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The Left Wing, Redux

by Lee

Jonah Goldberg has comments in The Corner today regarding last night’s The West Wing.  They’re very much in line with my comments from last night.

It’s simply a badly written show now. It used to be sort of the entertainment version of the New York Times, infuriating but intelligent. Now, it’s like a DNC newsletter, dull, predictable and trite. Last night’s episode was simply tedious. Aaron Sorkin made the dubious decision to peg this season to the 2000 presidential race. Unfortunately that race is old news and the West Wing’s election has been thoroughly boring and arrogantly tendentious—a terrible combination. It’s also been increasingly unrealistic. The Vice President has been MIA and the electoral college was never mentioned. The idea that the President’s political staff wouldn’t care about such things is beyond implausible. For a while it seemed like West Wing had a chance to influence the political culture in a way favorable to Democrats, increasingly it looks like it will simply confirm the stereotypes about the Democratic Party: outdated, out-of-touch and too clever to be likable.

I couldn’t agree more.  I’ve been a big fan of the show ever since its debut, but this season has really sucked.  I hear that Sorkin fired Peggy Noonan as one of the show’s advisors (and I believe she was the only conservative) and he’s spend much of last season and all of this one treating the show as his own personal anti-conservative vendetta hour.  Like I said, the Richie character was using likes cribbed directly from George W. Bush during the debates.  The show has just generally gone totally downhill this season, and not just in the political sense.  It’s getring boring, and that’s a shame because it’s a show I have really enjoyed watching. 

Aaron Sorkin is so blinded by his own left-wing ideology he would apparently rather be Terry McAuliffe’s bitch than have a hit TV show.

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