I sometimes blog about the leftward propaganda which is regularly added to commercial TV shows.
But the exchange you are about to read, from Sunday’s episode of Chicago Justice – though it features several of the clichés we have become used to (is the constitution void because it was written by “dead White slave owners”?) – also provides enough of a response from the other side so that viewers have a basis to decide one way or another.
This evenhandedness is so atypical of commercial TV that I thought I would post it for you to see. So, with a tip of my imaginary hat to Karen Townsend and Alexa Moutevelis Coombs, here it is:
Mr. Malloy: I wanted her to have a gun so she could protect herself.
Stone: From anyone in particular?
Malloy: There were over 4,000 people shot in Chicago last year. But no, she never said anything. Um… She did have a run-in with some students. They filed disciplinary charges against her. They were ultimately dropped.
Stone: What were the charges about?
Malloy: She was part of a group called the Madison Club. Uh… Kids getting together, talking politics. They… they passed out pocket Constitutions on campus, and I guess… some people were offended. And why not? It was written by dead, white slave-owners.
Stone: Thank you for coming in, Mr. Malloy.
Malloy: Mr. Stone, uh… 13 hours on a plane. A father’s mind can go to some dark places. Kennedy didn’t…
Stone: Suicide? No. Someone tried to hide the gun. My condolences.
Malloy: Thank you.
Valdez: She might as well have killed herself.
Stone: You just heard her father. The gun was for her protection. She didn’t use it to rob a bank. She did everything legally.
Valdez: Did her a lot of good.
Stone: Talk to her friends at the Madison Club.
Student: This is the only country on the planet that teaches its kids what a bad country it is. Declaration of Independence. Bill of Rights. What a nightmare. Did… Did Kennedy die because we handed out the Constitution?
Valdez: That’s what I’m trying to figure out.
Student: If you ask me, Professor Hall was behind that whole grievance thing. He teaches English, for God’s sakes. Kennedy said he spent more time ranting about lefty politics than he did talking about Faulkner or whoever.
Valdez: Did she ever complain about it?
Student: And who would listen? She recorded one of his lectures. We were gonna go to the newspapers with it. Get his ass canned by the Trustees.
Valdez: What happened?
Student: Hall saw her phone on her desk…. Realized what she was doing, and went ballistic. Bastard actually confiscated her iPhone 7. The next time, Kennedy was smarter. Do you want to hear it?
Valdez: Yeah.
Hall: Gun owners are the enemy, people. Just once, I’d like one of these maniacs to shoot up an NRA office. Things would change in a hurry.
Stone: This guy teaches American literature?
Valdez: There’s more. They were petitioning for the right to carry concealed firearms on campus. They were expecting trouble so they had someone filming it.
Hall: Kennedy, come here now.
Valdez: That is Professor Hall.
Hall: You can’t be doing this on campus.
Kennedy: I have a First Amendment right.
Valdez: There were at least seven kids petitioning. Why did Hall single out Kennedy?
Stone: Have Dawson and Nagel talk to him.
Valdez: I can do it.
Stone: No, you’ll be too busy writing a motion to delay Abigail Chapman’s extradition.
Hall: It’s horrific what happened to Kennedy. I can’t say that I’m surprised though.
Dawson: Why’s that?
Hall: On average, 12,000 Americans are killed by guns every year.
Nagel: Tell me about it.
Hall: Binge-drinking deaths. Suicides. Car accidents. Opiate overdoses. I mean… Why add firearms into the mix?
Both sides get in their licks. Both sides express their thoughts. Viewers get a chance to think about each side and draw their own conclusions instead of being subliminally indoctrinated with just one side.
What a refreshing departure from the norm that is.
And what a shame that Chicago Justice should be praised for offering what should be standard fare for any entertainment show – both sides of the story, not just one.
