MSNBC: Tom DeLay fuming at Law & Order Season Finale - (VIDEO)

[dzika]

May 27, 2005

Video - MSNBC: Tom DeLay fuming at Law & Order Season Finale

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[SHRED]

1. Not surprising

Delay fumes at all forms of law and order!

[wtmusic]

2. What does DeLay have to do with the murders

or was it just a blind swipe?

[Sick_of_Rethuggery]

12. Delay *was* running around promising retribution

to judges that are out of line (read: "do not march lockstep with the religious wrong")...

[underpants]

13. Here is the quote

Condolences quickly gave way to anger and accusations, with the top Republican in the House of Representatives warning judges at both the state and federal level they will have to answer for their actions.

"The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior," said Tom DeLay, the Republican leader who moved the Florida case to the federal arena.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0401-04.htm

[FreedomAngel82]

44. Of course

When they come after him it's bad but when he goes after them and threatens them it's good. :eyes: What a moron.

[Turn CO Blue]

14. In the episode, the detective says

that (in the plot) she thinks the two shootings (of judges) are related, and then something like,
"Maybe we should put out an APB on somebody wearing a Tom Delay T-shirt".

[ComerPerro]

31. LOL. Cheap shot, but appropriate and hilarious!

[calimary]

43. Not a cheap shot at all. Cheap target, of course, but not a cheap shot.

Well deserved, I'd say. Hope more stuff like this sneaks in under the radar.

Proof that the bad guys don't own it ALL, folks.

[suziedemocrat]

32. Too Funny!!! Reminds me of an old joke.

Three men were lost in the desert. Along came a giant foo bird and shit all over one of the men. He freaked out and brushed off the shit. He died soon after. Then the foo bird came back and shit on the second man. He quickly rolled in the sand, which was really terrific at getting the shit off of him. He also died. Then the foo bird came back and shit on the last of the three men. He was covered in shit, but didn't want to roll in sand or get his hands dirty trying to remove the shit. He was able to walk to the next town and is still living.

The moral? If the foo shits --- wear it!

[Pirate Smile]

3. Ha, that was great. I can't believe that dumbass has the nerve to

be upset when someone calls him on his disgusting comments about judges. But then we know they have no shame.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. You know what is funny about this?

The season finale of SVU was much worse, IMO. It should be lots more offensive to the neocons than this CI episode with ONE LINE disparaging DeLay.

SVU was about a vaccine for malaria given to servicemen that caused them to go crazy. The DA character served Rumsfeld with a subpoena. Her RW boss threatened to fire her!!

But the right is silent on the SVU episode. Only place I saw it mentioned was right here on DU. LOL

[Kota]

6. I thought the same thing. Seems these TV shows are getting

the truth out more than the news.

[elehhhhna]

25. Cynicism alert: Perhaps they're just helping us confuse truth w/ fiction.

[w13rd0]

21. Yeah, that SVU episode was interesting....

...you almost got the impression that the military knew the drug had psychosis as a side effect, and was actually shooting for it (a "easy kill" drug)...

[proud2BlibKansan]

41. Don't you think

that show would make the right a lot angrier than CI that had just the one line about DeLay?

[Caution]

5. Please Tom, keep drawing attention to yourself and your extremism

Let the country know just what a scumbag nutjob you really are. Keep bitching about a TV show making a joke about your inflammatory rhetoric because hey, that's the smart thing to do.

[earthside]

7. Ha!

Well, this is the first thread on this subject that I have actually looked at and read.

Ha!

Hey! Tom DeLay! Words matter!

Really, I don't know what DeLay has to be mad about ... he made the comment he did about judges, period.

Of course, the typical radical Republican hypocrisy - he's demeaned "liberals" for saying a lot less inflamatory things than his threat against judges.


What a whiner and cry baby this guy has turn out to be.

[underpants]

8. Good Morning Mr.Delay

[salin]

9. waaa.... people are using my style of bellicose

talk - provocative and meaning to demean others... against me as parody. Waaaaaaa...........

[underpants]

10. Notice that they didn't report on what Delay said that prompted this

reference.

Hmm maybe if people were reminded of that it could help to tell the WHOLE story.

[progressoid]

17. Yeah, another 10 second quote could have made that point.

Oh well, its CNN.

[underpants]

20. Nope can't have that

they only have 24 hours to provide their investigative reporting .... Oooh runaway bride!!!! Guy on a crane!!!!

[Pirate Smile]

24. It is actually MSNBC.

:)

[progressoid]

26. Oops - sorry

CNN, MSNBC: Same shit, different asshole.

[prodigal_green]

28. hey!

"same shit, different asshole"

I use that expression all the time! I never hear anybody else using it though...

[progressoid]

30. Did I borrow that from you?

[prodigal_green]

38. not unless you're

one of my ex-boyfriends.

[progressoid]

40. Umm...err...I don't think so.

[Norquist Nemesis]

11. Tom's THE MAN!

Point that finger at the media and blame it on those Hollywood Elites! :woohoo:

Keep it up Bug Boy!

[blondeatlast]

15. Hot on the heels of his PAC's conviction for campaign fund

nastiness.

The "L&O" shows have always been very political and very contemporary. This is nothing new, although I expect anything to do with Law And Order is pretty new to Bug Bomb Tom.

[jhain]

16. oh my, what a shame...

we ALL must have misheard that one, huh?

[burythehatchet]

18. The wonderful thing about hubris is that you're the last person

to figure out what a fuckin jerk you are. Keep it up Tommy. There is no demise that would do justice on behalf of the people you have screwed. Drop dead Jerk.

[Pacifist Patriot]

19. Awwww, poor baby.

Hurts when you reap what you sow.

[4 t 4]

22. Tom cry baby nice fake hair Dicklay

and how great is Dick Wolf didn't back down for a second.... bet he's a democrat

[Pacifist Patriot]

23. I've gotten that impression from his television shows.

[Nothing Without Hope]

27. Molly Ivins really had DeLay's number. I am encouraged by the criticism

and ridicule of the Bush Administration figures in TV, book and movies and believe that it represents a genuine upsurge in anger in the American public::
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1792922
Thread title: “Funny but important - Ridicule/criticism of Bush Admin in MOVIES and TV”

The Bug Man, with his hugely underserved self-importance, rancid hypocrisy and meanness, is a perfect target. Everyone but ole Tom gets the joke and cheers when he gets what he deserves. Molly Ivins, who knows the Texas pols very, very well, really got his number in her March 17 column on him:

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=18735

Molly Ivins
Creators Syndicate
03.17.05

The stench of rotting ethics

Only Tom DeLay's removal can freshen our nation's capitol

AUSTIN, Texas -- The John Wesley Hardin Died for You Society has a theme song that goes: "He wasn't really bad. He was just a victim of his times." I sometimes find this useful in trying to explain Texas political ethics to outsiders.

My theory is that few Texas pols are actual crooks, they just have an overdeveloped sense of the extenuating circumstance. Woodrow Wilson Bean once warned himself that he was skatin' close to the thin edge of ethics. After a moment, he concluded, "Woodrow Wilson Bean, ethics is for young lawyers."

(snip)

I grant you a certain resemblance to some of our more notorious standards: "Everybody does it" and "They did it first" are actually considered excuses here. But I categorically reject cultural responsibility for Tom DeLay. Real Texas politicians are neither hypocritical nor sanctimonious. A pol does what he must -- fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly -- but no pol of the Old School, when DeLay served in the Lege, would add self-righteousness to shady dealing.

(snip)

Another quality that makes DeLay an un-Texas pol is that he's mean. By and large, Texas pols are an agreeable set of less-than-perfect humans and quite often well-intentioned. As Carl Parker of Port Arthur used to observe, if you took all the fools out of the Lege, it would not be a representative body any longer. The old sense of collegiality was strong, and vindictive behavior -- punishing pols for partisan reasons -- was simply not done. But those are Tom DeLay's specialties, his trademarks. The Hammer is not only genuinely feared in Washington, he is, I'm sorry to say, hated.

(snip - much more at link)

Thanks, Dzika! Recommended. Nice that the announcer didn't sound like he's expecting to have to lick Tom DeLay's boots. I thought they handled it pretty well. EVERYONE detests DeLay, and many fear him. When he falls, he will fall very hard, because he has no friends, only those he has bought and/or terrorized into his thrall.

[prodigal_green]

29. Hi-sterical

I love the L&O franchise, but on balance, they tend to put forward rather conservative arguments. I saw both L&O and SVU and thought they were both right on target.

[sendero]

33. As Bill Clinton once said...

..."These people ran on responsibility but as soon as you scratch them they go straight to blame."

[Nothing Without Hope]

34. EXCELLENT Crooks & Liars take on this and ANOTHER L&O episode:

The show's producer, Dick Wolf, really hits the real issue in this silly situation with the Tom DeLay T-shirt line:

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/05/26.html#a3143
(snip)

Producer Dick Wolf, creator of the "Law & Order" franchise, took a swipe at DeLay in his own statement on Thursday, saying, "I ... congratulate Congressman DeLay for switching the spotlight from his own problems to an episode of a TV show."

You know things must be really getting to the Hammer when an obscure line of dialogue irks Tom this way. He probably must have read Jonah's Ode to L&O too.

That last reference to "Jonah's Ode" is to a truly disgusting ass-kissing of extremist fundie Fristians, including Bush, by National Review editor Jonah Goldberg in response to an earlier L&O episode involving born-again Christians. He is saying that REAL RW fundies don't want power, oh no! They're just sincere, lovely people who wouldn't dream of imposing on you or molesting the pro-evolution sticker on your Volvo at all! The whole thing should be read, if you have the stomach for it; it's a good idea to comprehend the spin you have to fight:

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/jg20050513.shtml

The Christians are at the gates, but they don't want in

Jonah Goldberg {National Review editor-at-large}
May 13, 2005

(snip)

But the most recent episode of NBC's doddering "Law & Order" series is where I draw the line. The episode tells the story of a racist who committed murder nine years ago but who, in shame and remorse, subsequently found Jesus and was born again. In the nine years since he dedicated himself to Christ, he has led an exemplary life. But his guilt is discovered, and he decides to confess and show true contrition.

So far, so good, right? I'm sure the writers and producers thought they were being eminently fair to all sides. They even showed Jack McCoy (played by Sam Waterston) stunned beyond words that a born-again Christian could be so sincere. In one scene I swear he made the same face my old basset hound would make when I tried to feed him a grape: total and complete incomprehension. His assistant even confessed she goes to church regularly and knows decent born-agains herself.

But this was all grace on the cheap. The rest of the storyline was festooned with nasty - and dishonest - shots. For example, as McCoy and his assistants work to bring the murderer to justice, the shadowy forces of the Christian right seek to have him absolved of all accountability for his crime because he'd accepted Jesus as his personal savior.

I should point out that Christian conservatives have never done anything like this. Indeed, the only remotely similar episode in recent memory concerned Karla Faye Tucker, the white female ax murderer who also happened to be a born-again Christian. Some conservative Christians - and many other anti-death penalty advocates - argued she should be spared the death penalty but not absolved of her crime. George W. Bush - the supposedly theocratic Christian - was the governor of Texas at the time, and was empowered to halt the execution. His response to such requests: No dice. "I have concluded that judgments about the heart and soul of an individual on death row are best left to a higher authority," he declared. "May God bless Karla Faye Tucker, and God bless her victims and their families."

(snip)

[bklyncowgirl]

35. Awww is poor little Tom having a bad week?

First Howard Dean calls him a crook on Meet the Press. The House defies his orders and votes for Stem Cell Research. Then the guy who runs his PAC or whatever it is gets fined and now he's a throwaway line on Law and Order.

Sometimes it just doesn't pay to get out of bed.

[Nothing Without Hope]

36. Tom, the Bug Man on Campus, is DELIGHTED at the chance for publicity.

See the comments by the L&O "franchise creator" cited at Crooks & Liars and quoted in my post above. THAT'S what this is all about. Getting his face and his message on TV and in the news for free - don't doubt for a minute that he is very pleased to be able to act so righteously indignant as publicly as possible.

[Maestro]

37. A reckless use of his name?

Whatever, you asshat! DeLay is such a hypocrite. Let's talk about his recklessness after the Schiavo case.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

39. "Boston Legal" constantly took swipes at the Right - what happened to it?

I had heard that they were going to bring it back - but when?

[Hatalles]

42. The Late Night Talk Shows take little jabs at politicians all the time...

... what the hell is Delay's problem? First politicizing Schiavo and now this... he wants to make a Rather/Newsweek deal out of it. Send him a bottle of Johnson's Shampoo. Damn corrupt pansy.

[SoCalDemGrrl]

45. My favorite line from De Lay re The NBC situation

In defending himself against the quote used at NBC, De Lay attempts to grant legitimacy to his cause by using a "respected journalist". His quote
"When a responsible journalist like Brit Hume made an inquiry into such comments, he quickly understood them to be limited to Congress's oversight responsibilities and nothing more."

Gotta love it - BRIT HUME characterized as a RESPONSIBLE journalist!!!! This is classic!!!!! Yeah and Fox News is FAIR & BALANCED!!
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: