[EmmaPeel]

I hope they express their displeasure in a REAL way that makes an impression upon him.

[TLBSHOW]

SORKIN IS A NOTHING.

[codebreaker]

Drudge Radio Tease!

Can't wait..

[rwfromkansas]

Is drudge trying to say in this confusing headline that NBC is actually upset with Sorkin.....I find that highly unlikely.

[VaBthang4]

Let's see if the story lives up to the Drudge hype...

THE BITTER WEST WING

[Fintan]

If you really want to projectile vomit, click on the picture...

[Timesink]

Only on FR would we be ordered time after time after time, "Post the EXACT HEADLINE as your title," and then have a sidebar moderator come in and change it.

[AlGone2001]

Can someone give me an update. I don't know who Sorkin is, or what he said.

I'm spendin' some serious family time this weekend.

[summer]

Sorkin's screw up was detailed in the NY Post, Page 6. He said some really awful things about GW, and slammed Tom Brokaw's recent special with GW. According to Sorkin, the way Brokaw showed GW is not true, and what is true, according to Sorkin, is "Gw heading for a bumch of margaritas saying 'It takes an animal to know an animal.'" That line, again, according to Sorkin, is what GW said on a film by the daughter of a CA Dem lawmaker.

[village idiot]

Look, the left is constantly whinning about not having "equal time" on radio, while they foist this blatantly biased "emmy winning" propaganda at us at night. I enjoyed the show, but it will be easy to ignore it too!

[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."

[Dakota gal in Seattle]

Can not wait to read this spin,,

[UberVernunft]

Here is a quote from Sorkin:

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

Funny stuff...

[FryingPan101]

I'm probably one of the few. I've never watched West Wing. I loathe Martin Sheen and his offspring.

[Dakota gal in Seattle]

Looks like Sorkin screwed up. Ya think?

[OldFriend]

Anyone expect Peggy Noonan and other consultants to resign in protest of this outburst. Be very interesting to see if the consulting fees outweigh this disgraceful outburst from this pathetic creature.

[Timesink]

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN FEB 24, 2002 19:24:25 ET XXXXX

NBC SUITS RAP SORKIN AFTER BUSH 'COURAGE' SLAM; WHITE HOUSE: PRODUCER 'BITTER' AFTER DENIED REQUEST

**Update**
**Exclusive**

WEST WING's Aaron Sorkin landed in the hotseat with NBC executives late Sunday after he mocked President's Bush courage and ripped his own network's news anchor in an interview set for release on Monday.

According to publishing sources, Sorkin has told the NEW YORKER: "It's absolutely right that at this time we're all laying off the [Bush] bubblehead jokes... but the truth is we're simply pretending to believe that Bush exhibited unspeakable courage at the World Series..., or that he, by God, showed those terrorists by going to Salt Lake City and jumbling the first line of the Olympic opening ceremony."

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"Mr. Sorkin is way out of bounds, and his comments certainly do not, I repeat, do not represent the view of NBC, or anyone I know who works here, or our advertisers," said a top NBC executive from New York, who asked not to be named.

Meanwhile, a Bush Administration source reveals to the DRUDGE REPORT that Sorkin recently approached the real West Wing with a request to feature real White House players in an upcoming episode -- a request which was denied!

"He's attack the president cause we turned him down," a White House staffer charges. "He's bitter after we closed the door on him! But, quite frankly, we're preoccupied with other things these days."

NEW YORKER reporter Tad Friend has penned the high-impact Talk of the Town which features the controversial Sorkin comments.

An early rush of the story was already causing a commotion in Burbank at NBC's entertainment headquarters.

"I think Aaron would be better served focusing on the production of his show," said a source close to NBC entertainment president Jeff Zucker. "I am not sure he is aware just how inappropriate and damaging this might be for us. I've already got a dozen annoying phone calls here from people screaming about 'the Mushroom Guy.' Whether he likes it or not, he does represent NBC and I know the folks over at Warner Brothers plan to sit down with Aaron to express their concerns."

The NEW YORKER names Sorkin " the country's loyal opposition" in the report set to run in the mag's March 4 editions.

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Sorkin 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...

[Sir Gawain]

What's up with the title change? Why did a moderator change the title from the original to this? Are all caps not allowed in titles anymore? The terrorists have already won.

[pray4liberty]

Aaron Sorkin is proof that drugs fry your brain.

[SheLion]

Sorkin is an idiot!