New TNT Show ‘Perception’ Loses Many Viewers On First Episode With Attack on Bush

A new crime-solving drama show on TNT (like we need more), where Eric McCormack plays a neuroscience professor with paranoid schizophrenia who is recruited by the FBI, came out of the gate with a thud, as they lost half of their viewers halfway through the very first episode with a tasteless attack on President Bush.

New TNT Show 'Perception' Loses Many Viewers On First Episode With Attack on Bush

New TNT Show ‘Perception’ Loses Many Viewers On First Episode With Attack on Bush

During one scene, Eric McCormack’s character is standing in front of a mental patient, watching a TV playing President Bush’s speech where he was explaining the reasoning for going into Iraq. He then starts explaining a neurological condition where the patient cannot understand speech, but can detect lies. Seconds later the mental patient starts to laugh a little bit and then goes back silent, inferring that President Bush was lying when telling us the reasoning for sending troops into Iraq, and taking out Sadam Hussain.

The truth is that President Bush used the same intel that many other countries used, who also felt that Obama had weapons of mass destruction. Many …

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