Sunday, November 16, 2008

I Can See Russia from my House!

by TheTruthSquad

Monday, November 3, 2008

McCain and Obama, Then and Now.  Any Questions?  Let’s Vote!

by TheTruthSquad

Monday, November 3, 2008

Corporate Corruption:  “Boston Legal” turns into Obama commercial!!

by Charles W. Fairbanks

Barack H. Obama has been the beneficiary of the very corporate corruption against which he rails.  Let’s face it:  Bias in the media is the use of corporate assets to benefit one candidate.  The same is true when a television sitcom or talkshow becomes a pro-Obama piece.  First there was Oprah, then there was tonight’s “Boston Legal”, which became a thinly veiled Obama commercial on the eve of the election.

Does Hollywood think that we are stupid?  Who are these people who come up with this partisan drivel? 

At halftime of the Monday Night Football game between the Redskins and the Steelers, I repaired to the bedroom, where my wife was watching “Boston Legal”.  I chuckled at the highjinks of my old Star Trek buddy, William Shatner.  The laughter didn’t last.  It turned to fury when the show went Hollywood-partisan on me.

In one story line, a very sympathetic character (an associate at Shatner’s lawfirm who suffers from Aspberger’s Syndrome) was seeking a partnership in Shatner’s firm.  The partner’s committee was concerned with the effect that the Aspberger’s had on the associate’s social skills.  In one scene a very loyal legal assistant took the partners’ committee to task for being all-white and for being resistant to change, and for representing why America is not so great anymore.  Then the attorney is summoned before the committee.  With his back to the wall, he launches into a soliloguy as to why he should be a partner.  In his soliloguy, he opines that maybe the age of unliateralism and bullying and cowboyism should be at an end, and that perhaps someone with his tender sensibilities should be an appropriate substitute.  It was very clearly a figurative attack on the Bush years.

I let it go, and continued to watch.

Then in the next scene, James Spader launched into a full-fledged anti-Republican, anti-McCain, anti-Palin defamatory rant containing every pro-Obama lie possible.  It was full-fledged Palin Derangement Syndrome.  My wife’s jaw dropped to the floor.  After hearing Spader’s rant, she was aghast.  How can this be legal? she asked.  My wife is very educated and very savvy.  Much like Governor Palin, she is a dynamic and feminine professional woman.  Unlike yours truly, she is not a hardcore Republican:  She votes for Republicans, Democrats and Independents.  Unlike my wife, who was not persuaded by Spader, the Shatner character changed his vote to Obama.

Yes, I know, it is comedy.  Many acidic and defamatory partisan pieces masquerade as satire or fiction.  (See “Farenheit 911” or anything produced by Al Franken) If we object, we are ridiculed as stupid or unsophisticated because we don’t get the joke.  Sorry, dude, I get the joke, and it’s not particularly funny.  Using corporate resources for partisan political purposes is not funny - it is corruption and it is disgusting.

This should be illegal, and may very well become the subject of an FEC complaint. 

What’s more, I will never watch “Boston Legal” ever again.  Don’t they get it?