This is one of the many reasons I watch HGTV.
‘Law & Order SVU’ is tackling racial profiling head on in an upcoming episode that winds together the controversial Trayvon Martin case and the Paula Deen scandal.
In the episode, Cybill Shepard plays Jolene Castille, a famous southern chef. But instead of making a racial slur, like Deen, she guns down an unarmed, hoodie-wearing black teen she thought was following her on the Upper West Side, mirroring the Trayvon Martin slaying.
According to TV Guide, Castille claims she killed the teen in an act of self-defense because she knew police were chasing a rapist of the same description. […]
And Executive Producer Warren Leight confirmed it to Entertainment Weekly.
‘(Jeffrey) Tambor is a defense attorney representing a very high-profile celebrity woman chef who thought she was being pursued by a rapist and turned around it was a teenager. And she shot him,’ he said. […]
Leight told the magazine the episode will also deal with New York’s stop-and-frisk policy.
He said the show would ask the tough questions.
‘Is racial profiling justifiable? Can self-defense involve racial profiling? We’re diving right into that,’ he said. ‘Can that happen in New York? Absolutely.’
I breathlessly await word on when Law & Order will tackle evil, white Delbert Belton who died while trying to oppress two disadvantaged black teens by using his face against their fists.
Dude, this is going to be HILARIOUS! We need to organize big show-watching parties all over the country. Get the RiffTrax guys on the phone!
Does the hoodie wearing teenager bash Cybill’s head into the sidewalk before she shoots him? I might tune in for that.
These people obviously don’t understand what a mirror is or how it works.
I think I can say, unequivocally, that those two disadvantaged youths don’t look like Barack Obama’s sons.
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That’s the understatement of the week.
The biggest cable TV show of all time? DUCK!
(What would be a show worth watching? combine the sport of duck hunting and thug slugging… )
/self-denouncement mode ON
That’s how it works in the anti-matter universe. Duh.
Honestly, I can’t think of an NBC show I have watched in the last decade. Al the alphabets go Left, but NBC is the worst of the bunch.
What’s a famous Southern
bellechef doing in New York city with a gun?They need to have Cybill Shepard as a chef refusing to bake a wedding cake for a gay wedding in New Mexico, and face a lawsuit in the Supreme Court.
It won’t work: No one will believe ADA Alexandra Cabot is Disgraced Prosecutor Angela Corey…
If they wanted to do something that was really hard hitting, they have her shoot the right guy with an illegal firearm, and then have her arrested for illegal possession and attempted murder.
But I guess they’re too busy put the special in Special Victims Unit.
I’d say they’ve jumped the shark, but really, they did that years ago. The only criminals in L&O universe are businessmen, doctors, or white supremacist/teabagger/Christians.
How about a Southern chef, who is being blackmailed by a former employee (she’ll out chef as racist for slur uttered 27 years earlier following a mugging), intentionally shoots the blackmailer’s hoodie-wearing son during the payoff and then claims self defense.
Since the subject has turned somewhat to race, am I the only conservative who doesn’t want Jackson, Sharpton, Holder, or Obama talking about the Lane or Belton murders?
Firstly, I’m not responsible for anyone shooting anyone regardless of artificial constructs (such as “race” used to divide and control a gullible populace), so why should I accept that anyone else would be?
Secondly, these guys , all of them, have already shown who and what they are. Their statements would be as meaningless and self-serving as they always are, so why give them an out? They don’t deserve it. Any of these jokers “condemning racial violence” would be an empty, almost mocking, gesture considering their respective pasts, so why even suggest it?
If they’re going to go all fun house mirror-o-verse on this then the gun Cybill uses should be a magical full-auto Glock with a 30 round mag that was smuggled up to NYC from South Carolina by a gang of gingers.
Gang of gingers……or damaged (white) soldiers turned tea party terrorists waging war on the government.
– Damn, and here all this time I thought “SVU” was an acronym for “Socialist Victimhood Unit”.
Do “special victims” lick the windows in the ambulance on their way to the medical center?
What is this “television” of which you speak? Long-distance seeing? Fernsehen? Seems to have a short-range focus, whatever it is.
Sort of reminds me of that South Park episode where they were goofing on Family Guy: manatees in a tank would pick out beach balls with pop culture references written on them. The resulting string of references would be the next Family Guy script. I suppose Law and Order’s manatees picked out “Paula Deen” and “Trayvon Martin”, and the writers said “Paula Deen shoots Trayvon Martin! Brilliant! Now lets hand off the script writing to our unpaid interns and do a line of coke and knock off early”. See? This script writing business doesn’t have to be hard or intelligent or anything.
I’m working on one of my own – The Odd Couple (cue theme music) – set in a federal suprmax somewhere in Ft. Levenworth, starring Felix (“Chelsea” Manning) and Oscar (Maj. Nidal Hasan, USA, Ret.):
Felix (“Chelsea”): Oscar, you didn’t clean your side of the cell this morning.
Oscar (Nidal): I like it that way Felix.
Felix: Grumpy today Oscar?
Oscar: If I had a wall of bricks I would bury you under them, as the Koran says I should.
Felix: Well someone is in a bad mood!
Oscar: I can’t wait to finally check out of here. I get my 72 virgins and I don’t have to look at you anymore…
…and so on. Imagine the hijinx and all the Army memories they could share. If I had unpaid interns and coke you’d know what I’d do. It is Friday after all. But since I have neither, I think I’ll just get started on my Golden Globe acceptance speech. Remember, you read it here first…
I’ve never watched this program and it sounds like I don’t need to do any catching up. I do like the BBC’s “Law and Order: UK”. Their justice system works differently than ours and everyone is so damned polite yet vicious. Love the wigs in court, too.
In general, it looks like a formula designed on the principle of the alimentary canal, uniformly resulting in the production of dreck (insert tasty looking sandwich, tasty looking ice cream, tasty looking salad, process a couple of hours and voila!, a pile of shit), albeit marginally variable dreck. So, now a greasy lump of dreck, now a firm and dry lump of dreck, but always offensive to the senses and plain useless for building anything.
Sounds a great deal like Derbyshire’s review of The Butler over at Taki Magazine.
Just imagine what they can do with the story of an aboriginal professional soccer player shot in the back, “just for fun”, by a trio of white racist youths, while out jogging in Central Park.
Helen can help them write it
rightcorrectly.Isn’t the fact that baseball teams are gangs of the worst sort going to get any attention? These pernicious baseball vermin want an extermination, and NBC is just the organization to do it.
can the youth work in a Planned Parenthood clinic?
No, they will be trying out for an O’Keefe video project and James will have filmed the entire initiation ritual.
Drinking game for the episode should be based on the phrase “stand your ground.”
What I learned from Juan Williams
1. When a black male youth expresses a broad brush hatred of and desire to harm white people it is not racism but merely an expression of culture.
2. The national expression on race is to be directed mostly at non criminal and non violent whites and not on would be career criminals at all.
Looks like ol’ neighbor Juan has discovered the Molierian virtus dormativa harbored within the infinitely useful concept of culture.
Speaking of the germ theory of disease, David Axelrod seems to be a bug in want of a vaccine.
axeldude doesn’t want impeachment to go viral
axeldude doesn’t want impeachment to go viral
It’s odd that, since his Lord and Master Barack Hussein Obazm beat the US Constitution to a pulp with a heavy flashlight and left the poor old thing lying bleeding on the ground, and it succumbed just the next day. Best that no-one find out though, from Axelrod’s point of view. Heck, he might be out of a job.
Change “San Diego” to America, “mayor” to President and “city” to nation, take out the “sexual harassment” and add whatever crime is appropriate and you have the Obama speech if he’s ever impeached and convicted.
Ajami: “Our skin has grown thick in the Obama years. We live in the universe this president has created, caught in the controversies he stirs up day after day, caught between his devotees keen to overlook the transgressions and scandals of his reign, and critics and rivals who have not been able to find a way that this presidency could be reined in.”
Only, the way isn’t hard to find. It’s a lack of upright intention that’s the problem.
If Obama really wants to push maximum “Le e’tat c’est moi” caprice and test the limits of his quasi god-hood e could pardon Major Nidal Hasan tomorrow. And then six weeks from now he could top the furor of THAT by ordering him killed via drone strike.
“BOB FILNER: […] Now I have to caution the council about one thing, the city. I started my political career facing lynch mobs. And trying to touch those lynch mobs inappropriately. And fondle them. I once asked the lynch mobs to come to work without underwear on. I can’t help it, I’m just a hugger… “
“But where were they going without ever knowing the way?“