"To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing,
if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?"
-- Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803

John McCannibal

by West Virginia Rebel

According to NBC, you are who you eat.

Monday’s NBC psychic crime drama Medium featured a plot line in which an Arizona state senator and former POW is discovered to be a two-time murderer and a cannibal.

While it is safe to assume that the story was written before the Hollywood writers’ strike, and before the rise of John McCain to front-runner status for the GOP presidential nomination, the parallels to McCain’s personal history as a U.S. Senator from Arizona and Vietnam POW are obvious.

In Monday’s episode, titled “Aftertaste,” the medium (“Allison DuBois,” played by Patricia Arquette) suspects an ex-POW Arizona state senator is involved in a murder she sees in her dreams. Through a series of psychic flashbacks, she discovers that the senator (“Jed Garrity,” played by Greg Itzin), as a young Army captain held by the North Vietnamese, proposed to his cellmates that they kill and eat a dying American soldier rather than starve to death. “Garrity” drew the short straw and committed the actual murder himself by strangling the dying soldier.

In the present day, “Garrity” and three of his ex-comrades become fearful that another survivor, “Gordon LaRoche,” is going to go to the media and reveal their dark secret, so “Garrity” again convinces the group that they have to kill him. The group kills “LaRoche” and dismembers him, with each burying a piece of the corpse. One of the other men is confronted by police, and confesses that he committed the murder by himself, so “Senator Garrity” is not held accountable, although in the final scene “Allison DuBois” does confront him about his guilt.

Quite frankly, I’d be more impressed with John McCain if he had eaten a few people in his time. Would you want to start a war with a President who literally wants your head on a silver platter, with a little horseradish sauce?

Comments

Posted by on 03/07/08 at 12:15 AM from

"The President is calling for more fava beans---he’s meeting with the leaders of the opposition party in Congress!”

Posted by on 03/07/08 at 05:42 AM from

Monday’s NBC psychic crime drama Medium featured a plot line in which an Arizona state senator and former POW is discovered to be a two-time murderer and a cannibal.

Oh give me a fucking break!!!
I know Hollywood types are biased, but come on!!

Posted by dwex on 03/07/08 at 07:50 AM from

Technomad, you forgot the chianti…

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