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Offline Chris_

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Aaron Sorkin is why people hate liberals
« on: July 19, 2012, 03:12:59 PM »
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Aaron Sorkin is why people hate liberals. He’s a smug, condescending know-it-all who isn’t as smart as he thinks he is. His feints toward open-mindedness are transparently phony, he mistakes his opinion for common sense, and he’s preachy. Sorkin has spent years fueling the delusional self-regard of well-educated liberals. He might be more responsible than anyone else for the anti-democratic “everyone would agree with us if they weren’t all so stupid” attitude of the contemporary progressive movement. And age is not improving him.

Sorkin is … not as popular as he once was, when he was still just the creative mind behind the much-loved “Sports Night” and “The West Wing.” People are, broadly, sick of his shtick. But he’s also, undoubtedly, more professionally successful than ever, back in demand as a major film screenwriter (coming off an Oscar win followed by a nomination) and heading one of HBO’s trademark “prestige” dramas. He seems nonplussed by the negative responses to his new show, “The Newsroom,” and he has plenty of reason to be: To his mind, he’s the same hack he’s always been.

He has a limited bag of tricks. Even his sparkling banter is one-note. His characters always say exactly, precisely what they mean, at all times. There’s no subtext, no irony, nothing ever left unspoken in his dialogue. His characters don’t even get to be sarcastic without someone asking them if they’re being sarcastic. Everyone alternates between speechifying, quipping and dumbly setting up other people’s quips. It’s exhausting.
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No, liberals are why people hate liberals.  But basing Aaron Sorkin is fine by me... just let me get my popcorn.
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Re: Aaron Sorkin is why people hate liberals
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2012, 03:25:03 PM »
Well, he is A reason, there are plenty of others, of course.
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Re: Aaron Sorkin is why people hate liberals
« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2012, 03:53:19 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on July 19, 2012, 03:25:03 PM
Well, he is A reason, there are plenty of others, of course.

About 20-25 million other reasons or so, if the latest numbers are to be believed.
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Re: Aaron Sorkin is why people hate liberals
« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2012, 04:26:02 PM »
Aaron Sorkin simply personifies liberalism better than any other single individual.
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