West Wing Launches New Season with More Liberal Advocacy (NBC's Campaign Contribution To Demmycrats)

Media Research Center ^ | September 26, 2002 | Brent Baker

[PJ-Comix]

I'm glad to see the Media Reseach Center picked up on the fact that The West Wing is a soft money campaign contribution to the Demmycrats. I hope the MRC CONTINUES to catalogue The West Wing's incessant Republican/Conservative bashing. Last night the two folks who "dared" express opposition to Jeb Bartlett was an old hick and a young chick portrayed as obsessed over abortion. You won't see intelligent folks on West Wing portrayed as Conservatives and/or Republicans.

[colorado tanker]

Why does anyone watch that show?

[white trash redneck]

I cannot understand why people watch. My wife, who is a reliable Republican voter (more conservative than I on some issues, less on others) really enjoys watching "The Left Wing." Go figure.

[SES1066]

We're a completely fictional, nonpolitical show, ...

This is the fictional part, right?

[Wright is right!]

"Why does anyone watch that show?"

Know your enemy and his strategery. Ahem.

Michael

[colorado tanker]

"Know your enemy and his strategery." LOL! I wonder if Joe Bart, like Algore and Dashole, will oppose action against Iraq, or will he refuse the Kool-Aid?

[colorado tanker]

I hear you. My wife loves to watch "The American President" over and over. Maybe its a chick thing.

[Sender]

It drives me crazy when my wife wants to watch "The American President" movie every time it's on TV. If it weren't so infused with liberal folderal, it would be a cute movie. But every time I hear it end with environmentalism, corporate greed and "I'm going to get all the guns" as the adoring masses genuflect, I want to hurl.

[My2Cents]

Didn't "President Bartlett" run for re-election in a recent season? (I don't know; I don't watch the thing.) Anyway, once this show has run 8 seasons, doesn't the US Constitution require it to be cancelled?

[Wright is right!]

Actually, abaout 2/3 of the show was devoted to showing just how clueless the DC "elites" are about the other 95% of the country. Toby and Josh miss the campaign motorcade and are stuck wandering about Indiana, on the verge of "never having been heard from again." They are truly fish out of water, with nary a clue 'bout Hoosiers, their lives, and their peculiar way of dealing with time zones. Meanwhile, president Bartlett Pear is about to get his rear end in a sling over an assasination they pulled off last season that is perhaps not so foolproof as they thought it would be.

At the end of the show, Toby and Josh are beginning to SERIOUSLY re-think their premise that positioning Bartlett as "the world's most intelligent candidate" is the way to go. Especially after Hoosier upon Hoosier serially tells them, "Didn't vote for him th' first time, not likely to vote for him this time."

Yes, all the liberal policies are there - but Bartlett seems to be the only one that truly truly believes them. Everyone else keeps bring up reason, facts, etc...and he shoots them down with jingoistic remarks.

The show is worth watching so that you understand your enemy and what he is being fed.

Michael

[TheBigB]

Oops, I left the f-word in my post, didn't I? My bad. :(

[thucydides]

The liberal bias of the news divisions makes all the broadcast networks an in-kind contribution to democrats. Why do the corporate owners do it, even though the liberal line is distasteful to many in their audience, and is causing a steady loss of viewers? In my opinion, it is to buy protection from predatory democrat politicians who are in the pockets of the left activist groups.

[ThinkDifferent]

Last night the two folks who "dared" express opposition to Jeb Bartlett was an old hick and a young chick portrayed as obsessed over abortion.

And don't forget the rolling pin and apron women who were portrayed as crazy loons. As I said on the other thread, you're absolutely right. Shows like this are exactly why liberals love campaign finance reform, it cripples conservatives while not interfering with the loads of free propaganda delivered by Hollywood leftists like Sorkin.

[jdege]

I don't know - I liked "American President."

I like watching a liberal politician committing political suicide because he can't tell the difference between hype and reality.

Remember when Douglas shouts to the walls "how can one lobby be so powerful?"

Because there are millions of us, because we contribute, we volunteer, we vote.

And because we're right.

[Timesink]

Wright is right is right. The vast majority of those two hours were taken up with showing that the entire Bartlet White House staff didn't have a damn clue what life was like for the average American. It ended with Toby and Josh in a cheap hotel bar buying a "regular guy" a drink just to figure out what life is about for normal people.

I watch the show because it's excellently written and acted, and the RATS do not come off nearly as well as Bozell is claiming. Yes, the show contained blatant DNC talking points in Bartlet's big campaign speech, but it was an episode about a Democratic candidate campaigning! What was he supposed to say? The GOP candidate was nowhere to be found in this episode; he'll have to get some major face time somewhere down the road. And I have a feeling he's going to come off looking a lot better than we're being led to believe.

[amused]

Great post, I was especially struck by a line towards the end. Something like "Maybe it's time we stop just telling people our ideas are better and actually have to show them and make it obvious."

Strange, I really didn't expect much and was almost pleasantly suprised how badly they came off. I loved it when the IN teen asked "how many unborn babies did they kill today" and Josh's(?) reaction was retreat.

[Sender]

Yeah, and right before that when he says incredulously "We left them the Mini-14!" Har!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

“This isn’t a time for people whose doomsday scenario is a little less at the pump for Texaco and Shell..."

They don't seem interested in using fictitious names for the "bad guys". Why don't they come clean and just name the character that Sheen plays, Al Gore.

[amused]

And don't forget the rolling pin and apron women who were portrayed as crazy loons

I thought those were feminazis mad at the first lady?