West Wing Launches New Season with More Liberal Advocacy (NBC's Campaign Contribution To Demmycrats)

Media Research Center ^ | September 26, 2002 | Brent Baker

[ThinkDifferent]

I watch the show because it's excellently written and acted, and the RATS do not come off nearly as well as Bozell is claiming.

It is very well written and acted, but it still came off as an extended commercial for the Democrats. In fairness I've only seen yesterday's show, but conservatives were portrayed only as stupid (the GOP candidate), evil (oil companies) or raving extremists (the "how many babies did you kill today" girl). Meanwhile the major failing of the liberals is that they come across as "too smart". I'll give it another chance but I suspect it's going to end up making me yell at the TV too much (the same reason I couldn't watch Clinton's state of the union addresses).

[maxwell]

You won't see intelligent folks on West Wing portrayed as Conservatives and/or Republicans.

I only see this show sporadically-- nothing else on public stations last night so saw most of premiere... Reminded me why I am not a fan-- this show always ends up chapping my Republican a$$ whenever I see it, the above reason being a primary one...
Yeah Toby et al. were made to look a bit foolish tooling around in the boondocks with Actual Human Beings, but one gets the sense that one is supposed to sympathize with them and their travails about having to deal with uneducated illiterate backwoods hicks who didn't vote fer that feller the last time and prob'ly won't THIS time neither...

I seem to recall some smart blonde ultraconservative chick joining the staff last year or so. She and Rob Lowe were always at each other. What happened to her?

[ThinkDifferent]

I thought those were feminazis mad at the first lady?

I thought they were supposed to be militant anti-feminists who were insulted by her statement that she was "just" a wife and mother. Although I wasn't paying close attention during that part, so I could be wrong.

[tbg681]

The Left Wing -- watch it every week. Funniest show on TV!!

Don't worry about its influence on the sheeple. 90% of its audience are already communists anyway (the other 10% -- like me -- just laugh AT it).

Think of it as pornography for the NPR crowd:

"If only -- sniff, sniff -- if only Martin Sheen really was president". Blah, blah, blah.

Oh, and check out the evil Republican "President Sheen" is running against -- Mr Barbra Streisand!!!! LOL!!!

[calljack]

She went to the new CSI show with David Caruso. They did try to slip in a look-a-like, didn't work.

[KeyBored]

Biggest whoppers of the last 10 years. The nominees are:

"I invented the internet" - AL GORE

"We'll have the most ethical administration in history" - WILLIAM JEFFERSON XLINTON

"My husband is the victim of a vast, right wing conspiracy" - XILLARY ROTTENHAM XLINTON

And the winner is:

"The West Wing is “non-political" - AARON SORKIN

[RayChuang88]

And you can tell how liberal Hollywood is by noting The West Wing has won three Emmys for Best Dramatic Series, totally ignoring a lot of other (frequently) more worthy shows like The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and several others. :-p

[amused]

I thought they were supposed to be militant anti-feminists who were insulted by her statement that she was "just" a wife and mother. Although I wasn't paying close attention during that part, so I could be wrong.

Well at least we both know what we are talking about ;-)

I remember the emphasis on "just" but at the same time I thought the protest made more sense from a feminzai point of view(get out the 'shackles" of housewifery and such).

[Wait4Truth]

they kicked all the conservative writers off the show at the end of last season. Peggy Noonan was one of them. They must have big plans to go completely liberal in every aspect from now until 2004. Pathetic but the libs and the media will adore. They won a ton of emmys last week.

[genefromjersey]

I watched all 2 hours of it last night . DEADLY !!!

The Commercials were the best part !

[PJ-Comix]

Sorry but The West Wing is one big slam against Republicans and Conservatives. Governor Ritchie (get it---Rich-ie?) is made to look like an idiot who is a puppet of his advisors while Jeb Bartlett's "problem" is that he seems to be too smart.

[PJ-Comix]

I loved it when the IN teen asked "how many unborn babies did they kill today" and Josh's(?) reaction was retreat.

They made the teen out to be a Yahoo that Josh condescendingly tolerated.

[PJ-Comix]

In fairness I've only seen yesterday's show, but conservatives were portrayed only as stupid (the GOP candidate), evil (oil companies) or raving extremists (the "how many babies did you kill today" girl).

And don't forget that old geezer hick in the country store who was anti-Bartlett.

[Political Junkie Too]

Interestingly, they also began portraying the president as beginning to suffer memory loss due to his MS, and covering it up by hiring staff to remember names and dates. It would be an interesting twist if they began a storyline of covering up a president's incapacity after finishing up a storyline of covering up a president's incapacity.

-PJ

[amused]

They made the teen out to be a Yahoo that Josh condescendingly tolerated.

During the 5 second exchange where she made her statement and his reaction was to put his hands up and say "whoa"? I may have missed more after that, did I?

Even so, I thought it was great to even have a teenager saying that. And considering the theme seemed to be disconnect with regular Americans(whether intended or not), I thought his smug attitude was appropriate.

One last thiong, anyone else notice the disatorous pipe bombing happened in Cedar Rapids, MI. Isn't that close to the largest population of arab muslims in the US?

[amused]

last thiong, anyone else notice the disatorous

Everyone point and laugh....

[sibb1213]

The American President is a chick thing, the Left Wing is a political machine for the dummycrats. I watched one show the first season and no more. Martin Sheen thinks he is the President! I just can't get past the bias.

[Dick Bachert]

"Would that mine enemy had written a book."

They have. And -- God bless 'em -- they read us a chapter every Wednesday evening!

[united1000]

They slammed the people of Indiana in the beginning of the show.  They are walking out of the corn field and Toby says - 'If there was anyone dumber that Robert Ritchie running on the ticket the people of Indiana would vote for him'.   But on the news people interviewed here in Indiana thought it was great to have Indiana represented  (although they filmed it in PA)  just to get the PR - go figure.................

[PJ-Comix]

It would have been fun if they had filmed an Indiana scene at the Speedway during the Brickyard 400 race last summer. I guarantee you the blonde White House Chick would have been constantly greeted with yells of "SHOW ME YOUR T*TS!!!" It's sort of a tradition there.