Perfectly timed for the week President Barack Obama is pushing the
House to vote on ObamaCare, on tonight's (Tuesday) episode of CBS's The
Good Wife [1], set at a Chicago law firm, the lawyers "battle a health
insurance company that refuses to pay for urgent in-utero surgery." The
CBS.com plug for the March 16 episode: "In an emergency courtroom set
up in a hospital, Alicia and Will battle Patti Nyholm and an insurance
company that refuses to pay for life-saving in-utero surgery."
The last time I critiqued The Good Wife ("CBS
Drama Showcases Blank Book that Mocks Palin as Empty-Headed Dunce [2]"),
NewsReal blog's David Forsmark contended [3] the program "is both
politically and (more importantly) dramatically complex" and deserves
credit for showcasing liberal hypocrisy.
So, I'll hold out hope this episode will deliver more than just
simplistic vilification of an insurance company and might, given the
plot involves "in-utero surgery," also forward pro-life perspectives.
Watch and see.
CBS's synopsis for the program which airs Tuesday nights at 10 PM
EST/PST, 9 PM CST:
THE GOOD WIFE is a drama starring Emmy Award winner Julianna Margulies as a wife and mother who boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail. Pushing aside the betrayal and public humiliation caused by her husband, Peter, Alicia Florrick starts over by pursuing her original career as a defense attorney.
As a junior associate at a prestigious Chicago law firm, she joins her longtime friend, former law school classmate and firm partner Will Gardner, who is interested to see how Alicia will perform after 13 years out of the courtroom. Alicia is grateful the firm's top litigator, Diane Lockhart, offers to mentor her but discovers the offer has conditions and realizes she's going to need to succeed on her own merit....
- Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center. Click here [4] to follow him on Twitter.