RITCHIE: Oh. Crime. Boy, I don’t know.

BARTLET: [sighs] We should have a great debate, Rob. We owe it to everyone. When I was running as a governor, I didn’t know anything. I made them start Bartlet college in my dining room. Two hours every morning on foreign affairs and the military. You can do that.

RITCHIE: How many different ways you think you’re gonna find to call me dumb?

BARTLET: I wasn’t, Rob. But you’ve turned being un-engaged into a Zen-like thing, and you shouldn’t enjoy it so much is all, and if it appears at times as if I don’t like you, that’s the reason why.

RITCHIE: You’re what my friends call a superior sumbitch. You’re an academic elitist and a snob. You’re, uh, Hollywood, you’re weak, you’re liberal, and you can’t be trusted. And if it appears from time to time as if I don’t like you, well, those are just a few of the many reasons why.

(”Hail to the Chief ” starts to play in the background)

BARTLET: They’re playing my song…. In the future, if you’re wondering, “Crime. Boy, I don’t know” is when I decided to kick your ass.

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Dave mentions this exchange in regard to him getting advice on how to move MP3’s onto an iPod for his PodCatcher. Of course, everyone is telling him that iTunes does that job pretty well. Un-huh.

But Dave needs to control the end device. Been there. Done that. Remember Adam Curry and his Applescript hack? The solution then was written by Andrew Grumet in python. And some guys in Europe in Java. And by Apple with iTunes.

iTunes controls that target and they can change the application, the firmware and anything else and it’s a moving target.

Anyway, I guess Dave is the Republican in this case dealing with smart-ass Mac Users.

It is hard when you just want the “ANSWE*R” to your current problem and everyone insists on giving you useless advice. Been there. Done that.

How about you?

Maybe we fixed him with our warm regards and gentle persuasion.

Ok… let me have it.

Connolly rips the shit out of people from his Chapel pen name. James Robertson found this out recently.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nakedjen/sets/72157594373172738/

It’s a flaw I share with him.

She describes her new blog as “A Naked Journal of the PR Business,” and includes a naked (if carefully posed) photo.

She calls herself Strumpette . And plenty of smart people are trying to figure out who she is, especially after reading her bio. Under the name Amanda Chapel, it says: “I have 15 plus years experience in marketing communications . . . I am 5′ 4″ tall, athletic, Pantene shoulder-length black hair, perfect perky boobs. I present well and am most accomodating. I’ve slept with clients. I sleep with my boss. I am the consummate PR strumpette.”With a mix of industry news, gossip, criticism and sex items, Strumpette.com sprinkles high-toned dissections of the flaws and foibles of the PR business with personal insults and the occasional expletive. Strumpette’s posts are quite pugnacious, under such headlines as “PR Mega-Firm’s CEO Caught in Big Lie,” “Exposing the Communist Blogifesto” and “Word-of-Mouth Marketing: Viagra for the PR Business.”

“amandachapel : I think Dave Winer should get an award for utilizing Twitter for something meaningful. Seriously. I look forward to his tweets.”

It looks like this was posted right after the exchange you quoted.

I’m quite enjoying the tweetscan service, there’s some discussion of how dave is like Norm and scoble is like Cliff Claven.