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Monday, July 23, 2007
More Fitzgerald
Here's a link to the audio of Fitzgerald's appearance on "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me."
My favorite part is after Peter Sagal, the host, establishes that Fitzgerald lives on the north side of Chicago, but works downtown, he then asks him, "So how do you feel about commuting?"
I also liked when Sagal is describing the rules and says that if Fitzgerald gets 2 of 3 questions right, he'll win a prize, and if he gets one or none right, he'll lose, "but if that seems overly harsh, I'm sure the President will step in."
Our Short National Nightmare Is Over
I'm happy that the two and one-half hour Cheney Presidency on Saturday morning appeared to be uneventful. I was worried he might invade Iran, or something equally reckless. It also doesn't appear that he pardoned Scooter Libby.
However, I haven't heard anything in the news about Patrick Fitzgerald since this weekend after his appearance on NPR's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me," which sounded pretty entertaining:
[Thursday], in a “rare public appearance,” U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald
“submitted himself to questions as a guest on Chicago Public Radio’s comedic
quiz show, ‘Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me.’” Although “Fitzgerald flunked the quiz, a
(scripted) appeal overturned the answer of the final question, commuting it to a
win. When asked by host Peter Sagal why such a tight-lipped public official
would come on the show, Fitzgerald said, “Literally, I was trying to get tickets
to the show.”
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that in the Chicago-based show’s segment,
“Not My Job,’ “Fitzgerald submitted to a quiz on scooters — such as the Segway.”
After the quiz, host Peter Sagal awarded Fitzgerald a child’s scooter “engraved
with the words: ‘To Patrick Fitzgerald, USA, This one will stay where you put
it‘.”
I also understand that he was asked questions about "Scooter" from the Muppet Show as well.
Hopefully we'll hear from him soon and he didn't get rounded up by Cheney as an "enemy combatant."
