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I feel sad that I can't excuse myself to go to a special meeting... of the government, because nobody will get the joke. Though now that I look back at what episode that's from, maybe it's for the best.
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FISHMANPET posted:I feel sad that I can't excuse myself to go to a special meeting... of the government, because nobody will get the joke. I used that all the time when working on a campaign.
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May 4, 2012 03:54
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It's nice when we can do something for prostitutes every once in a while.
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May 4, 2012 03:57
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Hobo Erotica posted:It's nice when we can do something for prostitutes every once in a while. My campaign was in Las Vegas so that got used too. 
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May 4, 2012 04:01
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Grand Fromage posted:My campaign was in Las Vegas so that got used too. As much as I love, love, love this show, god the over the top is so bad. Leo: We just formed it. Toby: Formed what? Leo: The Committee to Reelect the President. Also Josh: I serve at the pleasure of the President of the United States. CJ: I serve at the pleasure of the President. Sam: I serve at the pleasure of President Bartlet. Toby: I serve at the pleasure of the President.
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May 4, 2012 08:18
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:I can't even imagine how many city council and state senator campaigns are stealing lines and ideas The West Wing on a daily basis. If only any of them were smart enough to.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:I can't even imagine how many city council and state senator campaigns are stealing lines and ideas The West Wing on a daily basis. We never took any ideas (House, not state level) but the lines definitely flew around when appropriate.
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May 4, 2012 08:26
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Plucky Brit posted:It may be my ignorance, but did Paul Revere really make carving knives? My impression was that he was too good a silversmith to bother with something like that. I'd imagine in those days most things a silver smith was doing was probably a custom order to begin with, with candle sticks, tea service and eating utensils(including carving knives) being the standard fare.
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May 4, 2012 08:54
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:On a small level, that scene is hilarious, because when he's done, he says "Toby. That's how I beat him." Essentially, he has just decimated this woman infront of all of her peers, just to show someone how he won a school board election. I love that. Nitpicking, but I just saw this episode, and he didn't do it to show Toby how he won. In the scene before Toby asked how he did it and he says "I honestly can't remember". He did it, and that reminded him of how he won, so he's like 'Oh yeah, Toby, that's how I did it'.
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May 4, 2012 10:11
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Josh: I serve at the pleasure of the President of the United States.
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May 4, 2012 21:01
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The college girls asking for Josh's signature is pretty bad too.
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May 4, 2012 21:05
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Joementum posted:The college girls asking for Josh's signature is pretty bad too. 
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May 4, 2012 21:40
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List of people who know the current deputy chief of staff's name who do not work in the White House and are not employed by the Washington Post 1. the guy who put it on Wikipedia 2.
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May 4, 2012 21:52
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Are you telling me that you wouldn't recognize Nancy-Ann DeParle? 
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May 4, 2012 21:58
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:List of people who know the current deputy chief of staff's name who do not work in the White House and are not employed by the Washington Post
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May 4, 2012 22:21
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Josh Lyman posted:Right now is a different situation. The scene described is more akin to Rahm Emmanuel holding the post in 2010. Rahm was not the deputy chief of staff in 2010.
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May 4, 2012 22:22
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Still, it seems Josh has a pretty high profile compared to Nancy-Ann Deparle. He is described as the 101st senator, so its not completely outrageous that political science students with an interest in Washington politics knows who he is.
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May 4, 2012 22:32
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Joementum posted:Rahm was not the deputy chief of staff in 2010.  Yeah, I guess deputy chief of staff is a different matter.
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May 4, 2012 23:11
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Take your legislative agenda and shove it up your rear end! Also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOzG1W4eYPo
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May 4, 2012 23:12
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I'd be into the Deputy Deputy Chief of Staff. Donnatella
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May 5, 2012 07:47
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There are multiple Deputy COS' in the Obama administration.
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JerkyBunion posted:There are multiple Deputy COS' in the Obama administration. Their actual job titles are quite loose in the WW, they change a lot to serve the plot. CJ is the press secretary, she would take much more instruction from the Director of Communications, but it's never presented that way. Toby basically does the same job as Josh in the show, other than every so often a plot point about script writing comes up. Josh is basically the deputy CoS for plicy, Toby is the deputy CoS for communications. Sam is the same, a deputy communications director would have nothing to do with half the meetings he ends up having.
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May 5, 2012 19:39
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I think from 17 People (Toby figures out the MS) to the end of the second season is the best run of the show. I miss this show 
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JerkyBunion posted:There are multiple Deputy COS' in the Obama administration. Yeah, I went with the Deputy CoS for Policy, which is closest to Josh's role. There's also a Deputy CoS for Operations, which was created when Daley came on board, I think. Daley was handling Congressional relations (policy) while Rouse handled West Wing staff coordination (operations), mostly because none of Obama's staff liked Daley at all.
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May 5, 2012 20:07
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:As much as I love, love, love this show, god the over the top is so bad. quote:Apparently turning their attention to the rights of hate groups, such as the one responsible for Josh's shooting, the staffers marvel at the notion that a democracy protects the rights of those who would destroy it. They consider the notion then respond with the refrain, "God bless America."
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Holy crap, I just noticed this show won 26 Emmy awards. Is that normal, even for a 7-season show?? e: maybe that's a dumb question, obviously this isn't a 'normal' show but still seems a heck of a lot. More than 3 a season. El Grillo fucked around with this message at 08:17 on May 7, 2012 |
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Joementum posted:Rahm was not the deputy chief of staff in 2010. No, but it's like knowing who Rahm was in 96. Which was known well enough to actually inspire Josh's character. I'm just beginning to watch Season 4 again, and you get to the scene where Charlie refuses to explain the details of Separation of Church and State to his Little Brother, and makes him study the Constitution. The dude then writes Charlie an angry letter on the back of the first amendment. I know freedom of religion is in the first, but isn't the Separation of Church and State spelled out in one of the ancillary letters Jefferson wrote, not the Consitution?
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:I know freedom of religion is in the first, but isn't the Separation of Church and State spelled out in one of the ancillary letters Jefferson wrote, not the Consitution? Why don't you look it up?
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May 15, 2012 13:57
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:I'm just beginning to watch Season 4 again, and you get to the scene where Charlie refuses to explain the details of Separation of Church and State to his Little Brother, and makes him study the Constitution. The dude then writes Charlie an angry letter on the back of the first amendment.
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I just started my second run through the whole series. It's really incredible how well the show holds up on multiple views. I guess that IS one of the perks of not being to heavily serialized and not relying on cliffhangers too much. I'm kinda surprised to see that they kept Mandy until the end of the first season, I was totally sure that she was gone after ten or eleven episodes. Knowing that she'll disappear, I have kinda softened to her character. I hated her when I watched the show for the first time, and her horrible introduction scene made me cringe even harder this time around.
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I got linked this when I woke up: ... and had to go watch the episode (S3: Gone Quiet) for context. Now I think I need to watch the whole of series 3. Again. Why is this show so immensely re-watchable?
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Khablam posted:I got linked this when I woke up: "Ya lost yer boat in the wrong part of the world, Mr. President."
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"Why do you want to be President?" "I don't." "Well we'll put that in a hopper and show you a draft."
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May 16, 2012 14:24
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Charlie, could you have someone bring some Schweppes' Bitter Lemon and the Constitutional Order of Succession, please?
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Alter Ego posted:"Ya lost yer boat in the wrong part of the world, Mr. President." McNally: "Mr. President, submariners understand that if they sink it won't be a rescue, it'll be a recovery. They measure risk and rewards not just in terms of their own lives, but in terms of national interest" Bartlet: "Well, that's great. I assess the national interest by the number of people alive, not dead" drat, I love any episode that has Nancy doing her thing.
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Khablam posted:McNally: "Mr. President, submariners understand that if they sink it won't be a rescue, it'll be a recovery. They measure risk and rewards not just in terms of their own lives, but in terms of national interest" Admiral Sissy Mary.
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I love CJ and Nancy's dialog in the episode where a Georgian ambassador offers CJ some weapons-grade uranium. CJ: It's just sitting there behind what he's describing as an excellent padlock. Nancy: It's a miracle nobody's boosted it yet. CJ: The Russians don't guard this stuff? Nancy: They gave 'em the padlock.
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May 16, 2012 18:50
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The best thing about the Hal Holbrook/missing sub thing was how Hugh Laurie ripped it off for Commander-in-Chief
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He made me want to try a Schweppes Bitter Lemon but I couldn't find it anywhere. Also nobody heard of it.
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Mu Zeta posted:He made me want to try a Schweppes Bitter Lemon but I couldn't find it anywhere. Also nobody heard of it. I found this from a google search, but it was an ad I clicked on. I left the referral link in there because why not. Although $14 and change is likely not what you'll want to spend for a 1.5L bottle: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000LRIHOI...sl_15rdru5ra6_b
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