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“The ‘Obama’ West Wing”
Is reality following fiction or is fiction creating this reality? If you have ever watched The West Wing, the political drama that aired on NBC and is re-run now on Bravo (check your listings) and available on DVD, then you may have noticed some interesting parallels between the show and today’s Obama White House.
One of the things we do know is that Aaron Sorkin based the character Josh Lyman as the Deputy Chief of Staff on the real life Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. It is prophetic then that at the end of the series that Josh Lyman then becomes Chief of Staff to a Hispanic President. It is good to remember that “The West Wing” ran from 1999 through 2006.
The above parallel is just one that is blindingly obvious as you watch MSNBC or CNN (FOX is a propaganda network so I do not watch it) and then watch the series The West Wing. I am going to watch the series again and as I watch it I am going to write down everything I see as parallels or prophetic.
The real question I am going to have to ask myself is this: Are the things I am seeing as parallel really parallels or am I reading into it for the sake of finding parallels. Psychologists call this Matrixing, seeing something because you want to see it. I have a feeling I am really seeing the parallels and will report back with the results. In the mean time if you are a West Wing fan think about it.
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