Madeline Albright

[Dr Dave]

Turn on your local PBS station RIGHT NOW!

[RBS]

Thanks. Checking it out right now!

[moneyp]

What? WHAT?

[Enforcer]

Judging by the reaction here, I would guess she must be talking about the NHL CBA.

[Monte Smith]

Two anecdotes about Albright:

1) My former boss traveled to Slovenia where his brother-in-law was the ambassador. Madame Secretary was in country to make a speech and it was raining. A State Department careerist was charged with the duty of holding an umbrella above Albright's head, but in the heavy deluge, it hardly mattered. My boss said the Secretary was appropriately concerned about her coif. "She's bald, Monte," he said. "She looked like Uncle Fester."

2) My mother was traipsing the corridors of the State Department one afternoon when she found herself in foot traffic, trapped behind a crowd of functionaries who seemed to be trailing two tiny people of equal height. It was Madeline Albright and Yasser Arafat. "They're small," my mom said. "About the size of Cousin It."

[Dr Dave]

She's bald. She's short. What a failure as a human being. Ain't that right, Monte?

His values are as twisted as his reasoning. I can deduce that even with my low IQ!

[Monte Smith]

On the contrary, Dave. I would not attribute to her physical shortcomings any of Albright's failures. I do find it amusing, however, to think of her as co-equal in stature with Yasser Arafat and bald.

Speaking of failures, Albright famously stood applauding with Kim Jong Il bafore a parade of North Korean totalitarianism. Missiles and Red Guard...that shit. She probably resembles that dictator, too. But the mess she made in North Korea has nothing to do with her weak 'fro and Kim's. It has everything to do with her ready apologetics for America's enemies. You see, that's a problem. That's what makes me dislike her.

[crawjo]

Can someone clue me in as to why this thread was started? What was happening on PBS?