Dead Cant Rant

Once again the media finds it acceptable to air liberal propaganda without question, this time undermining the fundamental institution on which our democracy is founded: the judicial system.

George Soros is funding propaganda designed to twist the public’s perception of the death penalty. One of these is the new CourtTV movie The Exonerated: Six riveting stories about innocence, injustice, and redemption. Though Entertainment Weekly apparently loves the movie (”Searing drama”), it is not only biased but actually follows in the footsteps of Michael Moore in its perverse contortions of the facts.

According to Joshua Marquis over at NRO two of the six “victims” are, in fact, known murderers. Sunny Jacobs, played by Susan Sarandon (of course!), is “a doe-eyed innocent” who was “kidnapped” (”It all happened so fast, you know,” Sarandon-as-Jacobs says. “I just ducked down to cover the kids…. We were kidnapped at that point.”), “wrongfully” convicted, and sentenced to prison before she was eventually “exonerated”.

According to Merriam-Webster, exonerate means “to clear from accusation or blame”, which suggests Jacobs was found innocent by a court of law. In fact, Jacobs was found guilty and only freed after serving her full 16-year sentence! This is so unbelievable that, as Joshua puts it, “Using the word “exonerated” to describe her is torturing the definition beyond recognition.”

The absurdities continue:

It is little better in the case of Kerry Max Cook, played on TV by actor Aidan Quinn. Cook spent more than 20 years after sexually assaulting and murdering Linda Jo Edwards in 1977. Two juries sentenced him to death. Facing a fourth trial, he accepted a plea bargain that let him out after 22 years. He is hardly innocent.

In the name of “entertainment” CourtTV is not only playing “fast and loose” with the facts but is outright lying about core components of a case with the sole intent of altering public perception of the judicial system and the death penalty. The very fact that this is occuring is mind-boggling, yet CourtTV is not alone:

NBC’s Dateline covered the film Deadline, which celebrated the freeing of all 171 death-row inmates by now-indicted former Illinois governor George Ryan, and was funded in part of Soros’s organization. Then CNN Reports ran a Soros-funded program that claimed we should all be very leery of forensic evidence, at least when offered by prosecutors. To say these programs lacked balance would be a gross understatement.

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So what? Hollywood often takes liberties with fact. Patt Jenkins, the director of the hit movie Monster, said that editing the life of executed Florida serial killer Aileen Wuornos aided the pursuit of “a greater truth.” But most biopics aren’t intended to drive public policy. And as documentarian Errol Morris, whose film The Thin Blue Line freed a man who had been convicted of a crime an acquaintance had actually committed, puts it, “There’s not truth for you and truth for me. There’s just the truth.”

During the Clinton administration, conservative millionaire Richard Mellon Scaife funded writers to uncover (or, as critics had it, create) potential scandals to attack then-President Clinton and his wife. The efforts were bitterly denounced as part of a “vast right-wing conspiracy.” Many in the mainstream media condemned those who accepted money to pursue a clearly partisan agenda. George Soros is funding studies, plays, and television “documentaries” with the specific goals of abolishing the death penalty and what he calls “reducing the reliance on prisons,” usually by seeking to discredit American law enforcement. Where’s the outrage now?

Where, indeed.