David Letterman and the Democrats
It seems like Democrats week on "The Late Show with David Letterman." First the late-night host brought in John Edwards on Tuesday for a little hair-tousling -- the kind of interchange that would have been a lot more entertaining if Edwards had Secret Service protection.
Tonight, Barack Obama gets the call, reading Letterman's Top Ten list. For you night-owl's who plan to watch it later, we hid the list after the jump. For those of you who plan to get a good night's sleep, click on through...
-- Scott Martelle
10. To keep the budget balanced, I'll rent the situation room for sweet sixteens.
9. I will double your tax money at the craps table.
8. Appoint Mitt Romney secretary of lookin' good.
7. If you bring a gator to the White House, I'll wrestle it.
6. I'll put Regis on the nickel.
5. I'll rename the tenth month of the year ''Barack-tober.''
4. I won’t let Apple release the new and improved Ipod the day after you bought the previous model.
3. I'll find money in the budget to buy Letterman a decent hairpiece.
2. Pronounce the word nuclear, nuclear.
1. Three words: Vice President Oprah.
Don Frederick has served as an editor helping guide coverage of every presidential election since 1984. He is a third-generation Washingtonian, so watching the political world comes naturally to him.
Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000.
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I was kinda hoping that the Oprah part of the Obama campaign was already done. Oh well. I often don't quite "get" the number-one spot on Dave's top-ten lists...4 and 10 are wordy, but 9 thru 5 were on a roll.
Speaking of wordy, did anyone read the NYTimes endorsement of HRC this morining? Ha ha ha ha ha. And HA! You know they had to endorse her, but the explanation is so troubled, so wishy-washy, and so haplessly self-rebutting, that the endorsement is drowned by its own weakness. Hooray to them for actually pointing out, in all fairness, all the reasons NOT to vote for her. But of course, it's a NY paper, so they felt they just had to do it. One can easily picture them closing their eyes, holding their noses, and pulling the lever.
Surely the Tribune of Chicago will respond, but will not have to twist and turn so much in reaching its conclusion, pro-Obama.
That leaves of course the LA Times. Once again, the Times of LA is thrust into the spotlight.
Posted by: Ronald Louio | January 25, 2008 at 07:01 AM