Never in the history of television has there ever been a show more perfectly cast than The West Wing and more specifically, Martin Sheen.
@StarShipGray Жыл бұрын
“Don’t call them worthless, or at least don’t do it in front of me.”
@veramae4098 Жыл бұрын
OK. I never know what to say when someone is making offensive comments, racist, whatever. Now I know.
@johnmh1000 Жыл бұрын
"...you go girl". A wonderful moving performance by an exceptional young actress.
@thomasprime908411 ай бұрын
Without any doubt, the best series of all time.
@adipsous9 ай бұрын
The only one that I think compares is Downton Abbey. As far as good people, and being moved so many times over at their natural compassionate seeking to do the right thing.
@davidcravens-ofarrell1565Ай бұрын
@@adipsous ...and Firefly....
@sv89112 жыл бұрын
Oh, how nice, to have a bigger clip. Remains my favorite line, in this show.
@philledwith830711 ай бұрын
The slightly longer clip adds some really needed context to Ainsley's character and decision. I'm really grateful for this.
@terrygracy83452 жыл бұрын
Always thought this was a powerful scene.
@aminislam91502 жыл бұрын
Agree! This is a very powerful scene
@sandorsalamon7533 Жыл бұрын
It's the ability to recognize the things we share than clinging to those which separate could help us do valuable work in a respectful environment.
@terrygracy83452 жыл бұрын
This is what’s missing from our public discourse today. Respect. Many on both sides are guilty of this.
@ginmar81342 жыл бұрын
NO. Stop this "both sides" crap. ONE side just outlawed abortion. ONE side tried to stage a violent coup with white supremacist hate groups. ONE side shoots up schools and markets. Grow a spine.
@terrygracy83452 жыл бұрын
@@ginmar8134 and the other side, which generally represents the best interests of the most people can’t get out of their own way. They play the “other sides” stupid games
@carnivaltym Жыл бұрын
Hear, hear! Gerrymandering has given us extremists by the bucket full. Enough! It is time the middle ground to dominate again!
@turtledan2513 Жыл бұрын
Reminder...it was a TV show. The reality is very different. It has allllllllways been different.
@scottmatheson334611 ай бұрын
reminder that you have no experience with people like this and have no idea what they are actually like, you are just regurgitating stereotypes.
@spacedad1853 Жыл бұрын
🥲🥲 Aaron Sorkin gets me every time. Ainsley is only R I Iove; don't loathe.
@genjii9319 ай бұрын
Don't forget Matthew Perry's character!
@raywellswork8 ай бұрын
And that makes you just as bad as the Republicans who are shown to be ignorant and loathsome in this clip. Until people, on both sides, admit that there is far more that unites them than divides them rather than classifying all Republicans as Gun loving, racist scumbags and all Democrats as baby murdering idiots who want to flood the country with Mexicans then you are, in the vernacular, fucked.
@tjthill8 ай бұрын
@@genjii931Also John Goodman
@Judah_KatzenbergerАй бұрын
@@tjthillHe tried to pass a tax cut while Zoey was missing!
@granjmy3 жыл бұрын
Yay! Go Ainsley!
@distracted_visions709511 ай бұрын
Great show. Superb acting. Unfortunately, in today's world, far removed from reality.
@saturday10669 ай бұрын
(sigh) yeah ... far removed
@georgepratt498819 күн бұрын
It doesn’t have to be.
@evrataylor2050 Жыл бұрын
So touchingly beautiful
@geargeekpdx356611 ай бұрын
That is what true woke looks like, folks. Empathy, heart, compassion. We should all be so burdened.
@kenc225711 ай бұрын
Also, highly qualified and eminently professional.
@doberski685511 ай бұрын
@@kenc2257 Plus she looks like a Gap Dancer! 😂👍 Ainsley Hayes was one of my favourite characters in The West Wind and Emily Proctor did a brilliant job portraying her.
@jameshimes36578 ай бұрын
Would that woke had any genuine empathy, heart and compassion
@geargeekpdx35668 ай бұрын
@@jameshimes3657 how would you know what empathy actually was? You hate people for having strong beliefs in saving the dignity of animals, stopping climate change, saving our own people because you think "woke" is not manly enough for you. Pathetic.
@17194568 ай бұрын
@@jameshimes3657 Being woke means being aware… knowing what's going on in the community (related to racism and social injustice). That is the definition of ''woke''. The Right has co-opted the expression to fit their narrative & applied it to anything they don't agree with.
@kennethpaulsen54072 жыл бұрын
to bad she was in a short time in the show
@brontewcat2 жыл бұрын
Yes. It’s too bad Emily Proctor got an offer of a permanent gig with CSI. It’s absolutely natural she’s take it. I think the show runners regretted not moving her to the main cast sooner
@jimmy2k4o Жыл бұрын
As much as I think WW is perfection and CSI is ‘okey’ at best. As a career move you can’t blame her especially when Sorkin used her less and less and if you were proctor you’d worry that you’d eventually go the way of Mandy/Mallory mcgary/Laurie/ etc etc. Even if you like the west wing more as am sure she did, you have to make the more secure career move.
@nivekian Жыл бұрын
I wish Conservatives were actually like her.
@raywellswork Жыл бұрын
Many of them are but your hatred stops you seeing it. Just like the vocal minority of the right hate the left because of the vocal minority on that side saying how hateful all Republicans are. Come together, Talk, find what you agree on, (probably 80%) and argue the toss about the rest.
@jkrasney111 ай бұрын
Agreed.
@dannykent619011 ай бұрын
Most of them are.
@timh83248 ай бұрын
Too bad none of the democrats are like they are describing. Instead they are just self serving people intent on turning the country into a 3rd world hellhole like Venezuela.
@gheller22612 ай бұрын
If you watch her other episodes she's exactly like most conservatives. No clue that her privilege gives her huge advantages and opposed legislation and policies that would help people without her advantages. She's just pretty and does it all with a smile.
@bamascubaman4 ай бұрын
Oh how I want this to be true once again.....
@michaelmuldowney811 ай бұрын
The paper thin one dimensional writing of Ainsley’s Republican “friends” is totally at odds with the rest of the episode.
@normanstevens492411 ай бұрын
I thought he managed to capture their whole essence succinctly in a few short sentences.
@jhopkins21311 ай бұрын
Yeah we get it...Democrats good, Republicans bad.
@colinmerritt764510 ай бұрын
@@jhopkins213 See? You get it!
@unkannyunkanny92329 ай бұрын
That 'paper thin' has aged well because that distrust and contempt reflects the Cult of Trump. Not everyone is as 'woke' as Ainsley. She was moved by Bartlett's compassion for a now-deposed and soon to be dead leader. I think she was starting to realize she wanted the job but the "Does it have to be THIS White House?" was keeping her from committing. When she overhead the comment about being a token it probably stung and why she argued so hard and ended up convincing herself to take the job. It's her monologue that is important, not her friends. Even so, she hasn't totally sold to herself that she'll matter. Later she rewrites Sam's opinion and waits for Sam to see she reversed his opinion. She's testing Sam. To her surprise, what she did matters. Then she knows - she was right to take the job.
@kharnt.betrayer294611 ай бұрын
The whole thing is about attention to duty, and how it can be both a terrible and a beautiful thing. The truly dedicated leader returns home to a nation he has no hope of controlling only to be executed as soon as he gets off the plane. The republican lawyer crosses political boundaries to be of service to her country. It's a poignant episode and it's worth reflecting on the underlying themes of both plots.
@leodwinak2 ай бұрын
Who is the other female actress in this clip?
@MPDLR3 ай бұрын
What is a "gap dancer"
@robertpadillosandiego2821Ай бұрын
back in the 90s, there were commercials for the cloth store "the gap" and they were all blonde hair blue eyes and pretty. so they are saying Ainsley looks like that
@MPDLRАй бұрын
@@robertpadillosandiego2821 Ok thanks! (LOL I was out of it back then vis a vis pop culture or Styles. Not much has changed)
@georgepratt498828 күн бұрын
@@MPDLRyeah…ever her “colleagues” were dissing her..
@bradleymcdaniel7915 Жыл бұрын
I miss those Democrats! I guess you don't know what you've got til it's gone!
@veramae4098 Жыл бұрын
They're still here. We are still here. It's the Republicans who are gone. Now it's alt-right who have usurped, no, have been granted the title because their votes count. Republicans have exchanged democracy for power.
@bradleymcdaniel7915 Жыл бұрын
@@veramae4098 If you actually believe what you just wrote, then you are not still that type of Democrat. You do not have to believe all the lies they are telling on CNN & MSNBC. Do some research and think for yourself. Cheers!
@russmarasheski7005 Жыл бұрын
Really? Compare Ainsley to 99% of the GOP over the last 6-7 years... maybe longer...
@ray.shoesmith11 ай бұрын
lol as opposed to Republicans like Ainsley, who have never existed
@scottmatheson334611 ай бұрын
Spouting the same old lies about Democrats and the msm in this context just falls flat. You can't just trot your talking points out without thinking about them, you have to make sure they work in context.
@RichardSpeights8 ай бұрын
Oh, blondie. If only it were that simple.
@ptr15378 ай бұрын
It is that simple you boorish sexist.
@thorstambaugh15208 ай бұрын
Libtardia heaven
@rumplestiltskin73049 ай бұрын
"Your wife is being hidden in Kenya." In which one of the 57 states? They don't have 57 states, you say. But apparently the U.S does, according to the Kenyan who was running for president.
@MotownGuitarJoe8 ай бұрын
^ alternative "facts"
@noone841811 ай бұрын
Because democrats are any different
@colinmerritt764510 ай бұрын
Yeah, democrats go around trying to overturn presidential elections and try to cripple the smooth transfer of power which was our hallmark for over 200 years. Oh, wait.
@kendawa29188 ай бұрын
Remember when Clinton had his affair and the democrats tried convincing us that character didn’t matter.😂
@timh83248 ай бұрын
Too bad it doesnt describe the actual democrat party politicians.
@davidgibson7044 Жыл бұрын
Ah the good old days, of Grandpa's Democrats, when the hard left was just a handful of kooks at Berkeley.
@bradleymcdaniel7915 Жыл бұрын
yeah... instead of POTUS, VPOTUS, the Speaker and 10% of the House, and every corporate media outlet... in addition to kooks at Berkeley and every humanities prof at all colleges!
@russmarasheski7005 Жыл бұрын
Most of "Grandpa's Democrats" are the current GOP after the Dixiecrats switched.....
@geargeekpdx356611 ай бұрын
OK Boomer we called your nurse you'll get a new diapey real soon
@geargeekpdx356611 ай бұрын
@@bradleymcdaniel7915 true cult thinking is when you think everyone around you is a "kook" and you're the only "sane" one. Real hatetriot.
@scottmatheson334611 ай бұрын
today's hard left is bernie sanders advocating public health care ... just like harry truman. But of course the right has to accuse the left of becoming more extreme in order to cover for their own extremism. Remember every accusation by a conservative us projection.