'Howdy Dick! Ya workin' hard or ya hardly workin'?'
-Best news I've heard all day-
TVWeek recently polled bookers and schedulers of TV News shows and listed all "gets." A "get" is TV-speak for a guest that'll get people to tune in, but is very hard to get to the set. They then categorized the gets -- i.e., Best Get, Hardest to Get, Sure to Make the Most News, etc.
Top "Hardest to Get" was VP Dick Cheney. That's right, The Big Dick. Why was Dick so hard to get? Is he too preoccupied building his death ray? Too busy thinking up new ways to torture people? Too distracted by those meddling kids?
According to one respondent, Dick's mindset is similar to a kid's the day before summer vacation. "He doesn’t give a shit. He’s checked out," the respondent said. "I don’t know what he does all day."
Of course, one reason why the unnamed booker may not know what Cheney does all day is because he refuses to tell anyone. But the bigger news here is that The Big Dick's playing mental hookie and not doing his work (whatever that is). Whatever evil he thinks it's his duty to do, he's lying down on the job and not doing it.
This is like finding out that Lex Luthor's bored with enriching kryptonite. I just couldn't be happier. (TVWeek, via Think Progress)
-She's tenacious-
But not in a good way. Don Asmussen's great mix-and-match news strip, Bad Reporter, takes on Hillary and the dem primary:
Click for full strip
Also featuring Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean, waterboarding, and a three year old who wants to see a white president elected in his lifetime. (San Francisco Gate)
-And she's stupid-
Veteran journalist Carl Bernstein warns of a possible "October surprise in May" by Team Clinton against Barack Obama.
"[T]he Clinton campaign's search for damaging information and its hope that such information exists continues, according to knowledgeable sources," Carl tells us. Bernstein is speculating on the possibility that Clinton's looking to force herself on Obama as VP -- an opinion that few others share. If she's not trying to blackmail herself into position as a running mate, then that means she's willing to throw away her party's chances of a win in November to become the nominee.
Kind of a pyrrhic victory, don't you think? Besides, she found Rev. Wright and that barely made a dent. At this point, she needs to find Obama in bed with a freakin' monkey.
Even her plan B is hopelessly unrealistic. (CNN)
