[jporcus]

NBC: Let's see, how can we make money off this tragedy?

[isom35]

gee, what will mushroom boy come up with this time?

[Fred Mertz]

I noticed that some company used firemen in their push for drugs of some sort.

Watch the fireman angle.

[FReethesheeples]

As others have doubtless commented before, they should call it "LEft Wind" because fo the 100% LEFT-wing composition of this Lib-twit cast.

I have NEVER seen an spisode yet, so I don't know what effect, if any, having at least one conservative writer (Rob Long) does for the show.

Martin Sheen's intemperate remarks against Bush during/after the Election last Fall turned me off, among others.

[GreatOne]

Hate to say it, but in spite of trying to resist watching this show, I've become a fan. It's sadly the best commercial for the Democratic Party out there. I just hope we don't get much/any storyline about the "conscientious objector", who while he doesn't want to retaliate, is still a good American.

Maybe Sorkin will give us something like the SNL parody. If you haven't seen this, with the fighting cats and the dead-on impersonations and dialogue, you missed out on one of the best skits of last year.

[willyboyishere]

Sorkin is not a "brilliant writer"---Tolstoy and Shakespeare and Faulkner and Bellow are brilliant writers. Sorkin is a slick crackhead who has not enough class or imagination to resist capitalizing on Sept.11 by "ripping it from the headlines", which is a common practice on what we laughably call the "best" television. And the Clintonesque Martin Sheen on that show will suddenly become Bush, I take it? These people are shameless.

[Tarheel]

The WTC disaster will be a very raw emotion for most people for a very long time--years. To trivialize it with a 'story' when we have all seen the misery, live and in our living rooms would be a sacrilege.

The Tarheel

[A CA Guy]

Not very sensitive! I think this will help end the whole show.

[Rose in RoseBear]

This is going to be such a mistake for this show!

Sorkin will write a lot of liberal-babble words, Sheen will add some more, and it will wind up with Sheen's character, "The President," prostrating himself before his enemies with fulsome apologies for being American and inherently evil and the proximate cause of the death of the American citizens. His enemies will honor his abject groveling, and there will be a major "kumbiyah" moment, when the people of the world unite in sweet agape love.

Feh.

And all the apologists, the "blame-America-firsters," will not understand why people rise up against the show for trivializing American deaths.

[TBP]

This is typical of liberals. They are totally lacking in compassion. All they are is greedy and selfish. This kind of insensitivity is to be exected from them.

[lowbridge]

"Aaron is a brilliant writer who has something he wants to say.

Translation: This episode is going to lay the blame at Republicans Reagan and/or Bush.

[Sueann]

Maybe the attack will take place on the set of the "West Wing". Now, wouldn't that be interesting??

[Beeline40@aol.com]

Wow, this sure did not take long, must be a record.

[Keith]

"Aaron is a brilliant writer who has something he wants to say. We have great faith in his abilities to interpret last week's events in a manner that will make this an important hour of television," NBC Entertainment President Jeff Zucker said.

translation...he will be mainlining speedballs to get this one ready in time...

[Ruth A.]

Production on the episode, titled "Isaac and Ishmael,"

From this title, I am afraid that we are going to be lectured that US policies towards the Middle East (i.e. friendly towards Israel) is the cause of the terrorism.

[lawgirl]

My guess is that they will have the president go STRAIGHT to teh white house and say something like "shouldn't you fly to nebraska" and sheen will say no--etc etc--i see this as an opportunity to "re-write" what they think bush should've done--which should be about impossible b/c he did everything completely correct.

[dougherty]

Talk about taking advantage of a tragedy! Arnold Schwarzeneggar's latest movie is being shelved as it would be in poor taste to release it now, and this creep Sorkin is going to squeeze it for all it's worth. The guy needs to lay off the crack.

[aculeus]

I smelled 'left wing propaganda' when this show started and never watched it.

[Wright is right!]

Apparently NO ONE on this thread ACTUALLY WATCHED the episode.

First, in opening remarks, it is clearly stated that ALL PROFITS from the airing of the show would go to the Firefighters / Policemen's Relief funds. Secondly, if you leave off the Buffalo Springfield song at the end, it was remarkably even-handed. It contained NONE of the usual liberal pablumous palaver. It was informative. The bright kids on the WH tour were posing extremely challenging questions. None of the usual political cliches intruded.

You would have, amazingly, found very little with which to disagree.

Michael