Communications and optics crisis inside the West Wing: Josh, C.J., Toby and the communications team scramble to contain the fallout from Bartlet's offhand joke and the Vice President/Hoynes exchange — a staff-vs.-press and staff-vs.-Vice-President stru...
Communications and optics crisis inside the West Wing: Josh, C.J., Toby and the communications team scramble to contain the fallout from Bartlet's offhand joke and the Vice President/Hoynes exchange — a staff-vs.-press and staff-vs.-Vice-President struggle over message control and institutional credibility.
Events in This Arc
Toby emerges from his office into a terse, urgent exchange with C.J. as she delivers bad news: multiple guests have refused White House invitations. Toby cycles from disbelief to incredulous …
In a brisk hallway exchange, levity (Donna's $100 college-pool jab) collides with panic: Josh frantically frames recent gaffes as a reputational emergency and demands a media fix. Toby plays the …
At a crowded, camera-lit reception Hoynes brusquely rebuffs C.J.'s attempt to contain a damaging quote. C.J. approaches apologetically and tries to thread a political fix, but Hoynes repeatedly talks over …