My new favorite actress is Heather Zichal (Aaron Sorkin's 'ChangeDotGov')

Move over, Janeane Garofalo!

My new favorite actress is Heather Zichal, who plays herself on Aaron Sorkin's new TV series 'ChangeDotGov'. He innovated at the West Wing, although I find that watching re-runs is a bit painful due to the ever-present earth tones. Anyway, Sorkin is innovating again by also uploading segments of the show to Youtube. You can see Zichal in the clip to the right, where she plays herself playing a former John Kerry staffer (link) who was candidate Barack Obama's Policy Director for Energy, Environment and Agriculture (Season One) and who's now on his transition team in the new season. Not only that, but this segment was written by Lawrence O'Donnell!

EMBARRASSING UPDATE: I was just IM'ed by Perez Hilton, and he informed me that Zichal isn't an actress, but a real person! In fact, all of this is real, and Barack Obama is the real name of our new president. I have to apologize, since I don't follow politics too closely. I was able to confirm this with Harvey Levin, and he also mentioned something about "Soviet-style propaganda designed to fool the masses into the belief that the government is listening to them" and then, after a bit, he said something about "putting on a show for the sheeple" or something like that but I didn't really follow what he was getting at.

Politics · Wed, 11/19/2008 - 22:45 · · Importance: 3