When I graduated Uni (a fairly fancy/well known one in the UK) I said I wanted to be Donna Moss in the West Wing. My family went crazy. I was just "have you watched the West Wing?". Season 7 had just finished. Coming up on 20 years later I have been a ministers private secretary, a policy advisor and currently a Deputy Director in Government. I'd say it was a pretty good role model to have!
I love how she admonishes them. She grounds them right there and then makes them see the wood from the trees. Great scene and just makes me love Donna's character even more.
I can’t remember the exact line. But I loved Bartlett’s 100% correct comment that between Toby, Josh and Donna she was the only one with the sense to get them home.
"300 IQ points between them, they can't find their way home. I swear to God, if Donna wasn't there, they'd have to buy a house."--M. Sheen as President J. E. Bartlett, West Wing, season 4, episode 2, "20 Hours In America, Part II."
I think that Donna was never sacked for the way she sometimes spoke to her bosses speaks volumes. Also I note that she is responsible for some of the best policy initiatives of the administration with her off hand comments.
Yes she virtually the only one who asked after the Presidents health and how he was feeling or coping. Toby remarks that it would be good if everyone had the same reaction!
@@patricelockertanthony7630 Professional WH operatives don't do details. That's my point. They do the broad strokes. State campaigns do the details. But whatever, it's a TV show; Sorkin was sacrificing realism to make what he believed to be a point.
There is plenty of "elitism" in the Midwest. It's just framed differently. I haven't heard anyone from any other part of the US call themselves "The real Americans" with the same frequency Midwesterners do.
