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WEST WING SORKIN BLASTS BUSH: WE'RE 'PRETENDING' HE HAS EXHIBITED UNSPEAKABLE COURAGE
Drudge ^ | Feb. 24, 2002 | Matt Drudge

Posted on 02/24/2002 7:50:56 AM PST by RippleFire

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN FEB 24, 2002 11:37:09 ET XXXXX

WEST WING SORKIN BLASTS BUSH: WE'RE 'PRETENDING' HE HAS EXHIBITED UNSPEAKABLE COURAGE

The force behind NBC's WEST WING is blasting off against the real West Wing in upcoming pages of the NEW YORKER, which names Aaron Sorkin "the country's loyal opposition."

NY'ER reporter Tad Friend has penned a high-impact Talk of the Town set for release in March 4 editions.

Sorkin, the creatorproducerwriter of WEST WING, tells Friend: "It's absolutely right that at this time we're all laying off the [Bush] bubblehead jokes. But that's a far cry from what the Times and CNN and others on whom we rely for unvarnished objectivity are telling us, which is that 'My God! On September 12th he woke up as Teddy Roosevelt! He became the Rough Rider!'"

Of NBC's own look at a day in the life of the Presidency, 'The Bush White House: Inside the Real West Wing,' which aired as the lead-in to a WEST WING repeat a few weeks ago, Sorkin charges: "The White House pumped up the President's schedule to show him being much busier and more engaged than he is, and Tom Brokaw let it happen?"

Sorkin continues: "The show was a valentine to Bush. That illusion may be what we need right now, but the truth is we're simply pretending to believe that Bush exhibited unspeakable courage at the World Series by throwing out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium, or that he, by God, showed those terrorists by going to Salt Lake City and jumbling the first line of the Olympic opening ceremony.

"The media is waving pom-poms, and the entire country is being polite," Sorkin declares.

"I just began reading Frank Bruni's campaign book AMBLING INTO HISTORY: THE UNLIKELY ODYSSEY OF GEORGE W. BUSH which begins with Candidate Bush at a service in Texas for seven people who were killed in a church by a crazy gunman. Bruni describes Bush making goofy faces at the press, and it reminds you of a junior high schooler on a museum field trip."

Sorkin tells the mag that he is planning to revisit the BUSH-GORE Florida showdown in an upcoming episode.

President Josiah Bartlet [played by actor Martin Sheen, who has called Bush a white knuckled drunk] 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 says.

"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.' And so to an extent we're going to rerun the last election and try a few different plays than the Gore campaign did."

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To: weikel
My immediate thought also.
Didn't even have the good grace to claim that he stumbled across it while channel surfing, or that he had to watch it at the rest home with his invalid aunt.
121 posted on 02/24/2002 9:10:11 AM PST by Bruce Buckley
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To: RippleFire
West wing Sorkin Blasts Bush"

Blast? More like a baby farting in the wind.

This Sorkin punk must be smoking some of Albert Arnold Gore's Tai sticks while drinking crack laced mushroom tea. Sorkin ain't "blasting" anybody. He is a gnat. A nobody that Drudge has elevated today, on Sunday. Because Sunday is the day Drudge is on the radio and usually has something a bit more "dramatic" on his web site.

I put this "Sorkin Blasts Bush" information right up there with something like "Reno Wears Wonder Bra".

I've never seen the West Wing. And never will. But I'll keep reading Drudge, even though he pulls stuff like this every Sunday.

122 posted on 02/24/2002 9:11:30 AM PST by isthisnickcool
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To: tallhappy
Most liberalism is fueled by drug use.

HorseHillary! Although it IS true that most stupidity comes from having a closed,little mind. One that confuses "liberalism" with "leftism",for instance.

123 posted on 02/24/2002 9:11:45 AM PST by sneakypete
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To: areafiftyone
Whats wrong with his show is that these Hollywierd people can't separate fact from fantasy. Sometimes I think Martin Sheen goes home from the set thinking he is president (God forbid!) These people are dilusional!

Exactly so. The same lefties who howled with laughter over Dan Quayle's criticising the social impact of the Murphy Brown episode ("Can you believe it? Dan Quayle is too dumb to understand that 'Murphy Brown' is fictional show!) now believe that their little TV show operates in a parallel universe that permits them to test some variations on the Gore campaign's strategy. Gee, you have to like their chances of getting the outcome they want - seeing as how they're paying the writers and all. Really these people are such dimwits!

124 posted on 02/24/2002 9:13:02 AM PST by WarrenC
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To: soycd
This is what is so frustrating about American politics. I bet this guy supports CFR, eh? He gets to ramble on simply because he is in the MEDIA. But heaven forbid that a businessman or CEO get a chance to speak like this? The media people love to complain about big business but I submit that the biggest "big business" in the USA is the media conglomerates and they have much more power than any successful big business company.

Sorkin is an idiot and yes, there should be a boycott of his show. I am happy to say I have never seen it. Once I knew that Martin Sheen would be playing the president I knew it wasn't a show for me. Sheen is as big an idiot as Sorkin. F'em.

125 posted on 02/24/2002 9:15:01 AM PST by Wphile
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To: RippleFire
Yes, Bush's resume does read better than Gore's. After all, Gore doesn't even have a master's degree - in anything.

But then again, we all know how liberals just love to portray themselves as absolute geniuses. They're so full of themselves it hurts.

126 posted on 02/24/2002 9:16:40 AM PST by Reactionary
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To: zook
The sponsor boycott is the most intelligent and logical route to go. Someone here on FR, with a stronger stomach than I, will have to take Compazine, watch the show and list the sponsors. Pat Caddell and Lawrence O'Donnell used to be producers at WW, but since their apparent departure-the show is totally unwatchable. Let's not forget that Maureen Dowd has been romantically linked with Sorkin-it's obvious that he is helping her write her manifestos.
127 posted on 02/24/2002 9:17:13 AM PST by Wild Irish Rogue
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To: RippleFire
Ah yes, Martin "Sheen", who didn't claim his own surname, Estevez, until he found it is okay to be Hispanic. Calls Bush a name? "Sheen" hasn't exactly had a clean life, nor has he had a stellar career.

The poor Democrats just can't handle the fact we have a good president, who is doing a great job, earned respect from leaders around the world, and now getting rid of the terrorists. The Dems are stuck with their failed president, Bill "I wish I knew who my Daddy was" Clinton; I guess I can understand why they're so unhappy.

And, I believe NBC is "pretending" they have a hit program with "West Wing"; I don't know one person who's watched it.

128 posted on 02/24/2002 9:17:21 AM PST by katze
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To: RippleFire
Aaron Sorkin

Don't you love it when complete imbeciles succumb to the delusion that they're something other than way too far to the left...on the IQ bell curve?

129 posted on 02/24/2002 9:19:56 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: floriduh voter
to play reno? how about that really ugly woman that played Mrs Roper on 3s company?
130 posted on 02/24/2002 9:20:18 AM PST by donmeaker
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To: sneakypete
you are a Bush-Bot who thinks he is the second coming of Jesus.

Do you have any idea how childish and irration it is to engage in such namecalling and exaggeration? Your arguments, whatever they are, lose credibility with statements like that.

131 posted on 02/24/2002 9:23:07 AM PST by mountaineer
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To: Alissa
Alissa, I see we have traveled the same path. Most of my friends (liberals) would not even entertain new information, having been set in their opinions since thos halcyon days when they manned the barricades of the Ad Building.
132 posted on 02/24/2002 9:23:20 AM PST by Inkie
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To: RippleFire
Does he mean like his bunch pretended for eight years that Clinton's perversions and gross dishonesty were honorable & worthy of "greatness"?
133 posted on 02/24/2002 9:24:58 AM PST by Wondervixen
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To: RippleFire
Only a guy like Sorkin could make me come out in defense of Bush. These guys are capable of making anyone look good by the weakness of their arguements. Some things Bush has done well. Many others he's out to lunch on. But bringing up the name of Al Gore or Martin Sheen to help make the case against him and you've made Bush shine far more than hurt him.

Snorekin, Gore lost, and he was trying to act intelligent. For some reason the vaccine didn't take. Wonder why that could have been? Could it be that some people can attain all the diplomas in the world and still not have a lick of sense?

As for Marty, isn't he the same guy that came out with Ed Asner to defend Manuel Noriega against the US funded Contras? Or was it the insurgents in El Salvador that received his support? Both were communist backed bad guys. Yet Marty is mentioned as one worthy of commentary on Bush? Yeah and Bulwinkle is worthy of commentary on Clinton, so I guess we're even.

134 posted on 02/24/2002 9:25:00 AM PST by DoughtyOne
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To: RippleFire
The nonstop drum beat has begun since the end of last year and will only get louder. Molly Ivins, Maureen Dowd, Norman Soloman, David Broader, Joe Conasen, et. al. have resurected all the pre 9/11 issues and added failed war and hate mongering to their list. Just today, the Oregonian's bleeding heart David Sarasorn gushes about the Vice President in Exile, Lieberman.

This all out internal political war cannot help but weaken the USA in any fight against terrorists, if for no other reason than it gives the European leftists more ammunition. The suicidal pretentions of these peole amazes me.

Even a fool can see that Clinton's administration set the stage for 9/11 and the policies they followed failed. If we ease up, feel "their" pain, minister to the "poor" and abandon violence, we won't last five years.

135 posted on 02/24/2002 9:28:37 AM PST by JimSEA
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To: weikel
( surprisingly the most Conservative entertainment TV show is also the raunchiest yep its South Park).

Check out "The Family Guy" on Fox before they cancel it.

136 posted on 02/24/2002 9:29:09 AM PST by sneakypete
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To: ClancyJ
It's very easy to understand if you read the Bible. Look to John chapter 3.

"And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God."

People who have dirty hands will always hate someone who has integrity, and tells them their hands are dirty.

137 posted on 02/24/2002 9:30:06 AM PST by I still care
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To: Hang'emAll
Gave her the article and explained again what they are doing and why people should boycott that show

Why simply do a token boycott when you can.....

FREEP THE SPONSORS!


138 posted on 02/24/2002 9:30:43 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER
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To: zarf
Of course, getting blown in the White House is cause for celebration......another Patron shot please.....

What does getting a blow job have to do with anything? I'm pretty certain George Washington (he slept EVERYWHERE!),Thomas Jefferson,and most especially Ben Franklin all got blow jobs. Does this mean they were stupid,evil,traitorous,criminal,or incompetent?

139 posted on 02/24/2002 9:31:27 AM PST by sneakypete
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To: sneakypete
Thats one of my favorites too( they have canceled it before I just think they're canceling it and bringing it back is a scheme to drive up ratings I don't believe the ratings are really low now so many people watch it).
140 posted on 02/24/2002 9:33:04 AM PST by weikel
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