Upcoming HBO Drama: Dan Rather ‘Got It Right’ on Bush and National Guard
A not so creative liberal fantasy. Dan Rather “got it right” in his 2004 story about President George W. Bush’s avoidance of National Guard duty, a hit piece discredited because of Rather’s reliance on forged documents, the President of the imaginary “UBS News”cable channel will declare in an upcoming HBO drama helmed by left-wing writer Aaron Sorkin.
A TV Newser item on Monday about how HBO has decided on Newsroom to be the title of Sorkin’s new series which will center on “fictional cable news anchor Will McCallister (Jeff Daniels) and his News Night staff at the fictional cable news channel UBS,” included a telling excerpt from the script for the pilot:
In another scene McCallister responds to pressure from his boss, UBS News president Charlie Skinner (Sam Waterston)
Will: Charlie, I can’t go after Halliburton and miss.
Charlie: Oh report the goddam news, Will.
Will: You remember a guy named Dan Rather?
Charlie: Dan got it right.
Will: He’s no longer on television.
Halliburton and Dan Rather. Sounds like Sorkin is channeling the imaginations of Chris Matthews.
Last year on CNN (NB post with video), Sorkin, the creator of The West Wing, declared “Sarah Palin’s an idiot. Come on. This is a remarkably, stunningly, jaw-droppingly incompetent and mean woman” and charged “the Republicans have moved into a mental institution.”
Earlier this year he asserted “Beck and Limbaugh are eye-poppingly awful” because they “have such hate for Americans. They’re my generation’s Joe McCarthy.”
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another alpha hotel revising reality
Submitted by Dr. Ron on Tue, 12/06/2011 - 12:42am.
Sorkin would urinate down his leg (or something messy) if he were to try to fly a jet fighter...and, as with a liberal lies: if no one buys it, wait and try again...and again...and again. Oh, yes, Aaron...you have Harvard MBA ? Syracuse BA in fine arts is your total education, no military service at all. Just an agenda-driven liberal ideologue in a medium where it pays off.
Of course, your years as a coke addict may have...no, no need to go there. Just A Few Good Men does not include you.
If they want to quote me again, HBO is on my no-watch list.
Submitted by drsamherman on Tue, 12/06/2011 - 12:52am.
Any company that would hire that babbling moron Aaron Sorkin to do anything but sweep floors or clean toilets is locked out of my cable box.
Where's the drama about obama
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Tue, 12/06/2011 - 1:39am.
Where's the drama about obama being a kenya born homosexual who turned trick in exchange for grades?
Hell, LAM...........he's got
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 12/06/2011 - 1:43am.
Hell, LAM...........he's got THREE dead former lovers (all male, by the way) allready - two 'black' and one 'white' - and for some reason Herman Cain was forced to drop out because of, as yet. unsubstantiated allegations????
And you can say ANYTHING that you want about Cain's 'qualilfications'..............he was more 'qualified' 20 years ago for this job than Boy Blunder will EVER be!!!
Wonder
Submitted by grammajane on Tue, 12/06/2011 - 1:57am.
if he will do a hit piece on Barry and his domestic terrorist friends, or his buddy Resko and his life long preacher buddy. Imagine Dan the Man has much to do about this movie. Probably paying for and directing it. He, to this day can't believe he got the boot and will do anything in his hateful mind, to get even. Just another whinny wuss from the media showing us what a arrogant nobody does when nobody falls for their BS. Dan..........get a life!! Who watches hbo anyway??
Seriously?
Submitted by HockeyKid on Tue, 12/06/2011 - 10:00am.
"News Night"? Clearly just a weak attempt by Sorkin to rekindle his "Sports Night" glory days. What a sad little character. $100 says it'll be nothing but non-stop walk-and-talk leftist agitprop.
And the Manhattan whine-and-cheese crowd will love it.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
I just dropped HBO this week.
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Tue, 12/06/2011 - 11:44am.
I just dropped HBO this week. Told them the main reason was the content of the channel, especially that piece of excrement Maher, (whose behavior Henry Mud is still condoning).
Isn't Sorkin a cocaine addict? This must be the side effects from a drug addled mind, fantasy is replacing reality.
Seriously
Submitted by djwolf12 on Tue, 12/06/2011 - 8:48pm.
I knew that document was a phony one when the PO Box listed on it is 12345. To borrow a movie quote from Mel Brooks, "12345? That sounds like what an idiot uses for the code on his luggage".