The Newsroom: The Best of Charlie Skinner

I was in a bar in Danang just now 1969 I was embedded with a hundred and forty fourth artillery for UPI and I was sitting there with a warm coke watching a beautiful Vietnamese woman doing an exotic dance right in the middle of everybody a beautiful beautiful woman and I thought to myself I will never know what it is to be with a woman like that and at that exact moment the woman spun twice teetered over and fell right into my lap that was a story about how sometimes things fall right into your lap at all I get that there are moments small moments infrequent moments where I'm not the easiest guy to work with but we the hell is I well it helps you're drunk most of the time it certainly does do me a favor it's more than a professional it's uncivilized more Nats unprofessional try not to make a scene a necklace in the countdown to your retirement from relevance alright when you called conservatives idiots and liberals losers that's not a bad reaction to vertical medicine did you just send that gift wrap to every command in the world I didn't have a lot of time to think you think maybe if you let me prep you for that you had a brand I remember ain't done I will beat the shit out of you I don't care how many protein bars you ate hey hey hey all right well what when was the last time you saw I don't know about three years ago coincidentally that's the last time you are a nice guy would you like another mr. Skinner yes please this is beautiful just sitting here Charlie I'm watching the news young lady get on your Twitter account we're doing this whole broadcast on the fly will doesn't have a rundown it's the e piece first job and she's got the whole thing in her head she's the only one who knows where we're going next it's a feat that requires incredible trust between the anchor and the EP say all that I can only use 140 characters figure it out did the White House call Gibbs wants to know what we know and how we know it we're not giving up the new guy hey the news alerts at red we got it right you got the spill right we don't know what we're doing with Halliburton we don't what's gonna hide you're a pussy you know I'm just not like he said the sorority girl is responsible for setting hemisphere on fire and give the internet an hour that's exactly what it'll say we said I'm too old to be governed by fear of dumb people I'm not you're older than you think don't learn that the hard way she's indifferent to ratings competition corporate concerns and generally speaking consequences good cuz you just described my job I'm Don Quixote can be Sancho she'll be Dulcinea and everyone out there is the horse donkey how did you know about that conversation I know everything anchors having an opinion isn't a new phenomena Murrow had one and that was the end of McCarthy Cronkite had one and that was the end of Vietnam I'm not those guys I'm betting all my money on you're wrong you know what kiddo in the old days of about ten minutes ago we did the news well you know how we just decided to well I fucking loved what you said at Northwestern and that's why I brought her here but he's the bad guy though if you call will a whore again I'm going to take out your teeth one punch at a time anything else no sir the newsroom turned into a courtroom briefs because I made the decision that American voters need a fucking lawyer I've been sitting here for two and a half hours and I still don't know why it's like being in the cast of a Fellini film does anybody mind if I start drinking a lot of bourbon right now and then a little while later put my fist through his head I think you've had enough bourbon for one lifetime not my lifetime do not come down on the cokes without checking upstairs do you understand get your finger out of my face Rhys look we stand for something it's a moral obligation get used to it well ah please hey leave Mac out of this I shout it now I'm burgess Meredith this guy he don't just wanna pitch sh t he wants to murder ya that was my best Burgess partner is there something here that's funny yeah we've been talking about Rocky Tony Jim yes sir smart people are gonna offer you jobs for more money before you take one talk to me okay that won't be an issue sir come have a drink with will and me oh thank you very much but it's pretty late and it's work night and I got at the inner little bit damn newsman would you yes sir Rhys why don't you give us a minute he can stay Rhys get the fuck out how would you like me to respond to your unfiltered contempt for my son by telling him to get a paper route look pal what the hell is his job anyway president of this company yeah I don't know what that means it means he's gonna have my job one day please please let me be dead by then where's that how are we you tell Leona but if she wants me out of this chair she better be more than just a couple of guys that's exactly what I'll fucking tell her I'm not fucking around Charlie fucking seal

Channel: DrSwarly

Views: 738,835

Rating: 4.859705 out of 5

Keywords: Sam, Waterston, The, Newsroom, Jeff, Daniels, Charlie, Skinner, HBO, drunk, news, Aaron, Sorkin

Id: DRhW21Im7p0

Length: 5min 53sec (353 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 23 2012

Reddit Comments

[u/livejamie]

"I'M A MARINE, DON, I WILL BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF YOU, I DON'T CARE HOW MANY PROTEIN BARS YOU EAT!!"

[u/RightWingersSuck]

Needs to be update with season 2.

[u/Acefighter66]

Love Charlie. Easily my favorite non-Will Character on the show. I probably only like Will more because I see more of him.

[u/[deleted]]

"I'm too old to be governed by fear of dumb people." - Charlie Skinner

[u/littlebev]

I really wish we could've heard his theories on coming home from Mars

[u/manofsteele12]

What episode was him offering a drink with Jim from? I don't remember that.

[u/wornmedown]

I love his eyebrows and bow ties. :>

[u/V2Blast]

He is one of the best characters on the show.

[u/ccupini]

My favorite character by miles. If there's spin off of him in a nursing home organizing bingo night and shouting at the staff, I'll pay $100 for the BluRay