by Brent Baker
In its Sunday night movie, Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story, CBS had Hanssen, the FBI agent who spied for decades for the Soviet Union, and his wife expressing thanks that George W. Bush and not Al Gore became President.
Near the end of part two of the movie, written by the ultra left-wing Norman Mailer, aired on November 17, Hanssen and his family were sitting around his dining room table in January of 2001.
Actress Mary Louise-Parker, who played Hanssen’s wife, relayed her pleasure at Bush’s assumption of the presidency: “So thankful George W. Bush is going to our next President. Couldn’t sleep all that terrible time in Florida when it looked like Gore might win.”
William Hurt, as Robert Hanssen, agreed and took a shot at Bill Clinton: “Anybody who ever voted for Gore ought to be shot. The very thought of Gore daring to be President, toitering up to that psychopath and sociopath Bill Clinton for eight years. Makes my blood boil.”
Those certainly aren’t the sentiments West Wing watchers identify with actress Mary Louise-Parker. On NBC’s The West Wing she plays a left-wing feminist activist who thinks “President Bartlet” is too timid and not liberal enough.
(This update courtesy of the Media Research Center.)
