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

Drudge ^ | Feb. 24, 2002 | Matt Drudge

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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...

[NYpeanut]

Cocaine is the mother of all non-sequiturs.

I nominate this for the funniest line of the week award. Do we have one?

[LoneGOPinCT]

Liberal Media Bush-bash fest in progress. . .

Oh, and I suppose the sun is going to set this evening, too?

[LoneGOPinCT]

"It was frustrating watching Gore try so hard not to appear smart in the debates. "

Yeah, he was trying. Yeah, that's it. That's the ticket.

[floriduh voter]

Lurch died but he could still vote for Janet if he lives in the right precinct.

[MeekOneGOP]

LOL!
bump!

[bray]

Who cares what Snortin thinks? Wonder how the ratings for the Left Wing have been doin since 911??? Truth is that this show has become a joke, just like the clinton legacy!

Pray for GW and the Truth

[Paul Ross]

In the contorted, distorted world of Liberals, they really believe that when their guy (from Bubba, to Hitlery! (world's smartest pant-suit wearer; to Goron) who is unmasked before all, without spin-control protection, as a DOLT, they go into denial, and think, it has to be a mistake, there has to be some devious political calculation that makes him appear so monumentally STUPID. Just say it ain't so Albert...

[Redbob]

I got algore's resume for you:
'C'-student at Harvard, later flunked-out of divinity school at small Tennessee private school, studied law but didn't graduate from same vanity college.

Bush?
Graduated Yale, Harvard MBA.
'Nuff said.

[ibbryn]

Sorkin is the goofball who wrote THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT, directed by Rob Reiner and staring Michael Douglas as the Pres. The subplot of this movie was the pres' efforts to ban the dreaded Ruter Mini 14 and Mac 12 firearms. Pure gun control pap. Sorkin later admitted that the wrote the entire movie on a crack smoking binge. When he was arrested at Burbank airport for mushroom and crack possession the first reports said that he fainted. He's just plain feeble.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

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.

Paging Governor Bush, paging Governor Bush...

[cubscoutmom1]

Ewww we have freepers who watch the West Wing Does it count if you accidentally see a commercial while your husband is channel surfing?Actually we are boycotting NBC because they show garbage. We are also boycotting ABC, too (pretty much every thing Disney on that one)

[SuziQ]

Instead of giving this guy undue publicity by paying the LEAST amount of attention to him, I say let's just IGNORE him and all his hollywood friends. They WANT folks to get mad and yell for boycotts etc. so they can be thought of as martyrs to the cause of "truth and freedom to speak out". Yep they have the right to speak, but they DON'T have the right to be heard. Where was this article, in the New Yorker? Just how large is the subscriber list for that magazine? Most Americans don't even know it exists, so they won't be reading what Sorkin had to say, anyway, so I say just ignore him!

[weikel]

NBC has good late night stuff( of network TV I only really watch NBC late night and Fox only they have any good shows IMHO).

[flicker]

Could we get a volunteer to watch and post the advertizers who sponsor this tripe?

NOT ME!!

We need a site on FR where sponsors of these actions can be held accountable.

They don't care about one Freeper! I canceled my auto policy with GEICO for their homolusting bombing of the Dr. Laura show. I had 4 cars insured with them for 12 years without a scratch, ticket or late premium. When they called to "discuss' my cancellation, I restated my reasons and their only reply was that they didn't "want to discriminate or make anyone feel uncomfortable".

How about me? They also picked up the homo block, which is sizable but are notorious for "following too close".

[Bullish]

"It was frustrating watching Gore try so hard not to appear smart in the debates...."

Only a lunatic would make such an insane statement.

[Amore]

If no one mentioned it yet, Hannity & Colmes is covering the Sorkin flap tonight.

[Amore]

Boy, I hate that movie! ("The American President"). It could have been charming,
but with all the propaganda he was pushing .... Gag!

[Terridan]

No, not criminal (blowjobs), just a damn shame that 6, 7, 8 year olds learned "new word of the week" so soon, and that the schools added it to their sex ed classes in fifth grade. Too bad, huh?

[sultan88]

We need a site on FR where sponsors of these actions can be held accountable.

Great Idea. We need a resource to turn to so we can get the Lib'ral Media Whore'd where it does the most damage - in the pocketbook!

[sultan88]

I canceled my auto policy with GEICO for their homolusting bombing of the Dr. Laura show. I had 4 cars insured with them for 12 years without a scratch, ticket or late premium. When they called to "discuss' my cancellation, I restated my reasons and their only reply was that they didn't "want to discriminate or make anyone feel uncomfortable". How about me? They also picked up the homo block, which is sizable but are notorious for "following too close".

Thanks for posting the GEICO information!