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President Jed Bartlet, you were just too good for us.  It has long been known that liberals hold the television show The West Wing in a high esteem that feeds into their fantasies, especially in times where cold reality has not exactly gone as they (and creator Aaron Sorkin) would have hoped.  And this fantasy will only be intensified since this is the twentieth anniversary of the show's premiere. Another reason for liberals to fantasize ever more deeply in the parallel liberal world of The West Wing is obviously due to the the one they consider to be the intruder in...

Catherine Zeta Jones had bullet-proof windows installed at her Swansea mansion to fend off stray golf balls - and not potential attackers. The multi-millionairess actress raised eyebrows when the high-security glass was put in at her £2m house. At first it was thought she wanted to prevent a potential attack on her young children and Hollywood star husband Michael Douglas. But the glass has actually been installed to prevent stray shots flying into her lounge from the golf club next door. A member of the club said: "If you slice your shot your ball will fly towards their house so...

December 28, 2002 President Bartlet, Please Take Me BackBy FRANK LUNTZ cLEAN, Va. -- There is a small, humorless segment of conservative society that is now convinced more than ever that NBC's "The West Wing" is a plot, a weekly Hollywood conspiracy to overturn the electoral outcome of 2000. I should know. In 2001, I joined Marlin Fitzwater and Peggy Noonan as one of three consultants hired to provide a conservative perspective to the show's writers. Then, in the summer of this year, all three of us were dumped. To conservatives, it was proof that "The West Wing" hates...