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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (669238)	1/19/2005 9:49:14 PM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

When the West Wing wasn't looking, they described Bush's mandate to a tee. The liberal White House on The West Wing represents Hollywood's dream of a presidency they'd like to see. Little did they know they'd end up endorsing the idea that a right of center President earned a mandate by achieving the same vote margin as their fictional President. > 4) By the standard applied on NBC's The West Wing, President George W. Bush won in a "landslide." In a 2002 episode following the re-election of "President Josiah Bartlet," one of his top aides, "Communications Director Toby Ziegler" stated that he won by "three-and-a-half million" votes and later proclaimed that "we won in a landslide." Bush won by about 3.3 million votes, pretty close to "three-and-a-half million." Last Wednesday I caught a West Wing re-run on Bravo with the comments from the "Ziegler" character and then I tracked down the original NBC airing, on November 20, 2002, of the episode titled "Swiss Diplomacy," so I could get the MRC's tape of it and take down the quotes exactly. In the West Wing time line, "President Bartlet," played by Martin Sheen, won re-election in 2002. During the November 20, 2002 episode, Toby Ziegler, played by Richard Schiff, tells a Congresswoman who lost a close re-election that "Bartlet" won by "three and a half million" votes. "Ziegler" wanted to nominate her for Director of the National Park Service, but "Chief-of-Staff Leo McGarry" shoots down the idea, pointing out that the Republican-controlled Senate will not approve her. That prompts "Ziegler" to urge a fight for nominees opposed by the Republican Senate: "Start getting used to the fact that we won in a landslide. We can show some fight on this." For the bio, on the West Wing site, of Schiff: nbc.com For the bio of the Ziegler character: nbc.com Both have a picture of Schiff/Ziegler. According to the Washington Post's Web site, Bush got 60,693,281 votes and Kerry received 57,355,978 votes -- a Bush win by 3,337,303 votes. See: washingtonpost.com The liberal White House on The West Wing represents Hollywood's dream of a presidency they'd like to see. Little did they know they'd end up endorsing the idea that a right of center President earned a mandate by achieving the same vote margin as their fictional President. -- Brent Baker >>> Support the MRC, an educational foundation dependent upon contributions which make CyberAlert possible, by providing a tax- deductible donation. To safely and securely donate via PayPal: paypal.com@mediaresearch.org