The wisdom of Ron Swanson is legendary, of course, as are his politics. A confirmed small government Republican/Libertarian, he believes that government should have as little to do as possible.
So imagine my surprise when re-watching an early West Wing episode to see a young Ron Swanson petitioning the White House for a billion dollar wolf highway. I imagine his bitter disappointment when his scheme was rejected was one of the reasons why he began to believe the government was ultimately impotent.
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I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
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