As if the West(Left) Wing wasn't liberal enough already, they've hired Alan Alda

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - As if the West(Left) Wing wasn't liberal enough already, they've hired Alan Alda

Posted: 8/23/2004 11:34:36 AM EDT

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Alan Alda Elected to Serve on 'West Wing'

Mon Aug 23, 9:37 AM ET
By Nellie Andreeva

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Alan Alda (news) is returning to series television. The five-time Emmy winner will join the cast of NBC's White House drama "The West Wing" next season, playing a Republican from California with presidential aspirations.

Also joining the series is Marley Shelton, ("Uptown Girls"), who will play a former feature reporter mentored by Danny Concannon (Timothy Busfield) who becomes White House deputy press secretary.

Mary McCormack (USA's "Traffic"), who guest-starred in several episodes last season as the brash new Deputy National Security Adviser, will return as a permanent fixture. Jimmy Smits, meanwhile, is in talks to come on board the series.

Playing a Republican senator is familiar territory for Alda. He plays Maine Sen. Ralph Owen Brewster in Martin Scorsese's upcoming Howard Hughes biopic "The Aviator."

The "West Wing" role marks Alda's first major series commitment since his award-winning run on CBS' "M*A*S*H*." In 1999, he did an Emmy-nominated stint on "ER," which is executive produced by "West Wing" producer John Wells.

In March, Alda will begin rehearsals for the Broadway production of David Mamet's play "Glengarry Glen Ross," which will also star Liev Schreiber.

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

what's even better, is that he's going to play a republican

Posted: 8/23/2004 11:38:48 AM EDT

[#1]

I've never watched that show for any length of time. It's unbelievable that it's still on. Martin Sheen, previously Rob Lowe, now Alan Alda. Who wants to watch that liberal crap?

Posted: 8/23/2004 11:42:16 AM EDT

[#2]

It's a pretty good show. You just have to keep in mind that there is an agenda to it. Maybe someone will come out with a version of the show that shows the conservativre point of view in a similar fashion.

Posted: 8/23/2004 11:49:28 AM EDT

[#3]

I watch it. do lot of eye rolling and laughing at it though. I will say one thing, when the Ainsley Hayes character was on (she's the blond on CSI Miami now) they had her give a replublican view without looking like a nut. I really liked when she discredited the equal rights amendment as redundant and not needed

Posted: 8/23/2004 11:52:31 AM EDT

[#4]

Alan Alda is NOT a problem.

At least according to those of y'all still enamored of that dreadful M.A.S.H. dreck!

The show, its producers, and its cast suck.

And when I say 'suck', I am not merely suggesting a profanity but making reference to a sexual procedure.

Eric The(AskRobLowe,HeMadeTheVideo)Hun

Posted: 8/23/2004 11:59:33 AM EDT

[#5]

I used to like MASH when I was younger, then a few years ago I found out it was really just a liberal anti Vietnam rant, especially the movie version

Posted: 8/23/2004 12:06:00 PM EDT

[#6]

MASH sucked after the first few seasons. Alan Alda as a Republican? Yeah that will be believeable TV.

GunLvr

Posted: 8/23/2004 12:11:10 PM EDT

[#7]

That feminist chick on West Wing is HOT!

Posted: 8/23/2004 12:14:13 PM EDT

[#8]

"The West Wing" is quality television programming. It's just *left-leaning* quality programming.

Posted: 8/23/2004 12:49:22 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
what's even better, is that he's going to play a republican

As the Devil incarnate, I'd suspect.
Drinking, womanizing, greedy, unethical, enviro plunderer, stupid, etc.........

Think of everything negative ever said about a republican, and they'll try to work it in.

Posted: 8/23/2004 12:50:16 PM EDT

[#10]

The West Wing is TV programing at its finest!

Posted: 8/23/2004 12:55:58 PM EDT

[#11]

Alan Alda's show on PBS is/whas verry good i remember whaching it back when i whached TV a lot before cable tv

Posted: 8/23/2004 1:00:16 PM EDT

[#12]

Next thing you know, Mike Farrell (B.J. Honeycutt on MASH, and certified extreme leftist) will have a real job again.

Posted: 8/23/2004 1:02:19 PM EDT

[#13]

Never seen it, never will.

NEXT!

Posted: 8/23/2004 1:53:23 PM EDT

[#14]

Wrong war....

Quoted:
I used to like MASH when I was younger, then a few years ago I found out it was really just a liberal anti Vietnam rant, especially the movie version

Posted: 8/23/2004 2:25:37 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
Wrong war....

Quoted:
I used to like MASH when I was younger, then a few years ago I found out it was really just a liberal anti Vietnam rant, especially the movie version

Well, in a very flumoxed sorta way, M.A.S.H. was an anti-Vietnam War rant!

No one thought the way these people thought about the Korean War

During that War the American People at least understood the necessity of what the United States was trying to accomplish and supported those efforts.

The writers and producers of M.A.S.H. were actually parading 'Vietnam' issues around as if they existed in the early 1950s.

Eric The(SneakyBastages,ThoseLibs)Hun

Posted: 8/24/2004 2:34:46 AM EDT

[#16]

Alan Alda sucks. Plain and simple. He's as big a liberal whiner as anyone out there.

Posted: 8/24/2004 3:02:26 AM EDT

[#17]

I tried watching Wet Wing.........ONCE.It seemed little more than a DU attempt to make themselves appear as honorable patriotic and fair minded.What a fag show.

Posted: 8/24/2004 4:23:53 AM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
It's a pretty good show. You just have to keep in mind that there is an agenda to it. Maybe someone will come out with a version of the show that shows the conservativre point of view in a similar fashion.

Hollywood couldn't do it. They literally don't know how to write from a non-leftist perspective. The head of the screen writers' guild has gone on record in saying this.

Posted: 8/24/2004 4:26:09 AM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
I watch it. do lot of eye rolling and laughing at it though. I will say one thing, when the Ainsley Hayes character was on (she's the blond on CSI Miami now) they had her give a replublican view without looking like a nut. I really liked when she discredited the equal rights amendment as redundant and not needed

They were able to get away with it because raging left-wing cokehead Aaron Sorkin, the creator and writer of the ~~Left~~ West Wing got booted/left the show.

Posted: 8/24/2004 4:58:58 AM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
Never seen it, never will.

NEXT!

+1

Posted: 8/24/2004 11:48:30 AM EDT

[#21]

the movie and show were placed in Korea, but I once saw an interview with the writer, director and some of the cast of the movie and they were all clear that it was a rip on the Vietnam war

Quoted:
Wrong war....

Quoted:
I used to like MASH when I was younger, then a few years ago I found out it was really just a liberal anti Vietnam rant, especially the movie version

Posted: 8/24/2004 5:09:27 PM EDT

[#22]

regardless of lefty politics the show is very well written and funny

"cartographers for social equality"

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