The following short piece is from the Chicago Tribune. Does anyone really feel sorry for DeLay? No one I know. Except, of course, DeLay himself.
Character's quip on `Law & Order' irks lawmaker
Houston Chronicle
Published May 27, 2005
WASHINGTON -- An episode of NBC's headline-derived police show "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" got a bit too realistic for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) when a fictional detective quipped that the lawmaker may have inspired the murder of a judge.
The Wednesday night episode appeared to be loosely based on the recent killings of the husband and mother of U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow in Chicago. In one scene of the show, two detectives look into whether a white supremacist might be behind the crime. When they learn of a seemingly related crime, the murder of a black judge, one of the detectives wisecracks:
"Maybe we should put out an APB [all points bulletin] for somebody in a Tom DeLay T-shirt."
The quip was an apparent reference to DeLay's remarks suggesting that judges who failed to prevent the removal of brain-damaged Terri Schiavo's feeding tube would have to "answer for their behavior."
The show's mention of DeLay prompted him to write NBC complaining about the "brazen lack of judgment." The show's creator, Dick Wolfe, said DeLay was "switching the spotlight from his own problems to an episode of a TV show.
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