[summer]

From the NY Post, Page Six, dated today:

"WEST Wing" creator Aaron Sorkin whines that the media portrays President Bush in too flattering a light, and he charges his NBC colleague Tom Brokaw with leading the suck-up brigade. Sorkin, a recovering cocaine addict, says a recent Brokaw-anchored day-in-the-life look at Bush was tantamount to "waving pompoms." "We're simply pretending to believe that Bush exhibits unspeakable courage," Sorkin tells the New Yorker, noting, "Tom Brokaw let it happen." He says a more accurate portrait is an upcoming documentary about Bush's campaign plane, which shows him wading into a throng of margarita-mixing journalists announcing, "It takes an animal to know an animal."

[yikes]

I watched the Brokaw special and was struck by his body language. Try as he might, Brokaw cannot hide his feelings completely. At one point in his final interview with Bush at the end of the program, TB was standing with arms folded across his chest. Said oodles about Tommy's inner feelings.

Also remember a pre-election interview where Tommy perched so close to Bush he was practically sitting in GW's lap.

Reminiscent of Hillary holding hands with Laura B on the latter's visit to the WH and Jesse Jackson holding hands with two U.S. soldiers after Jackson supposedly liberated them during the Kosovo. Behavior only meant to demean.

[terilyn]

""WEST Wing" creator Aaron Sorkin whines that the media portrays President Bush in too flattering a light, and he charges his NBC colleague Tom Brokaw with leading the suck-up brigade."

LOL! Is this the same Brokaw that couldn't get through two sentences during that special without mentioning Enron? Yeah, what a suck-up! /off sarcasm

[lavaroise]

Sorkin, a recovering cocaine addict,

TV role models.

[patlaw_guy]

Sorkin's right, but his show still stinks.