5.11: The Benign Prerogative (with Janel Moloney)

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

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🗓️ 15 August 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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This week, we discuss "The Benign Prerogative," and the not so benign aspects of Presidential pardons. We're joined once again by Janel Moloney to talk about Donna's moving storyline in this episode. Plus, Lin-Manuel Miranda makes a little cameo (#Hameo) to help us with the original text by Alexander Hamilton from which this episode takes its name.

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0:00.0	You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. I'm Rishikesh Hereway.
0:09.6	And I'm Joshua Molina.
0:11.0	And today we're talking about Episode 11 from Season 5. The title of this episode is
0:15.0	The Manine Paragative.
0:16.7	It was written by Carol Flint. It was directed by Christopher Maseano at first aired on
0:21.0	January 14th in the year 2004, a mere three days before my birthday, my 38th birthday.
0:28.6	And this title, The Manine Paragative, much like the story we present comes from America's
0:33.4	past. This one is from Hamilton talking about the role of the president in the pardoning
0:39.8	process.
0:40.8	Yes. That number was dropped from the musical Hamilton when it was still out of town.
0:46.9	Even I was going to say actually, Lynn couldn't come up and they didn't think to rhyme with
0:50.8	Paragative, but I got to give. Actually, it's easy. Never mind.
0:54.7	Go for it. Let's hear it.
0:55.9	Yeah, the pardon that I got to give, but it's easy enough.
0:58.8	It's great. Could you put it to a melody, please?
1:01.0	No.
1:02.0	Okay. Thank you for asking.
1:06.4	Here's the full quote read just for us by the voice of Alexander Hamilton, Mr. Linman
1:10.6	Womoranda.
1:11.6	Humanity and good policy conspire to dictate that the benign Paragative of pardoning should
1:16.2	be as little as possible, feathered or embarrassed. The criminal code of every country partakes
1:20.6	so much of necessary severity that without an easy access to exceptions in favor of unfortunate
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