Scott Van Pelt has lunch with Minnesota Twins star, The Fragile One (a.k.a. Joe Mauer), but Scott can’t get anything right when talking to a true Minnesotan. Found at YouTube from WhozYourPaddy via @RobertStanke.
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Dave Foley, the comedian famous from Kids in the Hall and NewsRadio, appeared on Keith Olbermann‘s show last night and, after being shocked at how old he looks, I was even more dumbstruck when it dawned on me that he looks exactly like conservative South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham. Ironic, huh? One’s a funny liberal and the other is a sourpuss conservative.
The following is a photo of Lindsay Graham; in the subsequent video clip from Olbermann’s show, modern-day Foley appears about half-way through.
Found at YouTube from PoliticsNewsNews.
Just sayin…
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This is breathtaking. Form Saturday Night Live star Victoria Jackson is so crazy even Fox News is uncomfortable with her rantings.
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Are jilted Green Bay Packers’ fans virtually stalking Brett Favre? From a comment on a story about the Vikings at StarTribune.com:
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Doesn’t this just say it all? If there’s no news to report on Brett Favre‘s decision to join the Minnesota Vikings, report that there’s no news to report so you have something to write about.
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ESPN’s interviewing a teenager who catches for Brett Favre, supposedly because of the kid’s keen insight into Favre’s throwing mechanics. Seriously.
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You thought this was over? Silly person.
While the Rick Schwartz‘s Yahoo Sports report that Favre had decided to remain retired was widely reported, given Brett Favre‘s history, many were skeptical. It’s a wonder the Yahoo Sports report wasn’t dismissed outright with a chuckle and a dismissive plllllleeeeeze.
Unsurprisingly, Yahoo Sports’ Michael Silver comes to colleague Rick Schwartz‘s defense by painting Favre as unpredictable. Well, that’s low-hanging fruit. But it’s wrong. At this point, Favre’s media manipulations are entirely predictable.
ESPN countered with the Favre Xrays being sent to Vikings headquarters at Winter Park:
And, thus, the Brett Favre saga was set in motion once again. But former Strib and current ESPN.com writer Kevin Seifert is throwing up his hands over the story:
This story has spun totally out of control, and I’m not sure if I can make reasonable sense out of it anymore. Schaap’s report suggests Favre’s medical records were sent to the Vikings ON THE SAME DAY that a Yahoo! Sports story reported that Favre told coach Brad Childress he doesn’t want to play in 2009.
The NFL Network’s Total Access claims, defensively, “We really have no choice but to bring you the back and forth developments.”
Meanwhile, there’s unrest among the Minnesota media.
At the Star Tribune, columnist Patrick Reusse devotes column space to the obvious: Brett Favre is manipulating the media to shine the spotlight on himself. Fellow columnist Sid Hartman goes into full We Don’t Need ‘Em mode by focusing on Sage Rosenfels. And beat writer Judd Zulgad, in order to pressure the team to issue some definitive statements, unleashes the fans on the Vikings by opening up blog comments on the topic.
On the other side of the river, St. Paul Pioneer Press columnist Tom Powers rails against the tight-lipped Vikings, fellow columnist Charley Walters says the Vikes look bad in this Favre saga, and beat writer Rick Alonzo filed the It Ain’t Over Yet story with a quote from Vikings Middle Linebacker E.J. Henderson:
“I think it’s good to have that resolution so we can just move on and focus on us, and focus on getting ready for the season without all these outside distractions,” said linebacker E.J. Henderson after the Yahoo! Sports report. “I definitely think it’s good to have a resolution, if there is one. But who knows what the personnel guys, and the guys we’ve got upstairs, what they’re going to end up doing?”
WCCO TV’s Mike Max says things are still hot and heavy between Favre and the Vikings.
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This is video of John McCain‘s recent interview with the Des Moines Register’s editorial board, which asks some reasonable questions to which McCain does not respond well:
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Katie Couric interviews Sarah Palin:
Compare that to Tina Fey‘s parody of the interview. Sadly, there’s really not a lot of difference between the two:
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During a discussion on This Week this morning about the Hillary Clinton campaign, ABC News reporter Claire Shipman cited poll numbers showing that 66% of Americans were happy with the job President Bill Clinton did, that a majority thought Hillary would chart a different course than her husband, and that was okay, and they felt comfortable with Bill back in the White House.
"Everyone was talking about Clinton Fatigue," Shipman said.
No. You were talking about Clinton Fatigue. You, and all of your Beltway journalism colleagues.
This is one of my absolute biggest annoyances with national political reporting: The herd mentality. It was clear to me from the start that when I kept hearing these DC political pundits saying that the country has got Clinton Fatigue, what they were really saying was that they had Clinton Fatigue.
So the national press ran with it; it was an assertion that was bandied about as if it were fact but unsupported by any facts.
There are plenty of national political reporters who do a fine job but they are all creatures of their own environment and therefore susceptible to it. The fact that Clinton Fatigue was a major theme in the reporting of the presidential race for quite some time, illustrates just how insular the DC press has become.
Who, after all, do the national political correspondents talk to all day? Themselves and their inside-the-beltway sources. They live in a rhetorical echo chamber that is often far removed from the sentiment of the rest of the country.
Turns out, according to these recent poll numbers, there is no Clinton Fatigue. It never existed. Except in the collective mind of our national press corps.
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