is it wrong to kick the ladies when they're down? yes, i'm talking about lizz and rachel again. this morning they confused senators harry reid and jack reed.
this wasn't just a slip of the tongue. a friend called me and said 'turn on unfiltered! they're so wrong it's funny!' so i listen and there's lizz talking about how harry reid voted against condi rice's nomination. and then it's skit time (to the tune of 'wind beneath my wings') and big brain's reading a list and let's us know "reid of nevada" voted against condi rice.
only problem is that he didn't.
jack reed voted against her, harry reid voted for her.
but harry got shout outs and a skit. and jack?
when the ladies finally realized their mistake (it was all over the unfiltered blog according to my friend, including before the skit started) after the commercial break, they did own up to it and i will give them credit for that.
but in owning up, they went on and on about how they correct and how other's don't and big brain pops off with her favorite part of the new york times is the corrections and starts into this long story about her favorite correction . . . but what does this have to do with jack reed being shortchanged?
all the others got praised at length and in skit. then it's back from commercial, "we made a mistake, here's why . . ." but no where was there any need to discuss jack reed.
so yes, the ladies did do a correction, but they might as well have ignored it considering how little attention they gave to jack reed.
and for a 55 year old man, jack reed's kind of cute. he's got nice eyes. he's got a sexy kind of senator thing going on. as of 2003, he had a 100% rating by naral so he's got some coolness going on. he's rated 95 by the lcv so he cares about the environment. no 1's record is perfect but he's taken brave votes before. and anyone voted 0% by the christian coalition is certainly date worthy.
and he probably should have gotten a little attention today once the gals realized their mistake.
mistakes happen and when my friend called me, i said 'they are talking on air and the last name is the same so it's easy to mean 1 person but think another' but my friend was saying 'turn it on.'
so i did and my excuse for the ladies flew out the window when they made the same mistake in a skit that was prepared. it's fine to make a mistake in conversation but the skit was prepared ahead of time.
and it's still fine to make a mistake and give the gals credit for owning up to it.
but i was just surprised that poor jack reed stood up against condi and was overlooked prior to them realizing their mistake and then after they realized their mistake.
when they thought it was harry reid, they couldn't say enough things about harry reid. but when they came back and did their correction, it was 'that was jack reed' and then a dicussion on corrections.
poor jack reed.
well we'll recognize him here. and i'm sure that will just make his day! that's sarcasm. i doubt he'd be heavily impressed. 'senator you were praised on a blog!'
reed: really? which 1?
aide: let's see, it's called . . . uh, you were praised.
reed: what's it called?
aide: sex and politics and screeds and attitude.
reed rolls his eyes.
aide: but they really praised you. they said you had a great record.
reed: what was their last entry?
aide: let's see they did 1 called . . . uh, 'cocks and dicks.'
reed shakes his head.
aide: but this rebecca woman said you had nice eyes, kind of cute and sexy.
reed is already walking away.
that's how i think any alerting to reed about his praise here would go.
which is cool. we're not for everyone.
i made that point today when i was doing an interview with the wonderful people at the third estate sunday review.
that was a lot of fun. i think it goes up this sunday.
annie e-mailed me to ask me if i was over the flu yet. and the answer is no and i think it is mutating.
i was so cold today and i didn't check the temperature once because if it wasn't a cold day, i didn't want to know because that would mean i was sicker than i thought. (i have natural gas heat so there's no temperature thermostat, i just turn the knobs to a number between one and ten and today i had them all up to ten because i was freezing.)
i didn't even go outside to check the mail. and no, not because i had tina turner hair again. i brushed and styled first thing in the morning hoping that would give me some energy for the day but it didn't and i was so tired after that i sat down on the couch for what i thought was a second but ended up waking up 2 hours later.
then i caught democracy now! but fell asleep before it was over because i'm just so tired and so cold. i did have a pretty hot dream about dahr jamail who was on the 1st 1/2 of democracy now! today.
but then it got silly ("oh, dahr, embed me! embed me!") and i woke up pissed off.
question i'll toss out, who is the hottest international correspondent?
sometimes i think it has to be dahr and sometimes i think it has to be christian parenti.
but i did read the common ills this evening and clicked on the story john f. burns did for the new york times. i've seen him on tv and he's a little older than i like them but after today's article, i would so totally do him!
so let me know who you think is hot. let me check my e-mail address because i'm that out of it from this ever mutating flu.
it's sexandpoliticsandscreeds@yahoo.com so let me know if you've been eyeing any hot international correspondents -- print, tv or radio. and yes, you can pick a woman as well. and no, international does not just mean iraq.
i hope every 1 is feeling better than i am right now. and i hope we all take a moment to recognize jack reed who showed real guts (yet again) in voting against condi rice.
