WEST WING SORKIN BLASTS BUSH: WE'RE 'PRETENDING' HE HAS EXHIBITED UNSPEAKABLE COURAGE

Drudge ^ | Feb. 24, 2002 | Matt Drudge

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WEST WING SORKIN BLASTS BUSH: WE'RE 'PRETENDING' HE HAS EXHIBITED UNSPEAKABLE COURAGE

The force behind NBC's WEST WING is blasting off against the real West Wing in upcoming pages of the NEW YORKER, which names Aaron Sorkin "the country's loyal opposition."

NY'ER reporter Tad Friend has penned a high-impact Talk of the Town set for release in March 4 editions.

Sorkin, the creatorproducerwriter of WEST WING, 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...

[RippleFire]

Offered without comment from the Twilight Zone.

[VA Advogado]

Isn't this guy a crack and mushroom head? For real.

[wheezer]

Yup...obviously back on the pipe.

[Illbay]

Yes, Mr. Bush has unspeakable courage, and you people have unprintable audacity.

[Senator Pardek]

"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."

Cocaine is the mother of all non-sequiturs.

[Elkiejg]

"a far cry from what the Times and CNN and others on whom we rely for unvarnished objectivity"

If Sorkin believes this statement, he's obviously eating, smoking, drinking, etc. his funny mushrooms again/still. I enjoy watching the West Wing, BUT this may end my viewing.

[Fifth Business]

His criticisms don't seem very substantive. They're trivialities.

[nevergore]

He's still crying about Gore losing the election....

This isn't about Bush, terrorism or patiotic fervor, this article is about a left coast, liberal, drug-addicted democratic crybaby who's still upset about his "great white liberal hope" AlGore losing...

Bwahahahahahahaha.....

NeverGore

[RippleFire]

"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?'"

Aside from the grammar ("what do you got"), Bush's resume reads much better than Gore's.

[Fred Mertz]

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.

If this had been the opening line, I would have stopped reading. What a liar.

Who cares what Sorkin thinks? Better yet, who is Sorkin? I never heard of him, although I've stumbled onto his propaganda show on occasion while channel surfing.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

Hollywood baffoons have gone so far left they are idiot communists.

Too bad good decent gentlemen like Ronald Reagan are a thing of the past in Hollywood.

[mountaineer]

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

I thought Albert Jr. was trying not to appear like a flaming poofter - unsuccessfully, I might add.

[DrNo]

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

Actually, it wasn't so much frustrating as painful!

Why do people keep trying to convince us that this doofus is smart?!

[Burkeman1]

Sorkin on the pipe again. It was tough to watch Gore "pretend not to be smart" in the debates? Is this guy for real? Hey Sorkin- Gore got worse grades than Dubya. He flunked out of Divinity school! That is pretty tough too do! These guys believe their own lies. Unreal. But I guess when for three or four days of every week you are on a speed, coke, pot, booze binge- reality gets a little blurred.

[RobbyS]

What should anyone listen to what this drugged neurotic has to say?

[weikel]

Ewww we have freepers who watch the West Wing.

[Kennard]

Soon Aaron Sorkin will need to bash Israel on West Wing.

Let's see if he rises to the challenge.

[ken5050]

If you watch the show, the TV prsident was censured b the Congress, and admitted that he lied to Congres, his staff, and the American people about having MS.....IOW, he came clean, and accepted responsibility, just like his idol, Bubba...

Sorkin has been in the 'shrooms again...

[Ditter]

I'll fix Sorkin................... I'll never watch West Wing again! .............. Oh, hold it, Ive NEVER watched West Wing. Well so much for an idle threat.

[lowbridge]

Sorkin continues: "The show was a valentine to Bush.

And West Wing isn't a valentine to X-42?

[Whilom]

Uh-oh, the New Yorker has got it wrong again -- that "loyal opposition" part.

[MeekOneGOP]

[Miss Marple]

An interesting question would be why Drudge feels the need to publicize this idiot's ravings. I often think that Drudge likes to bash President Bush through second-hand quotes. It's "news," you see.

In my fantasy world these arrogant losers would be shown to the public for what they are, but alas, I fear that will never happen.

[Alissa]

I proudly can state I've never watched one episode of West Wing, and after this I'll never tune in. What's he mean Gore was trying so hard not to appear smart in the debates! Gore is a total fool, and the debates just proved it. Give me an MBA from Harvard any day rather than a divinity school flunkie!

This fool Sorkin has the same mindset of all the elitist Hollywood - they think all Democrats are deep and intellectual and all Republicans are bumbling idiots. I can tell him it took me a lot of maturing, research, reading and paying attention to what's going on around me to finally become a Conservative Republican. I WAS THE TOTAL IDIOT WHEN I WAS A DEMOCRAT!!!!!!!!

[Brett66]

We're 'pretending' Sorkin isn't a drug infested scum that should be in jail.

[floriduh voter]

Watch for this West Wing espisode regarding a Florida governor's race to be on prime time BEFORE the real Governor's race. This was clearly written and is going to be aired to smear Jeb. I wonder who will play Janet or McLawyer. The tall, chubby dunce on Spin City could play McLawyer. Who can play Janet? Any ideas?

[Hang'emAll]

He is so annoyed that his precious little democratic fairy tale is not being accepted as reality that he can no longer hide the shows' bias.

My wife watches that sick show and I refuse to watch. She and her family admire the acting, blah,blah,blah.

I have told her that they are out there to push a liberal adgenda on the mind numb sheeple.

Gave her the article and explained again what they are doing and why people should boycott that show.

Guarantee that I have made no progress on this issue.

[ClancyJ]

As if a Clinton displayed unspeakable courage as he had sex in the White House with an intern, as he passed on capturing Bin Laden and therefore saving 3000 lives, as he made a token attack on an aspirin factory. Busy? Let's count the accomplishments in his first 6 months in office, let's look at the last year.

What bothers him is having to look at a president that displays decency, honesty, and a regard for the wellfare of this country rather than the sleasy self interest Hollywood applauds. Bush also makes his show look totally insignificant and petty.

I could never understand why they hated someone like Bush . However, someone explained that they prefer a president like they are - somewhat sleasy, potentially corrupt, unprincipled and of low moral character. When a man of character is in office, their agenda of low morality, and corruption being set as the norm is hindered.

[zook]

This is a big problem--we need to quit hearing this crap about "what a great show it is". We need to mount a major campaign against its advertisers. We need to hurt the show the same way we hurt Bill Ma-ha.

[Quicksilver]

Sorkin Seeks Buzz for Sagging Wing

[muir_redwoods]

Either he's running low on mushrooms or he's gotten into a better batch

[mountaineer]

Who can play Janet?

Will Farrell.

[MeekOneGOP]

WEST WING SORKIN BLASTS BUSH: WE'RE 'PRETENDING'
HE HAS EXHIBITED UNSPEAKABLE COURAGE

Excerpt:

The force behind NBC's WEST WING is blasting off against the real West Wing in upcoming pages of the NEW YORKER, which names Aaron Sorkin "the country's loyal opposition."

NY'ER reporter Tad Friend has penned a high-impact Talk of the Town set for release in March 4 editions.

Sorkin, the creatorproducerwriter of WEST WING, 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?"

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[Protect the Bill of Rights]

LOL!!!

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

jumbling the first line of the Olympic opening ceremony

This pointy-headed pipsqueak fails to comprehend that this is one reason Americans love W. He is plain-speaking and makes mistakes. The abberation that infested the White House before it's cleansing, was a slick con man who only had the weak-minded or sheep hoodwinked.

Obviously, most of Hollywood and the media are in those catagories, since we know ideology(chuckle)has no play, especially when it comes to the objective (snortle) press.

[khenrich]

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!'"

If the Times and CNN are our only choices of unvarnished objectivity, Chinese communism might be a better choice. I can't believe Drudge would even give that idiot space.

[weikel]

Ive got better things to do then trying to get the sponsors to drop that crappy show. I just don't watch it( if you want to mount any political lobbying campaigns plz join the veto cfr campaign).

[IRBlondie]

What is the dope (no pun intended) on this guy? Was he arrested, charged, any bail, court date, and the drug he had in his possession?

[Benrand]

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

pppffft! (Danny Thomas spit take)

LOL! This guy is using a crack addled brain.

[TheGoodDoc]

A sure sign the series will soon be cancelled is when the drug addict owner of the show tries for negative publicity, to drum up the public's fading interest.

[okie01]

"Bush's resume reads much better than Gore's."

Excellent point!

And, if the lefties ever bothered to look, with the names blacked out, they'd agree.

The left is reduced to twerpism...

[socal_parrot]

THIS IS A MAN

THIS IS A MAN ON DRUGS

ANY QUESTIONS?

[AdvisorB]

Sorkin must have gotta ahold of some bad crack, just like Rock Hudson.

[tbg681]

Oh yeah, that's just great -- W. isn't qualified to be president in the acid sodden mind of Aaron Sorkin...

...but left wing asshole Martin Sheen is.

And the liberals pull their puds and wonder why their beloved (and wretched) Democrat party is losing support by the day.

[tallhappy]

Isn't this guy a crack and mushroom head? For real.

Yes, for real. And it shows.

Ultra liberalism anti-Americanism of Hollywood is always fueled by drugs.

Most liberalism is fueled by drug use.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

If this guy isn't busted again in the next few weeks, I'm going to be very disappointed.

[thinktwice]

We're a completely fictional, nonpolitical show,

Barf Time!!!

[Yehuda]

Let her watch the show, make a list of the advertisers and products and send them all one email cc'd to NBC on how you aren't buying their products from now on till they drop their sponsorship of this left-wing drivel...

[FreeperinRATcage]

Compared to the "non-political" "West Wing", Time and CNN are bastions of objectivity!

Hey..under CFR, will WW be suspended for 60 before an election?

[MeekOneGOP]

Guarantee that I have made no progress on this issue.

LOL! I understand. Kinda like makin' water go uphill, huh? :o)