'West Wing' Creator Aaron Sorkin Selfishly Complains About Spreading His Wealth

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Watch as West Coast WGA president John Wells silently and awkwardly looks on while “Hangover” director Todd Phillips and “Social Network” scribe and “West Wing” creator Aaron Sorkin shred the Guild for its overbearing policies and famously stupid rules.

Is it just me or does the uber-liberal Sorkin sound like the capitalist of all capitalists in wanting to strip screen credit away from the script’s originator? And by capitalist of all capitalists, I of course mean hypocrite of all hypocrites.

When you’re a new screenwriter just starting out there’s absolutely nothing more important to kick-starting your career than a bona fide screen credit. The check is great, but an actual credit on a produced movie or television show is the Golden Ticket to your next gig, and Sorkin wants to hog that credit all to himself just because … he’s earned it!? Someone needs to clue the left-winger into the fact that giving someone a writing credit they didn’t earn is no different than giving someone money they didn’t earn, and it all falls under the heading of “spreading the wealth.”

On principle, Sorkin’s absolutely correct (but it’s hard not to be correct when you’re bashing the wicked WGA), but by Sorkin’s own leftist principles he is writing-credit rich and to demand that in the future he receive a sole credit qualifies him as nothing more than a selfish, Darwinian, right-wing, pulling-the-ladder-up-behind-him extremist.

Furthermore, in the video above, just as he makes his “heartless,” right-wing plea to keep more of what’s he’s earned, watch how Sorkin attempts to inoculate himself from criticism by wrapping himself in his grandfather’s legacy of unionizing — as though what his ancestors did has any bearing whatsoever on who he is. What is it with this guy and his desperate need to validate himself through deceased relatives? If you remember, he did the same thing back in October on CNN’s “Trainwreck With Client #9.” Right after giving Kathleen Parker the warm fuzzies with a gratuitous Palin-Bash-a-Thon, the only card Sorkin could play to prove just how gosh-darned American he is involved his grandfather’s WWII service.

If this runs in the family, unless they need to burnish their drug-addled narcissist in asshole glasses credentials, Sorkin’s grandkids won’t have a whole lot to work with.