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Damn. Last episode was good. Don't see how anyone couldn't like that one.

I like the show, but really didn't like that scene. I mean its cool to say America is not #1, but you have to put forth a candidate that you believe is "better". Overall, not in just some minor categories. Also the numbers used in this rant are incorrect.

Still a very good show.

It's tv so it's going to be way more dramatic than the real deal.

Like Aussie said, it's better than most of the crap on tv so I will continue to watch it

i agree

Good for you chief.

Okay you confused me on this one. Are you talking about the show? I agree that all politics is BS but you don't honestly believe that news stations stay away from the BS because they don't want hits on ratings do you? I think that is what the show is trying to shine a light on. That news stations have agenda's do to corporate sponsorships and that their BS is just as bad as the politicians who's agendas that they push.

Jesus, look at Fox News for the right and MSNBC for the left (I think I got those two right, I don't watch the news for the reasons I listed).

I gave up on it already. The storyline with the redhead, the new dude, and her boyfriend got really annoying fast.

I am going to have to agree. People are so afraid they are going to hear an opinion that differs from their own.

....Did we not talk about this week's?

I've really enjoyed it so far. Yeah the right bashing is a little over the top. The show would score a couple more points with me if Will who calls himself a card carrying republican would even it up just a little but it's HBO/Hollywood so what do you expect.

It's is a little over dramatic as well but I think it's done pretty well. I don't remember how the "breaking news" events surrounding the Gabby Gifford shooting were actually played out in reality but that was 15 minutes of really, really powerful television. I made my wife go back and watch it the next morning (her first 15 minutes of the show) and she's hooked.

So yeah, even though it's a little corny, a little biased to this point, a little overly dramatic and has a little too much rapid fire writing, overall I find it to be very entertaining. Kind of like getting C's on every test in a Semester but the prof liking your contributions to the class so he bumps you to a B.

That was the scene that was supposed to get everyone hooked as that was the teaser during much of the advertising. If we're talking entertainment value, it was entertaining because it was supposed to be shocking. From a realistic critique of the "speech", it was kind of shitty. I could blow a million holes in his theories of why we're not anymore.

Despite our issues, this is still the best country in the world. No matter what anybody else says to the contrary.

Here's a reply to that scene I read on another board a few weeks ago that I tend to agree with:

I'm in my mid-30's and even I can see how information was cherry
picked in the script. America was great, but now we aren't? So what
made us great? Sending people into space? Fighting poverty, not poor
people? Advances in technogy, leading?

Come on, we can spin anything anyway we want! Why is America
great today? We created the internet, Apple computer, satellite TV,
GPS, we overthrew a dictator in the middle East, we killed Osama, we
banded together after 9-11 and Katrina...it goes on an on. But that's
just when you look at the positives.

Remind me about racism, the dust bowl, gas guzzling muscle cars, the
atomic bomb, Hooverville, sweat shops, women's rights, etc, etc. How
many kids graduating from high school in the 50's and 60's had an
opportunity to go to college?

Give me a freaking break. America is the greatest country on the face
of the planet, not because we are the best at everything, it's because
our Founding Father's build a nation that would endure based on simple,
yet significant principles. On top of that we are large, proud, and stick
together regardless of how much in-fighting we have...even Civil Wars.

We have our problems, for sure. But guess what? We've always had
problems. It's just that 24 hour media coverage covers it more these
days. Guess what? We invented them too.

Would we rather be China, Russia, Japan, Australia, Germany? I
assure you, they have their problems too...it's just that 24-hour World
news networks only highlight those countries, meanwhile we are under
a microscope. Why? Because we are the show, and the rest of the
world is mearly spectators.

Suck it Sorkin, we're still the best