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[mrsat_98]

 

[kylejack]

Rand Paul was mentioned in tonight's episode. This episode was mostly about media coverage of Congress. The anchor (Jeff Daniels) was grilling some guy playing an aide and asking him if Rand Paul believes restaurants should be able to discriminate on race.

 

[iamse7en]

Meh. This is to get you to love liberals and The State.

 

[Sola_Fide]

All of the problems he rattles off are caused by interventionism.

 

[QuickZ06]

Meh. This is to get you to love liberals and The State.

The Newsroom, nuff said.

All of the problems he rattles off are caused by interventionism.

Yep, but he did way we have the best economy

 

[Carson]

Meh. This is to get you to love liberals and The State.

Even though it is true and needed to be said it is hard to separate the reality and the acting. I think you could be onto something iamse7en. Something was very suspicious about the clip.

He did sound pretty serious...but was that some of his best acting?

 

[NorfolkPCSolutions]

That was a whole bunch of holy shit wtf was that?

Awesome. Sorta reminded me of how I fantasized Dr. Paul would speak during last years' debates. Never happened, though. <sigh> There is profanity for its own sake, profanity for comedy...and then there's this. My father used to tell me as a child that sometimes the best words in the English language are the ones that shock the most; to use them as sharpened spears. He was right.

Great scene, great post; very thought provoking. But let's not forget what else is on Jeff Daniels' resume:

 

[NorfolkPCSolutions]

He did sound pretty serious...but was that some of his best acting?

Please see above post.

THAT was some of his best acting.

 

[Indy Vidual]

Not perfect re: political content, but still pretty amazing!

 

[kahless]

It took tonights propaganda episode to piss me off enough to not watch the show again. Figures though since every HBO show has some sort of a agenda for the left and/or axe to grind against Conservatives or as put in this episode "the right wing extremists" that are "taking over the Republican party".

This also seemed like it was Alan Sorkin's way to defend CNN's slanted coverage against the Tea party and their poor ratings. The fictional ACN staff being victims of the ignorant and racist right while they are only trying to report the truth.

People on the left will buy into this propaganda which was very done. So basically by me paying the HBO subscription every month I am effectively contributing to their agenda. Time to finally getting around to make the call and cancel HBO.

 

[kylejack]

I dunno, last night's episode was disappointingly simplistic. I have to agree with the basic premise they're after, though, which is that the Tea Party started as a grassroots movement for small government conservatives, and has been co-opted by the Kochs and others to push whoever they want.

 

[jkr]

W()W

THAT
WUZ
GR8

 

[1000-points-of-fright]

The Snoozeroom. There are so many things wrong with this show just from an artist view that I don't even have to disagree with Sorkin's politics to hate it. Sorkin has been recycling the same dialog for his entire career. His trademark snappy banter has just become a caricature of itself. Watch this if you don't believe me.


This Reason article pretty much sums up everything I thought after watching the first episode.

 

[Kilrain]

Bayonets!



But seriously, this:

Meh. This is to get you to love liberals and The State.

 

[TheeJoeGlass]

I love Jeff Daniels and follow his music career aswell, but this show is fucking horrible from all aspects. You can tell it sucks because they have already made changes to it and its only been three shows so far. I was going to give it some time until I watched last nights show, now you couldn't pay me to watch it. In episode two, they were upset because he mentioned Sarah Palin because they were above all that stuff. Then episode three is nothing but everything they said they didnt want to focus on?!?! Terrible writing and a stupid liberal idea for a show.

 

[kylejack]

Not that they were above mentioning Palin, but that she said something really dumb and the analyst wanted him to bring up Palin, but not criticize her for the dumb statement.

 

[TheeJoeGlass]

Not that they were above mentioning Palin, but that she said something really dumb and the analyst wanted him to bring up Palin, but not criticize her for the dumb statement.

Yes, the Mackenzie was against mentioning her at all. Then the next episode is Macavoy and Mackenzie doing the exact same thing to every other member of the tea party. It makes very little sense and really seems like they just scrapped the original intent of the show.

 

[donnay]

The most honest three and a half minutes of television, EVER...

 

[donnay]

Here is the full episode if anyone has not seen it:

 

[Dissent]

He's right. I posted it on FB. Thanks for posting.