I want my MTV: The cultural high point of the campaign so far came this past week when MTV aired a special on what the presidential candidates were doing when they were 22 years old.
Discretion being the better part of valor, George W. Bush opted out of appearing in person, but the show had Pat Buchanan gleefully recounting the time he punched out a cop on a traffic stop and Al Gore admitting that he smoked the loco weed as a youth. And, boy, did he inhale.
But the best part was when Republican John McCain, who has already taken grief from his more conservative colleagues for joking that his favorite band is Nine Inch Nails, said that when he went to the MTV awards with his daughter, a record company execu tive, he noticed that rapper Busta Rhymes was wearing a dress.
“I'd like to know if I can borrow that for the swearing-in ceremony,” Mr. McCain said.
The Campaign Humor Police issued a warrant for his immediate arrest.
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