The Newsroom2012

Taylor Warren:
I have a number of questions.

Jim Harper:
I'll try to answer them with the same detail and honesty you've always answered mine.

Aubrey Lyons:
What were you doing on a Sex and the City tour bus to begin with?

Jim Harper:
My girlfriend at the time liked the show and I was showing an interest in her interests.

Taylor Warren:
And Maggie didn't know you were on the bus when she shouted that she loved you?

Jim Harper:
That's not what she shouted.

Taylor Warren:
And she didn't know someone was filming it?

Jim Harper:
No.

Taylor Warren:
So it was kind of a gaffe?... Life and death and you guys can't get past "corporations are people".

Jim Harper:
How fast are we supposed to get past "Hispanics should self-deport" or "I'm not concerned with the very poor"?

Taylor Warren:
"There's a safety net there" was the end of that sentence, and plainly his concern is with the middle class.

Jim Harper:
The middle class are the very poor.

Aubrey Lyons:
The better point is we don't need clean air and water regulations. We don't need FEMA. We don't need antitrust laws. We don't need the IRS or the Department of Education or the Federal Reserve. We need freedom.

Neal Sampat:
What the f*** did you just say?

Aubrey Lyons:
If you listen to Ron Paul

Neal Sampat:
I have. He's a batty old crank who wrote instruction manuals on how to get away with shooting the black kid who's stealing your car. He's not Betty White.

Aubrey Lyons:
He didn't write those letters.

Neal Sampat:
Yes, he did. And then he signed them and then he charged money for them. So I don't give a sh*t if he wants to legalize weed. I can already dial the phone and have an ounce delivered to this table before the check comes.

Hallie Shea:
Then for God's sake do it.

Jim Harper:
The check will never come.

Taylor Warren:
They won't let Romney get his message out, either.

Jim Harper:
Someone should tell him if he wants to get his message out, he should consider appearing on a network where the entire audience isn't already voting for him and that if he's gonna be the businessman president, he should run on his business record instead of pretending he's never heard of it and that if faith is important to his good works and personal narrative, he shouldn't be afraid it'll creep us out.

Taylor Warren:
It's been suggested.

Jim Harper:
And?

Taylor Warren:
I was fired. I was fired tonight.