Only being said by those that paid him no attention before 9/11 or refused to see him as he has always been.
Posted on 02/24/2002 7:50:56 AM PST by RippleFire
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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."
Developing...
It's easier than having to think for yourself,and all those people are like.....so handsome or beautiful,and so rich!
Could it be because ignoramuses like him and his ilk have given us such bombastically awful programming that we've exercised our constitutional rights to capitalistic enterprise?
If you don't like what you have to watch, (a.) Turn It Off, or (b.) Create An Alternative!
I have a hard time believing Goober would say that. After all,his father was a sea monkey.
Relying on the Times for unvarnished furniture would be a better bet. Truth is something they are apt to varnish, shellac, stain, and then sand down to nothing.
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?"
Oh, I suppose Brokaw found himself to be not in a position to give the President of the United States direct orders, that's my guess.
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.
If it were unspoken, we would not have heard your flummery, Mr. Mushrooms...
"The media is waving pom-poms, and the entire country is being polite," Sorkin declares.
Would you prefer to concentrate on what President Clinton was known for waving around? You might ask Paula Jones or any of the White House valets for clarification on this aspect of the former President's passtimes.
"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 should get all his friends to buy Bruni's book also... that would make five. Keep it up, and it will make the NYT Bestsellers list before either Hillary's or WJC's next book.
Sorkin tells the mag that he is planning to revisit the BUSH-GORE Florida showdown in an upcoming episode.
Fantasy eh? Like, lookit the colors man! Like, oh wow... do you like see the trails when I like wave around this burning inscense stick? Wow, pretty pink butterfly ballots! Totally cool! Got any more a dem 'shrooms, man?
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.
So that's what that Hollywood hills gerbil packer said, eh? Why should I or anyone else care?
"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."
Got a clue for you, Sorky,... Gore didn't have to try very hard at all. And his resume would be the last thing he would like publisized, as it would expose a career of mediocracy, failure, policy and ethical flip-flops, fraud, and drug use. And, we fully concure about your completely fictional show... starting with the fiction that it is in any way nonpolitical. Regarding those "Mad" magazine "Scenes"...who are you going to get to play the Mole? How about the vote fraud expert Daley? Or the lap dog SCOFLA? Will you get Wexler or Dershowitz to do a cameo?
Or even for comic relief? This really was funny. I'm hoping some reporter will catch Goober by surprise,and ask him what he thinks of a hallicunating crackhead being his biggest fan,and thinking he is smart.
I see. Kinda like "that depends on what the definition if "is",is.",huh? You are sure to get a colorful ribbon for your Bush-Bot uniform for that one.
To think he really believes this. Fictional maybe but definately not nonpolitical. I can't believe Sheen is leaving his political activism off the set.
Yeah,but it's obvious you have no idea how accurate my post was.
Yeah,he was involved with both,as well as with the movement to legalize ALL illegal aliens from south of the border. I forget right now what they called themselves,but they considered themselves the same as the old "underground railroad". He was also a leader of the protest near a Naval Station where the guy got his legs cut off for laying down in front of a train carrying ammo to El Salvador.
Both were communist backed bad guys.
That was the point. He is a "Liberation Theology" Catholic.
Tony can't seem to get past the "Axes of Evil". Hour after hour of his constant harping over what others think about what Bush said. I can't say it enough; I applaud this president every opportunity I get for speaking the truth and man enough to stand behind what he's said.
Only being said by those that paid him no attention before 9/11 or refused to see him as he has always been.
I don't think it's fair to label him as Goober.
He's more akin to Gomer.
This guy's smoking his own feces, dried. What you saw in the debates is what you got. Gore: the world's most dangerous f*****g serially-dropped-out criminal dullard -- barely able to wipe his own arse and/or to be let out of the house unattended, without his Depends -- and/or unmedicated -- up against probably the second most sensible -- and best educated -- presidential candidate of the past 180 years.
Why not just say" "Here's my fucking résumé, what do you got?"
Well -- um -- while your pathologically-corrupted lying sack of shit was flunking out of four schools and doing photo ops in ironed uniforms, with his bodyguards, among Saigon's diplomatic circles, I earned two pretty damned good degrees FRom a couple of pretty damned good universities and flew real jet fighters in a real men's airforce -- without the benefit of either bodyguards or training pants!
The Republican National Committee should protest to the FEC, the FCC, and demand equal time.
I'm serious.
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