The brothers Emanuel

Rahm Emanuel is the basis for the character Josh Lyman on the West Wing; Ari Emanuel is the basis for the character Ari Gold on Entourage; and Ezekiel Emanuel is a big shot doctor who so far remains untapped as an inspiration for a fictional character. Oh: and they're all sharp-elbowed, abrasive assholes who get results, dammit. I ran into this Charlie Rose interview and found it pretty entertaining:



Also, my favorite Rahm quote that I've seen so far:

Emanuel is dramatic, impatient and profane, willing to speak truth to power in the crudest terms and the most difficult moments, as in the heat of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

"You got it backwards," Emanuel, who is Jewish, reportedly told Clinton at the time. "You messed around with a Jewish girl, and now you're paying a goyish lawyer. You should have messed around with a goyishe girl, and gotten a Jewish lawyer."

Hah!