- Hollywood wunderkind Aaron Sorkin says America's surge
in patriotism has a dark side: It has unleashed a "Blacklist"
against those who dissent!
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- "It's happening all over again," the WEST WING
creatorexecutiveproducerwriter said this week in Los Angeles during a jam
session "Post Terror America: Hollywood Reacts" at the Occidental
Policy Forum.
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- Sorkin: "What is important is dissent... Bill Maher
has been getting a pounding because on his television program he said
something
that some found controversial. It was a conservative talk show host in
Houston that got the ball rolling down the mountain, and then sponsors
began removing their advertising from the show, and now ABC, the network
that he's on, is saying that they may not do the show. We've heard this
song before, right? In the fifties there was a blacklist, and it ruined
lives. If you're anything like me, when you watch any of the dozens of
films that have been made about the blacklist, you look at that and think,
my God, if I could only transport myself back in time to this period and
knock a couple of heads together and say, are you out of your
mind?"
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- Sorkin continued: "Well, we're there, right now.
It's happening all over again. I think it's right now when it's most
important
that there be dissent. When the patriotism police should be kept at bay
and that people understand that Bill Maher is every bit as much an American
as you or I and let's remember the values that we are protecting in the
first place. My feeling is that those us who aren't going to be driving
the tanks in Afghanistan really what we can do for the war effort is to
make sure that if you don't like what Bill Maher has to say, change the
channel. Write him a letter. But he shouldn't be taken off the air. White
House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer should not get up and say Americans
need to watch what they say..."
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