The Left Wing

Via Mary Katherine Ham at Hugh Hewitt, the Media research Center's Top Ten Left Wing Moments From the Left Wing.

Look, I love "The West Wing." I took its liberal politics as read from the start, the emoptional craving its creators had for a Clinton who kept his thing in his pants. The only time I found the enterprise objectionable was when one character (usually Bartlet or C.J.) went off on a left-wing rant that kept everyone stunned into silence by its brilliance. (There are parallels, believe it or not, to Mike and the Mad Dog on WFAN--a thought for another time.) Ham provides the best example, CJ.'s anti gun screed:

"This is our fifth press briefing since midnight and obviously there is one story that's going to be dominating the news around the world for the next few days and it would be easy to think that President Bartlett, Joshua Lyman and Stephanie Abbott were the only people who were victims of a gun crime last night. They weren't. Mark Davis and Sheila Evans of Philadelphia were killed by a gun last night. He was a biology teacher and she was a nursing student. Tina Bishop and Belinda Larkin were killed with a gun last night. They were twelve. There were 36 homicides last night, 480 sexual assaults, 3,411 robberies, 3,685 aggravated assaults, all at gunpoint. If anyone thinks those crimes could have been prevented if the victims themselves had been carrying guns I'd only remind you that the President of the United States was shot last night while surrounded by the best-trained armed guards in the history of the world. Back to the briefing."

The lack of logic in this is breathtaking (is she advocating that armed guards do the president no help?). Instead of someone saying, "But wait a minute . . . ." The show has Danny turn to Leo and say "She's good" in reverent tones.

Also, with Mother's Day tomorrow, a thanks to my mom for turning me on to Hewitt.