West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin tells The New Yorker that the American media is working overtime to turn President Bush into a hero. "That illusion may be what we need right now, but the truth is we're simply pretending to believe that Bush exhibited unspeakable courage at the World Series by throwing out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium, or that he, by God, showed those terrorists by going to Salt Lake City and jumbling the first line of the Olympic opening ceremony. The media is waving pom-poms, and the entire country is being polite."

Sorkin is obviously going to take a lot of heat for his remarks, and he probably should. But I do wonder how much of President Bush's 80% approval rating is composed of Democrats who'll never actually vote for him, who are just "being polite."
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