An episode of NBC's pulled-from-the-headlines police show Law & Order: Criminal Intent got a bit too realistic for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay when a fictional detective quipped that the lawmaker may have inspired the murder of a judge.
In a snippet of dialogue in the Wednesday night TV drama, a wisecracking detective, investigating the murder of a black judge, says, "Maybe we should put out an APB (all points bulletin) for somebody in a Tom DeLay T-shirt."
That triggered a heated letter from DeLay, accusing NBC of reckless and irresponsible behavior.
The context for the remark was DeLay's comment during the recent struggle over the fate of brain-damaged Florida woman Terry Schiavo, in which DeLay said, "This loss happened because our legal system did not protect the people who need protection most, and that will change. The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior."
For DeLay, what he called the abuse of his name by NBC was more evidence that America's media are out of control.
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