It Was Not, in Fact, a Quiet Day | The West Wing 

Really... when will the president reveal his secret plan to fight inflation. Please do tell,

@@robertmac8287 "I was talking to Danny I was kidding" "These are peoples jobs we're talking about Josh. Want to give us a straight answer?"

If memory serves, C.J. had a "woot canal".

@@Dan210871 😅😅😅

@@Dan210871 You compwly impowwed,

Sorkin is a genius.

@@jimchik I don't think Sorkin was with the show at this point.

@@jimchik Sorkin left after Season 4

@@gamm8939 Thanks to the both of you for this. Kristin Chenoweth was in the cast for the last two seasons? It was rumored that, despite her incredible abilities, it was her relationship with Sorkin that at least helped get her there. Any substance to that? I looked at dates and such but nothing definitive.

I hated this moment because it showed Russell as an opportunist. When Reagan was shot, GHWBush refused to land on the White House lawn, stating it was the right of the president.

@@comeaution22 Russell WAS an opportunist. This was entirely in character for him.

@@jasonkoch3182 Russell, Hoynes, Johnson, Agnew, Biden,; no one even get there or close to there without beating out a whole herd of opportunists with your opportunism.

@@comeaution22In the meantime, here you have Russell taking over the press briefing, doing his Al Haig impersonation: “I am in control here, in the White House.” The problem for Russell is what we had just seen aboard Air Force One, to wit, President Bartlet lucidly giving instructions on how to handle the remainder of the trip so as to not interfere with the negotiations. In short, the Twenty-fifth Amendment was not an issue here, as it had been during Zoey’s kidnapping, which ultimately led to the nomination and confirmation of Russell as vice president in the first place. This showed Russell to be cut from the same cloth as Haig in terms of opportunism. If there had been any question as to his being not qualified to serve as president, this settled the matter. And, still, the ignoramus thought he could win the nomination.

Problem is it also sends the message that the VP is needed for that right now, aka the President is completely incapacitated

With a generic VP, sure. I agree with you. With Bingo Bob... I wouldn't trust him to pick up my dry cleaning.

@@stars9084 , well, to a degree. but it is the right thing because while POTUS is away, VP is still here.

⁠That’s not how that would work though. President is the President no matter where he is. Unless he’s incapacitated or unable to perform his duties (which is what they are worried about) you never want it to appear like the President can’t do the job. Josh is right here that it should just have been the doctors speaking. Plus Bingo Bob wouldnt have reassured anyone that the country was in good hands. So he doesn’t actually make it better. Bob looks like the worst kind of grasper, and Will seems like a opportunist fool for suggesting it when he of all people should know better.

@@googoo-gjoob that would be Bullwinkle

Timeless. As we can see right now with the current POTUS.

@@riff2072 better than the lier-in-chief that’s waiting around the corner. But yeah, neither should be in office, albeit for very different reasons.

@@jimchik If the guy waiting around the corner had his legs stop working, he would say it was caused by a "Hunter" shooting him with a posing dart.

@@riff2072 😂😂 And people are choosing him over a decidedly infirm, old, guy, but someone that at least has done some good.

You know it. Jinkens the entire nation and half the planet.

Right up there with a Fire/Police/EMS/Security/Hospital worker saying, "Boy, it sure is quiet tonight"

Why is that? 😀

WWLD

Online idiot not mention the sequel challenge: impossible.

This was Bob Russell’s “Al Haig” moment: “I am in control here, in the White House.”

What a difference two weeks makes 😂

Want more tin foil for your hat? Sometimes a rose is just a rose.

Like FDR leading the US through WWII from a wheelchair but feeling the need to slightly conceal that from the public perception of him?

​@@PeterHarlequinWhite sometimes a 10yr old video clip is just a 10yr old video clip, loo

@@scarlettmi From the movie The American President: "...if there had been a tv in every living room sixty years ago, this country does not elect a man in a wheelchair." At that time---and still today for many---a wheelchair automatically means a lessened brain ability. They saw FDR as a leader because of how the secret service and the White House staff worked together to conceal his condition. They controlled the press photos. He gave his public speeches standing in braces, and they lasted only so long. They really did need to conceal his condition. Perception in a war is everything.