Inside episode ‘To Win’ Written by Aaron Sorkin and Paul Redford in ‘The West Wing of the Banking House’ (2002), the authors deserve more recognition than ever for their work – Democratic President Josiah Bartlet’s team scrambles to find the perfect words for the television debate that led to his re-election, Republican Governor Robert Ritchie. Josh Lyman runs down the halls: “Short sentences! “Defence: I will make America’s defense the strongest in the history of the world.” “By World History, we compare ourselves to the Visigoths trying to adjust to inflation,” interrupts Leo McGarry. Keep spinning.”
Someone asks McGarry: “What’s wrong with short sentences?”, “Debate things, we’re trying to make things simpler.”
Thanks to the fine art of the screenwriters, we occasionally follow the discussion through the skin of the heroes; others, just from the background sound of a television. Because although we play a lot – the future, progress, social policies – we see that the politicians presenting their programs are not much different from the noisy debaters at the stretcher table.
“My perspective is simple: a Federal Ministry of Education this tells us that our children should learn Esperanto or Eskimo poetry. Let the states decide. Let communities decide on health, education, tax cuts. No more taxes!” Settlement Ritchie.
“Governor,” the moderator asks, “many economists say that the tax cut, which is the mainstay of your economic proposal, will hurt the economy. Is it a good time to cut taxes?” “Of course,” he replies, visibly pleased. We need tax breaks for a reason: The American people know better than the federal government how to spend their money.”
“Here it is,” the Democratic president replies. That’s the one-sentence answer my guys have been looking for for a week. There. Short sentences given in political campaigns are like the tip of a sword. Asked: What is the next short sentence from your answers? “Are your taxes too high?” And mine! Give me this short sentence: How are we going to do this? Give me ten sentences like this, and I’ll withdraw immediately. Very rarely, very rarely, there will be a day when there is absolute good and absolute evil. But those days almost always end in casualties. Leaving those days aside… There are no easy decisions for short sentences when running a huge country.
Even more mockingly, they show us this fictional clone of reality. episode ‘A Village Gets an Idiot and Married Someone’ (2007) From the biting animated series “Family Guy” written by Alexandrea Borstein, who coincidentally plays the gorgeous Susie Myerson in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” Housewife Lois Griffin runs for mayor of Quahog after the family loses her hair from bathing in a lake of toxic waste. The current corrupt mayor confirmed that the waste came from the refinery. Oilbut he turns a blind eye in exchange for free hair oil.
In the debate between the two, the public is clearly bored when he tries to present his twelve-point program for citizen safety. Thereupon, a citizen asked the mayor, “If you are re-elected, will you increase the frequency of garbage collection?” he asks. “Dear citizen, this is an excellent question and I appreciate it. I think it’s great to live in a city where you can ask questions because without a question we just have answers, and without a question an answer is a statement. The public’s response between cheers and applause.
But I don’t understand these people! He didn’t say anything and they swallowed him. Good Lois cries out to her anthropomorphic dog Brian in frustration, and he says, “Lois, undecided voters are the stupidest people on the planet. Give them short and simple answers.
To the next question: “Miss Griffin, What are your plans against citizen insecurity?» replies: «Many» join in the applause of the public in astonishment. Because… that is the will of Jesus Christ,” he adds, in front of some increasingly enthusiastic attendees. “Hmm… 9/11 was wrong!” “God, I can’t believe how easy this is!” he says to himself.
“Miss Griffin, what plans do you have to clean up the environment?”, “September 11!”; “How will you solve the traffic problem?”, “September 11…!”.
and that’s how Lois Griffin was elected mayor of Quahog. It’s such a ridiculous method that we should never believe it goes beyond a cartoon series, but it’s just as daily as it is shockingly effective, simply by swapping the wild card of 9/11 for ETA or pots. For example.
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