Scott Yates

Those who don't watch West Wing are doomed to repeat it?

Maybe this will become an ongoing series of life just being better on the show the West Wing as opposed to the real world of the West Wing. Here's my first entry on pardoning turkeys.

This one is more subtle, but watch at about 4 minutes into this video. With the polite tone that is befitting the setting, Secretary Gates and Admiral Mullen delivered a stunning rebuke of a question posed by a senator.

Here's the better version. The sound quality is rotten, but it's the only one I could find on YouTube:

"The problem is that's what they were saying about me 50 years ago. It would disrupt the unit. You know what? It did disrupt the unit. The unit got over it. The unit changed."

If only Fitzwallace could have been there to smack down the senators.

Robert Gibbs is just not funny

I've said it before, and I'll undoubtedly say it again, but Robert Gibbs is not funny.

He really thinks he's the star of the show. He's not, he's there to serve the public, not turn himself into a celebrity.