In our continuing quest to wallow in
our own sickeningly accurate powers of prognostication, we
revisit a snippet from our flash-in-the-pan bite-sized news
feature, TDT News. It originally ran in April,
2004. Since the 2008
primary season should be finished by roughly August, 2007,
now's the time to revisit those simpler, yet equally lame,
days of yore. (You'll note that politics is the one genre
Mark Burnett has yet to turn into a reality show). Heh,
bylines from Iowa! So 2004. Read the rest
here.
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 Democrats
locked in a tight battle for nomination
DES
MOINES, Iowa (TDT) The unpredictable nature of the Iowa
caucuses has breathed new life into the campaigns of multiple
candidates for the Democratic Presidential nomination.
There are a range of personalities running this year, ranging
from the angry white guy to the stereotypical angry African-American
guy, the boring rich guy, the farmer, the religious guy,
the military guy, and the young guy from the South. Through
a whirlwind series of challenges and votes in coming months,
rife with insider deals and back-stabbing, the massive
field will be winnowed to produce a single candidate. If
recent history is any measure, the winner will likely be
the contestant who is the quietest, least threatening,
most lacking in ideas, and willing to do whatever the party's
corporate sponsors ask, if elected. Television producer
Mark Burnett is filming the process, which he will edit
into a 13-episode reality TV show. Scheduled to air in
early 2005 on the CBS network, the show is tentatively
titled Survivor 10: The Democratic Primary.
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You know the drill by now. Some batch of 20 or so new (or partially
new) people we'll forget about a week after they're off the air
(or perhaps before), starving and running around in the same
hokey challenges. But it's in China this time. Oh, the novelty. |
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