The West Wing creator Aaron

The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin has excoriated NBC for its telecast of The Bush White House: Inside the Real West Wing, which aired prior to Sorkin’s drama on January 23. In an interview with The New Yorker, Sorkin said that it was right that the country has been “laying off the bubblehead jokes” about Bush, but, he added: “The White House pumped up the President’s schedule to show him being much busier and more engaged than he is, and Tom Brokaw let it happen – the show was a valentine to Bush. That illusion may be what we need right now, but the truth is we’re simply pretending to believe that Bush exhibited unspeakable courage. … The media is waving pompoms, and the entire country is being polite.” I got that from Studio Briefing, an excellent resource for Film and TV news. As they don’t have the archive link up you can also read a more complete version of the story in Chicago Tribune. Aaron Sorkin’s comments come from a New Yorker interview (thanks josh).