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How in the world can the producers, writers and so forth get away with using the names of three living political commentators, who currently use their 1st Amendment right to free speech and happen to be conservative rather than liberal be spoken about the way they were as part of a so called "ficticious" script and at the end of the episode they run a Disclaimer stating that it's not about real people, blah, blah, blah? I don't get how that works. Can someone explain this to me like I'm a five year old? That script was so wrong in every way, but I still love the show, especially Mariska, and her work with sexually abused women outside of her fabulous acting job on Law and Order SVU. She's a real life hero to me.

Without getting into spoilers, this episode had one of the two least believable jury verdicts in all of the episodes of L&O-verse shows I've seen so far. No, nuh uh, no way, not gonna happen, and for me it completely sank what, frankly, hadn't been a very good story anyway. And for god's sake, will somebody please bribe John Larroquette to never do a Southern accent on television again.

(The other non-credible jury verdict I'm thinking of, by the way, was in SVU's "Authority," a/k/a "The One With Robin Williams," back in season 9, two years earlier.)

Not that I don't agree with the commentary, but I think it got a bit heavy handed in this SVU episode.

Unlike so many people who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Rush Limbaugh like commentator like Bruce McGill in this story, I remember that my ancestors were immigrants. Only American Indians are allowed to claim native status and even they migrated from Siberia according to most anthropologists.

Thomas Sadoski is one of those enthralled with McGill's words and actually goes out and murders three 'anchor' children. A term used to describe kids born to immigrant parents right here on American soil and their citizenship becomes assured.

The immigrants are being helped by Morris Dees like lawyer John Larroquette and he takes it upon himself to defend Sadoski for those murders. He wants a platform to denounce McGill with.

In my area of the USA we have a station WBEN which specializes in these rightwing talk shows. Rush Limbaugh who calls his listeners 'dittoheads' is really making fun of them. That's the part that a lot of people don't get, most especially those listeners. In the end nothing changes except Larroquette gets into an unusual jackpot. Of course SVU does solve its serial killings.

Rush's ratings are plummeting and his listeners going elsewhere. That's what Larroquette should have tried. Bad ratings are the unpardonable sin. This is still America, one has a right to free speech, one has not a right to sponsors.

Another dead end and again master manipulators, another race and immigration problem, and sadly innocent children And yet another great story.

Fin is at the center of the story. Fin and Cabot are doing wonders. Gordon Garrison (Bruce McGill) and Randall Carver (John Larroquette) are excellent at their performances.

The court scene in the second half is wonderfulll

And Munch said, "I say we should take radical groups seriously. How right he is when he says.

(2021 Trump and the Capitol attack)

The point of this episode which has firmly eluded O'Reilly and others is this: If one blames the pundits for what idiots do in their name, the same idiots will escape responsibility for their actions. O'Reilly unconscionably accused Dick Wolf of cowardice. Wolfs program showed the bad side of liberalism when it goes to far. And by the by; Glenn Beck accuses everyone who corrects his history as being a nerd blogger in his underwear living in his Moms house. Beck IS as his image is depicted in this episode: an impotent little man who has to make noise and O'Reilly needs to man up if he does not want to fall into the same hole.