I know.\u00a0 The West Wing<\/em> was more or less an hour long liberal version of Rush Limbaugh in dramatic form.\u00a0 Still, I liked it.\u00a0 Count me as one of those folks who thinks it lost something when Rob Lowe left, and I\u2019m no Rob Lowe fan.\u00a0 I think because his character was the token \u2018liberal who doesn\u2019t always know everything\u2019 in the show.\u00a0 But I liked this episode.\u00a0 Something about the president using the power of the White House to put one over on a Butterball Hotline operator seemed like the kind of thing we want in our government.\u00a0 Sure, if it really happened FOX News would be declaring it a national crisis of leadership (or if it was a Republican president, the rest of the MSM would be having specials declaring it to be an abuse of power).\u00a0 But that\u2019s the fun of fantasy.\u00a0 What we imagine we would like in fiction would probably appal us in reality.\u00a0 Nevertheless, here is the always reliable Martin Sheen and the equally enjoyable Richard Schiff (fairing much better against administrative red tape than against dinosaurs), along with the WH staff trying to enjoy the glories of all that American life has to offer:<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I know.\u00a0 The West Wing was more or less an hour long liberal version of Rush Limbaugh in dramatic form.\u00a0 Still, I liked it.\u00a0 Count me as one of those folks who thinks it lost something when Rob Lowe left, and I\u2019m no Rob Lowe fan.\u00a0 I think because his character was the token \u2018liberal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n