FREAK FACTOR. On MSNBC, Juliette Kayyem was yakking with Keith Olbermann about the terrorist threat involving Boston. Dirty bombs, radiation, blah, blah, blah. You know what? If we're going to die, we're going to die.
So I switched to CNN, where Anderson Cooper, doing party duty, was interviewing Don King. Much better. If TV coverage of inauguration day has been lacking anything, it's the freak factor. I had hoped E! would have Joan Rivers yowling outside the parties, but no such luck. Right now, the E!'s showing some horrible program on Jerry Lewis. So Don King's as good as it gets.
King, whose hair isn't nearly the conversation piece that it used to be, was wearing a tux and more chains than a prisoner at Abu Ghraib. He praised Bush - or, as he referred to him about 15 times, "George Walker Bush." He compared him to Abraham Lincoln. He praised "No Child Left Behind, which is so vitally important." Hmmm ... is King getting any of that Department of Education money?
"You're the man, Anderson Cooper," King said, certainly the first time anyone has said that.
King also called himself a "Republicrat," a word that had Paula Zahn puzzled. "I don't think I've ever heard that phrase before," she said. Obviously she's never listened to Ralph Nader. Lucky woman!
2 comments:
Is Pierce, Jeb's son: George P.W.Bush? I'm still waiting for him to "let the eagle soar" and enlist at a Miami Beach recruiting station.
If not, maybe the twins will go Hemingwayesque on us and become ambulance drivers in Bagdad. I hear they like fast vehicles. I not holding my breath.
So about this dirty bomb threat in Boston - Where is the Orange Alert? Three months ago, all that was necessary for DHS to raise the alert level was a bad performance by Bush in a debate - no specifics, no suspects, no be-on-the-lookout, no nothin' - just "Look over there, ORANGE ALERT!"
Where are all the pundits that screamed "wag the dog" about Clinton?
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