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Wednesday’s tie: This one? Maybe? I shall call it “burnt sienna.”

Segue Music: Bruce Springsteen, Leap of Faith and if anyone can identify the “Bushed” segue music, you win a very special prize of absolutely nothing.

Worst Person in the World: Bill-O, continuing to argue that the government has a legal authority to use waterboarding. And it works!!! Sixty percent of the time it works every time!!!

5. In spite of the fact that evidence (including, say… tapes) of prisoner mistreatment was ordered by not one but two federal district court judges to be preserved in June and July of 2005, intelligence agencies destroyed said tapes in November of 2005. CIA director Hayden admitted that he was aware of the existence of these tapes approximately a year and a half ago, but only after they had been destroyed (and before he took over at Central Intelligence). Poor Richard Wolffe has to hang out at Christmas parties at Dick Cheney’s house. And John Dean laments the rise of the conservative media (your FOX Newses and your Bill O’Reilly’s) who condone this kind of behavior and make other American’s think it’s ok. Perhaps if they’d been around during Watergate, the Nixon administration would have turned out much differently.

4. According to Missouri Senator Kit Bond, waterboarding is a lot like doing the backstroke. Right. And this is like riding Bumper Cars. And Presidential Candidate (?) Duncan Hunter says that Gitmo is a little bit like Club Med. Well, naturally. Meanwhile, AG Mukasey still hasn’t decided how he feels about waterboarding, in spite of the fact that laws, the Geneva Convention, Army Training Manuals and common sense all would seem to indicate that it’s torture. Rachel Maddow is a little confused: it’s not torture when we do it, but when the Japanese do it during World War II, it’s eeevil and torture and we need to prosecute them for WAR CRIMES!!!

Bushed: Blackwater officials are quietly retiring, Dana Perino forgot there was a civil case in the matter of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, and Alberto Gonzales was named “Lawyer of the Year” by the National Bar Association. No, seriously.

Oddball: Spiderpig makes an appearance in London. Having solved all other problems, the Japanese have created mice that are not afraid of cats. Speaking of cats (well, sort of), Tallulah Bankhead didn’t like panties.

3. OMGWTFBBQ, Alan Keyes. No. Seriously. Eugene Robinson was a little concerned he was having an acid flashback this afternoon, indicating that he was turning on, tuning in and dropping out as recently as 2000. Also, according to Rudy, everybody knew all about his creative accounting practices years ago. Eugene and Keith can feel sorry for Carolyn Washburn all they want, but I’ve read her paper, so I’ll call it karmic retribution.

2. Oh, hooray, it’s Barneycam! Barney and Miss Beazley are going to become junior park rangers. That’s… holiday-ish. Or… something.

1. Oh, Jesus Christ on Crutches. There’s some stuff with Britney. And Musto shows up, so I would imagine that there were some inappropriate remarks about Britney’s vagina and some awkward laughter. Not that I would know. Because I turned the damn channel. Insert inappropriate unfunny comment here. Haha.

No vaginas tonight. Actually MM was toned down, (for Musto), and therefore funnier.

I was just happy that Keith reconsidered taking the next two days off and decided to come in tomorrow!

Oh, Erin, you missed it by tuning out MUTSO (And I CAN understand that urge.)

He was very subdued again, and twice as he and Keith dropped obscure references on each other from All About Eve and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Musto murmured sadly, “and you’re straight”.

I have NO desire to follow up on or speculate on whatever that was about, but it was a bit of a golden moment.

I did hear/see the Republican “debate” today as I was putting bookcases together and wanted some background noise that was not Christmas carols.

I do not know their voices well enough to always know who was talking as the moderator tended to address them by titles instead of names, so I did sit to simply watch after a time. After that oddity, certainly including Alan Keyes who appeared to have been spliced in from a different event, I can only wonder what the Democrats will do tomorrow.

I then stayed tuned to MSNBC, and they had an interesting feature on Hardball on how the writers’ strike is affecting politics as the late night comics are not live and so are not skewering the candidates.
(Video available on the Hardball website)

One of the men on the panel, Aaron Barnhart of the Kansas City Star, was at MSNBC to interview Keith for an article on this and commented that at the moment Keith was the only one doing political humor and that his Worst Persons segment was a three minute political comedy skit.

He also appeared to be wearing one of Keith’s ties, making me wonder if he had been a last minute replacement.

Aaron Barnhart has frequently written about KO (a search of ERT pulls up 5 things of his) and said during the summer TCA that he wanted to get Keith on his podcast. Perhaps that podcast will be happening soon.

I did see the part with the All About Eve reference. I took that to be a reference to the fact that Joan Crawford is in All About Eve, Ms. Crawford being as much an icon to the gay community as Judy Garland. And Keith did make a fairly obscure reference from All About Eve. Or so I understand.

Even a subdued Musto is too much Musto.

Isn’t the Copacabana School of Dramatic Arts supposedly where Marilyn Monroe went to school in “All About Eve?” The joke being that the Copacabana is not a school, but a nightclub.

Chuck Knoblauch is on the list of players linked to steroids use. He’s the one who beaned Keith’s mother with a wild throw to first.

Actually, Joan Crawford was not in All About Eve, it was Bette Davis, and Eve was played by Anne Baxter, I think.

Yes, Red Toots, I also thought that that was a reference to where the Marilyn Monroe character was studying.

As I recall this was also Monroe’s first movie.

As you now know, Keith didn’t wear the orange tie last night, he wore it tonight. The one last night was new.

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