Ive been watching west wing all evening, and this quote just came up...
sam - good news about haiti..
margret - we shoulda gone in there with four tank divisions and turned it into a casino!
sam - manifest destiny?
margret - you betchyer ass.
i laughed a fair bit, then went and read up on manifest destiny because it occured to me i wasn't really sure why i found that so funny. i think its the sorta comedic arrogance that aaron sorkin specializes in. Margret, in the scene, is basically saying that she was not satisfied with the diplomatic resolution, something everyone had been saying, but managed to say it and invoking a doctrine of conquering without being offensive.
i guess what i'm saying is i admire the fuck out of aaron sorkin. i love west wing. and sports night, for that matter. i'm almost to the point that i need to rebuy the dvds, that how much i've watch em.
sam - good news about haiti..
margret - we shoulda gone in there with four tank divisions and turned it into a casino!
sam - manifest destiny?
margret - you betchyer ass.
i laughed a fair bit, then went and read up on manifest destiny because it occured to me i wasn't really sure why i found that so funny. i think its the sorta comedic arrogance that aaron sorkin specializes in. Margret, in the scene, is basically saying that she was not satisfied with the diplomatic resolution, something everyone had been saying, but managed to say it and invoking a doctrine of conquering without being offensive.
i guess what i'm saying is i admire the fuck out of aaron sorkin. i love west wing. and sports night, for that matter. i'm almost to the point that i need to rebuy the dvds, that how much i've watch em.