The West Wing was, I don't know if it was BAD, but it was definitely Of A Time, and of a specific vision of how that organization could have worked. It's kind of like how The Bourne Identity movies (well, at least the first one) paint the FBI as this brutally efficient, effective, and bloodless collection of people too smart for their ow…
The West Wing was, I don't know if it was BAD, but it was definitely Of A Time, and of a specific vision of how that organization could have worked. It's kind of like how The Bourne Identity movies (well, at least the first one) paint the FBI as this brutally efficient, effective, and bloodless collection of people too smart for their own good; we know it's fiction because the real-world FBI is nothing like that, but if you squint it's almost how we WISH the FBI was because that's how we feel like it SHOULD be. Same with West Wing and the tippy-top of the White House.
From Luke Savage's magnum opus: "Even in their most unconstrained and idealized political fantasies, liberals manage to accomplish nothing."
The show was bad, and that it was aspirational made it equally dangerous. The most famous scene was Martin Sheen cursing at God in Latin, asking why the Lord Almighty wasn't satisfied that he (Sheen) had balanced the budget. He fills two vacant Supreme Court seats with polar opposite judicial appointments in the name of bipartisanship. Obama's cabinet and staff worshipped this show and we are all suffering the consequences.
The West Wing was, I don't know if it was BAD, but it was definitely Of A Time, and of a specific vision of how that organization could have worked. It's kind of like how The Bourne Identity movies (well, at least the first one) paint the FBI as this brutally efficient, effective, and bloodless collection of people too smart for their own good; we know it's fiction because the real-world FBI is nothing like that, but if you squint it's almost how we WISH the FBI was because that's how we feel like it SHOULD be. Same with West Wing and the tippy-top of the White House.
From Luke Savage's magnum opus: "Even in their most unconstrained and idealized political fantasies, liberals manage to accomplish nothing."
The show was bad, and that it was aspirational made it equally dangerous. The most famous scene was Martin Sheen cursing at God in Latin, asking why the Lord Almighty wasn't satisfied that he (Sheen) had balanced the budget. He fills two vacant Supreme Court seats with polar opposite judicial appointments in the name of bipartisanship. Obama's cabinet and staff worshipped this show and we are all suffering the consequences.
Brain. Poison.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2017/04/how-liberals-fell-in-love-with-the-west-wing