Thursday, November 13, 2008

“The West Wing” and the 2008 election

“The West Wing” remains one of my favorite TV series of all time. Even though I own the entire series on DVD, I’ll watch any and every episode that turns up on satellite.

According to one of the writers, he based the character of Matt Santos—the country's first minority president—on none other than Barack Obama:


Thanks to Justin Gardner at Donklephant for bringing attention to this.

1 comment:

Mara Hurst said...

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