ABC TV’s popular show “Blackish” jumped into politics with both feet Wednesday, and tax warrior Grover Norquist and former Vice President Dick Cheney came out looking like heroes.
In the episode titled appropriately “Elephant in the Room,” Andre Johnson Jr., played by Marcus Scribner, returns home from a date that was supposed to be at an ice cream parlor.
Instead, he reveals that his date took him to a speech by Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, and bought him Cheney’s autobiography, all of which seemed to make him a Republican. And the parents were none too happy.
Here’s what happened when the two kids met Andre’s parents played by Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross.
Son: “Mom, Dad, this is Hillary.”
Mom: “Nice to meet you.”
Hillary: “Nice to meet you as well.”
Dad: “So, uh, how was ice cream?”
Hillary: “Oh, we didn’t get ice cream.”
Son: “She took me to see anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist speak at the Reagan Library.”
Dad: “What?”
Hillary: “He was sobering.”
Son: “Then Hillary bought me Dick Cheney’s biography. It’s awesome. I mean the dude destroyed Iraq and got rich rebuilding it. Hero! Then he shot a guy, and the guy apologized. Pimp! That should be the name of his book. Dick Cheney, Hero Pimp!”
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
