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...Bush's malapropisms and Bill Clinton's hoarse Bubba twang made them broad targets for satire. Obama's biracial heritage and personal gravitas make him a far more difficult President to imitate - and that's before taking his unique preacher-professor cadences into account. "It's somewhere between Ted Koppel and an alien," impressionist Frank Caliendo said of Obama's voice during an appearance on Late Show with David Letterman, admitting he's struggled with his Obama impression (and not just because he happens to be a short, fleshy white dude). Another comedian, Donald Glover, told Tina Brown's Daily...
...named Gennifer Flowers was talking about her affair with Bill Clinton. There was no road map for surviving something like that, but the Clintons reacted boldly. They sent a young adviser named Mandy Grunwald to appear on Nightline, which was then at the peak of its influence. Host Ted Koppel was known as a master interrogator - but as soon as he opened the interview, Grunwald sprang to the attack. Why was Koppel letting "a trashy supermarket tabloid" set the agenda...
...regard makes it more difficult for the Clintons to persuade fair-minded journalists of just about anything. If the press isn't worthy of any respect, then there's no reason not to manipulate it with impunity - but no important journalist wants to be manipulated. You can scold Ted Koppel for chasing trash - once - but you pay a price when the "trash" turns out to be true. No one likes being played for a chump...
...Select results from this TIME/Discovery Channel poll appear in this week?s issue of TIME, on newsstands Monday. For additional results from this poll, tune in to Ted Koppel?s premiere on the Discovery Channel. Koppel on Discovery ? The Price of Security will air from 8-11 p.m. ET on Sunday, Sept. 10. Click here for more information on Koppel?s premiere...
...coffin flap is just the latest battle in a campaign to make the acknowledgment of American deaths in the war a traitorous act, as when conservatives assailed Ted Koppel for reading the names of war dead on Nightline in 2004. And it raises a question more important than a midsummer political blip: Why, after more than three years, are images of coffins returning from a war controversial...