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  • From: Mike Frentz <mfrentz AT bbn.com>
  • To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [percy-l] The West Wing's comment on Biblical contradictions
  • Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 09:26:28 -0400

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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