CBS: Aaron Sorkin Bashes Palin for 'Glamorization of Dumbness,' Claims 'She Needs A Therapist'
In an interview with 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl for CBS's Sunday Morning, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin made his latest attack against Sarah Palin, ranting: "I have a big problem with people who glamorize dumbness. And demonize education and intellect. And I'm giving a pretty good description of Sarah Palin right now." [Audio available here]
Stahl made no effort to challenge Sorkin's vicious personal attacks, simply remarking: "He seems to be having a second career these days, going after Sarah Palin. In an essay for The Huffington Post, he called her a 'witless bully.'" Given the media's concern with civility and harsh political rhetoric in the wake of the Tucson shooting, one wonders why Stahl did not condemn such language.
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Sorkin went further, even questioning Palin's mental stability: "Sarah Palin, she needs a therapist, okay. We need the smartest guys, the best Ph.D.'s around, to be solving these problems. I don't have any patience with the glamorization of dumbness." Only seconds earlier in the interview, Sathl was asking Sorkin about his past addiction to crack cocaine, for which he attended rehab twice.
Stahl concluded: "Sorkin only dabbles in political commentary. What he works really hard at is writing his plays and movies."
In the same December 8, 2010 Huffington Post article cited by Stahl, Sorkin compared Palin hunting on her TLC show to the animal abuse football player Michael Vick was found guilty of in promoting dog fighting. On CNN's Parker-Spitzer on October 4, 2010, Sorkin declared: "Sarah Palin's an idiot. Come on. This is a remarkably, stunningly, jaw-droppingly incompetent and mean woman."
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Oh, I get it...
Submitted by Cappmann1962 on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 1:05pm.
Palin demonizes education and intellect, hmmm? So, in other words, we're back to liberals being mentally superior to Cro-Magnon conservatives. And here, I had been thinking conservatives were actually starting to think and use fire and stuff like that. Oh well, back to the caves I guess.
BTW, if this moron works so hard at plays and movies, he should stick to that instead of "dabbling" in politics. Intellectuals aren't supposed to dabble.
Biased brain-dead idiot.
he's a crackhead...really.
Submitted by ds7 on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 1:26pm.
it's hilarious to hear a crackhead try and pick on someone else for being "dumb."
see what i did right there? it's right out of the libiot playbook. he's just another libiot in the chorus who attacks the messenger and not the message.
it's not difficult, just stand for something that's of good-report or praiseworth...family values, small government, strong national defense and secure borders. you don't have to have a PHD to articulate the benefits of a homogeneous society instead of some "diversity" ladened "multicultural" mess of situational policies and ethics.
Guess it's a cheap shot
Submitted by StarAZ on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 2:13pm.
Guess it's a cheap shot--but this sounded straight out of rehab to me--make her "own" this or that. The West Wing glamorized completely unrealistic WH behavior--so altruistic, so idealistic. Please. The West Wing was a liberal Wish White House.
Standard MO
Submitted by donabernathy on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 2:34pm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo-MhwEZay4&feature=player_embedded
Come on Libtards...At least try and be creative.
roflmao
I love it.
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Tue, 02/08/2011 - 10:14am.
I love it.
Words Of Wisdom.....
Submitted by GeneralAl on Tue, 02/08/2011 - 7:04am.
Words of wisdom from a dope infested idiot who admits he thought it was O.K. to do just a little coke! This idiot can't hold a candle to one-half of Sarah Palin. He's just a liberal dimwit on the stage for dimwits, "60 Minutes"!
"Old Soldiers never die, they just fade away"!
Ph. D's are a dime a dozen anymore
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 1:11pm.
How many dropouts have started succesful businesses? Bet you can name a few. You can't learn to ride a bike by reading a book.
Piled Higher
Submitted by Lipton on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 1:44pm.
and deeper. that is what Ph.D. stands for, and I had to get one of those degrees to find that out.
Do not forget, this is coming
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 1:19pm.
Do not forget, this is coming from a cocaine addled mind. It is obvious that Sorkin is in dire need of rehab. He is clearly delusional.
I think Sorkin's been to rehab more than once
Submitted by TexasMom0517 on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 3:01pm.
Sorkin's ALLEGEDLY clean and sober, but I'd take bets on prescription mood altering chemicals. His rage towards Palin is indicative of the mindset that creates the "reasons" he has been addicted to cocaine. The Left is like a nation of addicts, lashing out anywhere and everywhere- then again, most of them DO seem to have addiction problems, so the word "like" may not be operational.
Ed u Kay Shun
Submitted by Doktor Riktor V... on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 1:23pm.
I suppose Sorkin is a superior product of the govmint ed u kay shun sis tem
Seriously, can anyone please name one of his plays that will be memorable within the next 10 years. Perhaps I am just not up on his work.
"Sarah Palin's an idiot. Come
Submitted by Seashell on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 1:20pm.
"Sarah Palin's an idiot. Come on. This is a remarkably, stunningly, jaw-droppingly incompetent and mean woman."
I really don't see how this man can call Sarah an idiot or stupid. She has been a governor, a vice pres. candidate, written best selling books and has made millions of dollars. You might not like her politics but calling her dumb is just jaw-droppingly stupid on his part.
Glamorization of dumbness - Hollywood Style
Submitted by Agnostic on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 1:22pm.
A Hollywood screenwriter is speaking of the glamorization of dumbness - while I heartily disagree with his conclusion I could think of no profession off of the top of my head that would know more about that topic then him and his colleagues.
Perhaps this is just an attempt to be humble and give others credit for competing with the massive glamorization of stupidity and inane story lines that comes out of Hollywood. Don't worry Sorkin, no one comes close to you guys and likely never will.
Perhaps he is trying to learn irony by being a hypocrite.
Dumbness
Submitted by Doktor Riktor V... on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 1:25pm.
Chritina's rendition of the National Anthem at the Superbowl on NATIONAL TV wherein she forgot the words. Really, who's dumb?
I would generally agree with
Submitted by balboa on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 5:16pm.
I would generally agree with you re: screenwriters, but he's written some of the best stuff out there IMO. His one problem is when he gets waaaay too preachy, as happened often on The West Wing and on the failed Studio 60. But there was still some great writing on both of those shows, as well as on Sports Night, and the movies A Few Good Men, American President, and Social Network.
bal,
Submitted by Agnostic on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 5:39pm.
I hope I didn't impy that I was addressing him specifically because I honestly don't know the business that well to pass that type of judgement. To clarify, I speak of what Hollywood is putting out in general and to direct the glamorization of dumb any where else is just, well - Dumb.
I still believe it is hypocritical for anyone in Hollywood to claim any other person/industry is glamorizing dumb.
Good points. He's a great
Submitted by balboa on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 6:02pm.
Good points. He's a great writer, but obviously has made some dumb mistakes in his life.
Hollywood in general puts out a lot of run-of-the-mill stuff, probably because the movie industry is falling apart due to Netflix, Hulu, etc.
life's mistakes
Submitted by Agnostic on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 6:23pm.
Anybody can make mistakes and if he has honestly beaten crack after the length of time he was addicted then that is impressive. Anyone can make a mistake, if you overcome and learn then you stand the chance of being stronger for it.
I'll have to trust you on the effect of Netflx, Hulu, etc..., but IMHO the over reliance on high budget films and special effects along with commercialism/over exposure of their product is much to blame. As someone that likes many of the old movies I realize that the studios pumped out 50 movies a year so there was a reliance on hitting gold on a handful of movies. Now they put most of their eggs in one basket and the eggs aren't always real fresh.
Absolutely. Studios are
Submitted by balboa on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 8:11pm.
Absolutely. Studios are swinging for the fences way too many times, searching for that blockbuster, and they probably need to dial back their expectations. Special effects, spectacle movies, they all have their place, but not EVERY movie has to go BIG.
If I were in "the biz" right now, I'd rather be involved in TV, where there are great shows and great writing, more outlets for work, etc.
It's all relative, of course
Submitted by Galvanic on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 6:30pm.
We probably have different tastes in entertainment. I didn't find A Few Good Men to be all that intriguing (Casting may have been a weakness; everyone expects Nicholson's trademark "inner crazy" to burst out sooner or later), and I didn't watch West Wing because I knew that Sorkin and Lawrence O'Donnell were among the writers, and failed Malibu mayor Martin Sheen played the President, requiring too much suspension of belief for me.
We agree that Sorkin is a major success in his industry, and it seems that for many like Sorkin, success is either the result of a hugh ego, or the impetus for one. And in Sorkin's case, I'm sure that being in a circle of creative, intelligent people and constantly being told that he's a genius feeds a sense of superiority.
So, Sorkin is entitled to his opinion, but he in voicing it from his exalted status, he is also entitled to be scrutinized, and I think his personal history of hard-drug addiction is fair game in weighing how "dumb" he is vis a vis the targets of his vitriol like Palin.
Absolutely he's fair game.
Submitted by balboa on Tue, 02/08/2011 - 12:08am.
Absolutely he's fair game. Can't say things like that about stupidity, with a drug abuse background and expect no one to bring it up.
Palin is dumb? A little AA-Sorkology:
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 1:32pm.
1) Started "experimenting" with drugs when he was TWENTY SIX. ?
2) At age 39, tried to board a flight with a carry-on containing shrooms, pot, crack, and a METAL crack pipe.
3) Dated Maureen Dowd. Yes, the Maureen Dowd who is 10 years older than him, but is so hawt it was worth it.
The prosecution rests.
Well SoL
Submitted by Seashell on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 1:36pm.
I think you made your case.
Hey....
Submitted by StarAZ on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 2:15pm.
Where is MoDo these days? Did she get fired?
I'd say #2
Submitted by HockeyKid on Tue, 02/08/2011 - 4:47am.
qualifies as "remarkably, stunningly, jaw-droppingly" dumb--as does such a person setting himself up as a judge of intelligence.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
THE REAL PROBLEM IS...............
Submitted by Herbster on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 1:40pm.
The real problem is 60 Minutes and its biased "Journalists." Leslie (The dried up poodle) Stahl not only allowed Mr. Pinko to rave on, but did nothing to alleviate the situation. Could it be that she was in 100% in agreement with this twit? Shameful. Let's play a game.......Let's pretend that the guest was a well known Conservative. Instead of the name "Sarah Palin," let's insert "Nancy Pelosi," Or, better yet, "Mrs. Obama." If a Conservative guest made these comments instead of listening to some blathering Hollywood, lock-step, leftist, I have a feeling that Lest-ley would have dropped her milk bone and gone after the guest with bared fangs.
.......until we have an HONEST media..........(The oxymoron of the day.)
A glittering jewel
Submitted by ghost of Mary J... on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 1:44pm.
of the new castrati. No onions. Sarah Palin has bigger onions than this guy.
Support Our Troops. God bless the US military.
http://adoptaplatoon.org/
I watched this interview with amusement
Submitted by Galvanic on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 1:48pm.
Sorkin is the typical elite liberal who blindly trusts the "intellectuals" (e.g. PhD's) to solve the world's problems, overlooking how many problems have been generated by intellectuals (Karl Marx just to name one). And not surprisingly, Sorkin considers himself an associate of intellectuals, if not an actual intellectual himself.
But his intellectualism didn't save him from making intuitively poor life choices. Sorkin admits that he was addicted to crack cocaine not once, but twice. After kicking the habit once, he returned to it because he thought he was smart enough to control the habit. He confesses that this was wrong (Any drug rehab program would've told him.) Sorkin was smarter than the facts.
What that means is that even intellectuals have difficulty controlling their personal lives, yet they believe that they can arrive at the best solutions for controlling everybody elses lives.
Were I the interviewer instead of Stahl, I would've pursued his line about Palin being stupid and anti-intellectual by asking him if he knew any prominent Tea Partiers who have used crack, let alone been addicted to it, and if not, why then are they dumber than Sorkin?
I'd love to see Sorkin debate a genuine intellectual like Alan Keyes, or even George Will.
If I Claim . . .
Submitted by Junk Science Skeptic on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 2:20pm.
"And not surprisingly, Sorkin considers himself an associate of intellectuals, if not an actual intellectual himself."
If I claim to be a wise man, it surely means that I don't know.
Kansas - From the song Wayward Son.
Yeah, and the lyrics that precede those...
Submitted by falcon on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 3:37pm.
"Masquerading as a man with a reason,
My charade is the event of the season."
That's all liberalism is - a masquerade, a charade, a mask to cover their incompetence, their intolerance, their blatant hypocricy, and, yes, their stupidity.
BTW, I love that song. And it reminds me that this, too, shall pass.
“I will not stand by and watch this great country destroy itself under mediocre leadership, that drifts from one crisis to the next, eroding our national will and purpose.” – Ronald Reagan, July 17, 1980.
Carry on Wayward Son
Submitted by Rukus on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 5:41pm.
Ever see this vid. Amazing kid!
She plays Rush too! And Def Leppard, Heart etc...
Ruk,
Submitted by Dave. on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 9:51pm.
I saw that rendition of YYZ by her back when it first hit YouTube.
All I could say then was all I can say now.
Just WOW!
No part of that song is easy to play.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Wow, great vid!
Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Tue, 02/08/2011 - 1:40pm.
Wow she was 12 yrs. old! From what I read you can program the keyboard to change the instruments automatically so you don't have to change instruments manually. She was really playing all the parts and instrument sounds. Left foot drums & right foot guitar tension.
-- Maximusbraveheart -- Is TRUTH knowable? Moral Relativism is the abandonment of Truth. Truth is knowable. Truth conforms to Reality. Reality is observable by evidence & witness in this day & from history. Relativism is Sesame Street play land.
The Rush one was great too!!
Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Tue, 02/08/2011 - 1:48pm.
The Rush one was great too!! Fantastic. Brings a tear to my eye she is SO good. Makes me PTL; how great & valuable life is! Sad how people fight to ensure some are never born.
-- Maximusbraveheart -- Is TRUTH knowable? Moral Relativism is the abandonment of Truth. Truth is knowable. Truth conforms to Reality. Reality is observable by evidence & witness in this day & from history. Relativism is Sesame Street play land.
Her first performance
Submitted by Rukus on Tue, 02/08/2011 - 4:41pm.
Was when she was nine! Pirate's of the Caribbean. The outfit made it even better!
WOW!!
Submitted by stratman on Wed, 02/09/2011 - 12:43am.
Absolutely phenomenal! What talent.
Because it always goes back to guitar, well, for me anyways, this young lad is a phenom as well. May have found him via NewsBusters. If so, thanks to OP.
strat, Geddy, Alex and Neil best watch out...
Submitted by Dave. on Wed, 02/09/2011 - 1:16am.
...'cause they have some serious competition. :-)
But I still love to see them belt YYZ out live.
LOL - And she's much younger that they are.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Show Offs!
Submitted by stratman on Wed, 02/09/2011 - 3:31am.
Them boys from Rush played a couple more notes than that 11 year old girl.
Extraordinary. Like the caption on YouTube says:
I worked with a guy who is a good drummer. Idolized Rush, The Police and Kiss. I think he wet his pants everytime he played this song.
strat,
Submitted by Dave. on Wed, 02/09/2011 - 4:23am.
LOL - I'm just glad he made it through it.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
@Galvanic
Submitted by Samshile on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 9:30pm.
I am an intellectual person. I was a crackhead in the 1990s. I side with the Tea Party. I have been in recovery for many years. Most of my recovery friends live by conservative principles. Mostly I am an individual.
So how does that fit into the simplistic descriptions you use? It is fairly well known the median IQ of addicts is higher than the populace. Deeep emotional wounds are the usual cause.
There is more to this than intellectual opinions and he knows it. Why is he obsessing over Palin?
Here's simplicity for you, Samshile
Submitted by Galvanic on Tue, 02/08/2011 - 1:26am.
As I explained in my posts, former crackhead Sorkin is entitled to his opinion, but considering the bad chocies he's made, his personal life is fair game when he talks about thinking and choices.
I'll entertain any studies linking IQ to addiction, but that's not the issue. The issue is self-absorbed intellectuals like Sorkin who despite their own personal failures, are critical of average Americans who avoided those mistakes and happen to disagree with them.
The best Ph.D.'s around
Submitted by Lipton on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 1:43pm.
let's get the guys from The Big Bang Theory to solve our problems.
Interesting this guy probably has no clue what graduate programs are really like yet he thinks we should turn over the running of our country to people that were largely too scared to get a real job right out of college.
Just say no
Submitted by Rousse on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 1:47pm.
One thing we can all do right now, to improve our intelligence, is turn off CBS. Just say no ...
Well since it was brought up...
Submitted by DumbCanuck on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 1:51pm.
Nothing to do with the post, other than HuffPo was mentionned...
Anybody else hear of a report of AOL buying HuffPo? I just caught a glimpse, and don't know much of the details.
"There... Are... Four... Lights!"
They surely did, and Arianna
Submitted by johnsonl on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 3:03pm.
They surely did, and Arianna "The rules don't apply to me" Huffandpuffigton is the HBIC.
Delusions
Submitted by cestes on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 2:06pm.
Just another crackhead with delusions of adequacy. One idiot giving another a platform for vain babblings. Nothing new there!
Speaking of the glamorization
Submitted by jdhawk on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 2:23pm.
Speaking of the glamorization of dumbness, what was the "West Wing," exactly? Must been when while Sorking was enriching South American drug cartels with his crack habit. Actually, for a socialist, this is resume enhancer . . . You think I am kidding? They gave Sorking a frikkin' award for supposedly beating his addiction. It's the "Pheonix Rising Award!" It was a complete success. It worked so well that your first wife divorced you because you coudn't stay away from drugs.
So, Sorkin, how many cartels used your cash from your crack habit to enslave little girls into prostitution like your eleven year old daughter, to destroy neighborhoods with the blight of addiction like the neighborhoods just a few miles from your mansion in hollyweird, and to murder anyone that got in their way to deliver your drugs to you?
The above is what passes for "intellectuals" amongst the socialist set.
Great example of media bias.
Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 2:24pm.
Great example of media bias. Thank you for this thread & comments!
-- Maximusbraveheart -- Is TRUTH knowable? Moral Relativism is the abandonment of Truth. Truth is knowable. Truth conforms to Reality. Reality is observable by evidence & witness in this day & from history. Relativism is Sesame Street play land.
Sorkin - Poster Child
Submitted by Junk Science Skeptic on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 2:27pm.
Sorkin is clearly the poster-child for the "Credentialed, not educated" description of pseudo-intellectual Ivy League elitists coined by Instapundit Glenn Reynolds.
This is What Passes for Commentary These Days???
Submitted by scottyusmc on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 2:28pm.
A liberal "Crack-Head" is given a forum to attack an accomplished conservative woman simply because he doesn't agree with her political positions. What, if any standards of conduct, ethics, or integrity do they have left over at 60-minutes to think that this would come close to passing the smell test? Apparently the answer is "None-of-the-Above!!!"
Were it not for Sarah Palin...
Submitted by UltraC on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 2:35pm.
... we might be asking ourselves, "Aaron who?"
Who really needs therapy?
Submitted by almostacowboy on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 2:37pm.
Sarah Palin or the hundreds of public figures and 100's of thousands of others who have achieved comparitively little, but seize every opportunity to personally attack her?
Love the headline:
Submitted by Ashrak on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 2:50pm.
Twice Committed Crack Fiend Now Suffers From Palin Derangement Syndrome - How Obamacare Comes To The Rescue.
Nobody demonizes education
Submitted by johnsonl on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 2:55pm.
Nobody demonizes education and intellect. But liberals tend to equate one with the other and that , simply, is not true. Liberals parrot the words of their college professors, most of whom have never had any real world experience. Intellectuals research all aspects of a topic and form an unbiased opinion based on logic and data. Intellectuals also respect other people's opinions and use facts as a base for their observations. Liberals will argue until they start losing (about ten seconds) then revert to name calling, coupled with accusations of stupidity and racism.
johnson
Submitted by Samshile on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 7:15pm.
Coming from a recovering 12 stepper.
In rehab they teach intellectual means: know-it-all
Typical arrogance
Submitted by kiwikit on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 3:23pm.
One of his other statements is that he's been off crack (how 'bout other drugs?) for ten years, but it's now 2010 and he was picked up with paraphanalia in 2001! We can subtract, . . .
Err it is 2011
Submitted by Samshile on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 7:07pm.
What with the Liberal snarky post? Rounding off is not anti-intellectual
"Demonize education and intellect"?
Submitted by falcon on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 3:33pm.
There's a huge, HUGE difference between "education and intellect" and "intelligence." Intelligence can be boiled down into two words - "common sense." But these ivory-tower liberal eggheads would have you believe that they are the only ones equipped to handle this nation's problems. He said, "We need the smartest guys, the best Ph.D.'s around, to be solving these problems." Problem is, Ph.Ds got us into this mess. It's going to take folks with common sense, and a desire for truth and justice, to get us out of it.
“I will not stand by and watch this great country destroy itself under mediocre leadership, that drifts from one crisis to the next, eroding our national will and purpose.” – Ronald Reagan, July 17, 1980.
Pitiful Hapless Dunce.
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 3:46pm.
Pitiful Hapless Dunce.
...she needs a therapist,
Submitted by PeskyDane on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 4:06pm.
...she needs a therapist, okay.
At some point, someone's going to call me out for over-using the term "crimminally stupid." Might as well do it myself.
Invoking the need for therapy drips with sociopathic projection, and inspires the worst insult I could possibly heap onto another human being: pity. Yes I pity this man.
I have previously stated that I have plenty of reservations about Palin. Her mental health is not one of them. This is probably the single most well-adjusted human being in politics today. This woman is so well-adjusted it's almost obnoxious.
Sorkin really is... crimminally stupid.
Palin castigates pseudo
Submitted by eaglewingz08 on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 4:36pm.
Palin castigates pseudo intellectual elitists, such as those who claim to be knowledgeable but who really only mouth discredited liberal/socialist platitudes. Sorkin is so dumb that he cannot understand the difference.
Eagle
Submitted by Samshile on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 7:17pm.
I believe your in the ballpark amigo.
"I have a big problem with
Submitted by Slyrr on Mon, 02/07/2011 - 8:31pm.
"I have a big problem with people who glamorize dumbness."
This - coming from a Hollywood schill who makes a career and mega-millions of dollars appealing to the LOWEST common denominator. He's probably bankrolled movies like 'Little Fockers', 'Something about Mary' and 'American Pie'.
Physician - heal thyself.
Living with all that hate,
Submitted by TN Mom on Tue, 02/08/2011 - 2:08am.
Living with all that hate, Sorkin's daughter Roxy is going to need a therapist..
Poor Sorkin
Submitted by HockeyKid on Tue, 02/08/2011 - 4:40am.
I wonder if he can put his socks on in the morning without consulting a PhD-authored self-help book.
Seriously, how ironic is it that a screenwriter whose "award-winning" work is populated by the broadest of caricatures and lauded by the phoniest population in the world--Hollywood--would dare take shots at an exceptionally accomplished person for being "anti-intellectual"? This is a man whose degree is a BFA in musical theatre; he is literally trained to be a professional phony.
And what product is produced by such a highly trained intellect? Unwatchable dreck like "The American President", "The West Wing" and "A Few Good Men". Insisting on injecting his liberal take into every project, Sorkin consistently writes characters that only a leftist could love, in situations that could only exist in a soft-focus delusion masquerading as cutting social commentary. He even managed to kill "Sports Night", a show that had a cast capable of delivering a truly entertaining product, with his snarky lib asides. Most people don't like their sportscasters with a side of politics--see "Olbermann, Keith".
So much for Aaron Sorkin, Professional Omphaloskeptic.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Ahhh-Aaron needs his crack
Submitted by Jack Bauer on Tue, 02/08/2011 - 4:49pm.
Ahhh-Aaron needs his crack dealer, methinks. Or his crystal meth, yo.
Also -- he mistakes pseudo-intellectual for intellectual.
On a sidenote: what a repulsive human-being he is.
And seriously, who needs the therapist?
I'd say it's the three dollar note snot with the Obssessive-Compulsive disorder based around Sarah Palin.
All of the above Mr Obama? --- How about ALL OF THE BELOW, instead.