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03-29-2018, 08:14 PM
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/brent-baker/2018/03/29/soviet-agent-fxs-americans-calls-robert-bork-nazi
By Brent Baker | March 29, 2018 10:04 AM EDT
A badge of honor for the late Robert Bork and his supporters? He drew the ire of an undercover Soviet KGB operative in an imaginary scene, set in early October 1987, on the episode of FX’s The Americans (http://forums.previously.tv/topic/67728-s06e01-dead-hand/?do=getLastComment) aired Wednesday night. At a dinner at a neighbor’s house, college student “Paige Jennings,” played by Holly Taylor, matched American Left hostility at the time toward President Reagan’s Supreme Court nominee: “He opposed anti-segregation laws, he thinks that women aren’t protected under the 14th Amendment.”
The wife of an FBI agent at the table chimed in: “He’s an *******,” to which FBI agent “Stan Beeman” countered: “Well, just to play devil’s advocate. He’s a judge, so doesn’t really matter what his personal opinions are. And everyone agrees he’s brilliant.”
“Paige” fired back: “A lot of Nazis were brilliant too.” That was too much even for her father, long-time undercover KGB operative “Philip,” who resisted: “Whoa! Whoa!” When a baby then started to cry, “Paige” jumped in: “See? He hates Bork, too!”
By Brent Baker | March 29, 2018 10:04 AM EDT
A badge of honor for the late Robert Bork and his supporters? He drew the ire of an undercover Soviet KGB operative in an imaginary scene, set in early October 1987, on the episode of FX’s The Americans (http://forums.previously.tv/topic/67728-s06e01-dead-hand/?do=getLastComment) aired Wednesday night. At a dinner at a neighbor’s house, college student “Paige Jennings,” played by Holly Taylor, matched American Left hostility at the time toward President Reagan’s Supreme Court nominee: “He opposed anti-segregation laws, he thinks that women aren’t protected under the 14th Amendment.”
The wife of an FBI agent at the table chimed in: “He’s an *******,” to which FBI agent “Stan Beeman” countered: “Well, just to play devil’s advocate. He’s a judge, so doesn’t really matter what his personal opinions are. And everyone agrees he’s brilliant.”
“Paige” fired back: “A lot of Nazis were brilliant too.” That was too much even for her father, long-time undercover KGB operative “Philip,” who resisted: “Whoa! Whoa!” When a baby then started to cry, “Paige” jumped in: “See? He hates Bork, too!”