I was watching Fox News Saturday, which i don't do often enough these days. It is of course silly to take Fox News seriously, but I really enjoyed this particular moment.
I had just finished watching their stock show which features financial advice every week from (no joke) a retired
pro wrestler and the guy who played
Trapper John from MASH.
Having seemingly covered every angle, Fox news was having Chuck Woolery on to give complete analysis of which of the four Republican Presidential candidates had made a Love Connection with the masses.
Woolery, if you don't recognize the name was a long-time game show host. Game Show Hosts when i was growing up was one of those jobs that was an automatic punchline. Seemingly, a job that required perfect hair, a bright white smile, and absolutely no other talent. It is here where I guess I should make the obligatory Mitt Romney joke.
I doubt kids recognize the 'game show host' slander nowadays. There are precious few game shows on these days (Judge shows are the new afternoon programming), and the ones that are on, generally are hosted by people who are famous before the fact (Regis Philbin, Guy Fieri).
A shame, I suppose. Maybe. I don't know. Still, it seems like we should have the game show hosts around, even if it has to be a combination of the greatest and worst jobs ever.
Little wonder, then if that is your day job- there's only two options- 1)
Get wasted or 2) moonlight as a
CIA assassin.
Anyway, Chuck
broke down the GOP field Love connection style. Of course, Chuck, come to find out has started a second career as an advocate for
term limits.
Yes, Woolery is starting a second career in the lucrative world of Conservative punditry.
While it is easy to rip on the guy (and question why anyone should listen to him in the first place), there's good money there whether you are a second tier
film critic, a
Saturday Night Live bit player, or an actor on a syndicated
sci-fi tv show.
So, there you have it.
Hard to say if Woolery is a man of honor and believes what he is saying, or if he's like Gingrich's Contract with America class (25 Representatives including Mark Foley and Rick Santorum were elected in 1994 and were
still running for re-election 12 years later in 2006) who thinks limits are for only those they don't like.
LJ isn't playing nice, to see the Woolery segment, click
here.