Posted on 07/03/2012 10:04:09 AM PDT by Kaslin
During last week's premiere of Aaron Sorkin's new HBO drama, The Newsroom, viewers were introduced to Will MacAvoy (played by Jeff Daniels), a popular news anchor with scathing opinions about the United States. Episode two continued the liberal talking points, this time portraying conservative opinions on immigration as both racist and stupid.
On the July 1 HBO broadcast, MacAvoy turned to Arizona's immigration law. Somehow, instead of a qualified expert, the only people that the fictional production team are able to find to advocate for the law are a ditzy beauty queen who claims that she didn't win a pageant because she agreed with the law, an extremely racist 'author' of self-published anti-immigration literature and a member of a citizen-run border-patrolling militia. [Video coming soon. MP3 audio here.]
MacAvoy is then instructed to interview these last-minute guests immediately after a prominent immigrant rights advocate who had been thoroughly prepped for his appearance. Predictably, the first guest delivers his pre-prepared remarks with ease and makes an argument that leaves MacAvoy visibly enchanted.
He then sarcastically turns to his producer and gleefully tells her that "a hospitality major will not be able to speak with sophistication about constitutional law" and proceeds to ask the beauty queen about the constitutionality of states forming their own foreign policy, a subject which she has no knowledge of. The other two guests are no better and through his questions, MacAvoy is able to successfully paint them as un-educated, right-wing hacks.
Even after this, MacAvoy is not finished injecting his opinion into the news. He decides a to air an authorized segment of Sarah Palin blundering a foreign policy question before patronizingly breaking it down and explaining what "she really meant" to the viewers.
After only two episodes, it's clear what viewers can expect from Newsroom: an obnoxious liberal agenda and conservatives constantly portrayed as dumb.
I haven’t subscribed to H-BLOWS for years.
The "aren't we clever" and pervasive smugness theme that runs through the show is obnoxious to watch.
We hold these truths to be self-evident....
Seems very truthful. We all know the media doesn’t play fair and likes to pit well prepared experts against unprepared random people to make their favorite side sound better. By showing exactly how this works the show is much more of a hit on the media than on the conservatives it shows being ambushed.
The approach of this fictional TV show reminds me of some segments of O’Reilly. Several times I’ve seen segments where O’Reilly wants to pontificate on something; so he brings on a throw-down guest who knows little about the subject as his “opponent” to make himself look good.
I don’t mind too much. The Wire ripped Democrats and liberalism to shreds.
HBO? Oh yeah, that overpriced subscription to a specific set of movies that start per HBO’s schedule. Not a good business model when you can pay a fraction of the cost for on-demand services (Netflix, Amazzon, Hulu, etc.). Good luck HBO to you and your investors, keep peddling crap too, that’s pure genius...
Just renewed for Season Two. I have not watched it but thought maybe I would. It seems kinda boring to me.
In spite of that, more Americans identify themselves as conservative.
If leftists didn't get so much free publicity - there'd be so few of them that we'd be able to smell the stench of liberal elite without it being part of the air...
Isn’t Sorkin the same guy who wrote “West Wing”? Why would anyone expect anything different from him? Instead of getting mad, and giving the show FREE press, why don’t we just ignore his show?
Free press that says - in effect - “Sorkin, your show sucks ass”.
Lets keep pointing and laughing at this loser.
Par for the course for Sorkin. And HBO.
Yup. He’s also responsible for “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip”, which was sort of like “30 Rock” (they both debuted in the same season) but even more unfunny and with a lot more leftie talking points.
To shreds.
'The Wire' was a perfect lesson to America why moronic metro area liberals at all levels piss off the rest of America so much.
The dialog is insanely hilarious! Every single segment, no matter how small, has humans speaking in ways that humans would be speaking if humans spoke everything perfectly. No "ahhs" or "you knows" or any verbal miscues. This only applies to the liberals though. The conservatives or more accurately "targets" in the show are absolute idiots who obviously can't think. Sorkin writes such that his characters sound like geniuses speaking with retards. With a cadence that reminds me of an old bit Johnny Carson did years ago with Jack Webb.
The funniest thing is the seriousness of everything. Everything is such a big deal. It is one very long OMG! Which is amusing because they do their "news show" then all go home. Which is kind of silly considering the "gravity" of everything they do. They are saving the entire planet but just not all the time. LOL!
The bottom line is that "The News Room" is nothing more than a liberal circle jerk that is very transparent unless you are a moron.....
I’d sooner expect the gophers in my lawn to leave gold nuggets in the holes they dig than an Aaron Sordid production to be fair to conservatives.
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