Remember that show, The West Wing, which was a show about terrible libtards talking very fast while they raced through underground tunnels? Ugh. (Maybe we are just bitter because Aaron Sorkin’s next venture, Matthew Perry’s Variety Hour For Humorless Liberals, was so awful it poisoned everything associated with him. ) ANYHOW, Jimmy Smits was apparently on this show in its waning year(s?), playing a simulacrum of hopeful ethnic Democratic nominee Barack Obama, while Alan Alda got stuck with the McCain role.
It is a well-known fact that real-life Democrats take all of their governing cues from Aaron Sorkin. So when Politico reports that “[West Wing] writer-producer Eli Attie even spoke to Obama adviser David Axelrod to pick up back story and other details for use in his scripts,” what they actually mean is, “David Axelrod watched a couple episodes of this terrible show and told Barack Obama, ‘Talk about hope more.’” So, thanks for nothing, Jimmy Smits. Alan Alda is still fantastic, though.
The Jimmy Smits interview [Politico]
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Would SOMEONE plz buy him an H?
Bring back the speed-talking, speed-walking tunnel-dwelling libtards!
Yeah!! Weekend Wonkette is here.
Alan Alda’s character in the West Wing was an idealized version of John McCain. a decent, honorable person committed to doing what he thinks is right even if it brought him into conflict with his own party. you know, the John McCain that has never existed ever.
Meanwhile, here in Florida, the head of the Hillsborough (i.e., Tampa) GOP does his bit to further fair and free elections:
FL GOP Chair Sends Out Racist E-mail: Beware of the Carloads of Blacks
http://crooksandliars.com/logan-murphy/fl-gop-chair-sends-out-racist-e-mail-
The difference is that Artie Vinnick didn’t sell his soul to Satan to try to win, thereby remaining a dignified character.
I am so nervous about this never ending election so thanks Weekend Wonkette for preserving my sanity. But then again maybe I shouldn’t be that nervous since Joe Scarborough was all bitter this morning – he was saying the media is to blame for McCain losing. Then he started conving himself that the racists will come through for McCain. Shouldn’t Republicans be ashamed for putting all their hopes on racists.
[re=158791]phillyman[/re]:
“Smits” is Mexican for “Hope.”
[re=158792]cal[/re]: Just bring back the speed.
[re=158793]hobgoblin of little minds[/re]:
Which means the weekend is finally here!
Everyone I know who attended Yale talks like a West Winger. The only thing good about a Yale person is that he usually sucks at poker and will bring much money to the game.
Glad I could share that. I feel whole once more.
[re=158805]Dreamer[/re]: That’s nothing. Apparently Barry has an undocumented half-aunt living in Boston–ergo that’s Barry’s fault because she will blow up the Boston Harbor or fix the Liberty Bell or some such nonsense.
Did Obama namecheck Smitts in Florida after the Hope-o-mercial? And did he pronounce it Schmitts? This happened, right? Hello? Oh, man, why can’t I sleep in?
[re=158809]Serolf Divad[/re]: Plus he’s hot as damn-all, in a distinguished, Daddy-esque sorta way…
[re=158810]Christastic[/re]: How about we just bring back the intelligence for a change?
[re=158811]Serolf Divad[/re]: Now I can officially begin drinking again. “To all my friends!”
Trig’a retarded Mother is in Lakeland today. Driving the Rednecks into a frenzy with her same old BS. “Drill baby Drill” Half of the audience thinks that means to have sex.
[re=158814]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: OMG that is the dreaded October surprise – this will surely cost Hopey the coveted xenophobic demographic.
[re=158814]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: But even worse, she will vote for him.
[re=158829]Itsjustme[/re]: It only counts if she lives in a battle ground state – does he live in Ohio by any chance?
[re=158824]Itsjustme[/re]: which one is Trig?
I have to come here to keep my sanity, thank you Wonketteers!
[re=158794]MrAgro[/re]: I agree. The decent, honorable person sold his soul to Beelzebub Repubsmut in order to win. Exactly how is that different than the last 8 years?
Alda’s character was a saint in comparison. He didn’t bring up J.Right, Rezzco, Ayrs, Khaleedi et al in order to run just another version of the Southern Strategy.
[re=158805]Dreamer[/re]: I believe they have been putting their hopes on racists for 30 years now.
[re=158797]Gingah[/re]: The inevitable excuse for why the GOP Chair widely distributed said racists email/foodstamp/bloodied horse head on pillow is always classic. This time: “He thought it was a get out the vote message.” That is almost too good – can we forgive him?
Now he’s on Dexter playing a simulacrum of the one-time-two-timer former Assistant DA Eliot Spitzer.
[re=158797]Gingah[/re]: In my state, black man ride on outside of car.
[re=158847]TexasCowGirl[/re]: Forty, actually.
i hated that studio 60 show. what a bunch of tripe.
[re=158813]Weeping Jesus[/re]: i gotta play a yale dork someday.
Alan Alda for Prezident!
Alda is an overacting sanctimonious douche of the first order, topped perhaps only by William Hurt (as in Accidental Tourist and Children of a Lesser God, not History of Violence where he was tolerable). Watching either of these fools act is like listening to friggin’ Air Supply!
At least Studio 60 had Amanda Peet in it, it’s a shame a dumb bimbo like Jenny McCarthy can spread her autism-vaccination bile when well thought-out replies from Peet get virtually ignored by the media. That’s probably more of an indication of the demographics catered to by the supermarket rags.
John McCain isn’t Alda. He’s another Sorkin character, Colonel Nathan Jessup.
Instead of just a poor USMC private, McCain wants the US America to get a code Red.
“You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at those Georgetown cocktail parties I so loathe but attend so often you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like cunt, n@gger, socialism. We use then as the slimetrail of a life trying to fuck over everyone. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very douchebaggery I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it.”
[re=158794]MrAgro[/re]: And don’t forget, he spent ELEVEN SEASONS ON MASH, Mr.ARGO, ELEVEN SEASONS!
That’s two times FIVE AND A HALF seasons! Coincidence? HENGHHH?
i has an ethnic?
mccain voting fraud!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGF-HEd6XnA
OMFG, I hated that show. Only after it was off the air did I finally realize how awesome Allison Janney is.
I have to admit that I take my wonderings about Barack and Michelle’s love life on the campaign from what the West Wing showed me of Jimmy Smits’ and his wife’s characters. At first she didn’t want him to run (not unlike Michelle), and she was kind of a demanding shrew on the road. And not very considerate of the pressures on the candidate. I get the impression that Michelle is more considerate. Her Leno appearance reinforced this idea.
Aww, Jesus, you True Americans!
After eight years of the Darth Vader Juntas rule,
I, for one, will happily welcome the return of the he speed-talking, speed-walking tunnel-dwelling libtards!
Invading smaller countries and working out our Oedipal issues on the world stage is just a leeetle more annoying to me than a cheesey plot device.
WEST WING was a science fiction show, about a parallel universe where politicians were motivated by their own beliefs about what was best for the country. Fun to watch, like KNIGHT RIDER.
By the way, I thought Adam West played Obama and Burgess Meredith played McCain.
So who played Joe the Pulmber in the West Wing version? Michael Chiklis?
I thought at the time of the debates Obama should have used the line:
“I watched Artie Vinick. Sir, you are no Artie Vinick.”
[re=158826]Dreamer[/re]: “…this will surely cost Hopey the coveted xenophobic demographic.”
OMG, does this mean Lou Dobbs will vote for McCain?
Oh, I forgot, Lou Dobbs was always going to vote for McCain … because McCain was a POW and that makes him automatically qualified to protect our ports from Muslims and Mexicans, even if he has crashed every plane he’s ever been in.
[re=159132]BruceLee5000[/re]: They also broke a hotel room bed while campaigning in Ohio.
response to Serolf Divad, Jimmy Smits is not MEXICAN ok, he’s Puerto Rican! It’s people like you that get their asses kicked in NYC for your racist remarks. And yes there is a difference, do your research and stop being so anal! Your so-called jokes aren’t funny!
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