Poor Josh
Updated 2005-10-06 17:00:00
This is how to do a campaign episode. Santos is on the road, finding some success with a new economic message. And then the White House announces that it's shutting down its own investigation of the shuttle leak, giving Vinick a chance to paint the Democrats as soft on security. Janeane Garafolo shows up as a media consultant who has some (professional) history with Josh, and a whole different set of ideas about how the campaign should be run. Josh gets over his own ego long enough to get Santos to hire her as Communications Director. We then learn that Santos has been called up for his annual Marine Corps Reserve duty, and that Santos and Helen broke a hotel bed while they were up to some shenanigans. The rest of the episode is filled with serious, interesting, and amusing discussion over how to manage the different messages that come from all of these events. Shocking, I know. In the end, by combining the ideas of Josh, Janeane, and Santos, they are able to turn a losing day into a winning one, and Santos asserts himself (again) as the leader of his own campaign. Oh, and Greg Brock is going to prison because he refuses to name his source to a grand jury.