I'm with you. I watched all seven seasons. Great TV in terms of politics & dialog. Doesn't mean it wasn't biased, but often I felt Bartlett's stand was really what the GOP would do (ie they had Bartlett do the GOP thing because it was the right thing to do, tee hee).
And it's just TV, after all. As a political junkie, the show just fed into that. Good acting and I especially liked the set and the camera moves, how they'd do long continuous takes without a cut. Pretty innovative for a series.
But that's just me.
I'm probably in the minority here, too, but I liked The West Wing well enough until the last couple of seasons or so when it became blatantly left wing after Bush got re-elected. Same thing with Law and Order-which often had black and Hispanic murderers in the past. I loved Lenny and miss Jerry Orbach terribly. I hope they get more into the dynamics of the cops vs. the suits with Dennis Farina (who was a cop in real life).
Leo McGarry often sounded like the lone voice of reason on the show and often cut through the ideological BS. And not all of the characters were total liberals like Josh Lyman-Toby was against socialized medicine, CJ supported assassinating terrorists, Donna believed in tax cuts.
EXACTLY! I saw it about 10 times, and that pissed me of to no end when it happened. They would also show the Right's perspective, but not in total, and the Left view would win out. It was, however, very watchable for Conservatives. You just had to put up with 51% political idiocy