Creator Rod Lurie was also responsible for “The Contender,” the movie starring Joan Allen as a vice-presidential nominee. It was Lurie’s ridiculous contention that Allen’s nomination became intensely controversial because — get this — she might have been involved in an orgy in college. Oh, and he made another movie called “Deterrence,” about a president dealing with a nuclear attack while stuck in a diner in Colorado,” in which he cast a very short Jewish comedian named Kevin Pollak as the president of the United States. Lurie is himself a not-very-tall Member of the Tribe.