[percy-l] The West Wing's comment on Biblical contradictions

Mike Frentz mfrentz at bbn.com
Fri Aug 15 09:26:28 EDT 2003


I'll have to sit this one out, there's enough left wing fiction in the 
newspapers that I've never felt compelled to also watch it on TV.


Mike

At 08:57 AM 8/15/2003 -0400, you wrote:


>Jim, et al -
>     Might be fun to kick around the question: What would WP think about West
>Wing? I'll volunteer to go first.
>     I don't think WP would have liked Bartlett, Toby, Josh, et al any better
>than he liked Hawkeye and Trapper John ("Thanatos," page 337 - Farrar Straus
>edition). Talk about your sin of pride. The puffed up little roosters in this
>program seem to think that everything in the universe - including the 
>alignment
>of the stars - is determined by what they do. And they want to micromanage
>everything. (Challenge: Name three aspects of daily life the characters on 
>Left
>Wing haven't at one time or other talked about passing legislation to 
>control.
>OK, name one.) The program promotes a form of secular humanism - the
>particularly vacuous Hollywood branch - all directed out of Washington. 
>Walker was a
>political liberal for a good deal of his life, but not this branch.
>      Thanks to a life devoted to avoiding legitimate work, I've put in
>considerable time working in and around politics. It don't work the way 
>it's shown
>on the program. I'm sure other folks like me, who've actually worked in
>politics, laugh at the show the same way cops laugh at cop shows.
>      I guess the show can be justified as entertainment, if viewers realize
>that's what it is. LW gives us some snappy and funny lines, and Donna's
>sweaters have something to be said for them. But beyond that, it's a dead 
>bang waste
>of an hour for me.
>-- Larry
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