Humor -- Captain Kirk for President

[alnitak]

Too funny!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71Oo-BjKzCE

[Ysabel Kid]

[Blaine]

The Shat is a Oner, that's for sure

[MikeS.]

Too funny!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71Oo-BjKzCE

[BTW, this is actually the comedian Denny Crane.]

That isn't Shatner? Sure looks like him.

[MikeS.]

That was too funny, bring them on!

[Old Ironsights]

Unfortunately, that scene was there to mock conservatives/republicans.

The character (Denny Crane) playd by Shatner on "Boston Legal" is an almalgam of all of the Liberal stereotypes of the "heartless, evil, rich, gun-toting conservative". (He's the boss/foil of all the enlightened liberal lawyers that the show is "about".)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denny_Crane

Character eccentricities

Guns
Denny is a staunch conservative Republican who strongly opposes gun control, claiming that "It's for communists." On the recommendation of his friend Tom DeLay, he keeps a wide variety of loaded guns in his office (including the camouflaged AR-7 he saved Alan with [1]).

On numerous occasions, Denny has accidentally discharged his guns, although no one has ever been hurt by his carelessness. However, he does have a fondness for using his gun(s) on living people, and has done so more than once. Denny first shot the aforementioned man who was threatening Alan with a gun right in the offices of Crane, Poole & Schmidt. In another episode, he was forced against his will by a judge to provide pro bono representation to an accused child rapist/killer. The killer privately bragged to Denny about having committed the crime, and Denny responded by shooting both the man's kneecaps in "self-defense" with a gun he had smuggled past courthouse security in his briefcase. He also shot a homeless man in the head with a paintball gun after the man threw a rock at his head because Denny ignored his pleas for spare change. Finally, Denny shot his psychologist on two separate occasions: first in self-defense when the psychologist brandished a gun after Denny pulled his gun first, and then again in a courtroom after the psychologist was threatening to shoot Alan. As Paul Lewiston put it best: "He [Denny] shoots people." When a concerned client and friend of Denny's accused Denny's firm of not being environmentally conscious, Denny opened fire on him with a paintball gun, and later shot him several times with an air soft gun during a subsequent meeting. He later shot Carl Sack with the same gun.

The scene may be funny to us gunnys, but that wasn't the intent.

[alnitak]

Thanks for the clarification OI. I had actually seen a couple other videos on YouTube of "Denny Crane", so assumed he was a comedian, since I can't believe some of that material ever aired on TV.

I may have to catch up on Boston Legal!