Hillary Clinton on Fareed Zakaria GPS
Hillary on Fareed
I am sitting here reading stories about the current COVID numbers and watching CNN this morning, Former Secretary of State and Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton is on Fareed Zakaria GPS. She is doing her segment from a remote studio, which is the wise choice at the moment, but it reminded me of the couple of times she came into the old studio at Time Warner Center, so I just wanted to share a throwback image, I made from one of those visits.
Clinton is smart and I’m always happy to hear her thoughts on current events. In this polarized world do you think she will ever hold office again, or maybe run for something? I doubt it, but a boy can dream. Right?
Her new book, a political thriller State of Terror is out. She wrote the book with her friend Louise Penny. Have you read it? Thoughts?
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Nancy Pelosi Swears In New Members Of Congress
Women's History Month is coming to an end, but I wanted to share some relevant work of mine from my archives. This gallery is of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi during the mock swearing-in ceremony with the new members of Congress back in January of 2009.
http://www.davidscottholloway.com/swear
Women's History Month is coming to an end, but I wanted to share some relevant work of mine from my archives. This gallery is of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi during the mock swearing-in ceremony with the new members of Congress back in January of 2009.
I spent a lot of time working on Capitol Hill. I loved walking the halls, attending hearings, and documenting politics in action, but I think I often enjoyed these sorts of odd photo-op moments a little more.
The members have already been sworn-in, in an official, closed-door event. They then recreate the Speaker swearing-in each of the new members for the media. There were two side-by-side photo positions and one group would get ready while the Speaker was with the other group, then she would change sides. The event was all for show, but I think it is also really fun and meant a lot for the newest members of Congress, their families and staff.
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MAD is DEAD. Long live MAD.
"People who want to do creative things are generally going to seize the opportunity to do so whenever they can."
- Al Jaffee
Several years ago, I had the pleasure of, along with writer Todd Leopold, spending a couple of days with the geniuses of MAD Magazine when they gathered in Savannah, GA. It was a literal joy to spend time with them. They influenced my outlook as a youth and my adult sense of humor.
My son's first magazine subscription was MAD. I bought him an issue in the grocery store checkout while we were visiting my parents. The new Star Wars was on the cover. He chuckled out loud at so many of the pages and even weeks later, he would just burst out laughing. When I would inquire why he would quote a line from that issue. It made me so happy that I got him a subscription. It still comes every month and when I mentioned to his mother that the magazine was closing, her comment was "It's not because you failed to support them." This is probably true, but it doesn't make me feel any less like we all will be missing out on something special.
I think its influence and irreverence is visible in the funniest things. If you spent time buried in the pages you can recognize it's humor in contemporary comedy, everything from older movies like Airplane and decades of SNL to the funniest of shows on Cartoon Network.
But times have changed. In an article on Reason.com today Brian Doherty writes "Mad continued to deal with real presidents and real issues, and it had been hitting Donald Trump regularly and hard in its newest iteration. Trump insulted Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg by tweeting that America wasn't ready to elect Alfred E. Newman (Mad's goofy mascot who came to appear on every cover) president; Buttigieg purported in his youthful way to not have any idea who Trump was talking about, marking Mad as hopelessly irrelevant."
I understand his point, but I don't entirely agree. I'm certain that Mayor Pete has cracked open a couple of issues of MAD in his day, and MAYBE he didn't know who Alfred E. Newman is,MAYBE, but just because Buttigieg doesn't get the reference doesn't mean that MAD's influence won't live on. It's a lot deeper than that.