Well, I've read all the posts on this Drudge article. Are you folks tyring to tell me there's some TV show named "The West Wing?" Funny, I've never seen it. What's it about? What is it's premise?</sarcasm>
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...
Ewww we freepers have conservative family members who watch the West Wing (and it ticks me off)
Guess Mr. Sorkin has not viewed the daily dose. He would realize how ridiculous this statement is.
You 'got that', Sorkin? Sheen is a drunk, like his whore-hopping son and Sorkin is a dope-head. The "artistic community" is infested with feebleminded misfits who couldn't make it in the real word, so they spend their days in pretend play.
What a loser.....just like Algore-a loser!
LOLOLOLOLOL
Aging is a wonderful process (no sarcasm).
A LETTER TO AARON SORKIN from Jerry Miller,
Host of Republican Radio
and a proud Rotarian
Note: The following letter is in response to TV producer Aaron Sorkin's insinuation that legislators who opposed a bill he supported were "Rotarian gas bags."
October 25, 2001
Aaron Sorkin
Executive Producer
The Left Wing
Warner Brothers Television
4000 Warner Boulevard
Burbank, CA 91522
Dear Aaron,
Please add this letter to the mounting barrage you will be receiving from other outraged Americans who object so strenuously to your insensitive, uninformed and probably actionable characterization of Rotary International and Rotarians.
Such an off-the-mark comment coming from a morally bereft, heroin shooting, Hollywood lib like yourself doesn't surprise any of us. It perfectly fits the bunker mentality, socialist bureaucracy that you have constructed so accurately in The Left Wing.
Thank God that our country is in the hands of the party you so vehemently detest, being administered with rectitude, compassion and patriotism...qualities which you would never understand nor could ever embrace.
Keep up the polarization; you are doing our side a world of good.
Sincerely, Jerauld D. Miller
It's just amazing our country has so many nit-wit mental-midgets who swallow this sloppy sophistry.
Best FReegards...Mustang sends.
______________________________________________________________________
Albert A. Gore Jr.
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20500
* Vanderbilt Law School
~ Wrote a dissertation on the Scopes Monkey Trial, which gained national recognition by proving once and for all that the monkeys were innocent.
* Harvard University
~ Won a scholarship in an essay contest, for which I composed the slogan "Beat Yale."
~ Led a student petition drive to have the school's team nickname changed to the Sentient Porpoises.
* Vice President of the United States -- 1993 to 2001.
~ Reinvented the United States government.
~ Cast the tie-breaking vote on the 1993 budget, which triggered the greatest economic expansion in American history, and saved the nation from the worst economy in fifty years.
~ Prevented Republicans from taking school lunches from the mouths of starving children, as they were bent on doing.
* United States Senator -- 1985 to 1993
~ Fought for welfare reform, by authoring the bill I would convince President Clinton to sign, many years later.
~ Authored the Controlling Legal Authority Reform Act.
* Member of U.S. House of Representatives -- 1977 to 1985
~ Created the Earned Income Tax Credit.
~ Chaired House Subcommittee hearings on Watergate.
~ Proposed the minting of commemorative Bicentennial quarters.
* Reporter for The Tennesseean
~ Became the first reporter to interview Deep Throat, but did not publish the article, due to ethical concerns.
~ Conducted investigative report on the dietary hazard of peanut butter and banana sandwiches, which went tragically unheeded by one local celebrity.
~ Was awarded the Purple Heart, for removing a very, very hot flash bulb, while under heavy fire.
~ Conducted undercover report which exposed the infamous My Lai tragedy.
~ Uncovered ecological atrocities caused by napalm, which I discovered had been destroying the surrounding fauna and foliage.
~ Returned to Vietnam after the war, in a series of daring rescue missions, which were later recounted by Chuck Norris in the "Missing In Action" film series.
~ The Global Information Infrastructure: Agenda for Cooperation (1996) -- a plan for sharing my most famous creation with the world.
~ Common Sense Government: Works Better and Costs Less (1995) -- a proposal for reforming government, guided by the fiscal restraint for which I was famous when I served in Congress.
~ Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (1993) -- a blueprint for counteracting gravity, continental drift, and other geological anomalies, through implementation of effective, common-sense policy initiatives.
~ Sister died.
~ Son was hit by car.
~ Dog ran away.
~ Sea monkeys didn't really do anything.
I thought that the day shown on NBC was quite normal for his schedule.
Well, I've read all the posts on this Drudge article. Are you folks tyring to tell me there's some TV show named "The West Wing?" Funny, I've never seen it. What's it about? What is it's premise?
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