Election 2008: This Season’s Best New Show
January 14th, 2008
The NY Times ran a story today talking about how the Hollywood writer’s strike has been the best thing for CNN’s election coverage since… well, since a woman and an African-American man became the front runners for the Democratic presidential nomination.
According to the NY Times,
“This one is special,” he said. “You have the Clintons, a powerful dysfunctional family — remember they were the ones that spoofed ‘The Sopranos’ — you have this out of nowhere handsome stranger in Obama that is straight out of ‘Heroes.’ John McCain, left for dead in a previous episode, roars back to life, and Mitt Romney, who is a dead ringer for John Forsythe. And I am not the first to point out that Mike Huckabee is Jim Nabors.
“And then it all ends in this amazing ‘American Idol’ big episode on Super Tuesday. How can you not watch that? My wife had some minor surgery the other day and the nurse asked her if she wanted to just lay there in the recovery room and rest a little bit. And she said, ‘No thanks, I have to get home and watch ‘The Situation Room.’ ”
All of this is great, but what are we going to do after the season finale on Super Tuesday?
Please, Mayor Bloomberg, enter the race and keep the show going until November!
Leave a Reply