Aaron Sorkin Versus Reality
22nd July 2012
Aaron Sorkin is why people hate liberals. He’s a smug, condescending know-it-all who isn’t as smart as he thinks he is. His feints toward open-mindedness are transparently phony, he mistakes his opinion for common sense, and he’s preachy. Sorkin has spent years fueling the delusional self-regard of well-educated liberals. He might be more responsible than anyone else for the anti-democratic “everyone would agree with us if they weren’t all so stupid” attitude of the contemporary progressive movement. And age is not improving him.
Not the sort of thing you expect to find in Salon, which is usually a reliable Voice of the Crust. But I guess there are limits.
Oh, you can easily substitute pretty much any obnoxiously liberal actor’s name — Alec Baldwin, Barbra Streisand, Susan Sarandon, Morgan Freeman, Barack Obama — for Aaron Sorkin and it’s still accurate.