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It's Worth Derailing An Editorial Meeting About An Extremely Sensitive Story To Count Santa's Reindeer
And other things women were wrong about this week on The Newsroom.
- that she should derail an editorial meeting about an extremely sensitive story about a possible war crime to count and list Santa Claus's reindeer
- that, having derailed said meeting for this tangent once, she should do it one more time and try for a third
- that Jim is a viable romantic prospect
- that she should set up her weird friend with Neal so that she and Jim can double with Neal and her weird friend
- that she should take her eyes off the road while driving to look for an address (when her passenger could do so watching just one side of the street and extrapolate), thus running her rental car into some garbage bins
- that she should continue to date Will
- that "I loathe you in ways that are unquantifiable" is a smart thing for a political consultant to say to a journalist
- that she should meet a guy with whom she's been set up on a date quite drunk
- that announcing "I could boot and rally!" is a charming thing to say on that first date
- that journalists are unfairly focusing on Ann Romney's dressage horse
- that the presidential candidacy of Ron Paul is one that any woman -- or any person -- should support
- that she will get closer to Will in their personal relationship if she can talk him into firing his ex-girlfriend/current producer
- that having just met someone and gone on a double date with him and several others, it would be cute to bring up an embarrassing YouTube clip in which he co-stars
- saying "I'm starting to feel responsible for this" about the drunk idiot and her embarrassing YouTube screening
- that Will's likability problems will be solved if he can suddenly reposition himself as a folksy, midwestern farmboy
- "We don't need clean air and water regulations, we don't need FEMA, we don't need anti-trust laws, we don't need the IRS or the Department of Education or the Federal Reserve. We need freedom!"
- that Ron Paul didn't write his old racist newsletters
- thinking that, once inside the Romney campaign, she could steer it in the right direction as opposed to get fired as soon as she challenged the prevailing strategy
- that she should get drunk on the regular while working on a top secret story
- "It's a morning show. We have fun here."
- that she should start an analogy about Goldilocks planets when she had only a 40% grasp on what she was talking about