With several of my friends featuring Friday specials on their blogs (games, words, and celebrities), I wondered what kind of special feature I could add. Let's try something called Presidential Pardons, shall we? Here's how I play--if I were President of the United States of Pop Culture, who would I pardon?
Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale
My choice is less than unique as my predecessor, Dennis Miller, has already given Stockdale his due, saying of him, "he's a brilliant, sensitive, courageous man. And yet he committed the one unpardonable sin in our culture: he was bad on television (1993)." But President Miller never pardoned him--officially--so today I am pardoning the 1992 Vice Presidential candidate for the Reform Party. A Vietnam war hero and POW, one of the Navy's most decorated men, and a former philosophy professor at Stanford.
He was given one week's notice before the 1992 VP debate where he famously asked, "Who am I? Why am I here?" before going radio silent when his hearing aid went out on him. A laughable sequence famously mocked by Phil Hartman on Saturday Night Live--it unfortunately labeled him a pariah in US Pop Culture. In another cruel twist of fate, he died of Alzheimer's disease in 2005.
So on this day in the year of our Lord, I pardon him of all crimes against the hip and ironic.
My choice is less than unique as my predecessor, Dennis Miller, has already given Stockdale his due, saying of him, "he's a brilliant, sensitive, courageous man. And yet he committed the one unpardonable sin in our culture: he was bad on television (1993)." But President Miller never pardoned him--officially--so today I am pardoning the 1992 Vice Presidential candidate for the Reform Party. A Vietnam war hero and POW, one of the Navy's most decorated men, and a former philosophy professor at Stanford.
He was given one week's notice before the 1992 VP debate where he famously asked, "Who am I? Why am I here?" before going radio silent when his hearing aid went out on him. A laughable sequence famously mocked by Phil Hartman on Saturday Night Live--it unfortunately labeled him a pariah in US Pop Culture. In another cruel twist of fate, he died of Alzheimer's disease in 2005.
So on this day in the year of our Lord, I pardon him of all crimes against the hip and ironic.
brilliant
Posted by: Wendy Melchior | May 23, 2008 at 06:55 AM