Errors
While chastising C.J. for mixing up several historical events, Toby inaccurately says that Jamestown was settled in the 16th century.
When asked by President Bartlet to name the apostles, the Chinese Christian names eleven - Peter, Andrew, John, Phillip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew, Thaddeus, Simon, Judas and James. He neglects to note that there were two apostles named James.
When Sam and Josh are meeting with religious leader Al Caldwell over the state of religious persecution in China, Rev. Caldwell mispronounces Henan Province, China as "He Nane" instead of the correct "Huh Naan". Given that this episode is about saying shibboleth to prove you know what you are talking about, it is ironic that Caldwell would mispronounce Henan, proving that he actually knows very little about China.
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Famous quotes containing the word errors:
“Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It’s a remarkably shrewed and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)
“I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)