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| 55th Annual Emmy Awards Bush Team Wins Fiction Emmies |
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Sorkin reportedly lost his job as creative director of the Jeb Bartlett White House because he could not deliver the kind of creative touches like fictional weapons of mass destruction, terrorist plots linked to Saddam Hussein and the humor of a commander-in-chief stepping out on an aircraft carrier deck declaring “major hostilities over,” as bullets were flying across Baghdad. In addition to the top prize for fiction, the Bush White House creative team won an array of special prizes at the ceremony honoring the year’s best political work on television. Among them: Most evasive character in a passion play: Saddam Hussein making a joker out of the US Defense Department, despite the fact that John Ashcroft bans access to any Internet sites referring to magician Harry Houdini. Steven King Award for most creative horror miniseries: John Ashcroft selling Patriot Act II as a replacement for the Bill of Rights almost wins a Congressional vote until someone points out that it is not a resolution honoring the New England football team. Best script adaption based on an original work of fiction: Secretary of State Colin Powell’s presentation before the United Nations based on the previously unrecognized work of British Intelligence sources. Critics around the world called the presentation a “piece of yellowcake.” Most creative depiction of an onscreen psychic: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld assuring the American people that US troops would be greeted by cheers and flowers after Saddam Hussein is deposed. “Can I help it that there are no flowers grown in a land where there is no water and it gets hotter than Texas?” Rumsfeld says remorsefully. Best redundant screenplay for a disaster movie: George W. Bush telling America that it can afford both tax cuts for the rich and a War on terror as long as the nation’s poor people continue to contribute their fair share. Best onscreen depiction of the American Dream: Dick Cheney in “Halliburton Does In Martha Stewart,” shows that a small, declining Texas oil operations company can overcome a conglomerate squeezing alternative fuels from Iraqi kumquats. Most creative disbursement of box office receipts: Dick Cheney in “Halliburton Does In Martha Stewart,” shows that seeking help from the Bush White House Small Business Administration can outperform insider knowledge about chocolate decadence futures. Other political awards presented at the Emmies include: Best fictional branding by a media outlet: Fox News: “Fair and Balanced,” is the best media slogan since Hearst’s “Remember the Maine.” Best use of dialog on a short-notice miniseries: Arnold Schwarzenegger in Total Recall II pumps up those who believe elections should be early and often. Best use of costume on an aircraft carrier George W. Bush in a flight suit reminds the American people that there are STILL no Viet Cong flying over Texas. |
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The
Bush administration, sliding sharply in the polls, got some good news
this week. The GOP commander-in-chief and his team was honored this week
with several creative awards at the 55th Annual Academy of Television
Arts and Sciences Emmy Awards. The achievement of the Bush team in its
fictional accounts outperformed even the NBC television drama, West
Wing. “We knew it would be difficult to compete with the fiction
writers at the Bush White House this past year, especially after they
injected so much comic relief into their scripts,” said West Wing
writer and creator, Aaron Sorkin. “I have to take my hat off to
the real White House script writers. In fact, while I have my hat off,
does anyone have any spare change?”