'Ally McBeal' Star to Play Conservative Pundit in New TV Series

The entertainment industry proves yet again that, when it comes to conservatives, they just don't get it:

NEW YORK ABC reportedly has huge hopes for a new series to air this fall called "Brothers & Sisters," which will follow the hit "Desperate Housewives" on the schedule. Calista Flockhart, best known as Ally McBeal, plays a conservative radio host turned TV pundit. Others in the high-powered cast include Patricia Wettig, Rachel Griffiths, Ron Rifkin and Sally Field.

Flockhart recently explained, "I really want to go back to work. It just seemed like the perfect time and the perfect project."

Asked to describe the pundit, producer Ken Olin (formerly a star of “Thirty Something’) said, "She's not Ann Coulter. She's not insane."

Writer Jon Robin Baitz added, "No, I think she's a thoughtful conservative. She's ideologically, in some respects, very much in mind with the older parts of the party, the sort of Eisenhower Republican, the William Buckley conservative. She's also a humanist.

My Comments:
"She's ideologically, in some respects, very much in mind with the older parts of the party, the sort of Eisenhower Republican, the William Buckley conservative."

That completely incongruous statement is proof positive that the idiots producing this show have absolutely NO CLUE about American conservatism.

Hollywood's version of a "thoughtful conservative" will no doubt be the "fiscal conservative/social libertarian" sort. And most definitely devoid of any whiff of traditional religious belief. She's sure to "grow" and aquire all sorts of liberal tendencies as the show progresses. No pun intended.

Recommendation: Even without seeing it, I can tell you to avoid this show like the plague.