The Newsroom Recap: Springtime for Cairo and Madison

Oh, mercy. They’re still at it. Mackenzie lets the room know Will cries “like an onion” at Rudy. Okay, she’s a replicant and her intelligence chip is deteriorating, right? She’s not a living, breathing human being. Will denies this then qualifies it that he cries at one scene. Gary asks if it’s the jersey scene and it’s male bonding a gogo as they all either mock Jim’s manhood for not seeing it (Will) or go around the room explaining the power and the glory of the jersey scene, replete with some mild homophobia from Mackenzie. Turns out they all cry because some football players turn in their jerseys for Rudy. See, I thought the big male tearjerker scenes were Kevin Costner playing catch with his hot, dead dad in Field of Dreams or Sonny Corleone’s last words to Lando Calrissian in Brian’s Song.

Luckily, Jim’s head wound, unlike every other head wound in the history of ever, finally starts bleeding and we’re allowed to move on. Mackenzie doesn’t know why they’re 18 days into the Egyptian uprising and still using pool feed that was also ‘licensed to NBC” despite Elliot being on the ground and only losing his cameras that day AND NBC having Richard Engel on the ground getting his own footage, not to mention the work of Al Jazeera English. Oops. Already did. It was dangerous but there were American and other English speaking journalists covering it. Just accept the internet and do a Google search, Sorkin.

Does he not have a pulse?

They still think it’s too dangerous for an American journalist so Mackenzie wants someone local who can shoot and cut his own footage and has credibility with both the protesters and media. Does she want him to bake a cherry pie, too? No, but she does smarm at Neal, who’s not a producer by the way, that he “lives” on the internet and wants to know if he knows of anyone. He does, but we won’t find out who because Charlie needs to talk to Will and Mackenzie while Maggie needs to clean Jim’s forehead because he can’t do it himself? Mr. Let-Me-Tell-You-How-to-Handle –Your-Anxiety can’t put on his own band aid?

Charlie’s gotten wind of another TMI article, this time about Wade considering a run for congress…for Anthony Weiner’s seat. HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA, sorry it’s still funny. He wants to know if Mackenzie knew. She did, but he was “just” considering it and she never once thought that, oh, I don’t know, it’s a breach of professional ethics to book her boyfriend as a guest on the show she produces. Now that she knows he’s been meeting with the DCCC about running she won’t have him on again. How is she this stupid and allowed to produce a show?

Charlie then uses this time to inform them how negatively the show’s been impacted by all these TMIstories. Will sloughs it off because he doesn’t think there is that much overlap between the two media (dick) but Charlie reads some other stat about the articles being “referenced or backlinked” in over 800,000 websites. Oh, Sorkin. Drama queen much? Then Will is flabbergasted that there are 800,000 websites. Because the internet is a series of tubes.

According to my Google Webmaster Tools, your leading search term is “Will McAvoy is a douchebag.”