Comments | rhetoretician: Catch the references

rhetoretician

Catch the references

Sep 22, 2008 23:38

My friend Steve, who I've known for nearly thirty years and who has been, variously, an actor, a director, a theater manager, a candidate for municipal office, director of an educational nonprofit, and a political appointee in the Clinton Administration, sent me this article from the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/opinion/21dowd- ( Read more... )

the west wing, films, television, theater, politics, adam sorkin, barak obama

Comments 6

sherylyn September 23 2008, 04:12:50 UTC

I'm not really a Democrat, to be honest (but I'm not solidly Republican either -- I tend to vote for whomever I like better for a particular position), but I **loved** West Wing. I've skimmed the article, but not sure I caught the references... I'll have to check it again ;-)

West Wing was just good TV, full stop. And if you're too partisan (in either party, IMO) to "get" that, then you've REALLY got issues :-P (I got the full series of M*A*S*H for C'mas last year. If West Wing weren't so darned expensive, I'd ask for it before long ;-))

And *this* is just priceless, regardless:
"BARTLET I’ve been married to a white woman for 40 years and I still don’t know what she wants from me."

rhetoretician September 23 2008, 04:56:47 UTC

I liked that line too, but it's the sort of thing you can say and get away with. ;-)

And the acting was impeccable.

sherylyn September 23 2008, 13:16:24 UTC

LOL Yes, that's quite true, I'll admit. But it's funny, and if any woman doesn't agree, she needs a "reboot" on her sense of humor ;-)

amamama September 23 2008, 07:40:18 UTC

Hee. Loved it. Even if I haven't a clue what West Wing or who Bartlett is. And I think he hit the nail perfectly.
:-)

rhetoretician September 23 2008, 15:06:27 UTC

Hey, Berte. The West Wing was a U.S. television series about the White House staff. Jed Bartlett (played by Martin Sheen) was the President of the U.S. in that series. The series also featured my college friend Brad Whitford, and my sister's college friend Allison Janney, so our family always watched the program religiously.

girlspell September 23 2008, 15:47:27 UTC

I can't help you here. I never even saw the West Wing. Not even one episode. But this was cute...

He’s promised to eradicate evil and that was always on my “to do” list.

LOL...

Actually, it sounds like a line they would have used in Dr. Strangeglove.