# West Wing Ad: Best PSA I have ever seen! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 20, 2012, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-wing-ad-best-psa-i-have-ever-seen/635281 "2012-09-20T16:31:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-wing-ad-best-psa-i-have-ever-seen/635281/1 "2012-09-20T16:31:22Z")
And I have never seen West Wing, plus I _really_ hate political ads. But this is great!! > **['West Wing' Cast Reunites for One Candidate](https://mashable.com/archive/west-wing-reunites-video)** > > 'West Wing' Cast Reunites for One Candidate ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-wing-ad-best-psa-i-have-ever-seen/635281/2 "2012-09-20T16:39:28Z")
I miss _West Wing_ so much. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-wing-ad-best-psa-i-have-ever-seen/635281/3 "2012-09-20T16:54:09Z")
Well, technically, it’s not really a PSA. It’s a full-on political ad for Michigan Supreme Court candidate Bridget Mary McCormack. I have to say, though, that this is the MOST EFFECTIVE POLITICAL AD _EVER_, in my opinion, as it is the only political ad to ever move me to vote for a person that I had basically no knowledge of beforehand, and therefore very little motivation to vote for. This ad worked, she now has my vote. Politically, my views are pretty-much in line with Sheen’s, so if he’s on board with BMM, then she’s all right in my book. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-wing-ad-best-psa-i-have-ever-seen/635281/4 "2012-09-20T16:57:34Z")
Three things: 1. That was awesome. 2. Is this a real ad for some campaign? 3. The modern oval office lacks gravitas. and, Is this an Apocalypse Now?? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-wing-ad-best-psa-i-have-ever-seen/635281/5 "2012-09-20T17:01:28Z")
[QUOTE=President Bartlet] Is this an apocalypse now? [/QUOTE] 😛 eta:rats, I’m too slow! ---
**Author:** ![Abortion\_Fanatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/76d3ee/32.png) [@Abortion\_Fanatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abortion_Fanatic)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-wing-ad-best-psa-i-have-ever-seen/635281/6 "2012-09-20T18:23:16Z")
Janel Maloney looks very, very buxom, am I wrong? I see she had a baby a few years ago, but wow. Also, I want to be Allison Janney when I grow up. Though gaining another foot in height seems unlikely, I’d take the “apparently not aging whatsoever”. ---
**Author:** ![Dob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Dob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dob)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-wing-ad-best-psa-i-have-ever-seen/635281/7 "2012-09-20T18:50:53Z")
oh man…nostalgic waves rolling in… loved that spot. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-wing-ad-best-psa-i-have-ever-seen/635281/8 "2012-09-20T19:53:04Z")
I thought Bradley Whitford was the only one who didn’t look just like their West Wing days. Cool ad. StG ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-wing-ad-best-psa-i-have-ever-seen/635281/9 "2012-09-20T19:54:29Z")
> [@StGermain](#): > > I thought Bradley Whitford was the only one who didn’t look just like their West Wing days. > > Cool ad. > > StG No Rob Lowe, though. Too busy running for re-election in Orange county? I was hoping, just a little, that Mrs Landingham would show. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-wing-ad-best-psa-i-have-ever-seen/635281/10 "2012-09-20T20:36:43Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > No Rob Lowe, though. Too busy running for re-election in Orange county? I was hoping, just a little, that Mrs Landingham would show. She’s dead in real life now too, unfortunately. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-wing-ad-best-psa-i-have-ever-seen/635281/11 "2012-09-20T20:54:55Z")
> [@fiddlesticks](#): > > She’s dead in real life now too, unfortunately. ☹ _And_, dammit, I was too sentimental to have her in the Death Pool. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-wing-ad-best-psa-i-have-ever-seen/635281/12 "2012-09-20T23:15:00Z")
> [@fiddlesticks](#): > > She’s dead in real life now too, unfortunately. ☹ Damn. ☹ I think I might have known that… ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-wing-ad-best-psa-i-have-ever-seen/635281/13 "2012-09-21T00:02:21Z")
WOW! That was dynamite! I miss The West Wing so much… The Newsroom doesn’t even come _close_. \ I love that President Martin Sheen put his jacket on in that weird way of his at the end. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-wing-ad-best-psa-i-have-ever-seen/635281/14 "2012-09-21T00:48:35Z")
Actually, I did think of it as a PSA. From the sounds of it, there ARE people who don’t realize that voting a straight party line won’t cover all the bases. I know I was one of them in college, hehe. Got to the end of my first ballot and was like “What is all this?” ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-wing-ad-best-psa-i-have-ever-seen/635281/15 "2012-09-21T00:49:09Z")
Wow, how did they ever get this ad done? All those characters are owned by the tv network. It was a great ad. Loved the way Josh pointed out the split voting section on the ballot. Thats so much like what they did on the show. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-wing-ad-best-psa-i-have-ever-seen/635281/16 "2012-09-21T00:59:57Z")
I can’t believe how easily they fell back in their characters. ---
**Author:** ![ASanders](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asanders/32/3367_2.png) [@ASanders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASanders)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-wing-ad-best-psa-i-have-ever-seen/635281/17 "2012-09-21T01:07:17Z")
Oh that was brilliant! I hope this is the start of a thing. Having TV characters do political ads would be a huge relief. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-wing-ad-best-psa-i-have-ever-seen/635281/18 "2012-09-21T01:07:41Z")
This reminded me of an idea I had a while back for some guerrilla-style, amateur campaign videos comprised completely of wisdom, insight, and “zinger” clips from The West Wing. That show had a unique way of making certain complex political issues much easier to grasp for people who aren’t politicians or policy wonks. There’s a whole lot of material to work with, and some of the issues they dealt with back then are even more in the forefront of politics today. Someone with more video-editing ability (and motivation) than me really oughta take that idea and run with it. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-wing-ad-best-psa-i-have-ever-seen/635281/19 "2012-09-21T01:11:46Z")
I understand there are two versions- one to endorse the judicial candidate who happens to be the sister of a cast member and another straight PSA with no endorsement. ---
**Author:** ![Santos\_L\_Halper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/santos_l_halper/32/1_2.png) [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-wing-ad-best-psa-i-have-ever-seen/635281/20 "2012-09-21T01:35:10Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Wow, how did they ever get this ad done? All those characters are owned by the tv network. What characters? They’re just a bunch of people talking about voting. I didn’t see any suggestion any of them were playing some characters from some no-longer-running tv show. 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-wing-ad-best-psa-i-have-ever-seen/635281.md?page=2)