Everything Reminds Me of "The West Wing"

Current events. Art. Interpersonal drama. It just seems like all roads lead to the Bartlet White House, you know? Submit your own to: letbartletbebartlet@gmail.com.

CJ! Obviously.

  • Allyson: In poli-sci in college I learned that EMILY'S List is an acronym for "Early Money Is Like Yeast" and I just about died.
  • That word is so terrible
  • me: it helps RAISE the dough!
karlwithak: In the film “The Object of My Affection” (which we happened to browse into because it’s a lazy Saturday afternoon), Alison Janney and Alan Alda play a married couple. Which to West Wing fans, means there’s an alternate dimension where CJ Cregg and Arnie Vinick got hitched. Fan fiction?

karlwithak:

In the film “The Object of My Affection” (which we happened to browse into because it’s a lazy Saturday afternoon), Alison Janney and Alan Alda play a married couple.

Which to West Wing fans, means there’s an alternate dimension where CJ Cregg and Arnie Vinick got hitched.

Fan fiction?

...With A "K.": Worlds Collide: Obama Channels "The West Wing" Debate

karlwithak:

I saw this on MSNBC this morning and it’s like Lawrence O’Donnell is writing for the President. From yesterday’s speech about immigration:

THE PRESIDENT: We have gone above and beyond what was requested by the very Republicans who said they supported broader reform as long as we got serious…

This is arguably the worst episode of the series, but still!

My sister and her boyfriend got burglarized today. WORST. But it was a pretty low-fi operation. LIKE ZOEY’S KIDNAPPING. It reminded me of the wise words of Nancy McNally in “25” (4.23): Is there anyone here who thinks this sounds like a typical kidnapping so far? Could it have been any more low-tech? A plan based on knowing when someone’s gonna need to use the bathroom?…It’s graduation weekend, every kid in the mid-Atlantic is moving right now. We shut down the airports — either they didn’t know we were gonna do that, or they didn’t care. Either way, Mike, does this seek like a James Bond operation to you?… Leo, whoever took her doesn’t know what they’re doing. It was an absurd kidnapping. She’s not gonna turn up in a Bahi camp — she’s gonna turn up in the back of a muffler shop.”

My sister and her boyfriend got burglarized today. WORST. But it was a pretty low-fi operation. LIKE ZOEY’S KIDNAPPING. It reminded me of the wise words of Nancy McNally in “25” (4.23):

Is there anyone here who thinks this sounds like a typical kidnapping so far? Could it have been any more low-tech? A plan based on knowing when someone’s gonna need to use the bathroom?…It’s graduation weekend, every kid in the mid-Atlantic is moving right now. We shut down the airports — either they didn’t know we were gonna do that, or they didn’t care. Either way, Mike, does this seek like a James Bond operation to you?… Leo, whoever took her doesn’t know what they’re doing. It was an absurd kidnapping. She’s not gonna turn up in a Bahi camp — she’s gonna turn up in the back of a muffler shop.”



I said something dumb today (every day?), and I thought about C.J. explaining Bartlett’s on-air gaffe calling Ritchie stupid. “[The President] said something he shouldn’t have, something we all do from time to time.” So true, C.J. (“The Poet Laureate,” 3.16)

I can’t drink any kind of lemon-lime soda without thinking of Lemon Lyman. (“U.S. Poet Laureate,” 3.16)

I can’t drink any kind of lemon-lime soda without thinking of Lemon Lyman. (“U.S. Poet Laureate,” 3.16)

My sister asked me if she had anything in her teeth. It reminded me of CJ and Kate’s tooth-checking ritual in “Institutional Memory” (7.21).

My sister asked me if she had anything in her teeth. It reminded me of CJ and Kate’s tooth-checking ritual in “Institutional Memory” (7.21).