West wing was an excellent show. Aaron Sorkin is awesome if you are 25. I loved him st that’s age. I still rewatch Social Network. I quote that and West Wong pretty regularly.
All that being said he is repetitive and condescending… that’s why i love him
And if you read that story it says nothing about spying on Russia. So your memory was faulty and you were indeed wrong.
Which is not to say that President Bartlet escaped making some of the hard decisions that President Bush faced in real life. This year, Bartlet was shown agonizing over whether to commit 10,000 American troops to an escalating, fictional conflict on the border shared by Russia, Kazakhstan and China.
And thanks for the link. I’d forgotten that one of the writers on the show was Lawrence O’Donnell, now the 10 p.m. host on MSNBC.