Wednesday, October 10, 2007
David E. Kelley Strikes Again
http://catholicleague.org/release.php?id=1345
Just when you thought CBS had the lock on Anti-Catholic Bias, ABC displays it in David E. Kelley's show Boston Legal. Here is a quote from the release:
"The show featured a 15 year-old girl who is enrolled in an abstinence-only sex education program, contracts HIV and then sues her school, blaming it for her condition. At the trial, the school’s principal, the girl’s attorneys and the judge all tout the virtues of condoms, fingering Christian activists—who else?—for her irresponsibility.
“This is surreal. A half-century ago, sex education, condoms and sexually transmitted diseases were all uncommon. Since that time, students have learned the art of putting condoms on cucumbers, and have been introduced to sexual techniques that are as deviant as they are injurious. The results of which are illegitimacy and AIDS. But this is obviously over the head of ‘Boston Legal’ producer David E. Kelley, Tinseltown’s ace bigot.
“Kelley has long hated Catholicism. That is why he finished his number last night ridiculing a nun in habit (it’s always nuns in habit whom the Hollywood gang likes to slam). The nun is portrayed translating the words of a Mexican immigrant charged with cockfighting. Referring to the rooster as a ‘champion cock,’ she comments how ‘it would bring me such joy to hold him.’ Then, to the astonishment of the court, the sister says, ‘To hold that beautiful cock in my own two hands."
Mr. Kelley has shown this bias in all his shows from Picket Fences, Boston Public and of course The Practice. Another example of occured in the November 5, 2002 edition of the New York Times. He told their Entertainment Editor Bill Carter how he was this Devout Catholic using his show The Practice to express his anger over the scandals in the Boston Archdiocese. Upon further review from bloggers like Andrew Sullivan it was revealed he was no Catholic.
http://time-blog.com/daily_dish/index.php?dish_inc=archives/2002_12_01_dish_archive.html
This Caused the Times to issue the following correction.
Just when you thought CBS had the lock on Anti-Catholic Bias, ABC displays it in David E. Kelley's show Boston Legal. Here is a quote from the release:
"The show featured a 15 year-old girl who is enrolled in an abstinence-only sex education program, contracts HIV and then sues her school, blaming it for her condition. At the trial, the school’s principal, the girl’s attorneys and the judge all tout the virtues of condoms, fingering Christian activists—who else?—for her irresponsibility.
“This is surreal. A half-century ago, sex education, condoms and sexually transmitted diseases were all uncommon. Since that time, students have learned the art of putting condoms on cucumbers, and have been introduced to sexual techniques that are as deviant as they are injurious. The results of which are illegitimacy and AIDS. But this is obviously over the head of ‘Boston Legal’ producer David E. Kelley, Tinseltown’s ace bigot.
“Kelley has long hated Catholicism. That is why he finished his number last night ridiculing a nun in habit (it’s always nuns in habit whom the Hollywood gang likes to slam). The nun is portrayed translating the words of a Mexican immigrant charged with cockfighting. Referring to the rooster as a ‘champion cock,’ she comments how ‘it would bring me such joy to hold him.’ Then, to the astonishment of the court, the sister says, ‘To hold that beautiful cock in my own two hands."
Mr. Kelley has shown this bias in all his shows from Picket Fences, Boston Public and of course The Practice. Another example of occured in the November 5, 2002 edition of the New York Times. He told their Entertainment Editor Bill Carter how he was this Devout Catholic using his show The Practice to express his anger over the scandals in the Boston Archdiocese. Upon further review from bloggers like Andrew Sullivan it was revealed he was no Catholic.
http://time-blog.com/daily_dish/index.php?dish_inc=archives/2002_12_01_dish_archive.html
This Caused the Times to issue the following correction.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E4DB1E39F936A15752C1A9649C8B63
Please contact Francie Calfo, Programming Executive Vice President at francie.calfo@abc.com
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