CandySlice
This is a Dark ride
You do realize it's a work of fiction, like your posts don't you?
Sure it's fiction but Sorkin is drawing on actual events and his commentary is just as valid as anybody elses.
Commentary and fiction are vastly different things.
I think if you look at movies and television as our way of passing on the lore and the attitudes of the people of our times, something we can look back on as a time capsule containing the feelings of the moment captured forever on the printed page or on film you could make a case for fiction being the very essence of commentary. Just because somebody wrote it as fiction doesn't make it invalid. Ask anybody that ever read Tolstoy or Shakespeare.
PS, fellow Okie here. I went to NW Classen.