US POLITICS SPRING 2011: Let's just call off this country.

Yeah, that sounds like "here's my opportunity for some slightly straighter talk by pretending I don't know the mic's on."

re: digby, i just can't stand this kind of surprised tone when it comes to outrage. there's no way she can be honestly surprised anymore!

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Lol this is what our pres says OFF the books. When right-wingers get caught off the books, it's always some racial slur or talking about their mistresses or some shit.

^^^I know rite? I was expecting this to be some silly shit about he needed a cigarette or making fun of Boner's tan or something

yeah he's getting massive pos feedback on this afaict

the great thing abt the 'oops, open mic!' thing is its a way to create a story out of 'obama just said stuff' -- immediately stands out from 'contents of a speech'

yeah the cynic in me is wondering if this is all scripted

http://troublegumm.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/thetrumanshow.jpg

yall saw the west wing right

of course not

she affects a Perrin-esque smugness about things going to shit.

But things ARE going to shit and no one with any power is doing anything, Blanche.

yeah the cynic in me is wondering if this is all scripted

Except it's not that cynical. I hope it's scripted.

theres this west wing episode where the president is giving all these interviews? to a bunch of local tv stations? and in one of the interviews he thinks the camera is off and he says something like "my opponent is a .22 caliber guy in a .44 magnum job." but the camera is off and everyone hears it and its a big deal? and the staff cant figure out how to respond? and then they realize its actually *good* for the re-election campaign? and then it turns out at the end that martin sheen knew the whole time that the camera was on?

yall should really watch the west wing

Except it's not that cynical. I hope it's scripted.

― Periblepsis occasioned by homoeoteleuton (Michael White),

+1

or Lawrence O'Donnell, maybe he wrote that one

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can i just...

http://i56.tinypic.com/9s3tbt.jpg

looks like biden was goose-ing timmy

yall should really watch the west wing

hell no

just saying, 2/3ds of the obama presidency plot lines were already done on the west wing, and much funnier

Feel like Obama has pulled a couple Bartlett moves? Can't remember the others.

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sorry dude I'm not watching that garbage. can't even bear it for more than a few minutes.

ok

lol

at least shakey apologized

was there a black president on "The West Wing"?

But things ARE going to shit and no one with any power is doing anything, Blanche.

Things have been going to shit since Jesus died.

there was a Latino president by the end

I never watched "The West Wing" because every single plotline seemed hinged on some ripped from the headlines shit and I always figured, hey, I saw this already, in real life, why do I need to see it fictionalized so soon? Think the same with all those Law and Order shows, fwiw.

"The West Wing" and The American President blur in my mind.

Martin Sheen is Latino xxp

I never watched "The West Wing" because every single plotline seemed hinged on some ripped from the headlines shit and I always figured, hey, I saw this already, in real life, why do I need to see it fictionalized so soon? Think the same with all those Law and Order shows, fwiw.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, April 15, 2011 1:37 PM (42 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you are really missing out, dogg

The Latino prez is supposedly based on young community organizer Barack Obama.

Martin Sheen is Latino xxp

President Bartlet was Latino?

No, but still. Irony!

that's funny, because President Barak Obama is kind of based on the black president from 24

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Santos <- it says here that the writer based him on Obama 2004.

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Hate to mention, but David Palmer 1/6 Scale Figure (£137.00)

http://www.starstore.com/acatalog/24-david-palmer-1-6-fig-01.jpg

President Bartletino

Maybe if it was a David Paymer figure.

I wonder when a TV prez will be based on Barack Obama 2009-11, so ppl will realize they've been played

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk-7VvZUPFY

i heard somewhere that WW character Josh Lyman (Bartlett's deputy COS) was based on Rahm?

yeah WW was dope season 1-3 (maybe 4). y'all are missing out.

do you really want to have yet another West Wing argument

LET'S DO THIS THING

Bulworth is infinitely smarter and less than 2 hours long.

"The West Wing" had better raps and the negroes didn't eat fried chicken.

I don't understand that as a dissent!

outta the park

The first episode of "The West Wing" is the only one you really need to watch.