Bartlet Keeps His Own in Check | The West Wing

[@NevillesGran1]

I love Santos looking after him like “hot damn, I want to be THAT guy when I grow up.” Good ambition!

[@firstname4337]

that's obviously NOT what he was thinking -- he was thinking "whoa, i thought he was going to tell me to drop out and give his endorsement to the vice president -- but he didn't -- I'm still in this"

[@seanwebb605]

@@firstname4337 He was thinking; "I use to be a lawyer in the same LA Law firm that your long term chief of staff was from".

[@fishbone3333]

@@seanwebb605 Underrated comment

[@terrygracy8345]

@@seanwebb605John Spencer was on LA Law??

[@seanwebb605]

@@terrygracy8345 Yes.

[@alexb6234]

Russell sees a man who is screwing him over. Santos sees a man who is doing what he believes is right. Santos was 100% the right choice for the next president.

[@UnklePeanut]

Arnold Vinnick was the right choice, only reason why we he lost is because the writers wrote his character too good (or maybe Alda played Vinnick too good) and they (the writers) manufactured a near nuclear meltdown to give Santos the opening.

[@jdgindustries2734]

​@@UnklePeanutactually, the scene where Josh looks at Leo's picture on election night and says "thanks boss" is real. Until Spencer died, the plan was to put Vinnick in the Whitehouse.

[@geotherapy]

@@UnklePeanut They wrote Santos winning after John Spencer (the actor who played Leo McGarry) died. They felt that having Leo die and Santos lose would be too big a double-whammy, so they gave Santos the win. Vinnick was written specifically to be the moderate Republican who won the White House. That was the original intent.

[@TomalakGeretkal]

​@@geotherapy That's a myth that just won't die.

[@blackcat4859]

​@@TomalakGeretkalwho cares, it's a TV show, all fiction.

[@cpehansen21]

That Deputy Press Secretary sure looks...popular...

[@SylvanSkywatcher]

Lol

[@RinJackson]

....................🙄

[@amylaneio]

She's all about popular

[@partyguy101ify]

Russell is probably thinking, 'I'm going to be the President next, Matty.' They have no idea.

[@jaytc3218]

Wow! Lumberg has really moved up in the world!

[@mikesouthern7666]

I’d LOVE to watch a season of WW with Santos as President. Why not make it? Everyone is still around.

[@shelleyclagg3989]

His end of 8 years, about this point in the election cycle.

[@seanwebb605]

Mr. Estevez was fantastic in this show.

[@googoo-gjoob]

The *GREATEST* show in the _History_ of television.

[@andrewpulda7969]

Many, many years ago my parents were to attend a public event and my brothers and I were allowed to attend as well. We were a rambunctious bunch and my Father knew it. He sat us down just before we left the house and explained that if we weren't on our very best behavior, used our best manners, or embarrassed him or our Mother in any way the consequences would be grim, and he meant it. I got the same feeling from this scene.

[@gheller2261]

Will Bailey's commitment to Russell was never believable.

[@eldersprig]

drank the kool-aid

[@BrentFiore]

He was super optimistic and then just becomes a toady for Lumbergh

[@RJNoe]

Will Bailey’s character was never believable. He was the Cousin Oliver of TWW. Took a great show and ran it straight downhill into a ditch.

[@gmh471]

@@RJNoe I wouldn't go that far. They needed to replace Sam (Rob Lowe) with someone very different and he was. I liked what they did with him up to his being Russell's campaign manager. I get that this was a career move to gain a bigger profile in the party (and he did, he eventually was elected to Congress), but they did not do a good job creating a background for that. Because Russell was an empty suit and Will was too smart to offer so much loyalty to an empty suit.

[@jasonkoch3182]

@@RJNoe that wasn't Will's fault. The writing went off a cliff as soon as Sorkin left. Everybody was affected.

[@MusicMan1965]

“Are we clear”!!

[@JimS3934]

Crystal

[@MatthewKearney69]

@@JimS3934are we clear ?? 👍👍.

[@JimS3934]

Colonel, I have just one more question...

[@seanmcmurphy4744]

Boy, you can see from this how American politics has degenerated in the last 20 years. I remember during the 2016 primaries Trump calling fellow Republican and war hero and prisoner of war John McCain a "loser"

[@christopherweber9464]

I remember in 2008 and 2012 we had a real choice for president ... Dr. Ron Paul

[@MarklovesAngels]

Said the guy who got his father to have a quack write up phony BS about "bone spurs."

[@alertgasper]

Ronald Reagan had a commandment about Republicans not attacking other Republicans. that sure went out the window in 2016, didn't it?

[@firstname4337]

McCain was a loser -- he stood up for that scumbag Obama

[@firstname4337]

@@alertgasper Reagan ? LOL -- you mean the guy that helped terrorists in Nicaragua ?

[@MarkLewis...]

With Bartlet's decree to the two... he shook Santos' hand first in the brief press-op, and then privately called for a non-attacking campaign by the two.- That seems honorable, but is quite biased, it would significantly favor Santos, the underdog at the time, by disarming Bingo-Bob's power over the Santos campaign. So, Bartlet isn't "keeping his own in check", he's sabotaging the Russell campaign... the VP he didn't want, and definitely the President he doesn't want.

[@evanolet]

pics or it didnt happen

[@monitor1862]

Bartlett shook Santos hand first.

[@BigMT9022]

Bail Organa

[@QUINTBLINT]

One thing I don't like about this series, despite its overall greatness, is the damn darkness everywhere. This is just ludicrous. The West Wing is very brightly lit with white walls everywhere. They probably figured if they lit the scenes more accurately the series would look like it's taking place in a hospital. 😡😡😡😡😡

[@geotherapy]

It's a lot more accurate in the earlier seasons, from what I hear.

[@gheller2261]

Wait, Santos had already served in and left Congress and he had never met the president, who was from his own party? Um. No.

[@shelleyclagg3989]

Maybe only in large group but not a 1 on 1. More than likely this was to represent a formality.

[@stephenmason9527]

The whole Santos storyline was just such a decline, when they talk about shows "falling off" this was it. The writers clearly only had Bartlett in mind when starting.

[@shelleyclagg3989]

Actually, Bartlett was only supposed to make an occasional appearance at best.

[@murrethmedia]

Man I hated Will Bailey.

[@elenaverde7356]

Yeah, he was a snidey wee horror.

[@Baffled_King]

This was so far out of character for Will Bailey. He entered the show running a hopeless campaign in a GOP favored district because he felt his candidate was a good man and the right one for the job. Then as of S6 he's a party schill, cowardly backing the most sure-thing candidate and not even considering the value of Santos.