#jed barlet

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Fiancé and I are still watching through TWW and are on Stirred in season 3 and they just got done talking about making Leo VP on the Bartlet ticket.

I’m sitting here like “I know something you don’t” while my fiancé is considering Leo as a VP candidate

[not-all-the-prayers]

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The West Wing Characters as Whose Line Prompts

Bartlet:

CJ:

Leo:

Josh:

Donna:

Toby:

Sam:

Margaret:

Ron Butterfield:

Mrs. Landingham:

BONUS

Joshua Malina:

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The West Wing: Rosslyn, Virginia (A Medical Breakdown)

Hospital Nurse: "Station One."

Ron Butterfield: "We're coming in!"

Hospital Nurse: "I copy that. Is this a drill?"

Ron Butterfield: "No!"

Hospital Nurse: "The thing is I have a few patients, not many but I do have a couple of kids with alcohol poisoning. We're expecting more in a bit, so if this is a drill, I'd just as soon..."

Did you not hear Ron say “no”? It’s not a drill, stop talking. Why would Ron lie about it not being a drill?

Claudia Jean "C.J." Cregg

“Scalp laceration, secondary to fall.”: A deep cut of the scalp skin which was caused by the fall.

“No LOC.”: Did CJ lose consciousness? No.

“Are you CJ Cregg?” “Can you tell me what day it is?”: Questions to determine whether or not someone has a concussion.

Josiah Edward "Jed" Bartlet

"He’s been shot in the abdomen. Visible entry and exit wound.": A through and through. It is unlikely that the bullet hit anything vital as Bartlet is conscious and talking.

B.P. 134 over 78: Pre-high blood pressure, expected for someone bleeding out.

Pulse 108: Bartlet is tachycardic, also expected for someone bleeding out.

Pulse ox 98: Good oxygen level. Average is 95 to 100.

Anesthesia and MS: The risks of general anesthesia are not generally higher in people with MS. But one should always inform the doctors operating anyway.

Joshua “Josh” Lyman

Gunshot wound, no exit (left fifth intercostal space): See above for “intercostal space”. No exit means the bullet hit something and is stuck.

Decreased breath sounds in the left: Caused by a pneumothorax (collapsed lung). Unable to get air properly into the left lung.

Pluse ox 92 on 15 liters: The oxygen level is low even though they have him on an oxygen mask. But the oxygen is okay for now.

Pulse ox 88: Never mind, the oxygen level is low. He took the oxygen mask off.

Chest Tube: A flexible plastic tube that is placed in the pleural space to allow the lungs to fully expand.

“Bradying down”: Dramatic drop in heart rate. Has become bradycardic. Slow heartbeat. Less than 40 beats a minute. 

Cricoid Pressure: A technique used in endotracheal intubation to make sure the tube enters the lungs and not the stomach, thereby, reducing the risk of regurgitation.

OTHER MEDICAL TERMS

Crash cart: A wheeled chart with medication and equipment to use in the event of CPR.

Endotracheal intubation: Placement of a flexible plastic tube into the trachea to maintain an open airway.

Hemocue: Hemoglobin tester.

Hemoglobin: Responsible for transporting oxygen in blood.

LOC: Loss of consciousness

Pleural space (pleural cavity): See above purple space.

Tachycardic: Over 100 heart beats a minute.

Trauma panel: A series of tests done after a trauma. A complete blood count (CBC), electrolytes, BUN, creatinine, amylase, protime (PT), prothrombin time (PTT), blood type and screen (T&S) or type and crossmatch (T&C), urinalysis (UA), ethanol level, urine toxicology screen, arterial blood gas (ABG), lactate, and an electrocardiogram (ECG).

Ultrasound: Machine using vibrations with an ultrasonic frequency to see internal organs.

Nitpicking

Patients are almost always loaded into the ambulance head first, so that they are unloaded feet first. Josh is unloaded headfirst, meaning he was put in the ambulance upside down.

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Edits for The West Wing - ?/?

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Fiancé just said “hm I wonder how they’re going to tie this into Yamamoto” and then proceeded to explain Yamamoto’s assassination in WW2. (We blew up his plane after he bombed Pearl Harbor.)

Like babe, I fear you’ve hit the nail on the head there. The answer is just that obvious

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I’ve been rewatching TWW with my boyfriend (his first watch) so pick a thing we’ve watched recently:

The crackers, Danny.

A birthday message

It’s Christmas Josh! No reason we can’t do both

Who da man? You da man

A flamingo is a nice bird

There are 14 punctuation marks in standard English grammar

Voting ended onMar 1, 2025

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@larsulrichburneracc and a handful of anon's who took the the x-coded, y girl west wing quiz asked for me to elaborate on the hot take about leo being the show's go-to antagonist so here's my semi-coherent thoughts on the subject lmao

(ty all for taking it and thinking about it, it means a lot <3)

Basically I think that Leo, unlike the rest of the staff, doesn’t actually have a defined code of character. Josh has ideals and you can anticipate how he’d react to a situation based on those, same goes for Jed or CJ or Toby or Donna or or or or pretty much anyone else. But Leo is different. He doesn’t have his own perspective- he’s simply reactive to those around him.

He’s the first to say “no”, the anchor to Jed’s idealism, the strong hand to reel in Josh, the devil’s advocate to CJ, etc. I understand that this characterization was deliberate, but I find it troublesome because it means Leo changes on a whim based on plot needs.

And what the plot needs more often than not is for a member of staff to put the brakes on the momentum of whatever pie in the sky bill/policy they’re going for. Further, he’s the presumptive roadblock for any initiative, regardless of where it falls on the liberal-center-conservative spectrum. We can anticipate CJ will resist policy that's brushing up against women's rights. We know Josh will fight anything that compromises too willingly with Republicans. We know Sam will fight anything that's the popular option but not the ethically right one. But with Leo, he pretty much rejects anything that comes his way just for the sake of it.

Just two examples I thought of off the top of my head of senseless antagonism:

In the Woman of Qumar, he’s completely unsympathetic to CJ’s significant concern about selling tanks and guns to a country that's regularly executing women. I went up and found the literal script direction which is → Leo makes a hand gesture like 'What do you want me to say?'. which is just like WHAT? If that was Jed, he’d go into a whole “ends justifies the means” thing. If it was Josh, he’d go into a whole “the world is awful why do we have to be the only ones held accountable”. Etc. but Leo just has nothing to say.

Throughout the entire shutdown Leo is just ????, he’s completely weak-willed and over eager to take the bullshit Republican deal and then fires Josh for being the straw that broke the camel’s back on that one Dem that flipped Republican, as if that senator wasn’t obviously just waiting for an excuse to flip. Not very “man in the hole” of Leo in that moment to completely sack Josh in a complete overreaction for a room that was on fire long before Josh walked in.

Leo’s lack of definable character makes him the easiest avenue for conflict within the staff. It’s an easy sell that he’d disagree with Sam’s solving cancer push, with Toby’s college tax credit, with CJ’s reluctance to lie, or with Josh’s literally anything because he disagrees with everything, just for the sake of it (read: cause the plot demands it). We know who Josh is, we know how he thinks and how he feels, and as an audience we can make assumptions based on how he’d react. We can recognize when he’s not himself in Noel because we know him.

Throughout my multiple viewings of tww, I personally feel as though I’ve never learned who Leo is beyond his alcoholism, his loyalty to Jed, and his inclination to roadblock literally anything that lands on his desk. This isn’t nearly as throughout or articulate as I’d like it to be but it’s 1:00am LOL but yeah

TLDR; Leo’s a blank slate character that is molded to whatever the plot demands which is typically unneeded and irrational tension/contrarianism with zero justification. And it fucking annoys me LMAO

okay that's just my take :) sorry if you read this long and he's your fav, i just can't stand reactive characters because there's no point in doing meta on them because everything is in character when there's no parameters to confine yourself to LOL