Don't Quit Your Day Job
I am, I admit, a fan of The West Wing, the political drama on NBC. I also enjoy reading various episode recaps on the Interweb. The best-written ones are usually found on Television Without Pity. Sadly, however, most of the recaps (like the show) have a bit of a left-wing slant, and sometimes it shows through rather blatantly.
While combing through some older entries today, I noticed this little gem:
"Deborah" - February 8th, 2002 People all over the world hate, resent, and/or fear the United States for a gobsmacking variety of reasons, most of which are not the self-serving reasons many Americans imagine, either. Toby responds, "There's a lot of reasons why they hate us. You know when they're going to like us? When we win." Yeah, that's how it will work out. How freaking idiotic.
Whoops. In retrospect, if anything was "freaking idiotic" it was the idea that anti-American sentiment was purely a diplomatic problem, rather than the result of fundamentally different worldviews. It's a mix, of course, but it's mostly the latter.
I don't think I'll ever get tired of watching simple time-tested principles trump convoluted claims about how the real world is too complicated for them.
» March 8th, 2005
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