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."
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Same thing with me. In fact, I can't IMAGINE why anyone would watch the damn thing.
They can pick their Jeb actor. I wonder who will be Jeb - John Rocker? I won't be watching WW. Never have. By the way, the REAL POTUS gave a tour of the real West Wing right before the tv show WW. After the real POTUS's show ended, the ratings dropped off. No ****.
Having watched Algor's behavior for years -- and especially his physical movements -- trying to throw and run and walk like a male [He absolutely can not!] -- I will bet London to a brick that he is a flaming fruit and as camp as a row of tents! The guy's dead set a poofter!
[It's no wonder his loathesome and fearsome theatrical-prop "spouse" is a certifiable bloody nut case!]
Witless, the left is showing the country how anti-American they are; how clueless they are about the depth of feeling of pride in the country for this president who carries a big stick.
The upcoming Congressional elections will scare hell out of the left even more, and Mr. Bush is a shoo-in for reelection in 2004.
Now Sorkin, there's a hypocrite for you. Fawning all over Clinton cause of the label, and ignoring the fact that many of Clinton's policies were centrist or even conservative.
At least the Hollywood wive's club of Emily's List discontinued their group in disgust after becoming disenchanted with the Clinton Admin. Sorkin, I'm afraid, watched the half-pipe in the olympics, with all that snow, and was lured back to his true love.
Happily, his show is 'bout ready to Jump the Shark.
They should be on their knees praying to God instead of Allah and thanking him for George W.Bush.
Oh well what else should I expect.
Hang 'emAll! LOL!
My speculation (and it is only that) that he got into it with the son over LEAKING information from the dad's administration. The Bush family despises leaks and disloyalty. Coupled with jealousy that the son's speeches are MUCH better written than the father's were, and I begin to see a reason for the animosity.
Just my personal hunch, and I cheerfully admit I haven't a shred of proof. Just guesses.
(President Bush's speeches ARE better than his dad's, though.)
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