You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. I'm Joshua Molina.

And I'm Rashique Sherway. And today we're talking about episode three from season seven.

It's called Message of the Week.

It was written by LOD, Lorenzo Donald, and it was directed by Christopher Mizziano.

CM. It first aired on October 9th, 2005.

In this episode, it's three weeks into the post-primary, full-on presidential campaign.

And this episode focuses more on the Vinic Camp and how they react to Santos' move in

the last episode, including the, is it a stunter? Is it not a stunt detour to fulfill his marine

reserve duty?

Vinic decides to go after the Latino vote by focusing on immigration issues and hopefully

throw the Santos campaign off their game. But Vinic finds himself in a bit of a pickle

himself with a religious right group that's demanding approval over his judicial appointments.

I was getting an image as you shared that synopsis. It would have been more visually

arresting if Santos had jumped over 20 buses on a motorcycle and then they argued about

whether it was just a stunt. It wouldn't have made as much sense, but...

But he would do it in a...

Alright, I'm not even gonna touch it.

It's already at the lowest level of humor. You can't at do it.

I like this episode a lot. It was interesting to me, though, because it felt a little bit

more cynical in some ways than other West Wing episodes.

I completely agree.

Yeah. And not in a way that I disliked at all. It felt like there was a lot more of the

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