"You Don't Know Dick": A very quick fun fact about Dick Cheney to help you decide what to get him for Christmas... He wants a silver deathbox. And I can't believe I'm half-defending Cheney, but, in all fairness, he didn't actually say, "Damn, I need one of those"... He said he thought it. That's a fairly significant difference."Indecision v. 2.008: Food Edition": Presidential candidates have been using teh interwebz to share their stories from the campaign trail. I'm not gonna lie, this segment made me really, really hungry. Although, that bit about John Edwards and his wife celebrating their 30th anniversary at a Wendy's left me more confused than peckish. Yeah, you're a normal all-American guy, Edwards, we get it. A normal all-American millionaire Senator guy.
"Clusterfuck to the White House": Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are still attacking each others' campaign, causing the media to have a little too much fun with their fighting metaphors. CNN's American Morning has also been getting a little over-excited, promising the most stories per hour. This seemed like a kind of random thing to talk about... I guess they needed to fill up time, since it looked like all the correspondents took the day off. Where did they go?!
The night's guest was Matt Damon, star of the Bourne movies. I got all excited during the Bourne Ultimatum clip because I recognized Damon's co-star as one of the dudes from Hot Fuzz. Is that pathetic? Yes, it probably is. Damon was an excellent guest, throwing in his own jokes every once in a while and making the life of a handsome action star look really easy. Am I the only one that doesn't hate Death to Smoochy as much as Jon does? He seems to absolutely loathe that film, but I thought it was kind of... interesting. At least Jon's hair was cool in that movie.
Moment of Zen: Barack Obama and dinner guests giggle over Lil' Bush. I'm not sure why... It's kind of a crappy show.
Giveaway Thursday: Tickets to the New York Television Festival ... all of it!
I miss the media-friendly John McCain - VIDEOS
Giveaway Wednesday: Supernatural, season three
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8-03-2007 @ 2:11AM
Zach said...
I heard Edwards' wife on an NPR show back in June saying that they go to Wendy's for every anniversary. I think it was because he proposed to her at a Wendy's. You can debate whether it is childish (I think so) but it is not a publicity stunt.
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8-03-2007 @ 3:18PM
Karen said...
Zach is correct. This is a long-standing tradition of theirs, done for every anniversary. I'm not sure if it's because that's where the proposal took place--I thought I remembered that they were so poor when they were first married that they did have to celebrate their first anniversary at a Wendy's, and then they just ran with it.
Whatever. I was a little disappointed that Jon let the story run as if they really were doing it as a stunt; that makes the Daily Show no better than the lousy media outlets they're always excoriating.
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8-05-2007 @ 8:24AM
Bob said...
Well, they have been doing it for 30 years, but they sure like to publicize it whenever there's an election. The publicized their Wendy’s date during the ’04 election. If it’s really that special to them, I’m sure they could have left the media at home. Jon may have been mocking their date, but he was also mocking the fact that every appearance by a candidate looks overly scripted, awkward, and disingenuous.
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