The people of Orange County are not amused by West Wing’s attempts in recent weeks to stereotype them as fans of the loathsome Jed Bartlett, and they’re striking back in the letters column of the Orange County Register (scroll down):
‘West Wing’ fantasy is an insult to Orange County
Recently, in the TV show “West Wing,” President Bartlet’s press secretary said, “They love us in Orange County!” Then, during the next few minutes of this liberal propaganda, the politicos planned how Rob Lowe’s character would win the county’s 47th Congressional District. Martin Sheen, who plays Bartlet (and who actually thinks he is president), is one of the biggest anti-Bush activists in real life.
It makes me ill that the creator of the program, Aaron Sorkin, would for a moment think his Hollywood fictional characters and/or the real-life movie “stars” on the left wing are in anyway on a par with the honorable Chris Cox.
Larry M. Collins
Laguna Woods
He’s right about Sheen thinking he really is the president, but so do many in Hollywood. Unfortunately for Sheen, when he last tried to take his schtick to the world of real politics by taking a strong stand against the California proposition mandating treatment instead of jail for non-violent drug offenders, the people rebuffed him and passed the liberal initiative. Sheen believes in jail for drug users on the basis of his experience with one or more of his actor sons, which may have been Charlie.
Perhaps if he could see Saddam as an addict in need of tough love Sheen might see his way clear to imposing term limits on him.