Mrs. Pistachio is a big fan of CSI, and Law and Order style television programs. I watch television primarily for baseball, history, The Pentagon Channel, and the occasional movie (usually older ones on the classic film channels) Because of my wife's love of CSI and Law and Order, she watches TNT a lot where they play Law and Order until it is coming out of your ears.
This morning I sat in the living room with my wife to hash out the plan of the day, and talk about a few of the more pertinent happenings in our life. As we talked, a couple of episodes of Law and Order played through. Being the multi-tasker I am, I couldn't help but notice some of the more obvious points of the programs.
The first episode had to do with a teacher that was killed, following a prank by the students that suggested the teacher would be killed. The teacher was Jewish, and the pranksters were Christian. It turns out in the end that the child that was behind it all was an anti-Semitic Christian kid who was pissed because all of the Jewish kids were going to Ivy League schools, and he wasn't, despite his exceptional grades.
The second episode, of which I didn't pay as close attention to, had a scene where a "run through the forest survivalist" group's literature about how to kill the enemy played front and center in a murder investigation. When the detectives visit the location where the material is printed, on the wall in the background is an American Flag with an MIA/POW flag beside it, and the owner of the place spouts out pretty much conservative sounding (but slightly tweaked to make him sound like an out of control crazy) talking points, most of them around the 1st Amendment. The cops (and later the lawyers) treat this individual with disdain, taking pride in the government's abilities to squash such people with ease. They especially smirked at the character when he dared to bring up The Constitution, as if mentioning the U.S. Constitution nailed it, making it a sure thing he was an obvious, nutcake extremist.
These segments caught my attention because it reinforces the propaganda that Hollywood uses as a tool to get across their political thoughts and agenda. I am not saying they should be disallowed to do so, for freedom means nothing if they were somehow stopped from putting out their belief system. It just bothers me that the industry has gotten so Leftist, and so out of whack, that anytime you see on television a political view that proclaims love for America, and a fairly non-liberal point of view . . . well, that's the problem, you don't see a view like that, or you do rarely, because the Left has pretty much complete control of the industry. Then, when something like Fox News emerges, (a network that is hardly conservative, but is definitely not liberal) it is demonized, and members of the Left proclaim it must be stopped, forced to add liberal content, or be shoved off the air.
As for the Christian anti-Semite on Law and Order, it is a hard pill to swallow. Yes, I realize there are people who claim to be Christians that are anti-Semitic, but for the most part, believers in Christ are very pro-Israel, and love the Jewish People. The Jewish People have no more greater friend than the American Christian. As for the rightwing survivalist nut? Obama said it himself: we are a bunch of bitter folks that cling to our guns, and religion.
I'd rather cling to my right to own a gun and protect myself, and hang on to my freedom to maintain hope in God, than let government take my freedoms, and take away my First Amendment right of the free exercise of my religion.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
By Douglas V. Gibbs
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