Bad Hasbara - The World's Most Moral Podcast - [TEASER] The "Gaza" episodes of The West Wing

Episode Date: December 14, 2025

On this weeks Patreon episode we are joined by Zach Foster and Vince Mancini for a look at two hilariously liberal zionist episodes of The West Wing, Listen to the full episode by joining Patreon!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/bad-hasbara/donationsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The skeet shooting in this episode is so funny because it is just doing the Sabra Man versus Diaspora Boy thing. I got to play that scene. It's just like, you know, what happens when a weak liberal Jew meets a strong? I was watching that being like, ugh, don't have them, don't have them fall down with a gun. I know. Don't do a full-on Looney Tunes Wiley Coyote take where he, where he arcs backward. Yeah. Oh no, my duck bill is now on the back of my neck. All right, here's that.

How long were you in the army? Oh, my ears. Every Israeli citizen is in the reserves. Your turn. You sure you know how to do this? I know back in Israel you play this game with cobra gunships, but I'm fine. You may not want to rest like this. You have to stand, you know, more firm.

Yeah, well, this is the way we do it. You have to meet the Kavmagra. Oh, I fell back when it's like, oh, you know me, always going like lambs to the slaughter. The gunpowder is irritating my throat. Hell yeah. He's just shooting, it's not shooting like a huge gun either. Yeah, it's skeet shooting. A regular skeet shotgun.

They're acting like this is a sniper rifle that killed Charlie Kirk. It's like, this is a fucking, it's a skeet. shooting i mean this is definitely coming from the liberal hollywood writers who were like oh i would faint if i saw a gun yeah yeah exactly i need my inhaler i need my inhaler okay i will go into the chamber this is how this is how this is how they look at us i swear to god and and it's like you know it's a running gag it's a self-effacing thing that a lot of american jews do the problem I have with it is not the self-effacing nature of it. The problem is

the presenting the Israeli as competent. That's a problem I have. I'm just like what do we do it here? Oh yeah I'll show you, you know, you have to stand firm to shoot the skeet. You have to imagine there's a teenage girl there. Yeah, I was just like

let me shoot. Oh no. The skeet, that baby somehow flew up there. I shouldn't have said pull and put the baby in there. that's my fault that's mine that's my bad I get putting a baby where the skits are all the clay pigeons have been replaced with babies all right

we shouldn't have ordered the clay babies oh anyways so there's a scene between reasonable Jew and annoying Jew and that what is it what is it like that's Josh and Toby Toby is, I think, like, senior communications director,

and Josh is deputy chief of staff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So whatever. Yeah, I tuned out while you were explaining their job. But, like, there's a scene between the two of them in which they are, they're arguing, you know, they're both being like the two different perspectives. that American Jews have. Here we go.

Here's that scene. You're not starting to buy what he's selling, too. He's a terrorist. With some legitimate grievances. Please. 1938, millions of men, women, and children running for their lives from gas chambers, tried to seek refuge in any country that would take them.

Nobody would, including America. So they settle in the middle of a region that still believes in public stonings and harems? Palestinians are the Jews of the Arab world. It is so funny to have those two lines back to back. Like, so they settle in the middle of a... It's just like, just going straight racist. Also, every line of male dialogue in this series is a guy wiping coke off his nose, grinding his teeth,

explaining his point of view to a sex worker.