Was this actual dialogue from a Law and Order episode?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

If so, kudos to them! (Saw this in a blog.)

Woman: There’s a million people trying to sneak into our country....
Detective Munch: Gee, it’s almost like someone hung a sign, ‘give us all your huddled masses...’

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

1. Wait, what? I got to Greatest already with NO replies?

Nice! Albeit weird.

[HughMoran]

2. I remember that line

It stuck in my head - some quirky/snarky remarks on that show at times. :)

[flvegan]

3. That absolutely sounds like something Munch would say.

[pinto]

4. Yeah, I think it was a Munch line. n/t

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

5. Did some looking up. Episode name is "Tortured". Season 4. Aired 2003.

By the way, it's weird synchronicity that I found this while some particularly ugly members of the DU American Albedo Preservation Brigade are stinking up the place.

[flvegan]

8. It seems

like they stink up the place fairly often, unfortunately.

I'm going to have to find that episode. I don't recall seeing it.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

15. If you have netflix, you can watch it on instant streaming. I caught up with Season 10 just last

week.

[dmr]

6. Yes, I just checked

L&O SVU Season 4 - Episode 16 "Tortured"

I have it, and Munch says it early in the show.

[DemBones DemBones]

7. Of course it was the French who hung out that sign

on the base of the Statue of Liberty. People tend to forget that.

[UndertheOcean]

9. Damn those pesky French.

[flvegan]

10. No they didn't.

IIRC, The New Colossus was written by an American and an American suggested it become part of the statue.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

18. Sorry, you're wrong. It was all the French. Americans had nothing to do with it.

We didn't even know it was there. All these immigrants kept coming over and we didn't know why...kind of like someone getting kicked over and over again when they have a "Kick Me" sign slapped on their back. Boy are our faces red now.

[flvegan]

20. The French have been sabotaging us since...well, forever it seems!

First, immigration. Second, french fries.

I boycott them by exclusively eating tater tots. American.

:patriot:

[MilesColtrane]

21. At least we didn't totally capitulate to the extent of putting mayonnaise on them.

We help kick the Nazis out and the thanks we get is an attempt to give us all coronaries?

[Princess Turandot]

11. Good thing they do, since it was written by Emma Lazarus, a New Yorker of Portuguese Sephardic..

ancestry. She wrote 'New Colossus' in 1883 and lived in Greenwich Village much of her life.

[Hardrada]

12. Beatnik!

[SemiCharmedQuark]

17. I think most people assume since America has let that plaque sit there for over 100 years, the U.S.

embraces that position.

Sort of the same way that I assume people with McCain 2008 yard signs on their lawn supported McCain in 2008 regardless of the fact that they did not make the signs themselves.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

19. Also: Those words are on the pedestal of the statue. The pedestal was designed by the U.S.

[Hawkeye-X]

13. Yes, I remember that episode

Munch is always sarcastic, and I love Richard Belzer's style of humor.

Hawkeye-X

[SemiCharmedQuark]

14. Yep! As people pointed out, that's Det. Munch in Law and Order SVU

SVU has some great lines in it. I know it can be smutty, but I just love it.

[bridgit]

16. yup, dvr'd it just the other day