.  But I do get tired of the constant harping and finger pointing. 

America is best described by one word, freedom... Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dick Wolf does not have the g

Dick Wolf does not have the guts to take aim at some of the leftist human debris the mingles amongst us.

Mr. Wolf: Screw you.

And Fred Thompson, please.....tell Wolf to grow up.

Rochester, Minnesota: A Fem_Leftist City!

L & O has been a left-wing propaganda show for years

I used to like the Law and Order series years ago. But for the last 5-8 years, it seems EVERY single episode is loaded with a flat out preached sermon against anything and everything conservative, christian or republican.

It really is a terrible show, absolute, unrepentent propaganda, as are each of the spin-offs.

It took you 8 years to see th

It took you 8 years to see that, bud? I gave up on ANY programming from the "Small 3" almost 20 years ago ... they've been forwarding the liberal agenda since the 1960's.

Law and Disorder ... what a joke.

Don't fret niner-four-whiskey

Don't fret niner-four-whiskey, I was way behind you.

So I watch most of this show last night, and they have the preacher who was covering up for his wife hang himself in the jail ( suicide= hell) , and the wife, who was going to win the case, does a 30 seconds of thought deal with mr icantstandhim prosecutor, on the basis that "her 135 million dollar church would be saved", if she only confessed the murder as the prosecution hid for her, her youthful snort and pick up for prostitution.

 Yeah, that made sense only to a FREAKING LIBERAL IDIOT WHO HATES "CHURCHY STUFF" SO MUCH THEY CAN'T THINK CLEARLY.

 I mean come on, the preacher guy hangs himself in the cell, and his wife goes with " I'll admit to the murder, as long as they don't share I once got picked up for prostitution 35 years ago, in order to save the church congregation from rebelling " ???!!??

 Yep, they really, really blew it....( I'm sure it was funny to a few "intellectual libs" who no doubt laughed and thought that is how dumb religious zealouts are when they make decisions based on their zeal, while the joke was on the libidiot, as usual.)

Whatever, the writers must have been buzzed up on drugs all the week prior or something.

Ha. That plot is almost as

Ha. That plot is almost as funny as a recent. particularly dimwitted SVU plot...

(what's SVU stand for: Stupifyingly Vapid Uselessness)

...concerning "Junk Food" and a Fat Hate crime.

I kid you not.

"Our readers don't give a rat's ass about what you think. They want facts."

Elmore Leonard, 'The Hot Kid'.

they do it because they can.

they do it because they can.  they live in a very non religious environment and naturally don't like anyone who would criticize their lifestyle.  it is just too bad that their business division doesn't recognize they are unnecessarily tuning out a significant number of viewers.

I couldn't believe the anti-C

I couldn't believe the anti-Christian sentiment of this episode.  Lt. Van Buren calling the preacher a hypocrite and saying she wanted publicity on the arrest even before it went to trial.