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“Do you like crossing things off?”
Season 3 Episode 17: The U.S. Poet Laureate
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[@geoffreyrichardson8738]

Yet another example of why this was such a great series

[@johnmamariI]

Love when CJ remarks that Toby, the President's chief writer, has a "touch of the poet" when it comes to the U.S. Poet Laureate. Game respect game. (Romantically.)

[@murrethmedia]

...or would like a little touch of the poet.

[@Mediaright]

The most autobiographical Sorkin line about artists at the end there.

[@QoStoOds]

So glad someone @ WBs green lit WW clips. Keep em coming!

[@joaopauloadlergomesdacosta282]

"...and I don't get to decide what truth is."

[@johnwest194]

great actress like her father

[@jmiller260]

And mother,

[@rockon41]

You cut it off before the best part when he pulls out his own list :)

[@burneggroll]

Thanks. Quote by Allen Ginsberg: “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed...”

[@murrethmedia]

Laura Dern was a FOX.

[@lancer525]

Was? Are you serious?

[@murrethmedia]

@@lancer525 She lost her fastball.

[@nunuvyerbizness]

What a waste of letters.

[@murrethmedia]

@@nunuvyerbizness What a waste of skin.

[@josephmanno4514]

@@murrethmedia You're all so classy.

[@titus2120]

I never realized…. I truly find her captivating…

[@dealinginfiction]

This has nothing to do with the actress more about the writing and situation. So she left the conversation because she wasn't liking what she was hearing and refused to fight with him. Then later tells Toby a story why she is personally invested in it. To make Toby more empathic. Then proceeds to tell him why this is important to her because of that personal experience and not the actual other people.

[@DGNYY27]

She asked for a minute alone and stayed there the whole day until it was dark.

[@SWOBIZ]

Land mines are having a dramatic impact in Ukraine against both sides. We use land mines responsibly. Go to Russia or Vietnam or Afghanistan and tell them to stop using mines!

[@RM-dc6zd]

sounds like the protests at colleges today. no one remembers what they are about, they just remember that students seem entitled, arrogant, naive. Performative, overly dramatic. If they were well-spoken, calm, courteous; didn’t damage property, insult or threaten people, some might actually listen. Instead, they become the jokes on late night TV. It’s a pattern repeated by every generation; this one is no different.

[@keeranjani]

The problem is any group large enough to garner significant attention is also bound to have those entitled characters who the media can paint as the whole movement. It’s an impossible scenario for any large group of protesters.

[@diegorhoenisch62]

You're repeating the same thing that was said about protests against the American war in Viet Nam, the Civil Rights movement, the divestment movement against Apartheid in South Africa, the Indian independence movement(against the British), You're a fool and you will die a fool.

[@strenifstrecs2551]

They also had the problem of being co-oped by other radical groups. All the Marxist organizations showed up preaching the over through of capitalism. No small number of extreme Muslim groups came by to teach the students how to chant intifada. The protests in many circles went from stopping the killing to bringing down the western world in record time.

[@monizdm]

Like the January 6 "tourists"?

[@strenifstrecs2551]

@@monizdm Your 'what-about-izem' is immaculate but I'm not right wing so from where I'm sitting they all should be in jail.

[@Jamessir_Bensonmum]

Tabitha is a pretty poor choice for Poet Laureate given that she uses the wrong personal pronoun when telling Toby the story about going fishing with a man and his son.

[@kanderson-oo7us]

Poets can stretch and bend language - they don't need to follow the rules! But yeah, "took his son and I" is just bad. (Super common, but wrong - people say it incorrectly bc they think it sounds better)

[@paulc7486]

Maybe she was paraphrasing “The King and I”

[@edscott2433]

@@kanderson-oo7us It be wrong.

[@LoveWinsMovement]

@@kanderson-oo7us… You’re EXACTLY correct!

[@carlrosa1130]

Love the scene...and I LOVE the West Wing. But this is the kind of person (the character Laura Dern is playing) that if a red robin is chirping outside of her hotel window, she has a severe bout of 'unconscious de-consciousnesses' and can't be disturbed for 6 hours before the aura of her humanity stops conflicting with her inner-self while she deflates into the realm self-acknowledgment.

[@a.m.hofmeister725]

Hey man, some people just have deep experiences with things.

[@carlrosa1130]

@@a.m.hofmeister725 Hey man, that's what they tell themselves, man.

[@jbuster9]

This is rather patronizing, IMO

[@RM-dc6zd]

drugs. they are all on drugs and losing touch with reality. and now, they have social media as a drug on top of everything else.