As the TV critic said above the show could really teach people about politics and represent conservatives fairly, instead Sorkin chooses to demonize republicans and fire the only conservatives writing for the show.Entertainment shows and movies do not teach people about "the way things really are." The more people know about the topic, the more inaccuracies they'll catch, hence, the more trouble they'll have watching the production. And so, when watching a show that purports to be realistic, which says, "You don't need to suspend disbelief," the viewer needs to remind himself all the more, that he is watching a fantasy.
Sorkin wishes to idealize socialists, while demonizing conservatives; you wish for the opposite sort of propaganda. Neither of you is interested in reality.
So faced with propoganda and a game show on at the same time, I will celebrate the fact that the public is not that dumb to buy his party line.
Unless they were high at the time on tremendous quantities of drugs, people who would watch The Bachelorette instead of The West Wing (as opposed to watching nothing), are not only demonstrably morons, but may suffer from profound mental retardation. And you want to celebrate such imbeciles?
My complaint about Sorkin is that he is intellectually lazy.
He simply chooses not to challenge his liberal assumptions, adding dollops of sanctimony and self-righteousness to his characters, and reveling in a world of liberal sainthood and conservative evil.
The previous critic was right. Sorkin could have stretched himself by introducing a "Republican" administration. Such a move would have brought new life to a show, and would have forced Sorkin to return to his earlier, more creative self.
But that would have meant thinking outside Sorkin's little box.
Now we are left with "Mr. Sterling". Egad!
Be Seeing You,
Chris