Here’s Another Futile Boycott, But I Don’t Care: I’m Not Watching Another Dick Wolf Show Again…

To hell with Wolf and all his shows— “Law and Order,” the “FBI” series, “Chicago Med,” “…Fire,” “…P.D.” I could take, barely, the perpetual sympathy for illegal immigrants and appeal to open-border sentiment, but now I am convinced Wolf is a malign force, not just an active member of the Axis of Unethical Conduct but an unscrupulous agent of personal destruction.

Yeah, I know: it won’t make any difference, and I can’t change anything. But at least I’ll be able to look at myself in the mirror.

I just watched “The Long Arm of the Witness” episode 6 from “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” on season 22 (2021). It was an hour-long assault on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, putting his public victimization by a politically motivated accuser from his distant past in a damning and malicious who conveniently had a recovered memory of a sexual assault that had no witnesses, at a party she couldn’t identify, in order to discredit a distinguished judge because the Left didn’t want another conservative on the Court.

Ah, but in Wolf’s fictionalized version, Parallel Universe Kavanaugh is a smug state judge running for New York Attorney General. He’s a serial rapist and sexual harasser, victimizing vulnerable women who couldn’t afford to say “no,” protected from accountability by his college administrators up the ladder into the court system. The judge is a bigot, a racist, a sexist and a bully, but so powerful that nobody will expose him.

Eventually he is brought down and jailed by three courageous, credible, victims willing to testify, a male, current assistant district attorney filled with remorse because he didn’t support the first victim when she told him about her rape when they were students, the heroic SVU team, of course, and a female African-American judge who rejects a cushy plea deal to send the judge to prison.

For anyone paying attention, the episode was clearly fiction weaponized as constitutionally protected libel. The SVU evil judge’s rape was witnessed by his friends. His victim was portrayed as completely credible; she reported it to the school, and the school covered up the crime. Kavanaugh’s alleged assault occurred in high school, not college; the witness against him in the Senate hearings was only credible to those who desperately wanted to destroy Trump’s nominee. The subsequent accusers who came out of the woodwork after Christine Blasey-Ford’s attempted “Get the Judge!” mission were all absurdly dubious at best.

Never mind: Justice Kavanaugh, like Clarence Thomas in the wake of Anita Hill’s partisan ambush (though compared to Blasey-Ford, Hill was a human smoking gun), will always have his character and reputation clouded. Wolf’s despicable fictional framing just compounds the injury.

TV show episodes “ripped from the headlines” are fine as long as the “Law and Order” franchise confines itself to adapting actual crimes and criminals to its dramas. In this case, the character portrayed as the criminal was the real victim, but like bitter progressives coast to coast, Wolf wanted to stick in a last shiv, one that would be re-run on cable and streaming services to poison Kavanaugh’s reputation forever.

I don’t know how many people’s perceptions are warped by Hollywood hit jobs like this, but one is too many.

7 thoughts on “Here’s Another Futile Boycott, But I Don’t Care: I’m Not Watching Another Dick Wolf Show Again…

  1. Considering too many people think that history is accurately portrayed in films, probably far too many believe that that propaganda posing as drama is also credible. After all, Hollywood people are elites who have access to the highest echelons of government. They surely know more than we do, right? Otherwise, they wouldn’t be rich and famous!

    Or something.

  2. Having seen probably every older, original Law & Order episode probably two or three times, Mrs. OB don’t bother watching them anymore anyway. But the more recent shows are pathetically woke and unwatchable. So, you’ve got two to join you in the boycott.

  3. Blatant propaganda in TV shows presented after the scenarios have dropped from the media have always turned my stomach.

    The first noticed was MacGuyver, showing a destructive militarized no-knock raid in order to capture drug evidence before it could be flushed.

    Second was 24, where the protagonist tied his ex-wife’s current husband to a chair and tortured him with household electricity to locate a nuclear bomb that the husband was ignorant of. Somehow the characters became best buds in the following episodes.

  4. L & O and its off shoots were at one time, way back, ok crime shows. Now, as you have ponte dout they are propaganda tools. I count the beginnign of the end with the coming on stage of Mariska. Her character has devolved to a misandrist of the nth degree.

    • Very accurate observation. She seems to have become both a lead character and a producer and director and taken the show in a very grumpy, verging on angry direction. No more Lenny Briscoes, that’s for sure.

  5. My favorite of the Ripped From The Headlines SVU episodes was when Paula Deen shot Trayvon Martin. And it was as accurate and even handed as you can imagine. But at least it had Cybill Shepherd.

  6. In addition to boycotting the shows, let the advertisers know you’ll no longer buy their products that support these shows. When companies see enough drop in revenue and hear why they are losing money, things may change.

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