Because, sadly, it's also true. 
I Love Morgan Freeman. He is distinguished and elegant, and eloquent.
Takes me back to the whole "Stand Your Ground" thing, wherein we first became really acutely acquainted with this latter-day defense - "I feared for my life." I sometimes imagine a commonly shared scripted line - "I feared for my life, I thought he had a gun, I thought he had a taser, he reached for his waistband, I was in fear for my life." And as it's shared, it's stressed - "you need to make sure you say THOSE things. Those Specific Things. And you're home free. You'll beat the rap." I can't help but wonder whether such a conversation is actually a shared thing, behind closed doors, in the privacy of the patrol car, in private.
There ARE scripts that are sent around. Just watch it in politics. Notice how many different operatives on one side of an issue use the same language, the same memes, the same framing, and they're all saying the same things. The same words and wordings. Sometimes even the same vocal inflections. It made me think back to Selection 2000, when GOP operative after GOP operative said the same things. Parroted the same things. "They counted once, they counted AGAIN, then they counted a THIRD TIME..." - said again and again, all over the place, as the GOP and bush/cheney people hoped to manipulate public opinion toward their contention that the vote count should be stopped. We're ahead. And that's that. We won. It was like watching a bunch of Chatty Cathy dolls - pull the string and they all say the same things. From the same blast-faxed, mass-emailed script.
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