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The best!!

I am currently watching about 2 episodes of this show again on DVD every night. Sometimes 3...

Last year I binged every episode. It was fabulous. Had forgotten how marvelous the show was!

Even the devout pick and choose. Erika Kirk currently has a problem with this one.

The West Wing is like a fever dream…high intellect people attempting to govern fairly and with compassion. I’d like the current administration in front of a firing squad.

I recently rewatched the entire series. I plan to watch it again soon.

Not amazing at all that so many of us are ready to vote for Jed Bartlet for President! 💙🇺🇸💙❗️

SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE!

It was a great show and an example of what leadership could look like in govt. Sadly, today’s administration makes even Veep’s concept look desirable.

I loved this show! Scenes like this were more common than not throughout the series.

If only we had a President that could read above the Dick and Jane level…

Excellent show! Miss the intelligence!

"...and when the President stands, no one sits"

I watch it whenever I lose faith in democracy. So. 24/7 now.

I EVEN OWN THE SERIES ON CD----LOVED THIS SHOW & IT'S ACTORS

required watching for anyone who wants to be a politico

I just posted that.

This has always been one of my favorite scenes 😊

The bigger question is why do we at all discuss religion in the context of our nation's governance? Its like people don't understand the plain text of the 1A?

To me the best part of this scene is when he tells her to stand up.

They had amazing writers!

Exactly!

Absolutely fantastic interview with the show's creator/writer.

Be cautious re-watching. It can break your heart.

The pitch mentions just horrificly immoral and abusive behavior sanctioned by the Old Testament, but it's not just the OT that mandates such awful stuff

Buck the fible

I still go back and binge this show… I’ve probably seen it start to finish a dozen times..

One of the best written and acted shows of all time.

Crab puff. And she’s wearing a crab shaped brooch. Another play on Leviticus. Chapter 11, verse 9 “You may eat anything that lives in the water—that is, you may eat anything that has fins and scales either from the seas or from the rivers.” Since crabs have neither, they are “detestable”

💯 Was going to say the exact same thing.

I've always loved this scene. Truer words...

Probably the most memorable moment from The West Wing. And by the way, when the President of the United States enters the room, EVERYONE stands!

Born in '55 so attended grammar school in the 60's. I remember learning about the US gov't then (5th grade?) b/c when the teacher said that the pres is commander in chief, I raised my hand & asked whether that meant he could order the military to take over the country and be a dictator.

The Newsroom predicted the rise of "citizen journalism " so there's that too.

I think I'll memorize that for future use. I loved that show. Binge watched it three different times, and by george I think I'll do it again.

There was CJ - and there was Karoline. 🙄

I think Democrats should respond to the current administration and their ilk in the same way. Shut them down!

I'd say we're more in Veep territory.

A simply fantastic series. So smart, such great characters. I remember Stone Philips saying he watched the West Wing weekly and said it was just like being in the West Wing

I watched the original airing of The West Wing, which unknowingly and incidentally gave me a sense of what I was getting into when I was offered a job working for a local Member of Parliament😉 I watching re-runs of The West Wing on a local cable channel now! 😀

Man, did I need a good Bartley speech right now.

I literally sent this video to my brother this morning. Told him it will always be my fav clip from The West Wing.

One of the best scenes ever.

20 years later.

Amazing and hugely frustrating.

Did you read the WW book?

I’ve binge watched WW through 7 seasons at least 4 times since 2016.

I love this scene.

That is such a wonderful show.

Nothing creates an atheist faster than reading The Bible! That book is nuts!

One of my all-time favorite shows! ❤️

In the last two years, I have watched all seasons again twice. It's a comfort to watch. It gives you hope. House of Cards brings you back to reality! 🤣

Maybe I will finally watch it!

God, that was a great show!

Loved this show.

One of the best episodes!

Thanks, @muellershewrote.com, this is one of my favorite scenes. May I add the full clip for the perfect ending? cc: Speaker Mike Moses Johnson youtu.be/f3VHK1NXIBw?...

The "Christian Nationalists say that the bible is their reason to oppose abortion. But the bible says life begins with the first breath, and it even supports abortion. So, like any good republicunt, they just make up shit!

This show is just so damn good! Superb writing, a great cast, and seemingly ageless.

I'm rewatching the whole series and that was one of my favorite episodes. I loved it when he says "No one sits when the President is standing" and the look on her face when she has to give in. I sure wish we had a Jed Bartlett-like president in the WH now.

One of the best written dramas ever to run on regular television

Of course, that argument is more effective if your opponent has ever read (or heard about) any parts of the Bible that do not prop up some personal prejudice or neurosis of theirs. Much like having read any part of the Constitution besides the second clause of the Second Amendment.

Love the show. Always wanted to design an entire law school course based on the issues it raised.

I'm watching for the fifth or 6th time. I notice new things every time I see it.

Still question how Rudy Giuliani was made in his image

I'd rather binge this than sit through another month of the current exhausting reboot.

Brilliantly written and wonderful acting.

So True. Great show, especially compared to its successor The East Wing. As an involuntary member of the TEW cast, I can hardly wait for the series to end.

I've never seen this show.

Martin Sheen in the movie The Dead Zone was fantastic playing the same kind of meglomaniac as Fat Donny Drumpf.

I've been watching Boston Legal and the same topics and issues back then exist today, which led me to conclusion is the GOP is not wanting to take back America, they are stuck and want everything stuck too.

That's what is so infuriating. The GOP has been selling the same crap for years & decades and yet so many are shocked about who controls the GOP today. Same as it ever was, people!

A great episode. We still watch The West Wing, maybe to remind us of a time when we were wiser, smarter, empathetic, nicer and respected each other. A love of history too.

I’ve seen every episode of the show at least twice. I can’t watch it anymore because it reminds me of what we used to be - what we’re supposed to be - and how badly that has been betrayed. Anybody that supports what’s happening in this country and claims to be a patriot is simply delusional.

Know favorite episodes verbatim. Who knew the show was actually a documentary in disguise? Though even Sorkin didn't envision a gold leaf For Sale sign hanging in the oval office.

The problem isn't religion. The problem is people who use their religion to justify immoral behavior. There's nothing wrong with doing unto others as you'd have them do unto you. But using your faith to condemn someone else's faith is wrong. Which is why religion and politics should never mix.

It makes me too sad to remember that we actually had a similar govt. I mourn those days gone by. “The Before Times” 😢

West Wing was a balm for my soul when moscow mitch said he would devote his life to saying no to Obama. I even emailed Obama and suggested taking a bed day and binge season 2.

Loved West Wing! I wish some brave media company would start showing reruns every night in prime time…perhaps in the time slot if ABC/NBC/CBS national news??

It was fantastic! Thanks @Lawrence MS.NOW

I loved that show. Can’t watch it anymore without constantly thinking about how debased and divergent from the ideals of this country this administration is. I take no joy in that.

"And get your ass up. Nobody sits while the President stands!" But who can forget Martin Sheen's very first line of the series? "I am the Lord your God..." 🤣 Especially since his character is first talked about as riding his bike into a tree. "A sudden arboreal stop..." per Leo.

Rewatching The West Wing has become an annual event for me. Since 2016.

That's a classic scene. Outstanding writing.

Loved this series - learned so much. We desperately need a revival with new characters to educate the public ❤️

Love this one.

Here to say homosexuality is not an abomination. Just, u know, for the record, if the god of Leviticus is listening. Also, great scene from a great episode of a great show.

I LOVE MARTIN SHEEN! His President Bartlett was spot on. He wasn’t right all the time, he got angry, he even made mistakes. His humanity and his compassion and his humility was something to behold!

Blasphemers and heretics are what American "Christian" pastors basically boil down to.

I rewatched the whole series recently. I cannot recommend it enough.

This argument didn’t originate with West Wing, but they addressed a lot of issues that have been raised for many years.

Simply a really really good show

That's what I

"Bartlett For America." -- written on a cocktail napkin by Leo McGarity (sic)

we've watched it twice now. makes me wistful.

About a year ago, I rewatched the entire series. I suggest a rewatch for everyone. Kind of blew me away watching with different eyes.

Definite fan!

My partner and I have just started rewatching it. He's seen it in it's entirety, and I'm absolutely loving it, all the while pitying what the Oval Office has turned into.

I didn't watch all the West Wing, but I've said for years that you don't get to oppose homosexuality or abortion if you don't keep Jewish dietary law.

I bought the entire series on DVD. Only program I ever did that with. Had to make it my own. I cannot watch it NOW because it breaks my heart. But I DO look forward to the day I can and WILL watch it AGAIN. 😢🤬🗽

One of the BEST shows EVER!!! AND, this episode was brilliant!

i miss this series SO much. it really helped me through the bush yrs. i had NO foresight that things were to get so much worse. (the Obama years was a bit of a respite during our downfall)

Just finished all 7 seasons! " The Debate" was the best debate I ever heard! Loved the show! Everyone should watch it to get a needed dose of normalcy!

This is such a great show. If only…

And yet I got told off for using it as a cultural example of how appointing the relative of a deceased Rep/Senator isn’t that unheard of.

I saw the series years ago. Awesome. Have you ever seen the tv series Brain Dead?

One of my top five favorite scenes in TWW.

In all fairness, the west wing took up the best arguments it heard and put them on a show for others to hear. That’s great, but queer folks were saying these things long before this show aired

The one I find most realistic is when the middle aged white men were all gonna lose their factory jobs and have to be retrained. On the show they prolly were. But in life...that was a sad time. I think that's the origin of the most recent outcrop of disgustingtins

Every time I watch an episode I am floored.

Yeah, a lot of the arrogance towards easily persuadable voters traces back to it too.

That was an awesome scene.

🤯 Isn’t it much simpler to follow the Constitution and leave religion out of government, public buildings and classrooms?

I long for a REAL President & LESS religion.

Not saying we were fans of the show, but my son is called Toby, and our shortlist of names if it was a boy was Toby, Sam, Josh and Leo...

That’s because the party currently in power has for nearly 50 years been dedicated to proving that government is the problem and the almighty Free Market (tm) of unbridled capitalism is the silver bullet that cures all societal ills.

The episode with the unsigned note by a SC nominee re: privacy always comes to mind when I see how this admin and big tech are violating citizens' rights.