Give “C.S.I.” Executive Producer Anthony Zuiker credit for agreeing to walk into the buzz-saw that is Laura Ingraham when she smells b.s. Laura’s unfailingly polite and complimentary to the producer, but she’s also skeptical and more than a little incredulous. And for good reason. Zuiker’s attempt to explain away the Tea Party smear that was the much-hyped Justin Bieber “C.S.I.” episode, just doesn’t pass the smell test:
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By Zuiker’s own admission the episode was written eleven months ago, during the height of the media blasting away at us, and now he wants us to swallow that this left-wing sucker punch was nothing more than a coincidence, a big oops. Adding insult to injury, Zuiker then makes us sound hyper-sensitive and PC. After all, how stupid and easily offended are we to interpret the episode’s stridently anti-government, pro-Constitution bad guys as referencing the Tea Party movement?
Please.
The reason this excuse doesn’t fly is because, as Ingraham mentions, it never happens to the other side. Whether you’re talking about the news media or popular entertainment culture, it’s never…
- Oops, we didn’t mean to come out against same-sex marriage.
- Oops, we didn’t mean to criticize Shariah Law.
- Oops, we didn’t mean to make abortion sound like a bad thing.
- Oops, that race hustler wasn’t meant to be Al Sharpton.
- Oops, that poll sampled too many Republicans.
Another reason Zuiker’s excuse doesn’t fly is because two plus two equals four.
But have you noticed it’s always conservatives the Zuiker’s of the pop culture world end up accusing of reading too much into things and being hyper-sensitive, because it’s always us at the ass-end of their never-ending stream of insulting coincidences and oopses (if that’s a word). When something pop cultural offends the left, things change, and change, and change, and change…
We, on the other hand, are always … seeing things or lacking a sense of humor.
What has changed, however, is that just a few years ago all we could do was sit there and take these sucker shots — sit there and helplessly stew as the most popular drama on television betrayed our trust and goodwill with a strident and unanswered step into the political arena to unfairly malign a grassroots movement that has Leftist Hollywood as shook as the news media.
No more.
Zuiker and his atheist surfers have every right to use the power of their television program to unfairly defame as many everyday Americans as they wish to. That’s how things work in America. But now — finally — through the power of new media we have the ability to join them in that arena and point out their mean-spirited dishonesty.
Zuiker sounds like a perfectly nice man and I’m sure he is one. But he also sounded a little rattled, like a man not used to having his one-sided political conversations challenged.
It’s a whole new world, baby, and I’m thrilled to be living in it.
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