Old news (funny Kucinich story)

[GregorStocks]

Kucinich shows pie chart during radio-only debate

Federal spending was the topic and Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich came prepared with a pie chart to argue his point about a bloated Pentagon budget.

But although many listened to Tuesday's presidential debate, few could see the Ohio congressman's prop.

The debate was broadcast only on National Public Radio.

As Kucinich challenged Democratic front-runner Howard Dean for refusing to acknowledge that the Pentagon budget needs to be cut, debate moderator Neal Conan of NPR interrupted.

"Congressman Kucinich is holding up a pie chart, which is not truly effective on radio," Conan told his listeners.

Kucinich was not deterred.

"Well, it's effective if Howard can see it," he replied.


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/01/06/politics2037EST0826.DTL

[dpbrown]

1. 50% of the budget on defense - so clear you can see it on radio

A masterstroke for the man himself, Dennis Kucinich.

[underpants]

2. Hoo boy where's that ten foot pole?

This was overly thoroughly discussed here.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=82443

[GregorStocks]

3. Ooo. Thanx.

All I knew was what was in that article. Sankoo for the pointer, Captain.
(As in Captain Underpants)

[dweller]

4. well, Letterman had a take on this

last nite. I almost got out of bed and posted, but was laughing so hard, just didn't bother. I checked this morning and it didn't get covered here, but on one post, which i kicked and it died quickly...

but during Dave's 'unfair editing' segment, he also ran a really strange photo of Kucinich (sorta goofy, sorta devilish grin) with a voice in the background saying..as if reading a Kucinich quote:
(to the best of my memory...)

"to those of you making fun of my using a pie chart on a radio debate........(long silence here).........just now i was giving you the finger"

After Kerry's 'f*ck' comment, and any other candidate's profanity, etc., I thought that was a pretty good joke about the whole affair.

Letterman also stated he'd vote for DK if Dennis promised to look like he did in the photo while in office. I wish Kucinich would go on Letterman, give him a goofy-ass grin and thank him for his endorsement/vote. Take it all in stride....

yeah, sometimes i have to laugh about it all rather than get mad about it. Letterman is an equal opp slammer, he hits out at the repugs regularly.

fwiw.
dp