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Posted on 01/17/2003 5:11:11 AM PST by Clintons-B-Gone
I recently watched the debut episode of NBC’s political show, "Mister Sterling." The program is supposed to be about a young, idealistic appointee to the U.S. Senate from California.
However, this is increasingly going to be the kind of drivel that the networks will force feed you now that their useful idiots have "reformed" campaign finance.
The character, portrayed by Barbra Streisand’s stepson, Josh Brolin, is supposed to be a man of great principle. However, you could not tell it from the show’s debut. Sterling would have only appeared principled if you compared his activities with that of the current junior senator from the great state of New York. His principles would also appeal to those few Americans who admire the sleazy, political gamesmanship of Jumpin’ Jim Jeffords.
Young Brock Sterling claims to be an "Independent" but he inevitably ends up climbing into bed with the Democrats. And this political affair is only consummated after he plays both sides of the aisle to see who will give him the most "goodies’ for his pet cause. Along the way, he essentially blackmails the political leadership to give him the majority leader’s seat on a key senatorial committee.
Does this sound like principle to you or simply politics as usual?
Don’t ever let anyone tell you that "Independents" are any more principled than those who choose to affiliate themselves with a specific party. Jumpin’ Jim Jeffords is certainly not principled. He epitomizes everything that many people despise about Washington—a disloyal individual who claims to be something he is not. He deliberately takes one party’s campaign money under false pretenses and then embraces the opposition.
Brock Sterling is the liberals’ answer to Jim Jeffords and John McCain, men who gain their status as media darlings simply because they betray those causes that they formerly espoused. They gladly take the campaign contributions from their political party and then poke them in the eye to say "thanks."
Only in the liberals’ dreams could this type of behavior be called "principled."
But unlike McCain and Jeffords, Brock Sterling never actually does anything to betray his party. McCain and Jeffords were Republicans in name only. Brock Sterling is Independent in name only. Sterling was supposedly picked for the spot because they believed he was a Democrat. They were correct. He is the quintessential Democrat! Not one time does he do anything that is out of character for a liberal Democrat in Washington. He blackmails his party in closed-door meetings; he lies to the public about his political ideology; and he lets his staff make decisions for him, because he is too ignorant, lazy, uninformed, or just too concerned with his hair styling to make those decisions for himself.
It sounds to me that Sterling might be a clone of Sen. John Edwards or the next Democratic candidate to enter the presidential race for 2004?
Just about the only variation from the Democrats’ party line was Sterling’s suggestion that he liked oil drilling in Alaska better than drilling off the California shoreline. Of course this great, young independent thinker did nothing to further this idea for energy independence.
Reviews of the program have used the words "fresh" and "innovative" to describe Mister Sterling. NBC’s newest offering is neither fresh nor innovative. It was just another stale offering from Democrats to Democrats. Like "The West Wing," before it, "Mister Sterling" is merely Terry McAuliffe’s political orgasm of what Washington might be if Democrats were once again in charge.
I’m sure it will annoy many of my fellow conservatives, but I used to greatly enjoy watching the network’s program, "The West Wing." That program quickly went astray when the president, Martin Sheen’s character, became a central player in the show. Suddenly, a somewhat entertaining but unbelievable drama became a whiny, hour-long rant against the policies of an immensely popular President George W. Bush.
Josh Brolin’s newest role never had a "sterling" beginning. It was dull from the very start.
© 2003 Robert Yoho
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Sterling got the slimey leftist in moderate's clothing part right, but Edwards would never disappoint his socialist so-called environmentalist base to support drilling at ANWR.
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