West Wing Show: New Avenue to Spread Liberal Propaganda(My Title) From Media Research Website

Media Research Center ^ | 09/26/02

[Draakan]

A rundown from past CyberAlerts of liberal pronouncements and advocacy promoted on NBC’s The West Wing over the past three years. Each item includes a link to the fuller CyberAlert article, some of which feature RealPlayer clips of the scenes:

-- The West Wing, devoted to staffers discussing terrorism with a group of high schoolers, gave air time to some pretty conventional liberal points. Characters raised the "black list," blamed "abject poverty" for terrorism and argued that "is the same as it is right here" where gangs "give you a sense of dignity." They also worried about "the patriotism police."

http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2001/cyb20011005.asp#4

-- The West Wing featured a subplot in which an insurance company refused to pay for emergency surgery for a gun shot victim because he did not get pre-approval for the life-saving emergency surgery.

http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2000/cyb20001102_extra.asp#4

-- The West Wing’s new conservative blonde babe character assessed the staff of the fictional Democratic White House: "Their intent is good, their commitment is true. They are righteous and they are patriots."

http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2000/cyb20001026_extra.asp#3

-- Dr. Laura demonized by NBC’s The West Wing. Martin Sheen as the President attacked her misleading "Dr." title and sarcastically compared her claim that the Bible says homosexuality is "an abomination" to how it advocates slavery for his daughter and that his mother be burned. "You may be mistaking this for your monthly meeting of the ignorant tight-ass club."

http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2000/cyb20001019.asp#7

-- NBC’s The West Wing returned Wednesday night with a left wing shot at the idea that allowing citizens to carry guns makes for a safer community. And a reporter agreed.

http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2000/cyb20001006_extra.asp#8

-- The West Wing took a bizarre twist into very tolerant social liberalism with President Bartlet offering to order the Attorney General to help a prostitute, who just earned a law degree, gain admittance to the bar.

http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2000/cyb20000517.asp#6

-- The show continued the campaign finance reform cause and added replacing "mandatory minimums" for drug convictions, which were repeatedly called "racist," with more funding for drug "treatment."

http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2000/cyb20000510.asp#5

-- After some dialogue backing school vouchers, NBC's West Wing went left wing on campaign finance and gays in the military.

http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2000/cyb20000503.asp#8

-- Left and Right West Wing. NBC's The West Wing delivered scenes linking census sampling opponents to the Constitution's definition of blacks as 3/5ths a person and aired a candid admission that liberals don't trust people to spend their money correctly.

http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2000/cyb20000322.asp#4

-- NBC’s liberal dream State of the Union. On The West Wing the President abandons "the era of big government is over" theme and agrees "government can be a place where people come together and where no one gets left behind....an instrument of good."

http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2000/cyb20000127.asp#4

-- In the premiere, viewers saw how the Hollywood Left views conservatives as the show concocted a preposterous plot and series of scenes which portrayed leaders of the Religious Right as anti-Semitic buffoons. The show culminated with an angry Democratic "President Josiah Bartlet," played by Martin Sheen, indignantly telling ministers: "You can all get your fat asses out of my White House."

http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/1999/cyb19990929.asp#5

Plus, off-screen West Wing stars have done quite a bit of liberal pontificating. A sampling:

-- President Bush is a "moron," actor Martin Sheen, who plays the President on NBC’s The West Wing, told a British magazine. He conceded that JFK womanizing "made him more substantial and human to me." Sheen also ridiculed the U.S. as he claimed "Alcoholics Anonymous and jazz are the only original things of importance" the U.S. has exported to the world.

http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2001/cyb20010214.asp#5

-- A Republican character joins The West Wing tonight just after star Martin Sheen told George magazine that George W. Bush is a "bully" who is "full of s**t." A co-star called Bush "proudly uninformed" and argued that Jesus would be displeased by Bush’s promotion of the death penalty.

http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2000/cyb20001025.asp#3

West Wing creator/writer/producer Sorkin got into the news last year when he was caught at the Burbank airport with "illicit mushrooms" in his luggage. For a bio of Sorkin, who was also responsible for the liberal preaching movie The American President starring Michael Douglas, check the Internet Movie Database page about him:

http://us.imdb.com/Name?Sorkin,+Aaron

[Draakan]

Wonder if these Television shows can be considered in the Campaign Laws recently passed.

[evolved_rage]

President Bush is a "moron," actor Martin Sheen, who plays the President on NBC’s The West Wing, told a British magazine.

How would Martin Pothead know? I don't think he even finished high school.

[umgud]

All part of the American Axis of Evil; 1. Acedemia indoctrinates our children from pre-school to university. 2. Entertainment indoctrinates through both covert and subliminal liberal bias in everything they produce. 3. Mainstream Media brings it all home as fact to Joe and Sally Sixpack who get their nightly propaganda from the big three.

[WorkingClassFilth]

You know, these kind of shows, the kind of pseudo-reality dramas like 'Left-Wing' are nothing but platforms for leftist brainwashing. In truth, hand-wringing over the content is kind of like doing reviews on the quality of socialist masturbatory fantasies. Why worry about crack monkeys like Sorkin or the demented likes of Sheen? Move on and let the fool's paradise implode.