It's a rough job, getting them together. It's so much easier to agree on "what makes good TV" than "what makes good politics."
The surreality of the past eight years helps a lot in making this work. I've heard a couple of people defend Dubya strategies with "he has a much smarter secret plan; he's just not telling us about it." So of course people are going to cut Stephen slack in similar ways, on top of the confusion over whether he's joking.
(I think this version of Stephen must manage to be a little more guarded. He probably hasn't shot anyone, for instance. Although it's not like Cheney didn't set a pretty low standard there...)
The epic tale of bipartisanship, and falafel loofah obsessions, will indeed continue! Not that I know where it's going next, but TCR will provide more fodder sooner or later.
I don't know what the journey of the TCR crew was like - there were enough people involved that they might have been able to just rent a private plane. But when I tried to find out how to get from the Baghdad airport to the one near Washington (the author's notes/link page has the various sites I used), the trip itineraries all involved overnight layovers at VIE. (Picky researching FTW!)
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The surreality of the past eight years helps a lot in making this work. I've heard a couple of people defend Dubya strategies with "he has a much smarter secret plan; he's just not telling us about it." So of course people are going to cut Stephen slack in similar ways, on top of the confusion over whether he's joking.
(I think this version of Stephen must manage to be a little more guarded. He probably hasn't shot anyone, for instance. Although it's not like Cheney didn't set a pretty low standard there...)
The epic tale of bipartisanship, and
falafelloofah obsessions, will indeed continue! Not that I know where it's going next, but TCR will provide more fodder sooner or later.I don't know what the journey of the TCR crew was like - there were enough people involved that they might have been able to just rent a private plane. But when I tried to find out how to get from the Baghdad airport to the one near Washington (the author's notes/link page has the various sites I used), the trip itineraries all involved overnight layovers at VIE. (Picky researching FTW!)