1) that is assuming the director/show runner did not tell him to do exactly that. 2) I thought it looked childish and made me role my eyes - ever so slightly. ☮
Josh at one of his most smug and condescending moments... and yet his most politically effective. Right up there with Toby's MS info-fueled righteous fury of "I wasn't in the situation room that night but I'll bet all the money in my pockets against all the money in your pockets that it was Leo, who NO ONE ELECTED! For 90 minutes that night there was a coup d'etat in this country." One of the best network television shows not only created, but also highly popular to boot!
richardwhiuk “we’re gonna go with Leo on this one”. That’s what the Vice President told military leaders after Leo gave his opinion and the military leaders urged the VP to go to war. Sure, VP made the final call, but really it was Leo calling the shots.
The White House needed a politician enforcer. Speak softly & carry a big stick! The President & Leo are the diplomats... Josh is the political equivalent of a hockey goon.
Maybe it's not the most diplomatic message. But politics is an Alpha-Male business. Josh preferred putting it in terms that a politician didn't misinterpret... Makes me wonder how West Wing Season 8 would have looked...
Just as good as this was the scene to set this up where Josh says to Sam "LBJ would never have taken this from Democrats in Congress; he would have said, “You’re voting my way, in exchange for which, I might remember your name.”
wow the USA needs campaign finance limits, like 50 k for a Representative, 100 k for a Senator and 2 million for a presidential candidate, no average citizen can aspire to higher office without patrons that you have to cowtow to
This was the scene where it was clear that Josh Lyman was very much based on Rahm Emanuel. That's scene sounds very much like something Emanuel would have said to a renegade Democrat when he was working for President Clinton.
always makes me think of the Eminem line about Will Smith. "President Bartlet doesn't have to hold grudges, but i do, so fuck him and fuck you too" lol
They act like Eau Claire Wisconsin is a small town. It's big enough that Trump and Harris held rallies there on the same damn day lol. They've got a mall that I was in on a Friday about a month ago (I'm from MN) and that place was doing better business that night, with very few stores closed then most malls I've seen in Minnesota in years
Good scene, but messed up at the end. Josh should have said that line “... that’s what he pays me for” and then put on his sunglasses. The way they did just looked cartoonish,
The West Wing was not nearly as good as people thought it was. It just looked good in comparison to all the network trash that surrounded it. The cliffhangers were impossibly melodramatic and the entertaining dialogue was totally unrealistic. And then for the lighting. On the brightest day, no light ever penetrated to the glowing lamps of the interior. Used occasionally as a special effect, it would have been great. As it was, it was just pretentious and irritating.
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You got a band gazebo? Doesn't matter, we'll build one.
Like a boss, Josh. Like a boss.
That’s my favorite line too.
This should be every conversation with Simema for the next 2 years
Him spinning around and putting the glasses on upon delivering the final line was a great acting choice. Josh nailed that smug shit. lol.
Doing his Tarantino impression when he flipped those sunglasses on.
1) that is assuming the director/show runner did not tell him to do exactly that.
2) I thought it looked childish and made me role my eyes - ever so slightly.
☮
@@McRocket Maybe its hard to tell sometimes. I could see it being the actor's choice, since the scene would still have the same context without it.
I still kinda want this to go YEEEEAAAAHHH at the end like CSI: Miami.
Josh at one of his most smug and condescending moments... and yet his most politically effective. Right up there with Toby's MS info-fueled righteous fury of "I wasn't in the situation room that night but I'll bet all the money in my pockets against all the money in your pockets that it was Leo, who NO ONE ELECTED! For 90 minutes that night there was a coup d'etat in this country."
One of the best network television shows not only created, but also highly popular to boot!
scarred2112 ironically Toby is wrong in that scene. The Vice President called the shots.
richardwhiuk “we’re gonna go with Leo on this one”. That’s what the Vice President told military leaders after Leo gave his opinion and the military leaders urged the VP to go to war.
Sure, VP made the final call, but really it was Leo calling the shots.
The White House needed a politician enforcer.
Speak softly & carry a big stick!
The President & Leo are the diplomats...
Josh is the political equivalent of a hockey goon.
Maybe it's not the most diplomatic message.
But politics is an Alpha-Male business.
Josh preferred putting it in terms that a politician didn't misinterpret...
Makes me wonder how West Wing Season 8 would have looked...
Cue the YEEEEAAAAAAAHHH! from CSI:Miami
Pure and genuine Joshisme :-)
Oh, Josh how much i miss you and all TWW show! You're so great here!
That last look Josh made looked like the Deal with It picture.
Just as good as this was the scene to set this up where Josh says to Sam "LBJ would never have taken this from Democrats in Congress; he would have said, “You’re voting my way, in exchange for which, I might remember your name.”
wow the USA needs campaign finance limits, like 50 k for a Representative, 100 k for a Senator and 2 million for a presidential candidate, no average citizen can aspire to higher office without patrons that you have to cowtow to
1:02 whoops! Josh's tie is tucked into pants
This was the scene where it was clear that Josh Lyman was very much based on Rahm Emanuel. That's scene sounds very much like something Emanuel would have said to a renegade Democrat when he was working for President Clinton.
always makes me think of the Eminem line about Will Smith. "President Bartlet doesn't have to hold grudges, but i do, so fuck him and fuck you too" lol
Josh Lyman, Political Gangsta.
Why can't we have Democrats like this!
Democrats fundraise better when Republicans are in office.
They act like Eau Claire Wisconsin is a small town. It's big enough that Trump and Harris held rallies there on the same damn day lol. They've got a mall that I was in on a Friday about a month ago (I'm from MN) and that place was doing better business that night, with very few stores closed then most malls I've seen in Minnesota in years
Good scene, but messed up at the end. Josh should have said that line “... that’s what he pays me for” and then put on his sunglasses. The way they did just looked cartoonish,
Agreed.
But cartoonish people will disagree with us.
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Might only be a TV show, but those are typical Democrat blackmail tactics.
His tie is tucked in his pants
The West Wing was not nearly as good as people thought it was. It just looked good in comparison to all the network trash that surrounded it. The cliffhangers were impossibly melodramatic and the entertaining dialogue was totally unrealistic. And then for the lighting. On the brightest day, no light ever penetrated to the glowing lamps of the interior. Used occasionally as a special effect, it would have been great. As it was, it was just pretentious and irritating.
Butthurt gun nut?
Dannys998877 so why are you here watching clips of it?