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Joe Morton is Evil?!? Does Not Compute

By Chris Hall
November 2, 2014
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One of the reasons I finally surrendered and started watching Scandal was I heard that Joe Morton had a role on it. Now that we’ve hit season three, I’m having a really hard time thinking of Joe Morton as evil. The man could read the phone book and make it into a major dramatic performance, but in all his roles, there’s always been a fundamental decency to his characters. Even when he seemed like he was kind of a dick, as in Lone Star, there was still the sense that he was trying to do the right thing.

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At the very least, Morton’s characters never seemed like the kind of people who would toss you into a hole for months on end because you refused to torture and kill someone else.

Rowan Pope (Joe Morton): Not the kind of person you want to meet in a dark alley -- or even in a brightly-lit, comfortable room with lots of people around.

Rowan Pope (Joe Morton): Not the kind of person you want to meet in a dark alley — or even in a brightly-lit, comfortable room with lots of people around.

Scandal is definitely filling my need for extreme, paranoid conspiracy theory. I know a lot of people might look down on it for being unrealistic and sensationalistic, but seriously — once you’ve accepted that the Republican President has an openly gay Chief of Staff who’s married to another man, you’ve pretty much given up any commitment to realism.

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Filed Under: Quotables, Ramblings Tagged With: Joe Morton, Olivia Pope, Rowan Pope, scandal, television

Mark Foley: Predator or Sleaze?

By Chris Hall
October 16, 2006
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Probably the greatest irony of the Mark Foley affair is one that gets little attention: if Foley had just had the nerve to act on his urges and cornhole markfoleya few of those pretty young pages in the Congressional cloakroom, he’d be free and clear — legally anyway. (The Repubs would still eat him alive for daring to be a public homo, but that’s a whole other can of worms.)  In the District of Columbia, the age of consent is 16; but Foley is getting nailed under the Adam Walsh Chid Protection Act, which he himself toiled to make into Federal Law and which makes it illegal to solicit sex from a minor (under 18) via the Internet.  In other words, in D.C. you can fuck the pages — just don’t have Internet sex with them.

There’s plenty of room for schadenfreude here, and I for one plan to take mine in extra-large helpings.  The Republicans and conservative Democrats have made themselves both rich and powerful by plundering the American public’s fear of sex, and many people who just wanted to be left alone have paid the price.

But we’re facing a severe crisis in the fate of our Republic now, and I’m appalled that of all the things that have happened in the last six years, this is the thing that seems to stick.  People are finally paying attention to the moral rot inside the Republican party, and why?

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Filed Under: Politics, Sex and Gender Tagged With: Elizabeth-Wood, Mark-Foley, Politics, scandal, Sex

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