The Newsroom (TV Series)

The 112th Congress (2012)

Sam Waterston: Charlie Skinner

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• Leona Lansing : You know Charlie, a lot of people might argue that Will is on a witch hunt.

  Charlie Skinner : And a lot of people might argue there are witches out there.

• Charlie Skinner : Reese, the newsroom became a courtroom because I felt the American public needed a fucking lawyer.

• Will McAvoy : Back in 1968, when Rennie Davis and Hayden and their guys organized the SDS, it was specifically to end the Vietnam War, but that movement got eaten by Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin and he Yippies.

  Charlie Skinner : Hoffman and Rubin were a lot more charismatic.

  Will McAvoy : Yeah, but it was impossible to define what the Yippies were protesting! They were about giving the finger to anyone over 30, generically hating the American establishment, dropping out and getting high.

  Charlie Skinner : And?

  Will McAvoy : That's how the Progressive Movement would be painted for the next 40 years. People passing out daisies to soldiers and trying to levitate The Pentagon.

  Charlie Skinner : I was there, that damn near worked!

  Will McAvoy : No it didn't. The Pentagon is a really big building, you can't levitate it.

• Leona Lansing : Well, last night the voters ousted 21% of congress including seven members of the House Sub-committee on Communications and Technology. Three of those seven are AWM's most reliable friends on the Hill. The congressmen that will be replacing them are the same people that Will has been making look like fucking morons for the last six months.

  Charlie Skinner : They've done a pretty good job making themselves look like morons.

• Charlie Skinner : Reese, why don't you give us a minute.

  Leona Lansing : He can stay.

  Charlie Skinner : Reese get the fuck out.