Talk:The American President

message: Someone had marked this for cleanup in December without any explaination.  Please take advantage of the talk page when you tag a page with something so people who have the time or inclination to go through the entire article will know where others had problems. --Torourkeus 00:22, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Tagging for Cleanup

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:It has also been considered an unabashedly liberal film by some, who say that the filmmakers portrayed all Democrats as noble, forthcoming and trustworthy while the Republicans are portrayed as uneducated, pro-gun, and deceitful. In one scene, Lewis Rothschild (Michael J. Fox) advocacy for tough gun control laws, a staple of lilberal policy goals, are shot down President Sheperd due to the realities of American politics, rather than the protection of constitutional rights.
I removed the edits for two main reasons:
*The problem with the movie isn't because it is liberal but specifically because it was unabashedly liberal.  It's been argued that all hollywood movies are liberal, so that alone shouldn't be a problem.  The problem is that this movie is supposedly drastically liberal to the point that it is immediately on the attack of any conservative views.
*I also didn't like that the last statement was removed to avoid bias.  The only problems that I can see with the sentance is that gun control laws are a staple of liberal policy goals (It could be argued that gun control isn't a Democrat issue but it is decidedly a liberal issue.  Also, the main argument FOR gun control laws is the protection of constitutional rights.  I think the sentance represents both sides fairly well without stating that either view is better than the other.
*By the way, I'm a liberal so believe me I wasn't meaning to attack liberals on this issue. --Torourkeus 17:04, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Bias

message: How could the film present an apologetic view of the Lewinsky scandal when the film predated the scandal by over 2 years? Rhobite 05:20, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Curious

message: This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 16:12, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
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message: No link or support for this accusation, it's pretty much libel, and now removed.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.161.102.246 (talk) 20:47, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Sorkin was accused of lifting ideas from an earlier screenplay by [[William Richert]], which was denied by the [[Writers Guild of America|WGA]].

message: Wasn't there a section in the article about how it gets several points of American politics wrong?  Like how the President isn't allowed to introduce bills or to prevent (shelf) bills from being presented to Congress?  Whatever happened to that section?  I thought it was relevant and merited mention. — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 15:01, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This movie could be a classic - the basic plot is great, but it goes so far off into left field in terms of the politics that it is hard to sit through. as such, have no doubt that the likes of rachel maddow would quote from it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.158.48.13 (talk) 18:57, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Inaccurate depiction of US politics

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message: At the end of the article it states that Douglas gives Bening roses and dogwoods just before he goes to give his State of the Union speech. He did not give her dogwoods. Jinxhpb (talk) 01:10, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
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