April 2nd, 2012
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So this is, what, West Wing + Sportsnight? Sounds really awesome, especially if they walk around and talk a lot.
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Yeah, he’s conservative and just so happens to agree with Aaron Sorkin. Reminds me of the joke that circulated in 1964 among Jews about Barry Goldwater: The first Jewish president turns out to be Episcopalian.
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My thought exactly, JE. Let’s leave aside the fact that he’s apparently never taken a stance on anything … except registering Republican (which nobody ever noticed, I guess, or he managed to secretly register as a Republican?). He’s a registered Republican, except that his stance on all issues is liberal and he thinks Republicans are dumb jerks.
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“I finally get Sports Night – it’s the show that’s too good to be funny!”
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Worse, has anybody ever been to a college forum where the first people at the microphone have been asking naive, right-of-center questions instead of the professional leftists on campus that camped outside of the auditorium for hours in advance so that they could ramble for 3-5 minutes to decry U.S. intervention in Vietnam/El Salvador/Iraq? Even at schools with more centrist student bodies, has ANY college student ever really asked why America is number one?
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Ben, EXACTLY! I’m so tired of the “Sorkin really knows how to write” nonsense. I’ve never, ever, not one fucking time, ever heard a real-life conversation that sounded like Sorkin dialogue. I’ve also known plenty inside-the-beltway/famous-for-DC/media types in my life, none of the even remotely resembled a Sorkin character. Sorkin is what he is: someone who crafts characters and dialogue about politics and media from a purely hollywood standpoint. Someone who writes how HE WISHES OR DREAMS THEY WOULD ACT AND TALK. I can promise this show will suck.
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Ben, so true. I remember one speech at my (small, liberal arts) college by James Baker. He took questions afterwards. After several “questions” that were actually leftist diatribes centering on the theme “Is your soul corrupt or do you not have a soul?,” when someone finally asked a sincere question, the audience actually applauded.
Nedward April 2, 2012 at 7:37 pm
The initial YT comments are all complaints about reputed lightweight Olivia Munn. Maybe Sorkin needed to wait for the second season to start “betraying his base”