Liberal hypocrisy, masquerading as First Amendment rights of free speech, is grotesquely on display in the first episode of the new TV show created by left-wing luminary Aaron Sorkin.
The new TV series “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” was billed as a comedy set within the milieu of producing a TV show. Given Aaron Sorkin’s record as writer of “Left Wing” (aka West Wing), it was not much of a surprise that some of Studio 60’s main characters spouted anti-Christian dialog.
In the opening scenes, for example, the show’s producer (?) is vehemently going head-to-head with the network executive charged with avoiding FCC indecency penalties and avoiding alienation of large segments of the audience. In this case, the producer is demanding to air a segment that presumably will ridicule Christianity, or in some other manner distress the people that the producer calls Jesus-freaks.
The producer makes it clear that Christians are regarded as dolts undeserving of courtesy or respect.
In what is portrayed as a courageous act to defend freedom of speech, the producer delivers a tirade to the national TV audience. He denounces his network bosses for being more concerned about making money than about delivering the kind of raunchy, sewer-dwelling crudity that is the true genius and spirit of our post-Vietnam, liberal society. If that brand of comedy offends Jesus-freaks and the right wingers who want to control the country, the producer declares, well that’s too bad; they have it coming.
This new TV show, along with countless similar movies and TV programs, convicts liberals of hypocrisy with their own words. As the old saying goes, they can dish it out, but they can’t take it.
Studio 60’s endorsement of obscene defamation of Christians comes on the heels of the New York Times’s attack on the Pope for his speech describing the anti-rational nature of Islam and of atheistic modernity. The Times, expressing its commitment to sensitivity, editorialized about the Pope’s speech that it “.... is tragic and dangerous when one sows pain, either deliberately or carelessly. He needs to offer a deep and persuasive apology, demonstrating that words can also heal.”
Needless to say, however, when left-wing comedienne Rosie O’Donnell recently opined on TV that “radical Christianity” is “just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America where we have separation of church and state,” New York Times editorialists remained silent.
Liberals scream in anguish when anyone suggests that they ought to exercise the restraint of civility and elementary courtesy. Evidently this is an insuperable barrier for liberal comedy writers, who are unable to get laughs without nasty jokes, profanity, and grotesque distortion directed at Christians.
We have reached the stage at which the First Amendment is believed to guarantee public discourse free from any mention of religion other than the worship of atheistic, materialistic socialism. The sensitive Charles Newdows of the world must not be subjected to hearing the name of God in our pledge of allegiance, because it offends them.
But Christians are fair game in all seasons.
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