Showing posts with label west wing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label west wing. Show all posts

Monday, September 05, 2016

It'll Be Entertaining


Professional Wrestling is entertaining. But when they click off the set, no one runs out and votes for the loudmouth in the leotard...

Overnight [convention] ratings came in. 52 million last night. Who knew if we set our hair on fire and jumped up and down people would actually tune in to watch?


-- Leo McGarry, The West Wing, 2005

Ten years ago it was inconceivable.

Ten years later it was inevitable.

Friday, August 06, 2010

The Acting President


Explains the political realities of public Presidential endorsements on gay rights issues.

As those realities existed in the 90s.

But the 90s are long over, those realities have radically changed, and the real President of the United States needs to quit watching re-runs of "The West Wing".