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

Just six weeks or so before a real mid-term election, NBC’s The West Wing returned to the air Wednesday night with its fictional “President Bartlet” campaigning for re-election six weeks before a presidential vote. West Wing creator/writer Aaron Sorkin who has Bartlet, played by Martin Sheen, facing off against a dumb Republican Governor from the South, used NBC’s prime time to advance the liberal agenda.

The September 25 episode opened with a campaign rally set at an Indiana farm. Bartlet proclaimed: “We need to find energy alternatives....The Republicans are busy. They’re trying to convince us that they care about new energy and that they’re not in the chest pockets of Big Oil. And that’s a tough sell.”

Later in the two-hour season premiere, in a scene set in the Oval Office, Bartlet lectured his Commerce Secretary about a global warming treaty: “I think what’s lunacy is a nation of SUVs telling a nation of bicycles that they have to change the way they live before we’ll agree to do something about greenhouse emissions.”

The season premiere opened with the crowd on an Indiana farm chanting “four more years!”

     Sheen, as President Bartlet, related a joke he subsequently used to slam Republicans: “You know the story about the guy whose car gets stuck in a muddy hole. Farmer comes along and says he’ll pull the car out of the mud, but he’s going to have to charge fifty bucks because this is the tenth time he’s had to pull it out of the mud today. The driver says, 'God, when do you have time to plow your land? At night?’ The farmer says 'no, no,’ night time is when I fill the hole with water.”
     “We need to find energy alternatives. We’re getting our cue [cue? Hard to understand what he said], we’re getting it right now. The Republicans are busy. They’re trying to convince us that they care about new energy and that they’re not in the chest pockets of Big Oil. And that’s a tough sell. I don’t envy them because their only hope is that we don’t notice that they’re the ones who are filling the hole with water every night. And I think Americans are smarter than that. I think we noticed.”
     “This isn’t a time for people whose doomsday scenario is a little less at the pump for Texaco and Shell. This isn’t a time for people who say there aren’t any energy alternatives just because they can’t think of any. This is a time for American heroes and we reach for the stars.”

A very nice in-kind contribution from NBC to liberal Democrats, the very kind of political promotion that the media will still be able to advance under “campaign finance reform.”

Later, in a scene set in the Oval Office, Bartlet’s Secretary of Commerce warned him about a global warming treaty’s impact on the United States: “It is shear lunacy to suggest America take unilateral steps while exempting 80 percent of the world’s nations from the same obligations.”
Bartlet shot back: “Developing nations. And I think what’s lunacy is a nation of SUVs telling a nation of bicycles that they have to change the way they live before we’ll agree to do something about greenhouse emissions.”

In an interview with the New Yorker in March, even as he claimed The West Wing is “non-political,” Sorkin boasted of how he would use the program to re-play the 2000 campaign. The New Yorker’s Tad Friend wrote:
“President Josiah Bartlet is up for re-election this November. 'Bartlet is going to be running against Governor Robert Ritchie, of Florida, who's not the sharpest tool in the box but who's raised a lot of money and is very popular with the Republican Party,’ Sorkin said. If this sounds familiar, it should. 'It was frustrating watching Gore try so hard not to appear smart in the debates -- why not just say 'Here's my fucking résumé, what do you got?' We're a completely fictional, nonpolitical show, but one of our motors is doing our version of the old Mad magazine 'Scenes We'd Like to See.'”

As recounted in the April 3 CyberAlert, on the March 27 episode President Bartlet took a shot at Sorkin’s stand-in for George W. Bush: “Governor Robert Ritchie” of Florida, the Republican presidential candidate. After an interview with the fictional Philadelphia station ends, but while still live with the anchor, President Bartlet is asked about Ritchie’s book in which he advocates drilling in ANWR. Bartlet replied: “I think we might be talking about a .22 caliber mind in a .357 caliber world.”

As for the show being “non-political,” the March 6 CyberAlert contained a rundown from past CyberAlerts of liberal pronouncements and advocacy promoted on The West Wing over the show’s first three years. For links to fuller CyberAlert articles, some of which feature RealPlayer clips of the scenes: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2002/cyb20020306.asp#4

I refuse to watch that show, although too many people I know DO.There's simply no way I could last a whole hour.Martin Sheen is a Leftist Shill and was introduced last week at the Emmys as "...will you please welcome 2 Presidents of the United States" (I forget who the other guy was-This was National TV for gosh sakes), and I almost gagged.I clicked back to the Baseball game, where I should've stayed.Judging from the public comments of the Head Writer of that show in Interviews,it's only going to get worse/more Left.I don't know how people can stand it.

It is important for Hillary's Village to make sure there's always something good on TV. Each episode directly or indirectly leans toward one political issue or another, and delivers some kind of message. The standard news inflicted scripts laced with all the media buzz words - Storylines with cloak and daggar Watergate innuendoes - Dialog filled with propaganda produced to be so seductive that any one episode could brainwash any quasi-conservative into thinking there is nothing wrong with being liberal.

Swaying public opinion via the use of a major network by any body of government or any political party seems rather ominous to me.

This reminds me about a question I have about Al Gore. I have seen in the news since his speech Monday he voted for the Iraq war back during Bush 1. Wasnt there some kind of "deal" he made for his vote that came out during the 2000 election ?

"This reminds me about a question I have about Al Gore. I have seen in the news since his speech Monday he voted for the Iraq war back during Bush 1. Wasnt there some kind of "deal" he made for his vote that came out during the 2000 election ?"

Yes, and this was the deal. Alghoor would vote for whichever party that would give him the most face time on TV as he made his speech 'splaining his vote. The Dims said they'd give him the same amount as any other senator. The Repubs offered him more time, so he voted FOR the resolution.

Isn't THAT special?

Michael

Ok I remember that now. I wonder why no one in the media (including FOX News as far as I am aware) has brought that up now though ? That seems quite relevant givent he current circumstances.

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