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Leftovers: My Pet Goat • Dan Gross admits today to not being William Safire. I, for one, am very confused about the discussion we had about writing speeches for Richard Nixon the other night, then! [DN, second item] • Ahh, but of course, who can forget the time when Babe Ruth saved a Kensington ballfield by playing in a charity game there. This is a pretty awesome story, actually. They should make a movie out of it. Just, uh, don’t put John Goodman in it. [Inky] • Here’s the Stephen Colbert video at the White House Press Corps dinner, which isn’t as funny as everyone’s saying it is, but it’s not bad. [YouTube] |
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• Animal lover? (Not in that way, you perv.) There are 
yeah, i watched that thing the other night because,uh, i’m a loser and found myself watching c-span on saturday night. anyways, the bush impersonator was a huge hit, and bush actually did a nice job himself (please note: that will be the nicest thing you ever see me write about george bush). it seemed to me that, after that, colbert crashed and burned. that’s why i’m so surprised that everybody thinks it was so funny.