Wednesday, December 05, 2007

RUDY GIULIANI, MITT ROMNEY

GOP Candidates Should Never Cite 'The Practice'

Others have noticed this, and the Boston Legal clip was in the Corner this morning.

From a Rudy campaign e-mail this morning:

Also, an interesting bit of pop culture. While I will leave the Giuliani staffer who actually watches Boston Legal unnamed as not to ruin their reputation, kudos to catching this reference from last night.

Now, I like Rudy Giuliani. I like the people on Giuliani's campaign. I realize it's only one line of an e-mail.

But one of the reasons I and many others like Rudy Giuliani is because he's the guy who takes a rhetorical crowbar to the New York Times editorial board every hour on the hour. He's the guy who sneers the word "liberal media" the way we do, exhibiting the same disdain for them that he holds for criminals, Yassir Arafat, ferrets, and whoever's playing the Yankees that day.

If you're the guy who relates to conservatives by disliking the liberal media as much as they do, you probably ought to not be cheering when Hollywood takes a shot at another Republican.

Under no circumstances should a Republican candidate be laughing along with James Spader and "Boston Legal" creator David E. Kelley when he whacks away at any GOP figure. (For starters, it's inaccurate, as Jen Rubin points out.) At least once per episode, Spader's Alan Shore gets anywhere from a one liner to a closing argument to rip Republicans, the Bush administration, cultural conservatives, etc. Yes, Shatner's character, Denny Crane, is supposed to be a conservative, but he's also a buffoonish nymphomaniac and an unethical egomaniac.

Anyway, if I were Team Rudy, I wouldn't be spotlighting jokes from "The Practice," because sooner or later, they'll be aimed at my guy.

12/05 01:42 PMShare