Aaron Sorkin, a man who built his career on American politics cosplay, had never even heard of the DNC '68 protests until Steven Spielberg asked him to a write the screenplay in 2006. When Sorkin was 45.https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1309289012289560577 …
So are you also an expert on the Weather Underground, Bill Ayers, his wife Bernardine Dohrn, and her praise for Manson family murders?
60s radicals were a strange bunch.
Ayers & Dohrn adopted @chesaboudin because his parents, comrades of theirs, went to prison for murder.pic.twitter.com/NGGYomKYLW
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Yes, I am fully aware of all of these things. Not sure what that has to do with Aaron Sorkin being a hack uniquely unqualified to tell this story about the New Left, though.
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To put it mildly and charitably: If you're a contemporary American storyteller who has any interest in politics, knowledge of the American New Left, including the '68 Democratic Convention and its aftermath, is a basic necessity.
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