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Unpopular opinion: The Newsroom was a great show.

Imagine what they could do with the content from 2017-2022.

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Bill Kunstler and David Dellinger with Abbie Hoffman’s son Andrew, The First Annual Abbie Hoffman picnic, June 10, 1989, just a few months after Abbie Hoffman’s death from suicide. (Snapped by Allen Ginsberg)

Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7” premiered this weekend and among its most troubling fabrications was having David Dellinger, a consummate lifelong pacifist, punch a courtroom officer. Didn’t happen. Full stop. Jerry Rubin is reduced to a Cheech & Chong character, sidekick to Abbie, which he was anything but, Rennie Davis, ‘Made out to be a complete nerd who’s afraid of his own shadow,” (Davis’ own words on seeing the film on which he wasn’t even consulted!) and there's general overemphasis on factionalism within the group, & disagreements between Hayden and Hoffman. It also completely lacks the cultural and literary context, omitting Paul Krassner, Ed Sanders, Phil Ochs, Judy Collins, and entirely leaving out Ginsberg’s legendary testimony, (Allen is only briefly featured, clownishly, at a march) You can’t fit everything into a film, but these were huge moments in American history. Fred Hampton, seen frequently conversing with defendant Bobby Seale in the film, was never in the courtroom, and Seale was bound and gagged for three days, not an hour or so as the film suggests. Seale is so prominently featured it should be titled the Chicago 8.

Flaws aside, it hopefully reignites discussion about the trial & illuminates more history of police brutality. It highlights the Nixon Whitehouse’s pursuit of the case after the Johnson administration determined the Chicago Police were responsible for the riots, and that it was, after all, a political trial as the Abbie Hoffman character played by Sacha Baron Cohen asserts throughout the film. Fun fact: According to David Dellinger, Allen introduced him and Abbie to each other telling them that he thought two of his favorite activists should meet each other.

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Did you know that @clarkgregg starred alongside Tom Hulce in Aaron Sorkin's "A Few Good Men" on Broadway in 1989 as Lt. Jack Ross. #ClarkGregg #TomHulce #AaronSorkin #AFewGoodMen #Broadway #originalproduction #play #actor #newyork (at Broadway, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7iTkY8l3tN/?igshid=18hs3k5vh6u05

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Lmao I was trying to say I didn't want to watch a Haffley heavy episode but I just called him "That conservative guy" but my boyfriend isn't as familiar with every episode so he said "oh is this the one where Fred Flintstone gets to be president?" 🤣🤣

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Happy to see Jesse Eisenberg at ISU AfterDark tonight! He played Aaron Sorkin's Mark Zuckerberg in "The Social Network," which is one of my favorite movies of all time! Waited two hours to see him and it was worth it! #JesseEisenberg #TheSocialNetwork #Facebook #AaronSorkin #IowaState #AfterDark #Geek #TechGeek (at Great Hall)

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Abbie Hoffman at the Mobilization for Justice & Peace in Central America & Southern Africa, March and Rally, Saturday, April 25, 1987, Washington, D.C. (photo: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries/Allen Ginsberg Estate / Getty Images)

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• Allen Ginsberg chanting OM, Grant Park, Chicago,  during the riots at the Democratic National Convention, August 28, 1968. (Photo: unknown, courtesy Stanford University Libraries/Allen Ginsberg Collection)   • 50 years ago today Allen gave testimony at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial famously chanting OM and Hare Krishna for the jury as a demonstration of what he did in an attempt to calm the crowds during the riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago.   On Trial were Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Bobby Seale, and Lee Weiner—charged with “conspiracy, inciting to riot, and other charges related to anti-Vietnam War and countercultural protests in Chicago” during the Convention two years prior. All were acquitted of conspiracy, with five of the eight convicted for inciting riots, but those were later overturned.   Currently Aaron Sorkin is shooting a film on the Trial with Shacha Baron Cohen as Abbie Hoffman.                  . • Judge: Did you say you continued chanting seven hours?                   . • AG: Seven hours, yes. About six hours I chanted OM and for the seventh hour concluded with the chant Hare krishna/hare krishna/krishna krishna/hare hare/ hare rama/hare rama/rama rama/hare hare.                   . • #chicagoconispiracytrial #om #1968democraticconvention #allenginsberg #beatgeneration #chicago #chicago1968 #judgejuliushoffman #abbiehoffman #chicagoseven #chicagoeight #sachabaroncohen #aaronsorkin (at Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/B58sDLOB8Yu/?igshid=3xopy721iw6x

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