I Just Love Liberal Imagination

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If life truly did imitate art, liberals would inhabit a perfect world. Full stop. We’ve reached utopia. This is my rant about the new Showtime series Homeland – which, by the way, I really enjoy. I think it’s a very well-acted series. I love Mandy Patinkin. He was great in Criminal Minds. Damien Lewis has been one of my favorite actors since his stellar performance in HBO’s Band of Brothers. So this is really one of my new favorite television series. But if you’ve seen it, you know as well as I do that it’s nothing more than liberal imagination run amuck, trying to paint the world as they see it – with Americans, primarily white and privileged, as the terrorists and all Muslims as innocent victims of circumstance. If you thought that Law & Order episode where the guy killed immigrants because he was influenced by reading Glenn Beck books in reverse (or some such nonsense) was wild, then you ain’t seen nothin’ yet! In Homeland, the CIA got word of a pending attack to be carried out by a POW who had flipped. Turns out, it’s true. Two American POWs flipped, one of whom is the unassuming upper middle-class white Damian Lewis. It’s not that white folks can’t be terrorists. They most certainly can. But as the show plays out, you find just how ridiculous the premise is. Sgt. Brody (Lewis) was captured and tortured but eventually loved by the show’s version of Bin Laden, Abu Nazir. Nazir feeds and clothes Brody, gives him a nice home in which to live in and to teach his son English. It’s the good life, and Brody converts to Islam and the like. Then comes what every Vietnam era antiwar protestor gets wood over – a drone attack kills innocent Iraqi children (American military = baby killers) and Brody vows revenge on America. Another terrorist of the show is a haughty white girl who decides she wants to blow America up because her father lived a life of excess in Saudi Arabia. Her Muslim accomplice, her boyfriend, is an unwitting part of her plot, a victim only following her out of love. I understand perfectly that these liberal writers and producers love putting to screen what they believe the world to be. That’s all good and well. But if this show were any more progressive in intent, Obama would screen it every Sunday at the White House. In a supposed show about the war on terror, America’s attempts to stop acts of terrorism carried out by radical mujahideen, we see that America’s soldiers all hate the war, kill babies, treat Muslims horrifically, and that Americans are the real terrorists, especially white people with loving families who witness the atrocities of America. But hey, at least it’s only a fictional TV show. I feel bad that I enjoy watching it. I root wholeheartedly for the CIA to catch and kill the terrorists every episode! But I have a feeling that this show, if picked up for another season, will just drag out the white-Americans-are-the-real-terrorists storyline until it gets as dumb as the last season of The Sopranos. Have you seen this show?