Bad Guys on TV in 2017: Whites, Christians, Trump Supporters
No surprises, here, just more confirmation.
5.29.2017
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When conservatives turn on a television show in 2017, it’s likely they’ll find themselves parodied on-screen or carelessly lumped into some criminal category. There is, indeed, nothing new under the sun, but writers at ABC, CBS, and NBC are even bolder now in shaming Christians or Trump supporters in their scripts.
Matt Norcross, for Carolina Culture Warrior, collected some of “the most outrageously liberal” scripted lines so far from shows across the big three networks. It won’t take long to see who the real “enemy” is in the Hollywood bubble.
On the CBS “comedy” Superior Donuts, one scene managed to squeeze in jokes aimed at Christians, including hetero- and homosexual attraction to a “black Jesus,” and a knock of supporters of Trump’s border wall. An artist sets up two canvases of his painting, “Black Jesus Riding a Skateboard Battles Satan on a Pony” and blocks an immigrant character behind the huge panels. He emerges and declares, “The walls are supposed to keep the good ones like me in, not out. I should have voted for the woman.”
An episode of Quantico on ABC fantasizes that a white president with ties to Russia is called out for stealing the presidency and will ultimately be brought down by the ACLU. It’s a veritable liberal stew all crammed in one scene. The female “leaker” is proudly releasing classified documents to uncover the criminal president with a rousing resistance speech as the soundtrack to his downfall:
“This is a phone call, not moments ago, with Russian intelligence operatives were striking a deal with our president. America is now a puppet state to a hostile power, and I know this because — because I gave that power the intelligence to do it, to show you, the American people, that our president is a criminal. This government — run by a rogue cabal of self-serving elitists — they’ve stolen the presidency, used fear to control us, manipulated events to serve their greater goal — a power grab to take this country away from the ideals it was founded on, to subvert this great nation’s Constitution, its laws, its norms. Well, that ends today.“Which is why I’m gonna release every secret that [President] Roarke was so desperate to hide to a hundred major law firms and civil-rights organizations, including the ACLU. America deserves the truth and nothing less. Yes, this is highly classified and incriminating intelligence. And, yes, I have violated so many laws by leaking this to you, the people. But this country will not fix itself in the shadows anymore. The light is all we have, and the truth is all we can trust. So resist. Fight back. That’s what I did and will always do for my country!”
As noted by Norcross, Quantico is one of ABC’s lowest-rated shows, but was renewed over the much-higher rated Last Man Standing, the now-canceled show of conservative Tim Allen.
Going for more of a quick jab was NBC’s Great News and right off the bat, too. In the pilot, a character played by Nicole Richie declares her hatred for Ivanka Trump because “she farted in my face at SoulCycle.” This middle school-humor brought to you by the Democrat's moniker: “When they go low, we go high.”
ABC’s Scandal pushes “every radical progressive talking point it can,” explains Norcross. Now in its final season, a recent episode tackled being black in the American justice system. White supremacist “Bobby the Bigot,” as he is known by his “white-power posse,” pipe bombed a black church but was acquitted by an all-white jury. After a “hero’s welcome,” Bobby was found lynched. “Karma,” one character remarked. A black man who got into an altercation with Bobby at a bar prior to the hanging was convicted of the murder despite the lack of physical evidence.
“They didn’t need any. Shaun was black,” says one of the investigators.
“Guys, I think there might be something wrong with our justice system,” it’s proclaimed.
Then there’s Law & Order: SVU on NBC with perhaps the most egregious example. In a recent episode, Norcross pointed out how the show “viciously stereotyped Christians as wanting to use rape in order to cure homosexuality.”
“They think their secular law takes precedent over God’s law. But they’ll find out they’re wrong,” says the reverend.
The lawyers go on to argue that since the victim and rapist belong to a church that teaches homosexuality is a sin, the reverend believes the crime was “tacit consent.” That means the rape was “curative intercourse” and “okay if done for religious reasons.”
When the rapist’s lawyer says, “In the eyes of the Lord– the ultimate judge– my client is innocent,” the protagonist responds, “Well, with all due respect to the Almighty, His laws are meaningless when it comes to sexual assault.”
Time to change the channel, America.
Head to Newsbusters to see video clips of these scenes.
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