West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin calls Sarah Palin TV show ‘a snuff film’

(HMG Celebrity News) – In more free publicity that will just make Sarah Palin that much more popular among her constituency, West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin is accusing the former Alaskan governor, who is assumed to be mounting a run for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination of shooting an animal ‘for political gain,’ on her TLC television travelogue series.  Sunday’s episode of “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” featured the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate shooting a caribou, while hunting north of the Arctic Circle.  Appalled by seeing Palin kill and carve up a caribou, Sorkin,  who recently penned the Facebook film The Social Network, blogs on the Huffington Post, comparing the program to a snuff film.  He dubs Palin as a “witless bully” and a “phony pioneer girl” and argues that he is unable to “make a distinction between what you get paid to do and what Michael Vick went to prison for doing.”  His response comes after Palin posted on her Facebook page, accusing those who criticized the scene of hypocrisy.  Several animal rights groups including People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals (PETA) have complained about the episode.  ‘Unless you’ve never worn leather shoes, sat upon a leather chair or eaten meat, save your condemnation,’ she said.

Sorkin responded by saying, ‘I eat meat, chicken and fish, have shoes and furniture made of leather, and for those reasons Palin thinks it’s hypocritical of me to find what she did heart-stoppingly disgusting. I don’t think it is, and here’s why.

‘Like 95 per cent of the people I know, I don’t have a visceral (look it up) problem eating meat or wearing a belt. But like absolutely everybody I know, I don’t relish the idea of torturing animals,’ Sorkin added.

‘I’m able to make a distinction between you and me without feeling the least bit hypocritical. I don’t watch snuff films and you make them. You weren’t killing that animal for food or shelter or even fashion, you were killing it for fun.

‘And you didn’t just do it for fun and you didn’t just do it for money. That was the first moose ever murdered for political gain.

‘You knew there’d be a protest from PETA and you knew that would be an opportunity to hate on some people, you witless bully. What a uniter you’d be — bringing the right together with the far right.’

Sorkin ends the piece by saying: “Sarah Palin is deranged and The Learning Channel should be ashamed of itself.”