The Newsroom - Tea Party is the American Taliban

[QuickZ06]

Saw this floating around YouTube, wonder if they are doing a piece on us next week.

 

[donnay]

There is something to be said about that. The Afghanistan Taliban has been ally, enemy, ally and enemy to the U.S. Government.

 

[QuickZ06]

There is something to be said about that. The Afghanistan Taliban has been ally, enemy, ally and enemy to the U.S. Government.

Exactly what I was thinkin mate.

 

[QuickZ06]

I have only scene two clips of that show including this one, just wondering if anyone has actually watched it to see what they have been saying.

 

[donnay]

I have only scene two clips of that show including this one, just wondering if anyone has actually watched it to see what they have been saying.

As far as entertainment goes, I think it is a great show. They take old news stories and work the series around it to tell a story. It has different type personalities that with each week, their character tells a story. Actually there is one where they were trying to get to do a Republican debate. Each news team was assigned a candidate to thoroughly learn the candidates stance and how they would lean given certain questions. They wanted a debate where all the candidates were asked, unscripted hardball questions. They set up a live mock debate for the chairman to view. The Republican chairman was so incensed by this type of format and freaked out and threatened them to do it his way or they would not be even considered to hold a debate. The newsroom top dogs wouldn't play ball and the Republican chairman left in a huff. To me that was the best one, yet.

 

[ShaneEnochs]

As far as entertainment goes, I think it is a great show. They take old news stories and work the series around it to tell a story. It has different type personalities that with each week, their character tells a story. Actually there is one where they were trying to get to do a Republican debate. Each news team was assigned a candidate to thoroughly learn the candidates stance and how they would lean given certain questions. They wanted a debate where all the candidates were asked, unscripted hardball questions. They set up a live mock debate for the chairman to view. The Republican chairman was so incensed by this type of format and freaked out and threatened them to do it his way or they would not be even considered to hold a debate. The newsroom top dogs wouldn't play ball and the Republican chairman left in a huff. To me that was the best one, yet.

Have they talked about Ron?

 

[kathy88]

Actually, he describes neo-cons really well in that piece. I haven't fact-checked it yet, but I was planning to. I enjoy the show, but I can see through the politics of it. Unfortunately, a lot of other viewers can't. Therefore, I think that even though I enjoy it, the show is harmful to our cause, because some poeple do equate tea party with RPers and they slam tea party consistently in the show, even though he is supposed to be a republican.

 

[NIU Students for Liberty]

Have they talked about Ron?

During the debate prep/research, one of the interns makes a jab at Paul saying that he hasn't read an email (if I'm remembering the scene correctly) and whatever was in it, he disavows it (obviously referring to the newsletters).

I like the show in terms of how it's written (typical Sorkin fast-paced dialogue) but it is incredibly leftist and so it turns me off at times.

 

[AuH20]

Aaron Sorkin may need to get back his vicious drug habit so he doesn't bore us with his predictable projections of political insecurity because that's exactly what this "show" is. Small government advocates are consistently cast as backward, uneducated, unsophisticated and generally unfit for respiration. Did I leave out any unflattering adjectives???

 

[Indy Vidual]

Rand still has close ties to the KY. Tea Party, so the clip doesn't look all that great to me.

 

[1000-points-of-fright]

Have they talked about Ron?

Yes, during the mock debate episode. Racist Newsletters. That show is a writing train wreck. Every single main character is an unlikeable, neurotic, self-important douche. It's totally predictable and Sorkin doesn't even have the balls to own his partisan views. He hides behind the character of Will who, we're reminded every 5 minutes, is a Republican.

And it's not just because I disagree with Sorkin's politics. I have a friend who totally agrees with Sorkin's politics and we have the exact same problems with this show.

 

[NIU Students for Liberty]

Rand still has close ties to the KY. Tea Party, so the clip doesn't look all that great to me.

They bashed Rand earlier in the season for his opposition to CRA.

 

[NIU Students for Liberty]

According to the plot of the show, the news show SHOULD be objectively exposing multiple angles but they bailed on that by the 2nd episode of the season while continuing to act as if they're different from the typical Fox/MSNBC evening broadcast.

 

[Philhelm]

Aaron Sorkin may need to get back his vicious drug habit so he doesn't bore us with his predictable projections of political insecurity because that's exactly what this "show" is. Small government advocates are consistently cast as backward, uneducated, unsophisticated and generally unfit for respiration. Did I leave out any unflattering adjectives???

Poopy?

 

[JSaindon]

I have only scene two clips of that show including this one, just wondering if anyone has actually watched it to see what they have been saying.

There are liberal slants sometimes like the voter ID story down south. But overall they do a very good job at exposing the corruptness of the media. Such as the phone hacking. They also had a clip where they were going to try out a new debate format and were shot down after a mock debate by a member of one of the party establishment for being to "harsh" on the candidates for asking the tough questions. "The Newsroom" tries to report the real news, not the sound bytes that are edited for a certain bias, while at first struggling with ratings due to the 'fad' stories that mean nothing not being coverd (Casey Anthony for example). The slants made me irritated about 1/3rd of the time, so there is still some political bias going on.

Overall a pretty good show. Not 100% believable, but entertaining.

 

[donnay]

Have they talked about Ron?

In that particular show, I referenced above, yes, and they were using a black man to act like Ron Paul, and they went as far as bringing up the Newsletters, when that Republican chair freaked out.

They really went out and dogged Michelle Bachmann telling everyone that God was behind the wars.

 

[oyarde]

Tea Party should sue for slander , easy win , they do not cut off peoples heads for music , dancing , dress little boys up like hookers and rape them because they are scared of pussy ....

 

[Boss]

Beautifully written show, certainly with some pro-freedom undercurrents that any libertarian could get behind. If you take the show for entertainment and evaluate it based on TV production, its really good. But it misfires from time to time with some of its political insinuations.

 

[Boss]

Tea Party should sue for slander , easy win , they do not cut off peoples heads for music , dancing , dress little boys up like hookers and rape them because they are scared of pussy ....

Yes, lets censor the show through the government's judicial branch. What could go wrong?

 

[JorgeStevenson]

This is a genius way to propagandize the masses. Make a show about how the news they see on TV is bad, and then make the news on your TV show present things in the way you want them to understand it. It really is pretty clever.