"Making sure the Inquirer can write whatever it wants is the only way I can make sure the New York Times prints whatever it wants." This show was effortlessly profound.

@YourXavier

4 жыл бұрын

​@Bri Ba Interesting point, actually. On the one hand, it's not a violation of the first amendment, because it's a private corporation suppressing the news, not the government. On the other hand, by owning exclusive rights to a story, while refusing to publish it, and yet using the legal system to enforce that right, the same result is achieved, perfectly legally.

@WoWhistorian

4 жыл бұрын

@@derekweiland1857 LOL. God you people are stupid.

@alexmacgillivray3095

4 жыл бұрын

@@derekweiland1857 This is sarcasm right? Sometimes it is easy to miss on the internet

@derekweiland1857

4 жыл бұрын

@@alexmacgillivray3095 if you had actually been to qmap.pub you would see that its true.

@alexmacgillivray3095

4 жыл бұрын

@@derekweiland1857 Well it must be true if it appears where again? I mean all the worlds law enforcement offices must go there to find out the real criminal acts I guess. Or is it just people who lack any kind of evidence or proof? You are better off with sarcasm.

Toby never stays in a good mood for long lol.

@scallen3841

3 жыл бұрын

Toby is a asshole

@Isaic02

3 жыл бұрын

@@scallen3841 an* "Toby is an asshole." With a period. -Toby Z. lol

@richarda29

2 жыл бұрын

@@Isaic02, absolutely. Punctuation is important. There’s a difference between “Let’s eat, Grandma.” & “Let’s eat Grandma.”

@williamleewolverine

2 жыл бұрын

@@Isaic02 Thank you for using proper grammar. It’s rare these days.

@gheller2261

2 жыл бұрын

No, Toby is principled.

Nobody does indignant outrage like Toby Ziegler.

@loganirwin1123

4 жыл бұрын

The acting is so good, I can't help but believe that it's not acting. Richard Schiff must be a real bastard, lol.

@whiskeytuesday

Жыл бұрын

@@loganirwin1123 kzread.info/dash/bejne/pICek9d9iq-Xf84.html

@Decopainterandtea

Ай бұрын

He was always sour though (in general). It was too much imo.

"We have people like you here... there is on one, on any end of the spectrum, that doesn't roll their eyes when their name is mentioned " Oh how things have changed.

@prospero4183

3 жыл бұрын

This has never been true, the press is there to make money only the 0.0001% of news is reported without bs, the rest is basically click bait before the Internet.

@FuaConsternation

2 жыл бұрын

Blank disappointed stare, pause, "do people roll their eyes when my name is mentioned?"

@TigDegner

2 жыл бұрын

There *isn't* one. The point is: being ridiculed, even by the worst of people, doesn't make you right. And those who find themselves targets of such ridicule are accustomed to it and even roll their eyes at it. We should not judge people based on who loves or hates them; we should judge their ideas and arguments on their merits.

"I beg your pardon?" "You can beg all you want, you're not going to get it." One of the best lines in the show. I've been waiting years for the opportunity to drop that bomb on someone.

@TigDegner

2 жыл бұрын

Please do write back when you get that opportunity. I think I speak for everyone here when I saw that we'd love to hear about it.

As someone who is either 46 or 47, seeing Toby saying he's 44 is mind blowing.

"Give up your space and put another naked woman there." Damn.

"For I am Toby" 😆 "I've never done anything" 😆

Make them wallow in their loserdom...and give them a HAT....Lmao

Well Toby my man, we’ve also had Hearst and yellow journalism😎

Just wait, Toby. In another 6 years you won't be able to tell Foxnews from that Russian paper.

@rafibenavi4772

3 жыл бұрын

True...CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, NPR, Etc., have been DAH TOVARISH for years now...👎

@reidflemingworldstoughestm1394

3 жыл бұрын

@@rafibenavi4772 Absolutely comrade. Nothing in the free world has ever compared to the partisan nature of totalitarian government controlled press with the single exception of American rightwing media. Limbaugh, Fox, OAN, Praeger U, CoupAnon, etc have never been anything more than the propaganda arm of the Republican party -- and as the good propagandists they are, they never fail to attack the credibility of all legitimate news sources.

@rafibenavi4772

3 жыл бұрын

@@reidflemingworldstoughestm1394 Your issue with one sided politics is blinding you to what is ACTUALLY going on...Sad...

@reidflemingworldstoughestm1394

3 жыл бұрын

@@rafibenavi4772 You issues with conflating anything happening in the US with what the Republicans are doing isn't blindness as much as it is active attack on reality that can only come from a desire to destroy America... Sad...

@rafibenavi4772

3 жыл бұрын

@@reidflemingworldstoughestm1394 No genius...That's a really bad ASSumption on your part...My trust is in YHVH Elohim Adonai Tz'vaot...Yours is in men lined up on a particular political discourse instead of GOD ALMIGHTY...And that's why, it's sad...

“You know, we’ve always had free press here. We take it for granted. How can you….treat it like this? You should give up your space and put another naked woman in there.”

Excellent!

And now America has a President who just looooves "journalists" like her.

@SuperMathewson

4 жыл бұрын

Not so kind to the real ones either

@falseprophet1024

4 жыл бұрын

What do you mean? Trump doesn't love CNN..

@crucisnh

4 жыл бұрын

@@SuperMathewson The "real" journalists don't work for propaganda rags like CNN or MSNBC. Those "journalists" are nothing more than left wing activists. Real journalists should have no affiliation or at least bury it so deep that no one really knows which way they lean. Mind you, I'm not talking about "opinion journalists", aka political talk show hosts like Sean Hannity or Don Lemon. They have every right to their opinion, though I do tend to think that calling them "journalists" is a bit much. I don't think that there's anything wrong with calling ones' self a political talk show host is such a bad thing, as it is a pretty honest job description. But when you have people like some of those working in the White House press room who are clearly activists for one party, it's pretty offensive to think of them as actual journalists.

@WoWhistorian

4 жыл бұрын

@@crucisnh The problem with Hannity is the fact that he fully embraces lies and conspiracy theories and presents it as actual journalism. And while I have issues with most media outlets like CNN or MSNBC, there's no denying the fact that they are a lot more fair in their reporting than Fox, and yet I see absolutely no Republicans criticizing them for their obvious and blatant right wing bias.

@loganirwin1123

4 жыл бұрын

You mean Russians, right?

He has a lot of "odd days."

Russians: "Why do you bringing this woman here?" US: (To the Russian President and the press corp) "In our country, we believe in absolute freedom of the press, no matter how amateur, unprofessional, or asinine. It's just a thing we do where we let them hang themselves. While she is here, however, is there anything YOU would like to address? Apparently no topic is off limits to her, and it will be in every paper in the world. We can start on those crow's feet and then move on to when she misspelled Russia that time. I also hear here mamma was an old day tsuka for the Soviet air wings and coal miners." THAT"S how you make friends with the Russians.

Wait, Toby’s only 44?!? Wow, he looks more like he’s 58.

@loganirwin1123

4 жыл бұрын

He ate a salad, once.

@owensims7491

4 жыл бұрын

@@loganirwin1123 Correction: a bowl of weeds

@richarda29

2 жыл бұрын

He grew up w/a father who was a murderer. He aged.

@LaRomaBella

2 жыл бұрын

@@richarda29 Working at the White House probably does him no favors either. Stressful job, I hear. Makes one's hair turn white even.

@supershane1960

2 жыл бұрын

In Toby’s case his hair fell out. That seriously is a man who needs a life…

Its so refreshing to picture what a normal white house would look like, even though its only in our fantasies these days.

@gyleake

3 жыл бұрын

Right - lets take a scripted scene with actors...multiple takes....and then relate it to real life with regards to a free nation with over 350 million people in it......fantasy was about the only thing refreshing in this post...

@richarda29

2 жыл бұрын

@@gyleake, all true. But I should remind you both that C-SPAN actually showed what was going on in government for years before failing because nobody would watch anything so boring. To paraphase Nicholson, people can't handle the truth. The truth is what Lyman said it was to Hoynes during their jog: we have two corporate parties, one pro-life & one pro-choice. The last 18 months should be all the evidence you need that neither the Democrats nor the Republicans give the first damn about anybody not lining their wallets.

@SeksiChaps

5 ай бұрын

@@gyleakewhat you described is the exact sentiment of the show. Idealistic, but not realistic. 😅

As long as she’s in the US her existing credentials as a member of the press corp are guaranteed. If she’s in an airplane away from the US and outside US airspace these existing credentials are meaningless. Toby’s freedom of choice prevails.

@MrDarkweaver

Жыл бұрын

If she is on the plane, that is diplomatically considered US soil, and the credentials stand, regardless of where the plane is geographically. Toby 100% did the right thing, both in giving her the credentials, because if you are an honest believer in the 1st Amendment, you have a moral obligation to provide them, and also in confronting her so that she understood the circumstances under which she was being granted them, not as a favour, but as a matter of principle, despite his moral objection to her standard of journalism. He's holding himself to his own moral standards, one of the reasons we love Toby.

If they tried all that crap on Putin, everyone associated with that Russian newspaper would disappear.

@felipepineda1585

3 жыл бұрын

Well that fool is former KGB. A spook!

@SuperMathewson

3 жыл бұрын

The show is kind of referencing that. The apartment bombings was a reference to an actual event in the first year that Putin became Prime Minister under Yeltsin.

@Bergen98

3 жыл бұрын

Apartment bombings were real. Many still believe Putin ordered them so he could start a new Chechen war and become President. And you know what - that newspaper exists. But it is not some "yellow" media - it is the last true independent media that had a lot of their journalists killed in the line of duty.

@discendovox

Ай бұрын

The actual Novaya Gazeta has had its journalists assassinated for years; they won a Nobel Peace Prize for continuing to persist in their journalism in the same year you posted this.

How things have changed.........

Where on earth can I watch this show? It's not available on Netflix, Amazon or Hulu!

@logically-insane

4 жыл бұрын

It’s on Netflix in the US-for now at least.

@jeffreywilliam9821

4 жыл бұрын

Come to my house or any of the millions of other people who bought the box sets DVDs I have the whole series in my library.

@varunhebli

4 жыл бұрын

I'll pay the postage if you could have them sent over!?

@cawsnallthis

4 жыл бұрын

You can buy the box set on Amazon for 50 60 bucks.

@baileyjones4379

3 жыл бұрын

Use a free vpn and watch it on us Netflix

Anyway, here are your credentials. As he leaves them on the chair. Cold🥶

She is deceitfully very pretty

Oh how times have changed.

2:06 He is 44 !

Funny how he is angry about the type of the journalism that is now celebrated

@scallen3841

3 жыл бұрын

Toby is a asshole

@richarda29

2 жыл бұрын

The LIST of things that make Toby angry doesn't bear thinking about. He's a depressive whose father was a murderer. But for what it's worth, I'm angry about journalism, too. These guys hype the ratings for advertising dollars. They'll show every plane crash but not car crashes, even though plane crash deaths are a fraction of car crash deaths.

This is from Season 3, Episode “20”. Not 18. Devil’s in the details.

@logically-insane

4 жыл бұрын

It’s 18th in season 3 “regular” season episodes. It would be episode 19 if you include Isaac and Ishmael. It’s episode 20 if you’re counting the Documentary Special as an in-season episode.

Former President logan. He played one in 24 season 5

Charles Logan sure does love his Russian politics

I’m older than Toby Ziegler???

She did not even deny any of it. Must be part cassock

44? I'd have guessed 55.

Logan!!!!

In an alternate timeline, this reporter worked for the KGB.

Can someone tell Which episode is this?

@woohooboy

5 жыл бұрын

It's on the description......

Why does she have a normal height here.... and freakishly tall (as Sally) in SPORTS NIGHT. Or these r 2 different women. 🤔

Hahaha that didn't age well, did it? :)

Also, the First Amendment does not, as far as I understand it, guarantee someone a privileged place in the White House Press Corp

@samkaplan5467

5 жыл бұрын

Mark P No, but the government denying access by failing to provide credentials would kill its spirit

@shanecommins7968

5 жыл бұрын

In fairness, Toby says that more or less word-for-word.

@christelheadington1136

5 жыл бұрын

Enter the hitman,Trump.

@Mark-xh8md

4 жыл бұрын

@@samkaplan5467 - So, how far would you extend this. Should everyone who runs a blog be able to get these press credentials?

@samkaplan5467

4 жыл бұрын

Mark P it should not be denied for political reasons. Full stop.

2:24 ironically this guy plays the corrupt President from 24.

You can beg all you want you’re not gonna get it.

Does she work for Rupert?

@Bergen98

3 жыл бұрын

No, she "worked" for one of the best Russian independent newspapers. Still is, people who work there are not afraid of Putin or his goons. I am not sure the time of this episode, but most likely when Russia was seen as a friend. You would close your eyes on anything our corrupt politicians would do, And their critics - a big problem for our oil and gas

This comment section proves the inaccuracy of Sorkin's philosophy.

Meditation

The chihuahua has arisen…

"Hey Toby? Guess who taught me all those activities you so eloquently decry? Your free press. Shut them down first, and I'll stop."

@akashchoudhary8162

3 жыл бұрын

It's not about shutting anyone down. It's about ignoring the hell out of people who do those deplorable activities.

This women could work for CNN

@jbfarley

10 ай бұрын

🤡

@yao052

6 ай бұрын

No FOX News or Newsmax

Today this clip comes off as incredibly naive about Russia. If this paper had huge circulation in Russia it's because the government allows it to. And why would it allow a dissenting newspaper to exist? Because if it's as bad a newspaper as they say it serves to actually undercut the opposition. For none of the West Wing staff to consider this deserves a facepalm.

@samcavanagh7993

4 жыл бұрын

It was a product of it's time. People don't realize but the Russia of today is not the Russia of 20 years ago, they are very different places.

@sargentshadow

4 жыл бұрын

This episode came in may 2002. Our relations with Russia were much different then what they are now.

@loganirwin1123

4 жыл бұрын

I think Toby had considered all of this; he understood that Russia wanted to make an example out of these journalists, and despite her body of work, Toby wanted to turn the tables and use her as an example of American press freedom in kind - by making her wear a funny hat and putting her in the front row. He accepted the diplomatic risk of offending Chigorin because he thought it possible for Chigorin to understand just what the Americans were doing.

@Bariom_dome

2 ай бұрын

It's about Russia then, not the dystopia it is now

it's really brave of the west wing to come down so solidly with the russian government on this one.

@peterformaini7723

6 жыл бұрын

It came down with a fictional, far more democratic government than exists now. And, of course, it came down in favour of a free press - warts and all.

@boatrat

6 жыл бұрын

I can't believe people could miss the point of this exchange that badly. It's precisely because politicians (whether Russian or otherwise) MUST be ruthlessly scrutinized, that the press agents doing the scrutinizing must do their work honestly and legitimately. If they're nothing but muck-raking ambulance-chasing sensationalist slander-merchants, they won't be taken seriously by anyone. Then no one will take any notice of their analysis or criticism of the government when they ever do raise a legitimate alarm about real problems.

@brianwilliams4832

5 жыл бұрын

The point is that her reputation had nothing to do with the way the Russian Government treated detractors, and maintaining a free press is the most important thing. Toby literally said this.

@martialme84

4 жыл бұрын

P.W how the fuck did you miss the point so completely?! Your failure is stunning in its magnitude...

@loganirwin1123

4 жыл бұрын

@@peterformaini7723 The Chigorin government had to have been based off of the early days of the Putin administration; Toby mentioned rumors about the Russian President's involvement in bombings of apartment buildings. This is Russia's "Bush Did 9/11" in the real world, as many believe Putin did the very same thing in the late 90s.

Ugh I dont mind ads but do they really think people who watch west wing would be inclined to sit down turn on the TV and enjoy watching little girls pop out babies and all the drama that ensues.

Would it have killed the writers to check the proper pronunciation? It's "NOvaya gazeta", not "noVAya". Suka bljat'.... Edit: The mispronunciation becomes even more comical when you consider that Svetlana Efremova is Russian-born and would thus have picked up on the error in an instant. (Although, for mitigation, maybe she did try, but just never got through to the Americans?) 😂

@4:24 He just described the current mainstream media.

Sorkin was on the wrong side on Putin.

@LabradorIndependent

5 жыл бұрын

I don't think the intention is to acquit the Russian Government of suppressing free speech, I think the point being made was more about the importance of free speech, which we can see in Toby's disgust that in a nation with so little free speech, this reporter chooses to use it to spread lies. I like the subversion of expectation. We're inclined to unquestioningly side with the reporter who we as an audience are told is being suppressed because of her opposition to the Russian Government. When Toby later finds out the real reason, he's even more insulted, giving the story two layers. First, that the government suppresses free speech, Toby doesn't deny that - and second that despite how little free speech there is in Russia, rather than championing it this reporter and her paper choose to lie and libel. He wants to side with her, that's obvious in their first encounter. He, like the audience, want to believe she represents an voice of truth in the face of an authoritarian government, and as story and writing goes it's brilliant, the audience instinctively root for the democracy and freedom - so when Toby finds out she's a liar he is deeply offended. For a b-plot that only covers a few scenes, there's layered writing at work - the sort of writing that made The West Wing brilliant.

@martialme84

4 жыл бұрын

Putin is a garbage autocrat.

@loganirwin1123

4 жыл бұрын

And he DEFINITELY did those apartment bombings.

@Bergen98

3 жыл бұрын

@@LabradorIndependent Yeah, Sorkin should have chosen another newspaper. The one she works for is an actual independent newspaper, one of the last ones, who extensively cover the corruption, wars, oppression and social inequality in Russia. They don't do "yellow" journalism - that is not what this newspaper is famous for.

It's 2019, and the Russian in this clip is now a New York times reporter. My we have progressed!

@kevincarroll3914

4 жыл бұрын

What is her name? What does she write?

@llperks

4 жыл бұрын

@@kevincarroll3914 Why are you assuming it's a "She"?

Watching this in 2021 and thinking the democrats used to care about the freedom of the press and honest reporting. Ugh. Now they're 🤡

@gheller2261

2 жыл бұрын

Perhaps in your right wing fantasy world.

@lancer525

Жыл бұрын

@@gheller2261 Facts, truth, and reality are concepts in which they aren't very well versed...

@jbfarley

10 ай бұрын

You're violently stupid

04:25 "ORANGE MAN BAD HAS TWO SCOOPS OF ICE CREAM! IMPEAAAAACH!"

@j.a.kempton3350

4 жыл бұрын

@Tessa Rossa facts really are not the MAGA strong suit. Plus when the president commits crimes...well , they honestly don't care.

@John-Adams

4 жыл бұрын

@Tessa Rossa 8 years bitch

@felipepineda1585

3 жыл бұрын

@@John-Adams - how's that taste now? A little on the expired side?

1st amendment only for "us", says Toby!!!! Is he right? What a nonsense! It should stand for everybody in USA. Where does it say the civil right only aply for US citizens???? Bs!!

@logically-insane

4 жыл бұрын

“It should stand for everybody in USA.” that’s what Toby’s saying especially as he asserts that she is “already credentialed to cover our [aka the American] President.” But they are flying to a foreign country and thus the right to extend that same freedom is not absolute as it would be within the US. As much as Toby would like to “enforce US law around the world” (Though I don’t think he’d enjoy retirement nor scuba diving that much if you ask me)

@VC-Toronto

4 жыл бұрын

An undocumented man was killed when cops went to the wrong home. The city claims he had no constitutional rights. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/09/27/ismael-lopez-southaven-mississippi-police-shooting-constitution/

@tomb7088

4 жыл бұрын

@@VC-Toronto The city can claim all it wants, but the supreme court has been absolutely clear on this. If you are in the US you have US Constitutional rights. Otherwise people in the country illegal or otherwise, would be fair game just like they are in China.

@seventhsteel1415

4 жыл бұрын

I think he was saying in a broader sense that it doesn't apply outside of the USA