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demtenjeep

(31,997 posts) Fri Jun 24, 2016, 12:35 AM Jun 2016

can someone remember the West Wing Episode where Bartlett lays into that

pious woman and talks about if he has to stone his mother and kill his daughter and ends with "When the President Stands, EVERYONE stands?

if someone has the season and episode, I would appreciate it very much.

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can someone remember the West Wing Episode where Bartlett lays into that (Original Post) demtenjeep Jun 2016 OP

Heck yes! elleng Jun 2016 #1

perfect thank you demtenjeep Jun 2016 #2

I love it too, and may have to start from the beginning AGAIN! elleng Jun 2016 #4

Season 2 (the best!) episode 3, "The Midterms" LongtimeAZDem Jun 2016 #7

Love. That. Scene... Raster Jun 2016 #3

"I'm thinking of selling my youngest daughter into slavery..." Classic Aaron Sorkin writing. nt Electric Monk Jun 2016 #5

I love this put down of the excruciatingly "moral" and self-righteous Dr Laura hedda_foil Jun 2016 #6

She was a thinly veiled "Dr." Laura Schlessinger stand in Bucky Jun 2016 #8

elleng

(130,653 posts)

1. Heck yes!

Reply to demtenjeep (Original post)

Fri Jun 24, 2016, 12:37 AM

Jun 2016

demtenjeep

(31,997 posts)

2. perfect thank you

Reply to elleng (Reply #1)

Fri Jun 24, 2016, 12:43 AM

Jun 2016

I love this show.

I just started watching from the beginning.

I couldn't remember which season this was in. I only have season 1 at the moment but will be getting it all before too long.

elleng

(130,653 posts)

4. I love it too, and may have to start from the beginning AGAIN!

Reply to demtenjeep (Reply #2)

Fri Jun 24, 2016, 12:46 AM

Jun 2016

LongtimeAZDem

(4,494 posts)

7. Season 2 (the best!) episode 3, "The Midterms"

Reply to demtenjeep (Reply #2)

Fri Jun 24, 2016, 12:49 AM

Jun 2016

The crab puffs are a nice touch

Leviticus 11:10 " And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you"

Raster

(20,997 posts)

3. Love. That. Scene...

Reply to elleng (Reply #1)

Fri Jun 24, 2016, 12:45 AM

Jun 2016

"Think about those questions, would you? One last thing. While you may be mistaking this for your monthly meeting of the ignorant tight-ass club, in this building when the President stands, nobody sits."

Electric Monk

(13,869 posts)

5. "I'm thinking of selling my youngest daughter into slavery..." Classic Aaron Sorkin writing. nt

Reply to elleng (Reply #1)

Fri Jun 24, 2016, 12:46 AM

Jun 2016

hedda_foil

(16,370 posts)

6. I love this put down of the excruciatingly "moral" and self-righteous Dr Laura

Reply to demtenjeep (Original post)

Fri Jun 24, 2016, 12:48 AM

Jun 2016

Remember her? She of the online twat shots?

Bucky

(53,928 posts)

8. She was a thinly veiled "Dr." Laura Schlessinger stand in

Reply to demtenjeep (Original post)

Fri Jun 24, 2016, 01:28 AM

Jun 2016

I just watched that Season Two episode on Netflix yesterday. You can probably find the scene on YouTube as well. "The Midterms" was the episode title.

It's a guilty pleasure. Usually West Wing did a better job of creating fully realized foil characters, often giving them rational motivations and letting them air their views, even if the Bartlet White House crew usually had the final word. John Goodman as the conservative House Speaker who had to take over as acting President was a three dimensional human character, not the whipping boy that the Schlessinger character was. I honestly enjoyed the original villains more than the straw dogs.

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