The Politico reports an embarrassing moment for New York's junior senator:
"Vice President [*****] Cheney came up to see the Republicans
yesterday. You can always tell when the Republicans are getting
restless, because the Vice President's motorcade pulls into the
Capitol, and Darth Vader emerges," Hillary Clinton said.
Oh dear, where to begin? Obviously Mrs. Clinton has never watched "Star Wars,"
or she wouldn't have likened her political foe to Darth Vader, who is the
coolest character in the entire series. (The first two prequels are
unwatchable, as is the third, except for the final 45 minutes, when Vader
finally arrives on the scene.)
Worse, by raising the issue, she invites unflattering comparisons of herself
to various "Star Wars" characters: Princess Leia, Senator Palpitane, Greedo,
the Jawas--you can think of others.
Mrs. Clinton's advantage in the Democratic primaries is supposed to be that
she is more seasoned and experienced than Barack Obama and John Edwards. Watch
for them to capitalize on this Wookiee mistake.
On another sci-fi front, a pair of liberal broadcasters are fighting over a
joke:
Cenk Uygur of Air America's morning show "The Young Turks"
insisted on his program Wednesday that Colbert used his joke
on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report." Uygur posted a video
on YouTube comparing his joke--which he claims he first told
on his Sept. 7 radio program--with a segment that aired on "The
Colbert Report" four days later.
In both jokes, Uygur and Colbert suggest that the Republican
presidential candidates sounded like Klingons from "Star Trek"
while speaking about the value of honor.
It looks to us, though, as if they both stole the idea from Vivian Martin [1].
[1]: http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110002354#viv
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The trouble with American journalism, in short, isn't that it's too skeptical,
but that it's too willing to throw skepticism to the wind when it suits the
agenda of proclaiming every war a Vietnam and every Republican president a
Nixon.
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