It is super arrogant, but I'm into it. Some people have the elite writing talent... I don't and I'm envious.

I'd say he has a similar conversation once a week or so.

That's as close as the staff gets to talking smack about the president behind his back.

And there wasn't even a limousine ride to time him

It was lame starting with the first sentence. We haven't said "blasted off" since the Mercury program.

Yes! Tell a story, that’s such a basic, and therefore sometimes neglected, piece of advice.

Oh, you were so close.

Also, avoid redundancy and repetition.

Did nobody tell you to avoid redundancy and repetition?

I know 😅 Every time, for over 20 years now 😅

There's more than a few people who've watched the show and feel like that, so I deliberately head them off at the pass now when I want to emphasize that something is "not only one of a kind, but so extremely one of a kind, so unlike anything else in its field, that it stands apart like some freakish event". Language is a strange and magnificent beast. Pleonasm can be a useful rhetorical device.

This scene taught me not to exaggerate with certain words because they are redundant

One of my all time pet peeves..along with "amount of people"..

Glad I’m not the only one. Along with the favourite redundancy of police everywhere: “rate of speed.”

Strongly when used as an adverb is perfectly fine. It also has the added benefit of demonstrating its own futility in this context by the fact that strongly is repeated, ergo CJ also realizes this is just a formality

Only if the program was going out on NBC, which used “In Living Color” as a trademark.

@@davidweihe6052 I mean The West Wing was an NBC show

Just a heads up which you may already know. Sorkin wrote the first 4 seasons. After that the episodes were written by a team of writers. So if the episodes in seasons 5, 6, and 7 don’t quite seem the same, now you know why.

He's too busy being a firefighter in Texas these days, unfortunately. Is that subpar spinoff of a "meh" show still airing? I don't care enough to check.

so right

Yep, you’re right.

Yeah, Sorkin and his team made some real flubs at times.

They were in Greek mythology but in Roman mythology they were the horses that pulled Mars chariot.

@@keithduvall812 Ahhh…thanks for clarifying.

And that's the interesting part Mars is the Roman name and Phobos & Diemos are the Greek name

He’s talking about the probe that actually landed, not the entire rocket that got it there.

According to Roman myth, Mars rode on a chariot pulled by two horses named Phobos and Deimos (meaning fear and panic). The two small moons of Mars are named after these two mythical horses.

I disagree - he's not an incompetent employee, he just hadn't been told where his role ends, and has been led astray by his superiors on how the approval process works. He works for NASA PR, not White House communications. His job is usually to convey information, not tell a story. How often is a NASA PR person tasked with writing for the president? That's not what he spends 99.9% of his time doing - he might be perfectly good at his job, we just see him in this instance having been assigned something that isn't his job by a department that doesn't realize where its authority ends. To me, the most unbelievable thing about this sequence is that the president even sees the NASA draft. I have to imagine that it would've been run thru WH comms people before it reached a prompter.

@@Rubingah Yeah I can very much see it your way too.

And you're literally the only person that noticed that. Lol

Oh, it's great writing. You just don't like how the characters come off afterwards. That has nothing to do with how good or not the writing is.

@@Mediaright I have no idea what you think "great writing" is, but if characters who aren't supposed to be assholes suddenly seem like assholes, it's not "great writing". Writing isn't just putting words together in a kinda-sorta pleasing way. This scene is written terribly. Sorry if that bothers you.

I understand your point. And honestly I've never looked at it that way. That being said, I loved it. I don't like that the guy was piled on, but if you're going to write for the president of the United States and this is your shot... And the president has an IQ of 7,000... He was kind of asking for it.

I found Gov. Ritchie

"Educated folk. Gosh, I just don't know."

Thank you totally real person with thousands of favorited videos (including some West Wing clips)

@@untexan kind of creepy you went through my favorites digging for videos I favorited. As stated in the comment I have watched clips and liked some but was unable to watch the whole series because it is unbearable.

@@CaesarSalad19 If only he had read more Eskimo poetry.