While describing a scene at the top of her Monday review of the FX drama "Sons of Anarchy [1]," Ginia Bellafante dropped an arbitrary slam at Glenn Beck fans.
"We are separatists, not supremacists," the sedately spoken businessman says. "We are God-fearing patriots. And in a time when black radicals are in power in this country, we are desperately trying to remind our citizens of their founding beliefs."
Those words belong not to a fringe politico at a Glenn Beck rally but to a fictitious professional racist, ably played by Adam Arkin, during the second season of "Sons of Anarchy," the producer Kurt Sutter's depiction of outlaw biker life in a Northern California beleaguered by ethnic factionalism and a pervasive air of peril.
In the past Bellafante has used her Times television review perch to (twice) excoriate libertarian economist Milton Friedman [2] and bizarrely likened Nazism to "extreme capitalism [3]" in a discussion of the ABC show "Lost."
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