Opening
John begins by talking about Hurricane Rita
I have this quick thing I want to say to the almighty. What part of God Bless America don't you get? How many times do we have to go over this? GOD BLESS AMERICA! from the mountains, to the prairies, to the... the whole fucking thing. The song is not God flatten or drowned, fill with water. What do you want from us? We already have almost as many strip clubs as churches - what else do you need? You're really bumming me out Dude.
Jon then does a segment called Democracy on the Crawl where he talks about the German elections and then moves to Afghanistan elections
Ballots were placed in secure boxes and observers agreed that no matter who comes out on top the real winner was The Container Store.
The election was a success in so far as voter turnout was 50% and only seven of the candidates were killed in the run up to it.
Jon talks about the N. Korean offer and their rescinding of said offer. Jon had some personal words for Kim Jong-Il
Listen Fuck-off, you got the Bush Administration to promise not to attack you. DON'T BLOW THAT! Mexico can't even get that. Everyday Canadians check the map to make sure we didn't move the border on them overnight. We're bad ass baby.
Rob Corddry does a piece called Start Packing about the Packalope
Larry Primeau: I cannot believe that they banned antlers from Lambeau Field. I was absolutely in shock.
Rob: How can a 10 point deer rack be considered dangerous in a place where alcohol is freely consumed and tempers run high?
Jon was in fine form tonight. His rant against the almighty had me in stitches - though I personally believe the pounding we're taking is just nature defending itself, not vengeful god at play. Right now I have 1 aunt and 2 cousins (Aunt and one cousin from N.O. and now my cousin from Houston) who have evacuated to Austin. The N.O. family lost everything and my Houston cousin's fairly certain her house will be flooded. But that's off the topic - The Packalope part was all right, not as good as I've come to expect from Corddry, but he does go back and forth between the Packalope guy and a Spiking Viking character and that's fairly amusing.
Middle
Jon discusses the pull out from the Gaza strip in a segment called Gaza: Peace Out
Strip Mauled
...sent thousands of joyous Palestinians into the streets of the empty settlements pillage-athon featuring the burning of apartments, greenhouses and of course synagogues. Boy these guys really know how to take the Jew out of jubilation.
We leave you with one last sign of hope. Last week Jerusalem staged the second annual Palestinian/Israeli beauty pageant. A new tradition designed to extend the olive branch... in my pants. ... It does bring you hope though; if these two cultures can come together, finally, and agree to debase their women maybe there's hope for all of us.
Sophomoric humor there at the end, but he does it so well, one can't help but laugh.
Interview
George Clooney - Good Night and Good Luck
Jon: This movie is tremendous. And you co-wrote it, directed it and acted in it.
George: and choreographed it.
Jon: I'm going to tell you why this upsets me... let's face facts, you're a handsome bastard. But I prefer to think of you, if I may, as eye candy, man meat - if you will.
George: I was in fact Sexiest Man Alive 1997 ... Pretty boy Pitt took me down.
Jon: Seriously, fuck that guy. ... To see you also have depth... I fell know that we should all be spreading you're seed throughout the land.
George: I'm doing my best.
They talk about Clooney's Dad as a broadcast journalist and the impact of Murrow vs. McCarthy. Then about making the movie and press reaction
George: The reason I did it was because I thought it was an interesting time to talk about the responsibilities of the 4th Estate and asking tough questions and I thought it was a nice time to talk about using fear to erode civil liberties again. Don't know why, just thought of that. ... So far it's gone over pretty well.
Jon: it's really a tremendous film and I have to tell you, in watching it - I really think you should be uglier. .. It's just, you know, man ... fucking Darwin.
End and Moment of Zen
MoZ A montage of General Honore on the air talking like a soldier, saying "Over" at the end of what he has to say.
I loved the MoZ tonight - I noticed Honore's way of speaking to journalists right from the start. It shows just how much he is a professional soldier. Clooney was hysterical. The two of then played of each other so well. The movie looks fantastic and while I personally am not a huge Clooney fan, I may just be converted. And here's a reference for one of the poll questions - the war with Canada. Apologies for missing yesterday's show. I was out of town.
As always; mistakes, misquotes, misspellings, and all of the numerous errors are mine, and mine alone.