Willie Pete
- Episode aired Jul 28, 2013
- TV-MA
- 58m
Will discovers that someone has leaked information to Nina Howard, the Genoa team uncovers more leads in the story, and Maggie prepares for the Uganda trip. Meanwhile, Jim takes a stand agai... Read allWill discovers that someone has leaked information to Nina Howard, the Genoa team uncovers more leads in the story, and Maggie prepares for the Uganda trip. Meanwhile, Jim takes a stand against Romney's press team.Will discovers that someone has leaked information to Nina Howard, the Genoa team uncovers more leads in the story, and Maggie prepares for the Uganda trip. Meanwhile, Jim takes a stand against Romney's press team.
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Did you know
- TriviaThe news crew mentions Trump met with Romney during Romney's campaign. Later Romney would support Donald Trump during his run for the presidency and much later he would vote to convict Trump during the first impeachment proceedings.
- GoofsDuring the rundown meeting, the staff are eating pizza. The web address of the pizza is "joespizza.it", which is a real restaurant chain in the Los Angeles area (including Hollywood, where the series is filmed), although the fictional ACN studio and its AWM headquarters are in New York City.
- Quotes
Will McAvoy: Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann thinks our troops are the best.
[Bachmann clip]
Will McAvoy: Presidential candidate Herman Cain wil not apologize for having the biggest, baddest, greatest military on the planet.
[Cain clip]
Will McAvoy: Presidential candidate Mitt Romney would like the rest of us to support the troops even more than we already do.
[Romney clip]
Will McAvoy: And presidential candidate Rick Santorum marvels, as we all do, at the selfless act of volunteering to serve in a time of war.
[Santorum clip]
Will McAvoy: Stephen Hill is a decorated captain in the US Army, where he's been a reservist for twenty years. He is, this very night, serving in combat in Iraq, as he was last night, when he asked this question via YouTube at the GOP debate in Orlando, Florida:
Capt. Stephen Hill: [clip] In 2010 when I was deployed to Iraq, I had to lie about who I was because I'm a gay soldier and I didn't want to lose my job. My question is, under one of your presidencies, do you intend to circumvent the progress that's been made for gay and lesbian soldiers in the military?
[boos from crowd at debate]
Will McAvoy: That was a big room full of Republican primary voters booing an American combat soldier who, as he was speaking, was in combat. The audience members who were booing were in Orlando. Soon, they'll surely be in hell, though not soon enough. Not everyone was booing: there were people in the audience who heard Captain Hill say that when he was deployed to Iraq, he was worried that if his sexuality was discovered, they might not let him go, as opposed to most of us, who, if told we were being deployed to Iraq, would go Corporal Klinger faster than you could pull on a yellow taffeta picnic dress. I'm sure there were even some people in the building who stood up for Captain Hill, people who had the simple strength of character to turn to the fraction of a human in the seat next to them and say, "How many different kinds of disgusting do you have to be to boo a man who volunteered to fight and die for you?" I'm sure those people were there. I'm sure there were many of them. But unfortunately, none of them were on the stage. Not one of these would-be Commanders-in-Chief took a moment to stand with a line officer. They let him stand alone. Soldiers never do that. Leaders never do that. Witless bullies and hapless punks do it all the time. The only President on the stage last night was Stephen Hill. Godspeed, Captain Hill, and come home soon. A grateful nation is waiting to say, "Thank you." That's News Night for September twenty-third. Terry Smith is up next with the Capitol Report. I'm Will McAvoy. Good night.
- ConnectionsReferences The Godfather (1972)
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- Runtime58 minutes
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- 16:9 HD