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DamnYankees		2012-09-19 02:45:38 PM

God I loved that show.

Grand_Moff_Joseph		2012-09-19 02:55:39 PM

Upvoted just so we can have another West Wing thread. :D

Via Infinito		2012-09-19 02:57:36 PM

I have never watched The West Wing and I'm starting to think that's a damned shame.

AdolfOliverPanties		2012-09-19 02:59:23 PM

Via Infinito: I have never watched The West Wing and I'm starting to think that's a damned shame.

I just started watching on AmazonPrime (and they need a better media player.) I didn't catch on to the original run until about the third season. Damn this was good stuff.

DamnYankees		2012-09-19 03:01:11 PM

Via Infinito: I have never watched The West Wing and I'm starting to think that's a damned shame.

This was always a favorite clip of mine, in terms of West Wing electoral politics: Link

Via Infinito		2012-09-19 03:03:25 PM

AdolfOliverPanties: Via Infinito: I have never watched The West Wing and I'm starting to think that's a damned shame.

I just started watching on AmazonPrime (and they need a better media player.) I didn't catch on to the original run until about the third season. Damn this was good stuff.

DAMMIT NETFLIX! I can watch Vampire Diaries and Ancient f*cking Aliens but The West Wing isn't streaming? I guess I'll look into the Amazon thing. *sigh*

AdolfOliverPanties		2012-09-19 03:07:30 PM

Via Infinito: AdolfOliverPanties: Via Infinito: I have never watched The West Wing and I'm starting to think that's a damned shame.

I just started watching on AmazonPrime (and they need a better media player.) I didn't catch on to the original run until about the third season. Damn this was good stuff.

DAMMIT NETFLIX! I can watch Vampire Diaries and Ancient f*cking Aliens but The West Wing isn't streaming? I guess I'll look into the Amazon thing. *sigh*

The Amazon thing costs $80 a year. But in addition to free streaming videos of TV and movies, you get free shipping on all things marked "Prime." You can save a shiat ton of money. But the media player is small. You can expand it to take up the whole screen, but then the sound is out of sync. That has been my experience.

I also have NetFlix streaming, which is much better, but as you said, it is missing West Wing and a few other choice things I'd like.

Via Infinito		2012-09-19 03:14:51 PM

AdolfOliverPanties: Via Infinito: AdolfOliverPanties:

The Amazon thing costs $80 a year. But in addition to free streaming videos of TV and movies, you get free shipping on all things marked "Prime." You can save a shiat ton of money. But the media player is small. You can expand it to take up the whole screen, but then the sound is out of sync. That has been my experience.

I also have NetFlix streaming, which is much better, but as you said, it is missing West Wing and a few other choice things I'd like.

I'll definitely look into it. Apparently The West Wing was a Sorkin brainchild just like The Newroom (which was freaking EXCELLENT) so I WILL be making this happen one way or the other.

GAT_00		2012-09-19 03:16:06 PM

Obama could really learn how to govern from Bartlet. Campaign Bartlet and Campaign Obama are good, but Governing Obama sucks.

AdolfOliverPanties: I just started watching on AmazonPrime (and they need a better media player.) I didn't catch on to the original run until about the third season. Damn this was good stuff.

Especially since the first two seasons are the best. Well, my favorite is still "The Supremes" in the 5th seasons, but that's me. It really drops off in the 6th season, but once the campaigns start it gets good again.

DamnYankees		2012-09-19 03:20:38 PM

GAT_00: Obama could really learn how to govern from Bartlet. Campaign Bartlet and Campaign Obama are good, but Governing Obama sucks.

Governing Bartlett wasn't that good. What great pieces of legislation did he get passed? Link

Dinki		2012-09-19 03:21:27 PM

AdolfOliverPanties: But the media player is small. You can expand it to take up the whole screen, but then the sound is out of sync. That has been my experience.

We have a sony Blueray player that has internet capabilities- it has Amazon instant video on it. So we can watch it on our 58" plasma.

WTF Indeed		2012-09-19 03:23:59 PM

It was a TV show. Let it go people.

DamnYankees		2012-09-19 03:25:09 PM

WTF Indeed: It was a TV show. Let it go people.

It was a genius work of art, and there's no reason to ever let art go.

AdolfOliverPanties		2012-09-19 03:30:53 PM

If you have Xbox 360 Live Gold membership, you can also see Amazon Prime unlimited streaming.

Good to know, I guess.

Waxing_Chewbacca		2012-09-19 03:40:57 PM

Got the DVDs here... Worth every penny

mrshowrules		2012-09-19 03:42:14 PM

DamnYankees: GAT_00: Obama could really learn how to govern from Bartlet. Campaign Bartlet and Campaign Obama are good, but Governing Obama sucks.

Governing Bartlett wasn't that good. What great pieces of legislation did he get passed? Link

That's President Bartlett or Governing President Bartlett. If you don't respect the person at lease have some respect for the make-believe office he holds.

mitchcumstein1		2012-09-19 03:45:40 PM

GAT_00: Obama could really learn how to govern from Bartlet. Campaign Bartlet and Campaign Obama are good, but Governing Obama sucks.

Campaign Obama can say what he wants to get done.

Governing Obama has to deal with a farkass opposition in Congress who's stated farking goal was not to govern, but to assure he doesn't get reelected. In other words, reality.

DamnYankees		2012-09-19 03:46:55 PM

mrshowrules: That's President Bartlett or Governing President Bartlett. If you don't respect the person at lease have some respect for the make-believe office he holds.

westwing.bewarne.com

ShawnDoc		2012-09-19 03:47:50 PM

AdolfOliverPanties: The Amazon thing costs $80 a year. But in addition to free streaming videos of TV and movies, you get free shipping on all things marked "Prime." You can save a shiat ton of money. But the media player is small. You can expand it to take up the whole screen, but then the sound is out of sync. That has been my experience.

I use my PS3 to stream Prime videos. Full screen by default, and never had any sync issues.

mrshowrules		2012-09-19 03:59:40 PM

AdolfOliverPanties: Via Infinito: AdolfOliverPanties: Via Infinito: I have never watched The West Wing and I'm starting to think that's a damned shame.

I just started watching on AmazonPrime (and they need a better media player.) I didn't catch on to the original run until about the third season. Damn this was good stuff.

DAMMIT NETFLIX! I can watch Vampire Diaries and Ancient f*cking Aliens but The West Wing isn't streaming? I guess I'll look into the Amazon thing. *sigh*

The Amazon thing costs $80 a year. But in addition to free streaming videos of TV and movies, you get free shipping on all things marked "Prime." You can save a shiat ton of money. But the media player is small. You can expand it to take up the whole screen, but then the sound is out of sync. That has been my experience.

I also have NetFlix streaming, which is much better, but as you said, it is missing West Wing and a few other choice things I'd like.

I'm going to watch the entire series based on 20-30 second clips posted to Fark from time to time. I'm half way through it now.

OtherLittleGuy		2012-09-19 03:59:47 PM

GAT_00: Obama could really learn how to govern from Bartlet. Campaign Bartlet and Campaign Obama are good, but Governing Obama sucks.

That's because Governing Bartlett quotes Dear Abby when homophobic Christian talkshow host stays seated eating shrimp when he enters a room. Governing Obama would invite her to have a beer.

Dusk-You-n-Me		2012-09-19 04:06:48 PM

Thanks for using my line last night, @barackobama. You owe me a nickel.
- Josiah Bartlet (@Pres_Bartlet) September 19, 2012

qorkfiend		2012-09-19 04:07:32 PM

Wait.

Ron Silver is dead?

God Is My Co-Pirate		2012-09-19 04:09:25 PM

How I feel about Obama's chances:

TOBY
No champagne.

BONNIE
We're just getting ready to...

TOBY
Put it down. Everyone in this room let me have your attention, please. The law of our
land mandates that Presidential appointees be confirmed by a majority of the Senate.
A majority being half plus one for a total of what, Ginger?

GINGER
51.

TOBY
51 yea votes is what we see on the screen before a drop of wine is swallowed! Because there's a little thing called what, Bonnie?

BONNIE
Tempting fate?

TOBY
'Tempting fate' is what it's called. [starts collecting champagne glasses from everyone]

timujin		2012-09-19 04:10:09 PM

AdolfOliverPanties: Via Infinito: AdolfOliverPanties: Via Infinito: I have never watched The West Wing and I'm starting to think that's a damned shame.

I just started watching on AmazonPrime (and they need a better media player.) I didn't catch on to the original run until about the third season. Damn this was good stuff.

DAMMIT NETFLIX! I can watch Vampire Diaries and Ancient f*cking Aliens but The West Wing isn't streaming? I guess I'll look into the Amazon thing. *sigh*

The Amazon thing costs $80 a year. But in addition to free streaming videos of TV and movies, you get free shipping on all things marked "Prime." You can save a shiat ton of money. But the media player is small. You can expand it to take up the whole screen, but then the sound is out of sync. That has been my experience.

I also have NetFlix streaming, which is much better, but as you said, it is missing West Wing and a few other choice things I'd like.

You can watch Amazon Prime on Xbox as well, it seems to do okay there, but the interface isn't as good at Netflix's.

Calmamity		2012-09-19 04:18:34 PM

AdolfOliverPanties: The Amazon thing

Have they done something to make their interface useable in a way that acknowledges that people are trying to use Prime as an alternative to Netflex streaming?

I am itching to drop Netflix, but when I tried Amazon's thing about 6 months ago it was not really... good.

TheBeastOfYuccaFlats		2012-09-19 04:24:01 PM

Calmamity: AdolfOliverPanties: The Amazon thing

Have they done something to make their interface useable in a way that acknowledges that people are trying to use Prime as an alternative to Netflex streaming?

I am itching to drop Netflix, but when I tried Amazon's thing about 6 months ago it was not really... good.

Agreed.

vernonFL		2012-09-19 04:27:21 PM

Wait until the press finds out that "President Barlett"'s real name is Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez. And his son is a cocaine abuser and notorious poon-hound.

Can America really afford a Mexican coke head in the White House?

Vote Romney 2012.

Nabb1		2012-09-19 04:43:12 PM

"Saigon. shiat... I'm still in Saigon. Every time I think I'm gonna wake up back in the jungle."

GAT_00		2012-09-19 04:43:17 PM

God Is My Co-Pirate: How I feel about Obama's chances:

TOBY
No champagne.

BONNIE
We're just getting ready to...

TOBY
Put it down. Everyone in this room let me have your attention, please. The law of our
land mandates that Presidential appointees be confirmed by a majority of the Senate.
A majority being half plus one for a total of what, Ginger?

GINGER
51.

TOBY
51 yea votes is what we see on the screen before a drop of wine is swallowed! Because there's a little thing called what, Bonnie?

BONNIE
Tempting fate?

TOBY
'Tempting fate' is what it's called. [starts collecting champagne glasses from everyone]

You get yelled at when you say things like that. I know, I've had it happen to me.

Assuming victory is the best way to lose.

TheBeastOfYuccaFlats		2012-09-19 04:56:49 PM

Sam Gustin (@samgustin)
9/19/12 1:52 PM
Sec. Clinton says new Burmese speaker told her they were trying to learn how to do democracy by watching old episodes of West Wing.

Daveism		2012-09-19 05:54:38 PM

My dear wife recently bought me the boxed set- all the seasons... A ludicrous amount of money, but it's a very nice product, and I've got her hooked like a crackhead- we're averaging a couple of episodes a night.

/want so badly to vote Bartlett...
//love the rants and beatdowns

thalassatx		2012-09-19 06:04:01 PM

This quote reminds me of all the people who said re: GWB "He's not MY President."

Waxing_Chewbacca		2012-09-19 06:12:07 PM

Mittens wouldn't have watched the greatness that was The West Wing, he just had Wall Street running on an endless loop to ensure he wouldn't make the same mistakes as Gecko and wind up in prison.

Via Infinito		2012-09-19 06:13:41 PM

Waxing_Chewbacca: Got the DVDs here... Worth every penny

Good. I just spent some of my birthday money on getting the complete series from Amazon.
SO EXCITED!

Waxing_Chewbacca		2012-09-19 06:19:37 PM

Via Infinito: Waxing_Chewbacca: Got the DVDs here... Worth every penny

Good. I just spent some of my birthday money on getting the complete series from Amazon.
SO EXCITED!

Prepare to lose countless hours of your life... "2 AM, ok, I'll just watch one more episode and then again with the commentary on... THEn I'll get to bed"

Via Infinito		2012-09-19 06:28:28 PM

DamnYankees: Via Infinito: I have never watched The West Wing and I'm starting to think that's a damned shame.

This was always a favorite clip of mine, in terms of West Wing electoral politics: Link

Thanks for that. I had never seen it before.

The My Little Pony Killer		2012-09-19 06:29:56 PM

WTF Indeed: It was a TV show. Let it go people.

Yeah, stop liking what WTF Indeed doesn't like, sheesh.

The All-Powerful Atheismo		2012-09-19 06:32:35 PM

Mitt Romney can learn anything from anyone. The only direction he has to go is up.

Sandelaphon		2012-09-19 06:34:31 PM

DamnYankees: Governing Bartlett wasn't that good. What great pieces of legislation did he get passed?

Most of the series was during the Bush administration. I think people were overjoyed for even a pretend president that wasn't an incurious moron acting as a sock puppet for outright evil.

Klippoklondike		2012-09-19 06:36:57 PM

I've never watched the West Wing and now I realize I need to watch EVERY FARKING EPISODE

/great clip

mitchcumstein1		2012-09-19 06:38:50 PM

FirstNationalBastard: and she's been associated with a known huckster who runs a "Psychic Detective Agency".

Shawn runs it.

randomjsa		2012-09-19 06:38:50 PM

As opposed to Obama, who is the president of payouts to people who support him.

Herbie555		2012-09-19 06:42:46 PM

GAT_00: You get yelled at when you say things like that. I know, I've had it happen to me.

Assuming victory is the best way to lose.

It's called "tempting the whatever from high-atop the thing".

Empty Matchbook		2012-09-19 06:42:51 PM

qorkfiend: Wait.

Ron Silver is dead?

I know, right?

randomjsa: As opposed to Obama, who is the president of payouts to people who support him.

HAW!!

ilambiquated		2012-09-19 06:43:37 PM

That was the core of Princess Sparkle Pony's criticism of Bush's foreign policy: Condi only wanted to talk to her friends.

dinch		2012-09-19 06:43:51 PM

randomjsa: As opposed to Obama, who is the president of payouts to people who support him.

That's so cute. Let me tussle your hair

Noam Chimpsky		2012-09-19 06:44:24 PM

The way you be the president to that group is to make it smaller.

whidbey		2012-09-19 06:44:49 PM

So, what if Mitt Romney actually wins this election?

What then?

seumasokelly		2012-09-19 06:45:18 PM

randomjsa: As opposed to Obama, who is the president of payouts to people who support him.

Yes. Barack Obama would be the first president ever to succumb to a little cronyism.

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