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United States News Title: NBC’s “Harry’s Law” Is Leftist Claptrap I have to laugh every time I hear leftists defend their awful ideas like population control, universal “health care,” and the benefits of Communism. As usual, the first response that always comes to my mind is, “You first!” Tonight’s example comes from NBC’s new show starring Kathy Bates, Harry’s Law. I don’t go into network TV shows expecting conservative values or anything, but I am always surprised when they go off the deep end pushing the Left’s point of view with the ferocity of terrorized Scotts wielding a battering ram. Harry’s Law is so far left and over the top, it’s riotously funny for reasons the writers never intended. I missed the first episode so I started with episode two, but I quickly figured out that Harry (Bates’ character) left a high-powered position at a respectable law firm to open a storefront in the ghetto. This is a favorite story-line for the Left. They only love lawyers when they defend guilty criminals for free. Prosecutors need not apply. So it began in the usual way, propping up people who gave up the American Dream to work for socks full of change from the desperately poor. (How they pay for their unlimited data plans and designer suits is a mystery.) This show is chocked full of stereotypes and, dare I say racist ones, like the “wise old black woman.” A smart-mouthed, withered old black lady comes into Harry’s office and insults her and tells her she doesn’t want her “blockbusting” the neighborhood or bringing any of that gentrification with her forcing the poor out of their hood. In order to prove that Harry is legit she must represent the 87-year-old, toothless lady for spare change wrapped up in a sock. Her offense? Armed robbery. That’s right. This senior citizen held a gun to a shopkeeper’s head and robbed him. Her defense was that she already tried to get her stimulus money from the government but Obama gave it all to Wall Street! (Okay, I added “Obama” because no respectable TV writer would say anything negative about The Light-bringer. They just use the generic “government” hoping no one will notice who’s is currently in charge of it.) During the highly emotional closing argument (complete with sappy, swelling music) Harry projects a harsh view of Americans. We’re capitalists! We should get what’s coming to us and nothing more! This was to illustrate the callousness of a system that is only out for what it can get for the wealthy while it screws the poor. In the same closing speech, Harry gives a scathing anti-American indictment. America is the richest nation in the world and 1 in 7 lives in poverty. We let our poor starve, We let our poor get sick! Huh? People get sick. No government has the ability to stop sickness. If they did, I would never have another head cold. Wouldn’t that be lovely? And can we stop this ridiculous obsession with starving people in America? If there are so many starving people, why is Michelle Obama crusading against childhood obesity? And not only that, but she’s targeting the poor by demanding Walmart sell cheaper healthy snacks! So which is it? Are poor kids too fat or are they starving to death? The only people who are hungry in America are supermodels and those who choose not to go to soup kitchens or partake of the countless government assistance programs in place for just such situations. I am to believe that a poor, blacksenior citizen living in the ghetto doesn’t get food stamps and public housing? Maybe I’m jaded from living in Chicago where government employees collecting $62,000 a year brag about living in public housing they “inherited” from their family members. America’s poor may not graduate high school but they know how to work the system. Of course, the accused senior citizen robber has no “health care” either (there’s no Medicare in this fictional America.) It cracks me up that writers in TV-land think we don’t know what they’re doing when their characters get up on soap boxes and parrot the Left’s talking points. They think it’s going to be more effective when they do it (as opposed to Steve Cohen calling people Nazis from the House floor) because they can do it with dramatic lighting and rapturous music. At some point though, their preaching just gets too sanctimonious (and blatantly false) to take seriously. I busted out laughing at every scene they intended to be “serious.” What is it with Hollywood insisting on teaching all of us a lesson in morality? Don’t they know they’re the ones also putting out morally bankrupt garbage like MTVs Skins which is being investigated for breaking child pornography laws? When you think about it, it is flat-out hysterical. They have no problem showing fifteen-year-olds engaged in sex, getting high, breaking the law and suffering no consequences (they wouldn’t dare moralize about teen sex), but get rabidly indignant over mean old capitalists who hate the poor (even though there is plenty of evidence to prove that theory total bunk.) According to the Left, child sex=gooood, buying your own health insurance=baaaaad. (Harry’s Law writers might be interested in the fact that Republicans, particularly religious ones, give more to the poor than Democrats by huge margins) Harry wraps up her closing argument with the funniest line of the whole show. There’s nothing you can do to this woman that the government hasn’t already done. Silly capitalist! People shouldn’t be responsible for their own lives! Armed robbery can sometimes be a necessity for poor, old black women who are starving (but probably have flat screen televisions.) The jury found her not guilty, of course. (Yawn.) In a second and equally mind-blowing segment of the episode, Harry’s young protegee takes on a case because he has the hots for a girl whose father is being sued by an ex-employee who he fired for being pregnant. The defendants are Chinese and they have a one-child policy in his business! I’ll give you three guesses as to which kind of business it is. Did you guess dry-cleaners? In Hollywood, all Asian characters must be dry-cleaners. I think they write it into their contracts. Stereotypes are bad, bad, bad…unless Hollywood approves them. The really weird part is that the lawyer didn’t stop them immediately and say, “Sorry, but you can’t fire someone for being pregnant in America. It’s called discrimination and other lefties like me made that a big no no and the EEOC will come down on you like a ton of bricks. You have no case.” But that’s not what happened. Population control is a favorite topic for the Left and they couldn’t pass up the opportunity to give their best argument for it. The lawyer took the unwinnable case and argued against a famous attorney named…oh, you’re going to love this…Thomas Jefferson. If you think that means the guy is a raging conservative who loves the limelight, George Bush, and America, you’re right! He’s a jackass too. (Surprised?) It’s a funny character though, I have to admit. I laughed a lot during the show because I have the ability to laugh at myself and my penchant for flag-waving patriotism. I get how corny it is. But when was the last time Hollywood laughed at itself? Ricky Gervais came the closest during the Golden Globes and they nearly castrated him backstage for it. Not only does the one-child policy case get seen by a judge who doesn’t laugh it out of her courtroom, Harry’s little protegee does such a good job arguing in favor of it, that it goes to the Supreme Court! Part of his argument included this shocker. (I’m paraphrasing, but this is pretty close to verbatim.) China’s one child policy is the bravest step any government has taken to fight against overpopulation. I wonder if NBC’s writing staff thinks the forced abortions and the infanticide of females is “brave” too. According to the defense’s argument, overpopulation is more dangerous than global warming and if we really want to save the planet we would control the population! Are they getting notes from John Holdren? Maybe they just read his book. Do you think it’s a coincidence that this high praise of the Chinese Communists comes during the same week as Hu Jintao’s party in the White House and the Red Propaganda being piped into Times Square? The Left always loves to compare conservative media (Ann Coulter especially) to Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler’s propaganda film-maker. But when I watch these things, it’s all I can think of. What else do you call people who will put all common sense aside for the advancement of an idea or cause by which they’ve been blinded. Riefenstahl once described the first time she saw Hitler speak. I had an almost apocalyptic vision that I was never able to forget. It seemed as if the Earth’s surface were spreading out in front of me, like a hemisphere that suddenly splits apart in the middle, spewing out an enormous jet of water, so powerful that it touched the sky and shook the earth I think Barbara Streisand had that embroidered on a pillow on election night in 2008. There is no doubt the kool-aid drinking ObamamaniacHollywood Left feels the same way about Obama and his agenda as Riefenstahl did about Hitler. And no amount of truth is going to get in the way. I only hope this kind of obvious propaganda continues because it’s getting more ridiculous and entertaining by the minute.
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#1. To: no gnu taxes (#0)
My Conservative friend who describes herself as to the right of Attila the Hun was telling me about Harry's Law just last night - she thought it was pretty good.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson
Yup. When they feel threatened, they say and do the silliest damn things imaginable.
Well, [war's] got to do something for attention, his multiple personalities aren't speaking to him any more, and his imaginary friends keep finding excuses not to come over.
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