OK. I never know what to say when someone is making offensive comments, racist, whatever. Now I know.

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.

@@adipsous ...and Firefly....

The slightly longer clip adds some really needed context to Ainsley's character and decision. I'm really grateful for this.

Agree! This is a very powerful scene

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.

@@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

Hear, hear! Gerrymandering has given us extremists by the bucket full. Enough! It is time the middle ground to dominate again!

Reminder...it was a TV show. The reality is very different. It has allllllllways been different.

reminder that you have no experience with people like this and have no idea what they are actually like, you are just regurgitating stereotypes.

Don't forget Matthew Perry's character!

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.

@@genjii931Also John Goodman

​@@tjthillHe tried to pass a tax cut while Zoey was missing!

(sigh) yeah ... far removed

It doesn’t have to be.

Also, highly qualified and eminently professional.

@@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.

Would that woke had any genuine empathy, heart and compassion

@@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.

@@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.

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

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.

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.

Agreed.

Most of them are.

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.

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.

I thought he managed to capture their whole essence succinctly in a few short sentences.

Yeah we get it...Democrats good, Republicans bad.

@@jhopkins213 See? You get it!

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.

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

@@robertpadillosandiego2821 Ok thanks! (LOL I was out of it back then vis a vis pop culture or Styles. Not much has changed)

@@MPDLRyeah…ever her “colleagues” were dissing her..

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.

@@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!

Really? Compare Ainsley to 99% of the GOP over the last 6-7 years... maybe longer...

lol as opposed to Republicans like Ainsley, who have never existed

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.

It is that simple you boorish sexist.

^ alternative "facts"

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.

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!

Most of "Grandpa's Democrats" are the current GOP after the Dixiecrats switched.....

OK Boomer we called your nurse you'll get a new diapey real soon

@@bradleymcdaniel7915 true cult thinking is when you think everyone around you is a "kook" and you're the only "sane" one. Real hatetriot.

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.