Art Gives Life the Finger

When Slate's Dana Stevens reviewed ABC's "Commander in Chief," she called it "a political fantasy that takes place in a Beltway Neverland."  Truer words were never spoken.

Tonight's episode featured an "outing" campaign against the President's special assistant, Vince Taylor, an HIV-positive (closeted) gay man.  But in "Neverland," the vicious outer is the (Southern racist) right-wing Speaker of the House.

In real life, however, the man leading the outing crusade is a die-hard, liberal Democrat.  So once again, Hollywood is more interested in making Republicans look like evil caricatures than in showing the world as it really is.

There is at least one similarity between fantasy and reality, however: The outers in both worlds, despite their protestations, seem motivated exclusively by partisan animus and revenge.  Oh, and in Hollywood, the guy in danger of being outed didn't have his life ruined – unlike a lot of good, real people.

Here are a couple of highlights:

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UPDATE: Newsbusters gives Republicans/conservatives another reason to be dissatisfied with the direction "Commander in Chief" is taking.  Although I didn't focus on it, it is directly related to the issue of Speaker Templeton's aborted outing campaign.

When you think about what Bochco and company are doing, it's rather clever, at least on its face: While "West Wing" has a crusading liberal Democrat as its hero, "Commander" can have at least a patina of bipartisanship (and red-state respectability) with an "independent" occupant of the Oval Office.  But Hollywood still has to make the black hats perfectly clear in the character of Templeton.

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Gratuitous Speedo shots from the episode and the "best line of the night" after the jump ...

These shots are from a scene where the president's son confronts a guy who claimed to have slept with his sister:

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And finally, my favorite line from the episode was when the president's daughter interrupted her and the "first gentleman" during an intimate moment, and the president said: "POTUS interruptus."

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