Evil Propaganda Hate Machine

One television program I never liked is NBC's Law And Order, a lame-ass attempt at topical relevance over issues of the day which I like to describe as "ripped off from today's headlines". This abomination of a program long ago came up with a transparent attempt to slam anybody it didn't like, for whatever reason. Just give them a fictional name and pronounce them guilty of a crime.

Now granted they don't always merely limit themselves to personalities on the right. For example, they once declared Michael Jackson to be guilty of child molestation-before the real Michael Jackson was ever put on trial.

For the most part, however, it is usually people on the right who are the objects of their propaganda. The most blatant attempt to excoriate the right-wing was in this season's season premiere, which featured the DA character deciding he would prosecute the Bush Administration-for torture, if I remember right. I don't remember exactly what the charge was, because I didn't watch it. I should have, in hindsight, because then I would have a better perspective, but whether the show actually featured a trial, or whether said trial ended in a conviction or acquittal, or a hung jury or a mistrial, I am reasonably certain they made the point they wanted to make. George W. Bush and certain highly placed members of his administration should be charged with the crime, whatever it was-the implication being he and they were obviously guilty, otherwise the "heroic" DA would never dare put them on trial without compelling evidence to that effect.

I thought that was probably the penultimate in propaganda, one which the show's producers and writers would be hard pressed to surpass. Well, they have managed to do just that, in an episode in which three talk show hosts who are identified by their actual names-Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, and Rush Limbaugh-are accused of inciting violence by way of creating an atmosphere of hate.

The case in point-the murder of a government worker, found with the word FED scrawled on his chest in felt pen ink. Not only is this based on the case of the census worker who was found dead by hanging in a rural section of Kentucky with the word fed scrawled on his chest, it is also based on the false charge put forth by the political left that conservative pundits-talk radio and Fox News, etc.-did indeed create an atmosphere of hate that led to his murder.

The truth, however, is a different matter. It turned out to be a suicide, as well as a botched life insurance fraud attempt. Naturally, the scions of the left who went after Beck, O'Reilly, and Limbaugh didn't have enough class to apologize, they just shut up about it. But they at least did that much, such as it was. Well, most of them did. A few of them defensively suggested that the charge of creating an atmosphere of hate was still a legitimate one.

But the guiding forces behind NBC's Law And Order have surpassed even them with this lame episode, which pretends the facts of the actual case proceeded to unfold and come to light just as they once imagined-and obviously hoped-they would turn out.

Of course, this is the same bunch that decided that the DC Sniper was actually a far-right wing militia type who abused his young son and forced him to go along with the crime. I guess that's what they call the magic of television.

We all make mistakes. I incorrectly theorized that the Ku Klux Klan might have been behind the murder of the Kentucky census worker-for which I owe the Klan an apology. Since I doubt that Glenn Beck, or any of the other right wing pundits, will get an apology from the left, I will now here allow Beck to make his case.



Hat Tip-Breitbart by way of Michelle Malkin.