President-Elect Barack Obama has asked Illinois Representative Rahm Emanuel to be his Chief of Staff, which for those of you who know nothing about politics, is a job that goes something like this: he'll be advising the President on who to have meetings with, brokering deals with the Congress, and shouting epithets at his homosexual assistant, who he's secretly in love with.
Oh, wait, that last one might not be true, but it's an easy mistake to make, since not only was Rahm Emanuel -- who earned his stripes as a Clinton advisor in the '90's -- the basis for Bradley Whitford's character on The West Wing, but he's also the brother of Ari Emanuel, the real-life Hollywood agent that Marky Mark modeled Ari Gold after on Entourage. And just so's ya know: the real-life Emanuel family makes Josh and Ari look pretty damned reserved.
Don't believe us? Click through for a peek at what we mean -- including a particularly satisfying confrontation between Rahm and newly deposed U.S. Senator Elizabeth Dole.
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