Sheen: NBC Nervous About Anti-War Stance

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LOS ANGELES - Actor Martin Sheen (news) said NBC executives fear his opposition to a U.S.-led war against Iraq (news - web sites) will hurt his popular television show "The West Wing (news - web sites)."

Sheen, who plays fictional U.S. President Josiah Bartlet on the NBC series, told the Los Angeles Times for a story Sunday that the show's staff has been "100 percent supportive" but top network executives have "let it be known they're very uncomfortable with where I'm at" on the war

The 62-year-old actor helped lead a "Virtual March on Washington" last week that flooded the White House with thousands of anti-war e-mails and has spoken out against the potential war in public.

NBC spokeswoman Rebecca Marks told The Associated Press Sunday that she knows of "no concern among top management at NBC regarding Mr. Sheen's stand against the war or fear that it could impact the show."

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hmmm.

[org.whodat]

impact the show

Didn't watch the pervert before he open his trap.

[isthisnickcool]

Martin Sheen? His real name is Ramon Estevez BTW.

[scooby321]

maybe his admen are at NBC

[FreedomPoster]

Good. They should be. Their ratings should drop like a rock. I can't do much to affect that, as I don't watch this jerk anyway.

[calljack]

I like to watch the show and if I stopped then they would only have 174 people who watch it.

[guitfiddlist]

Geez, Martin. Don't flatter yourself. NBC sold us out loooong before your piddly little butt went play-acting a wussy President.

[irish guard]

I stopped worrying or ever thinking about the elder Estevez when he decided it would be compasionate to crawl into a cardboard box for a night (I think that was all the longer he did it)to show his care for the homeless.......Never bothered to open a homeless shelter or see what else he could do, he just moved on....into irrelevance as far as I was concerned. His kid was pretty good in the Mighty Ducks though....I like hockey.....

[donozark]

I wouldn't urinate on Martin Sheen if he was on fire! Unless I could excrete napalm...

[SevenofNine]

Last good movie Marty was in

WAS Apocalyse Now quoting Col Killgore


I love the smell of napalm in the morning

Also for the record it is knownnnn fact that UPN Remake of Twilight Zone kick his butt in the ratings

[Lord Basil]

They shouldn't worry. I wasn't watching it anyway.

[noutopia]

Never watched it, never will.

[Recovering_Democrat]

They should be nervous. I don't bother to watch The West Wing, but if someone were to list the primary sponsors of that show, I'd go out of my way to NOT PURCHASE THEIR PRODUCTS.

[RightWinger]

I've never watched his show and I hope they pull it.
I'll do what I can to help.

[Callahan]

Sheen's babble will only increase the loyalty the libs who watch his show. They're the only one's who tune in anyway.

[longrider]

I have never watched that show and never will, because sheen stars in it.

[MinuteGal]

NBC is only worried about its ratings and its bottom line.

Never would it be motivated by patriotism, love of country, support for the President in time of war or our the morale and safety of our troops.

Despicable creeps and fifth-columnists!

Leni

[SeeRushToldU_So]

I have never seen his "popular" show. Never have,and never will see it. Let him go be a human shield.

[fabriclady]

Never watched the jerk, can't stand the sight of him.
Don't care what happens to show, and for what it is worth, I don't care what happens to NBC.
If they had to depend on me for ratings, they would be in minus column.
And to believe this egotistical jerk thinks we want to see him. Go away Sheen!

[Delphinium]

Anyone have the address?