As the American presidency takes a series of bizarre and disturbing turns, it would be only natural to look to the West Wing for comfort. The show was a ridiculous fantasia of American politics then, and is doubly so now, but the thinking goes that maybe the writer of such a fantasy might have some solid views about how to get there. So Aaron Sorkin nobly used his platform at the Writers Guild of America Awards on Sunday to deliver a speech that he credited as reminiscent of Network.

We humbly suggest that his speech was more reminiscent of the ridiculous monologue that Will McAvoy delivered in the opening episode of Sorkin’s criminally terrible Newsroom.

Sorkin largely delivered the opinion that perhaps living in large multicultural cities and having liberal values doesn’t mean that one lives in a bubble. A solid point, and easy to agree with. Here’s the actual meat of what he suggests we do.

“So what can we do?” Sorkin said. “A lot actually. Because the most powerful delivery system ever invented for an idea is a story. The men and women in this room and one just like it in New York are America’s storytellers, and we come …read more

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