Fun fact: Political assassinations were a legitimate tool until a Gerald Ford executive order in 1976:
Don't worry, Jed Bartlett rescinded that in the early 2000s.
I don't remember this, so I'm assuming it was post-Sorkin?
After Sorkin and Schlamle left it was a shadow of its former self.
Studio 60 almost worked. Newsroom was always so transparently preachy and one-sided. But those first 4 seasons of the West Wing were…just phenomenal.
Transcendent.
When shows are working so well that they emphasize the skill and craftsmanship of each creative group, writers, actors, directors, etc, while also illustrating how the whole is even greater than the sum of its parts…
Peak television, in my opinion.
“What can we do in the Congo to out-evil the Belgians?”
"Idk man the Belgians liked to cut off the hands and feet of little girls and send them to their fathers"
It doesn't mention the exact wording in the article. Per Wikipedia: Allen Dulles, then the head of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) supported the murder reportedly as he had heard Eisenhower wishing that Lumumba "fall into a river full of crocodiles."
