West Wing - Leo McGarry has class

NISSIR
Mr. McGarry, I think we are both men, and we both know there is a charade being enacted here. I understand Western politics, and I understand President Bartlet is unable to admit Israel's complicity in the death of the Sultan's brother during a close election. So perhaps we could...

Leo laughs.

NISSIR
Did I say something funny?

LEO
You think the President's afraid that if he admitted complicity in Shareef's death, he would lose votes in this country? To sweep all fifty states, the President would only need to do two things-- blow the Sultan's brains out in Times Square, then walk across the street to Nathan's and buy a hot dog. Mr. Ambassador, you are going to turn the Mastico around. You are going to cease and desist any disinformation campaign that
links the death of Shareef to Israel. And sometime next year, the Sultan is going to propose a Middle East peace plan -- the Qumar plan -- and win the Nobel
Peace Prize. Make your phone call. I'll be waiting.

Leo walks out of the room.

NISSIR
He's a little hot under the collar, is he not?

JORDAN
Excuse me, I have a meeting of Godless infidels next door.

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[miahk2]

I just love how Leo's Cheshire Cat smile develops

[2devyus4u]

fucking. bad. ass

[babytweeze85]

@UncleMikeNJ and according to Leo it has to be Nathan's

[jokr8790]

"Excuse me. I have a meeting of godless infidels next door."

[mothy01966]

Brilliant

[lemko59]

@bornbillsmith Israel acts with impunity because of U.S. support, both in billions of dollars per year and in vetoes in the UN

Israel lied to America about their nuke program

Israel attacked a US ship and killed US personnel on board

Israel spies on US and now wants Pollard released even though he's US traitor

Israel killed a US citizen with one of their special IDF bulldozers

seems Israel does whatever it wants to the US, even killing US personnel and putting them in harms way

[bornbillsmith]

@lemko59 eYou missed or are too stupid to understand that in the program Israel wasn't responsible for the death of a Muslim official. and that the Ambassador from a Arabic state wanted to blame Israel anyway.

The United States doesn't need Israel to tell us what is right.

We do it because we know it is the right thing to do.

If this hypothetical scenario does happen it will be because The Arab deserved it.

[lemko59]

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To sweep all fifty states, the President would only need to do two things-- blow the Sultan's brains out in Times Square, then walk across the street to Nathan's and buy a hot dog.

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and therein lies the issue with U.S.middle east policy

AIPAC has their hands on the short hairs of so many U.S. politicians, that this hypothetical scenario would actually be true

[UncleMikeNJ]

Let's see if Leo was right: Obama has killed bin Laden, now he's got to go buy that hot dog.

[tfn105]

@ahmadov Not really. In season 6 Bartlett does all he can to get an agreement between Israel and Palestine. Moreover, Bartlett also goes against pretty much every advisor in eschewing military strikes on Palestine after the bombing of the Congressional delegation.

[phillycheese94]

The best line is "excuse me I have a meeting of godless infidels next door." Cracked me up

[observer9670]

Leo's lawyer, Jordan, is played by Joanna Gleason. She's Monty Hall's daughter. She appears in a few other episodes. I thought they made a good couple, I wish they could have kept the relationship going. Perhaps Ms. Gleason had other acting commitments and was unavailable.