Aaron Sorkin brands Sarah Palin TV show 'a snuff film'

[marmar]

from the Guardian UK:



West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin today gave Sarah Palin both barrels over her US TV reality show, accusing the contender for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination of shooting an animal "for political gain".

Sorkin, writer of the recent Facebook movie The Social Network, also accused the Fox News contributor of making a "snuff film" after the latest episode of Sarah's Palin's Alaska featured the politician going hunting with her father and shooting a caribou.

He described Palin as "deranged", a "witless bully" and a "phony pioneer girl". He also said The Learning Channel, the US cable network, "should be ashamed of itself" for broadcasting her "truly awful reality show".

Sorkin was responding to a post on Palin's Facebook page in which the former governor of Alaska reacted to criticism of Sunday's episode by accusing her detractors of hypocrisy: "Unless you've never worn leather shoes, sat upon a leather chair or eaten meat, save your condemnation."

"I eat meat, chicken and fish, have shoes and furniture made of leather ... I'm able to make a distinction between you and me without feeling the least bit hypocritical," Sorkin wrote in an incendiary comment piece posted on the Huffington Post website early today. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/08/aaron-sorkin-sarah-palin

[Blue_In_AK]

1. He makes the exact point that I've been making.

She LOVES killing animals. It explains everything about her fish & game policies when she was govenror, shooting wolves from airplaces, killing bear cubs in their den. She gets off on this stuff.

[MisterP]

9. that's why she makes that face when she's posing with a bloody, miserable-looking dead moose

she's percolatin' (if I may be so crude)

also a good argument when the dupes say we need our guns in case of revolution or that we should abolish the Endangered Species Act and let the warm, loving, closer-to-nature, salt-of-the-earth local communities take over everything

[Arkana]

2. Sorkin is the man.

Bring back The West Wing.

[csziggy]

3. I liked when he compared Palin to Michale Vick n/t

[madinmaryland]

7. Sarah Vick-Palin. nt

[CBGLuthier]

4. A sick woman for a sick nation.

They love her for it.

[MiniMe]

5. I'm embarassed that I actually saw the show

:blush: She couldn't even shoot straight.

[Angry Dragon]

6. If they did a real reality show about palin

It would show her sitting around in her bra and panties, sucking down a beer, watching game shows or soaps, having her kids heating up tv dinners, scratching herself, and telling everyone how she was this close to really running this country into the ground.

[madinmaryland]

8. She is a fucking phony. There is nothing real about the woman.

[madrchsod]

10. did she field dress it?

what did she do with the meat and hide? did she have a permit?

she thinks she`s going to be a president of the usa