[SpaceMonkey]

Oh the inanity.

From tonight's "Lou Dobbs Tonight"

CASEY WIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Wednesday's episode of "Law & Order" borrowed from many real-life stories of the nation's immigration crisis. It's a whodunit about the murder of a trucking company owner who is also an illegal alien smuggler.

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WIAN: But the main plot of the show, involving members of a civilian border watch group called "The Country Men" is an outright fabrication. The story convicts one so-called countryman of murder and another of sabotaging the truck so the illegal aliens die.

CHRIS SIMCOX, MINUTEMAN PROJECT CO-FOUNDER: Our record speaks for itself. Not one volunteer has ever been involved in any illegal activity. And after building our reputation up to have NBC maliciously try to tear us down and show bias is despicable.

WIAN: Though the characters aren't called Minutemen during the show, NBC's promos and Web site did use the real life group's name.

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WIAN: The story ends with a revelation that an illegal alien housekeeper who witnessed part of the crime is deported separated from her children, even after testifying for the prosecution.

You'd think the actor playing the D.A. in the case, former Senate Intelligence Committee member Fred Thompson, would know better.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

WIAN: Simcox says he's meeting with attorneys to consider legal action against NBC. The network says in a statement, that like all episodes of "Law & Order," this one was completely fictional. Lou?

DOBBS: And didn't they used to brag that their stories were ripped from the headlines?

WIAN: Parts of it were ripped from the headlines, but the major premise of it was completely false.

DOBBS: Completely false and unfortunately destructive of what is becoming a healthy debate stripped of the bias that is typically Hollywood. In terms of open discourse on issues that are in the national interest and can't be framed as either liberal or conservative.

Transcript from: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP...17/ldt.01.html

Like, OMG, you mean TV dramas can just make stories up????????

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[Gee-Man]

There's a valuable lesson to be learned here, kids. When liberals make sh!t up, they call it a drama and put it on TV or in the movies where it belongs. When conservatives make sh!t up, they call it Fox News.

[Millennium]

Frankly, I always thought this "Minutemen" group was stupid anyway, but they weren't the first such "citizen border patrol" group, and I very much doubt they'll be the last. The concept is not a new one in the least. The Minutemen paint themselves as honorable, illustrious guardians, and they may even be justified in that description of themselves; I don't know, and it's up to debate in any case. What isn't up to debate is that not all of their predecessors were so illustrious.

So yeah, L&O made something up. It's a TV show, and it's a work of fiction; there's nothing wrong with that. Granted, L&O doesn't put "A DRAMA" in big block letters on their logo, unlike a certain novel that's gotten a lot of media attention for "making stuff up" which shall remain nameless. But even with that difference, the lawsuit is only slightly less ridiculous.

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Originally Posted by Gee-Man

There's a valuable lesson to be learned here, kids. When liberals make sh!t up, they call it a drama and put it on TV or in the movies where it belongs. When conservatives make sh!t up, they call it Fox News.

Although CNN should be ashamed of themselves for this one.
Wow... a fictional drama with - brace yourself - a fictional story.

[saab95]

Casey Wian seems to want to discredit fiction, huh?

I agree, how inane Wian is?