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Post number 4404

thc — Wed, 22 Nov 2000 05:43:59 -0800

Wasn't there a conspiracy theory going around about this happening? Isn't John McCain supposed to step in? Is the Neiman Marcus cookie recipe involved?

By: m.polo

m.polo — Wed, 22 Nov 2000 05:48:11 -0800

I can imagine James Baker in front of a mirror in a hotel in Tallahassee right now, practicing his Alexander Haig imitation...

By: allaboutgeorge

allaboutgeorge — Wed, 22 Nov 2000 06:33:48 -0800

Hey, kids, let's put on a show! Who says musicals are dead? Now casting a "Wizard of Oz" remake: Dick Cheney as the Tin Man (who only suffers heart trouble in election years), George W. Bush as the Scarecrow (and his dog as Toto), James Baker as the Cowardly Lion, Katherine Harris as Dorothy (unless you prefer the beleaguered Theresa LePore, who probably definitely wishes she were in Kansas rightaboutnow), Dan Rather (and his homegrown witticisms) or Bernard Shaw as the Wizard, Al Gore (the first debate Al, sporting the makeup, the sighs and the schoolmarm sexual persona) as the Wicked Witch of the West ... durnit, I'm fresh out o' names ...

By: black8

black8 — Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:02:26 -0800

How about Linda Tripp?

By: m.polo

m.polo — Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:09:31 -0800

Tripp should play Glinda, if only 'cause I wanna see Linda haul her ass up in that soap bubble thing-y...

By: capt.crackpipe

capt.crackpipe — Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:13:45 -0800

Ralph Nader as the good witch (notice that incorporates the "gay Nader" rumors); Browne, Haeglin, Buchanan as the munchkins; they follow the chad-lined road to the District of O.Z.; the winged monkies are the hordes of journalists;

By: waxpancake

waxpancake — Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:20:40 -0800

Here's a copy of the original e-mail that I received. Slate and Salon ran small blurbs on it, too.

By: waxpancake

waxpancake — Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:25:25 -0800

Whoops. That message board post above is just a reprint of this Slate story.

By: thc

thc — Wed, 22 Nov 2000 11:15:06 -0800

Thanks waxpancake, I thought I was losing my mind. It certainly did sound eerily familiar. And as for the Wizard of Oz casting choices, I would like to see Bill Daley as one of the Wicked Witch's guards. He has that grumpy look about him "O-E-O"