{"id":2283,"date":"2003-03-10T11:37:59","date_gmt":"2003-03-10T18:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/03\/recall-mr-sterling\/"},"modified":"2003-03-10T11:37:59","modified_gmt":"2003-03-10T18:37:59","slug":"recall-mr-sterling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/03\/10\/recall-mr-sterling\/","title":{"rendered":"Recall Mr. Sterling"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tWith the final episode of the smarmy “Mr. Sterling” show coming up this week, Dan Walters,<\/a> the dean of California political journalists, memorializes its stupidity:<\/p>\n

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Perhaps one should not be surprised that “Mister Sterling” falls so short of even fictional relevance to real politics. “The West Wing,” after all, is more about what Hollywood liberals wish would happen in the White House, than what really happens, regardless of its occupant. In that sense, perhaps, it accurately reflects something basic to both entertainment and politics: Perception and image are always more powerful than reality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He’s all for pulling the plug, which appears to be happening. The show trails everything else in its time slot in the ratings, so we should expect it won’t be back in the Fall. Good riddance.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: NBC has axed Sterling from its fall lineup.<\/a> Hoorah, the people have spoken and the network listened, although the rumors that it was going to be saved by adding “Baghdad Bob” to the cast were great fun.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the final episode of the smarmy “Mr. Sterling” show coming up this week, Dan Walters, the dean of California political journalists, memorializes its stupidity: Perhaps one should not be surprised that “Mister Sterling” falls so short of even fictional relevance to real politics. “The West Wing,” after all, is more about what Hollywood liberals … Continue reading “Recall Mr. Sterling”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-AP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}