Comments on: Who Won the ‘West Wing’ Live Debate?

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 01:45:56 +0000

Brandon – You’ll notice I deleted my response. Not because I was wrong (which I was). I admit I was probably wrong in the argument. You’ve got mail.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 01:40:09 +0000

Nope, but as far as I am concerned the trackback is for when you reference someone else’s work. I saw there was a trackback on my post so I thought I would see something about it on your blog. But instead there wasn’t even a mention or a link or anything. That’s how I use trackbacks. That’s all I’m saying.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 01:04:00 +0000

I don’t think it is that far fetched that a candidate like Vinnick could get the nomination. John McCain is very similar and he is considered a leading candidate for 2008. McCain isn’t pro-choice like Vinnick is supposed to be, but he isn’t exactly pro-life in the way that most christian conservatives want him to be either.

To the author of this blog, if you are going to leave a trackback on my blog, please at least give me a link. Your welcome for your free advertising. I’ll leave your trackback instead of deleting it like the spam that it is because I just put my link down with this comment.

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 21:37:44 +0000

By the way — thanks for the plug (on another thread)!

No problem Father. It’s an honor to have you commenting on my blog.

By: Fr Martin Fox

Fr Martin Fox — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 20:30:22 +0000

I watched it too — I have to admit, conceding all the show’s flaws, I do enjoy “West Wing”; despite all its biases, it is remarkably good at depicting politics; something TV and movies do laughably badly.

But this season has represented a sort of streaming fantasy on the part of Hollywood and other elite leftists: the sort of matchup of GOP and Dem candidates that they dream of. And it is rather laughable at times, and detracts substantially from WW’s realism about politics. To wit: the odds of someone like the Alan Alda character getting the nomination are so long as to be laughable. Then there’s the underlying fantasy that the nation is contentedly pro-abortion. What planet do the creators of this show telecommute from?

By the way — thanks for the plug (on another thread)!

By: Sheila Bryant

Sheila Bryant — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 20:17:40 +0000

Well as a West Winf FANatic…even though this isn’t REAL…it was entertaining. By the way…even ZOGBY got in the act…duuuuh.
http://zogby.com/Soundbites/ReadClips.dbm?ID=12168

By: Mean Dean

Mean Dean — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 17:27:01 +0000

Y’know, that’s so funny – I wrote almost the same sentiment on my blog:
Who won the debate? Who cares? The show isn’t real, the issues are out of date and so long as Hollywood is unabashedly and unapologetically in lock step with the left why should I allow them to define the terms of the debate – live or otherwise?