ABC’s Boston Legal Takes Swipe At ABC Pundit Glenn Beck

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/05/abc-boston-legal-beck/

ABC’s Boston Legal Takes Swipe At ABC Pundit Glenn Beck

Yesterday on ABC’s sitcom Boston Legal, attorney Shirley Schmidt, played by Candice Bergen, was tasked with defending a “shock jock” who was fired for saying on air, “Old people should die.” The comment was allegedly part of his political argument that the United States “could be heading for a day when the bulk of our federal budget goes to subsidizing retirees.”

While the plot of the show is fictional, Bergen’s character took a real-life approach in her arguments defending the fired radio host. She blasted the media for censoring political content while ignoring “racist or hateful remarks”:

Glenn Beck. He’s on CNN, the “most trusted name in news.” He’s referred to the Katrina survivors as a vulgarity I’m not allowed to repeat here. He also said he didn’t think it possible to hate any victims faster than the 9/11 victims.

These so-called journalists are everywhere, and frankly, I wouldn’t mind seeing them gone. But it’s one thing to curtail racist or hateful remarks, it’s quite another to censor political content.

Watch it/read transcript at link~

Here’s the Sept. 9 quote on The Glenn Beck Show that Bergen referenced:

But the second thought I had when I saw these people and they had to shut down the Astrodome and lock it down, I thought: I didn’t think I could hate victims faster than the 9-11 victims. These guys — you know it’s really sad. We’re not hearing anything about Mississippi. We’re not hearing anything about Alabama. … And that’s all we’re hearing about, are the people in New Orleans. Those are the only ones we’re seeing on television are the scumbags.

Bergen identified that Beck has a show on CNN. But she should also have mentioned that he’s a contributor to Boston Legal’s network, ABC; Beck is a regular commentator on Good Morning America. When he was hired, GMA’s senior executive producer called Beck a “leading cultural commentator with a distinct voice.”

Too bad ABC executives don’t take the advice of their own shows more seriously.

[havocmom]

1. Last night's show as a hoot 'n a half

They tackled a whole lotta things.

[Warpy]

2. I'm sorry I missed it

but TCM was showing "Becket," and that won.

I'll have to look for it during rerun season next summer.

[babylonsister]

3. It might be sooner than that if the strike keeps up. And I missed it, too.

Next time!

[underpants]

6. "Alan don't try to save the world just get me off!"

I hadn't seen this show in a while even though we TiVo it.

:rofl:

I was cracking up the whole time.


Denny Crane random quote generator thread in the lounge

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=7206793&mesg_id=7206793

[Cha]

4. This needs to done all the

time by sane people who want to see hatemongers talkin' to the four walls.

cnn should go down in history as propoganda mouthpiece..not ANYTHING to be "trusted".

Thank The Universe we have Progressive Intelligent People who care Enough to write this into the fictional shows we see on tv. Why should hateshites like glen beck get all the air time?

[underpants]

5. "Being gay is a sin. It's bad for the country. It's bad for the President. It's bad for the troops!"

DENNY CRANE!!!

"No one BELIEVES Ann Coulter"

[Supersedeas]

7. also a shot at CNN, the most "trusted" name in news

[monmouth]

8. The Nancy Grace character, in describing Denny's bathroom behavior....

"it's like snorkeling in your mother's vomit." I damn near fell off the couch on that one.. Best show evah!!