Saturday, November 11, 2006

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip - Why the hate?

I wonder sometimes why the right-wingers are so pissed at Studio 60.

If you look at the characters, you've got the neocon wet-dream of what Hollywood is "really like": a cokehead producer who's a partner with an alcoholic, anti-Christian secular Jew, a pot-smoking black man pleading for "diversity", an ungrateful child who thinks his folks from the midwest are hopelessly hickified (and isn't he the same guy who flaunted the law in Nevada?), a network chief who has enough of a sexual history to nominate her for Whore of Babylon, etc etc.

The only character who's shown in a favorable light is the conservative Christian.

If this crowd were in one of the Left Behind books, they'd be talking about how "accurate" and everything it was, but since it's produced by Aaron Sorkin et al, It Must Be The Evil.