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Thousands of Americans want to oust their president. The anti-war one, that is Duncan Campbell in Los AngelesTuesday March 4, 2003The Guardian Pressure is growing for the president to lose his job because of his uncompromising stance on the war. That's President Bartlet, as played by Martin Sheen in the hit television series, The West Wing. Sheen has been one of the leading figures in the anti-war movement, addressing rallies and spearheading the "virtual match" on Washington last week in which legislators were deluged with a million emails, phone calls and faxes. NBC is under pressure to sack him from...

<p>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.</p> <p>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."</p>

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...

"The West Wing" Defends America By Richard Acello Act I It's a beautiful day in Washington. President Martin Sheen is reflecting on his recent appointment of Barbra Streisand to the Supreme Court, while thumbing through Bill Clinton's memoir, "How I Won the War Against Terror and Still Found Time to Play Twister." Suddenly, a knock at the door. An aide enters. Aide: Sorry to interrupt, sir, but a bomb has blown up New York City. Looks like it might be the work of Middle Eastern terrorist extremists! Pres. Sheen: In all fairness, we don't actually know if it was Middle...

“The West Wing” Defends America by Richard Acello Act I It’s a beautiful day in Washington. President Martin Sheen is reflecting on his recent appointment of Barbra Streisand to the Supreme Court, while thumbing through Bill Clinton’s memoir, “How I Won the War Against Terror and Still Found Time to Play Twister.” Suddenly, a knock at the door. An aide enters. Aide: Sorry to interrupt, sir, but a bomb has blown up New York City. Looks like it might be the work of Middle Eastern terrorist extremists! Pres. Sheen: In all fairness, we don’t actually know if it was Middle...

Sheen leads antiwar forces Thu Feb 20, 3:31 AM ET Add Entertainment - Hollywood Reporter to My Yahoo! By Paul Bond LOS ANGELES (The Hollywood Reporter) --- Martin Sheen (news) is about to become the face of the Hollywood antiwar movement. Sheen has cut a TV commercial in which he implores: "Don't invade Iraq. Inspections work; war won't." The ad is set to begin a one-week run today -- initially on CNN, MSNBC and CNN Headline News. An effort bankrolled by the groups Win Without War and MoveOn.org, the ad was unveiled at a West Hollywood hotel Wednesday, where Sheen...

Anti-War Groups Planning Phone Campaign By SAM HANANEL Associated Press Writer February 19, 2003, 12:23 PM EST WASHINGTON -- A coalition of groups opposed to a U.S.-led war in Iraq will have supporters call, fax and e-mail the White House and Congress next week in an effort to overwhelm switchboards and catch the attention of political leaders. excerpted The group also unveiled a new television ad featuring actor Martin Sheen, who plays the fictional President Josiah Bartlet on NBC's "The West Wing." In the ad, which begins airing Thursday, Sheen urges Americans to take part in the call-in effort. "Our...

A coalition of groups opposed to a U.S.-led war in Iraq will have supporters call, fax and e-mail the White House and Congress next week in an effort to overwhelm switchboards and catch the attention of political leaders. "Last weekend, we marched in the streets," former Rep. Tom Andrews, D-Maine, national director of Win Without War, told a news conference Wednesday. "Next week, we're taking it to the suites of official Washington."Organizers of the "virtual march" on Washington are calling on supporters to call, fax or e-mail their two U.S. senators and the White House during business hours on Feb....

A frightening picture of American superiority Even a fictional character seen as so left-wing that he is unelectable spouts a chilling foreign policy Johann Hari 05 February 2003 It isn't easy for those of us in Britain to try to understand what has been happening to the American psyche over these past few surreal years. From the presidential election where the guy with half a million fewer votes ended up in the White House, to 11 September, where in one morning more people died as a result of terrorism than in Northern Ireland for the past 30 years, to the...

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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...

November 20, 2002 Regime change, anyone? I'm not talking about Iraq, although its oppressed citizens obviously could use a more benign leader. I'm talking about a changing of the guard on "The West Wing." Maybe the time is opportune. The defection of viewers from NBC's Wednesday-night White House drama is the talk of the TV industry this fall. Its overall Nielsen numbers are down about 20 percent from last season - 30 percent if you're talking about the important 18-to-49- year-old demographic. One theory - much discussed and at least as persuasive as the notion that viewers are bailing to...

November 20, 2002 Regime change, anyone? I'm not talking about Iraq, although its oppressed citizens obviously could use a more benign leader. I'm talking about a changing of the guard on "The West Wing." Maybe the time is opportune. The defection of viewers from NBC's Wednesday-night White House drama is the talk of the TV industry this fall. Its overall Nielsen numbers are down about 20 percent from last season - 30 percent if you're talking about the important 18-to-49- year-old demographic. One theory - much discussed and at least as persuasive as the notion that viewers are bailing to...

Max of 35 share in Los Angeles, 35 Chicago and 34 Dallas.Developing [Didn't Even Mention the West Wing!!]

I can’t get over the fact that this ever happened. He blatantly deceived the American people, but they still found a way to re-elect the man. Despite his fiction they chose to give him an additional four years to push his liberal agenda. I guess I should have seen it coming, but I still can’t reconcile myself to the reality that he was chosen by a considerable margin. The Republicans, however, must accept their share of the blame for placing such a tired, old politician against him. How did we not locate a more suitable candidate to run in this...

Art Imitates Life Imagined: West Winging It   by Mia T, 11-16-02 It is unclear precisely when Hollywood liberals began to believe their own material--Streisand repetitiveness, selfsameness, and ubiquity confound the issue--but by November 5, 2002, certainly, the transfer of all this nonsense to celluloid was complete. In San Francisco during the month preceding the Democrat debacle, party operatives were busy mixing metaphors and switching hitters as they hedged their bets: Robocalls to erstwhile and presumptive liberals made by the impeached utter failure ex-president were quickly mitigated by those of Martin Sheen, clinton's competent counterpart cleanup man... just in...

Forget Congress, a sluggish economy and terorrism. President Bartlet has bigger headaches. Namely, Aaron Buerge. ABC's The Bachelor after nipping at Barlet's wingtips all season, finally upended NBC's The West Wing in the TV week ended Sunday. The marriage minded reality series, featuring the photogenic Buerge and his quest for an equally photogenic bride, attracted a season high 16.3 million viewers for last Wednesday's outing, landing the show in lucky 13th place.

NBC has a prime time drama about the White House titled The West Wing, though it’s affectionately dubbed “The Left Wing” because of its liberal crusading. Will we soon be referring to a new prime time drama about a U.S. Senator and his staff as “The Left Hill” or “The Left Chamber”?     Quite possibly yes, judging by a glimpse at the upcoming show offered by CNN’s Bill Schneider on Friday’s Inside Politics in which the actor playing the Senator told him Paul Wellstone is the model for his character and the actress playing his Press Secretary cited Nancy Pelosi as...

Not to worry. This debate is only taking place in Aaron Sorkin's crack fantasy world of "The West Wing." The Republican candidate is made to seem a slow-witted dolt and President Bartlet is giving him the verbal beating that Sorkin says that Gore should (but didn't) give to Bush. BTW, I think the guy playing the Republican dolt is Mr. Barbara Streisand.