Is it really a debate without the podiums?
Heads up, Kerrycrats: Senators Kerry and McCain will be on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, um, this week.
It's sort of being billed as a debate - but I'm not falling for that, because I don't believe it's a debate if there are no podiums, opening statements, or a moderator.
I will be holding my usual Unofficial Handsome-Off in my head, and, while I don't want to spoil anything for anybody, I should
1. refer you to the promotional collage ABC is using:
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2. admit that JK has never lost the Unofficial Handsome-Off, even when paired against Jon Stewart, Keith Olbermann, or Stephen Colbert. But it seems premature to declare Senator McCain toast, in the handsome department, when such cockiness may lead to some inexplicable acts of Karma by which he grows a fantastic head of hair at the same exact time JK is severely, but temporarily, disfigured on the way to the TV studio.
But then, even disfigured JK would be for a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, and that will always be way more attractive than the lack thereof.
As I see it, the most likely possible wrench in the Handsome-Off will be Alan Alda getting lost on his way to one of the later segments.
And yes, I'm aware that the interview with Mr. Alda will probably have been pre-taped, and in, like, Long Island or something. But please let me hang onto the fantasy, at least until tomorrow morning, that AA and JK got to hang out backstage at This Week, next to the still, sipping oliveless martinis and cursing the war, and maybe even getting into a debate about how cute that democrafty girl is - I've met them both, so it is, however unlikely, theoretically possible.
Just don't ask me to stage an Unofficial Nice-Off between those two. That would take all damn day.
8 Comments:-
At 1:23 PM, Raelynne said...
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At 3:20 PM, democrafty said...
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At 4:27 PM, Raelynne said...
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At 6:12 AM, Kerryvisionary said...
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At 6:40 AM, democrafty said...
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At 5:10 PM, Kerryvisionary said...
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At 6:17 PM, democrafty said...
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At 5:03 AM, Kerryvisionary said...
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I run out of breath reading that. :D
In a good way, I hope!
Of course in a good way. :D
The oliveless martinis and the still certainly took every breath *I* had…
Oh, Hawkeye. Will you ever go out of style?
I just want to know whether George Stephanopoulos is Radar or Hot Lips in this scenario. Or possibly Charles Emerson Winchester the Third, but with hair?
KV, I hadn't thought about it prior, but now that you mention it, I'm sure he must be Radar. I would call Cokie Roberts Hot Lips in this scenario, and I'm going to need a moment to cast the rest of the panel - unless you have further input! ;)
It's too easy to make McCain Frank Burns, though he is weak-minded enough. For fun, I"ll make him Col. Flagg who could believe any number of impossible things before, during and after breakfast.
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