'Will and Grace' was graceless

The premiere episode of "Will & Grace" on NBC was a shallow attempt at revenge for the second loss in a presidential election by Hillary Clinton. 

The show was like a TV infomercial for "Poofume," for when you've taken a dump and guests are about to ring the doorbell, just spray it on the bowl water a wah-lah! No more stink.

Except one couldn't say that about the show itself.

The new and unimproved introductory episode referred to Melania Trump as a "hostage" and went so far as to portray Midwesterners as people who never ate vegetables until Michelle "All This For A Flag" Obama became First Lady.

Grace, played by Debra Messing, simply had to gripe about the 2016 presidential election in which a witch lost to a TV personality. 

It turns out that Grace got the job of redecorating the Oval Office because Trump "has been pouting that his office is a real dump."

When Bill Clinton occupied the Oval (aka Oral) Office, Hillary had something else to say about it that was a lot worse than what Trump said.

Grace then took a shot at Melania saying she wouldn't hire anyone for the job who is pretty enough to attract the president. She must have mistaken Trump for John F. Kennedy. 

Melania has no competition when it comes to beauty and she has nothing to worry about, but apparently "Will and Grace" does if it keeps up the political garbage.

But the most disgusting part of the show was when Grace and her assistant went to the White House and the show mocked Kellyanne Conway's moment as the infamous couch photo, and President Ronald Reagan's Alzheimer disease. 

They mocked a President who later developed Alzheimer disease! They actually think that's funny.

They also made fun of Trump's appearance and by the end of the episode, Grace left a "Make America Gay Again" hat on his chair.

The episode did well in the ratings department, but that was to be expected of a show that's reincarnated. It will also likely do well with liberals, leftists, gays, lesbians, queers, the transgender mentally ill and people who are unable to physically change the channel.

The post-premiere ratings will probably come down and soon become on par with Chris Matthews and Joe Scarborough once the nostalgia factor is gone. Also, younger people (age range 18 to 49) aren't part of the nostalgia factor and don't care about the show's characters, and the show's political stance will turn off a lot of normal people.

Fox News' Senior Vice President of Marketing and Entertainment and an on-air contributor Michael Tammero was "very excited" about the show but didn't watch the whole 30 minute episode.

"It was a very important show, as someone who is gay and married . . . it was a show that initially played a huge role in changing hearts and minds in this country and advancing LGBTQ issues," he said. "I expected some anti-Republican, anti-Trump lines, but I did not expect every single line to be some sort of jab."

He said that he cannot predict if the show's political views will hurt viewership, but I suspect it will.

Many conservatives who saw the premiere tweeted and said they wouldn't tune in again because they were offended by the politics. One viewer asked, "Why alienate a large part of America?"

Because the writers for the show evidently believe their political attacks on the right are more important than the show's success.

One tweeted that "Will & Grace" used to be a good show but is now simply a "tool for hate," and called it "Will & Disgrace."

The Media Research Center's TV reporter Amelia Hamilton called the storyline "a lazy way to take shots at the president for the entire length of the show," and said it was embarrassing.

"Hollywood still hasn't realized that shows like this do nothing but help Donald Trump," she wrote. "When will Hollywood learn that they're basically running his reelection campaign by doing this?"

Hopefully, the show will rekindle interest in Hillary Clinton running again in 2020. She is truly a gift to the Grand Old Party.


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