Electric Josh Archives

June 23, 2003

Al
So Weird Al is on VH1 doing a fake interview with Eminem, and lamenting that he wouldn't allow Al to do a video for the song parody he did allow. At any rate, Al is now listening to the song and reading the paper. They didn't play the entire song, but that's what videos should be! I smile inside, because since I was about eight and we first noticed that MTV was on cable (this was something like 1982, y'all) I know that when I got big and became a rock star, my videos would consist of me (or possibly, instead, a ridiculously hot model or porn star or something, although I didn't think of that until I was considerably older) sitting in front of the camera and listening to the song in front of some bitchin speakers. The whole video would be a single camera angle; no edits at all. It'll completely rule.
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Jim
Last one. Recently the 2nd anniversary of Jim Jeffords's switch from Republicanism passed mostly unnoticed. He himself, having faded from headlines, said, addressing the National Press Club, ...The reasons for my switch, while apparent to me then, have become painfully clear to me now. Go.
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.iq
Okay, so one more. Apparently I was so intent on watching Howard on Meet The Press this weekend that I failed to notice Gen. Wesley Clark the previous week commenting thusly:

CLARK: "There was a concerted effort during the fall of 2001, starting immediately after 9/11, to pin 9/11 and the terrorism problem on Saddam Hussein."

RUSSERT: "By who? Who did that?"

CLARK: "Well, it came from the White House, it came from people around the White House. It came from all over. I got a call on 9/11. I was on CNN, and I got a call at my home saying, 'You got to say this is connected. This is state-sponsored terrorism. This has to be connected to Saddam Hussein.' I said, 'But--I'm willing to say it, but what's your evidence?' And I never got any evidence."