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...value of political theater. When leftist, coup-ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya tried to return to his country on Sunday in a small Venezuelan jet, buzzing the Tegucigalpa airport before soldiers blocked the runway, many inside the Organization of American States and the Obama Administration considered it a reckless stunt that might hamper a negotiated solution to the crisis. But as it turns out, the aerial spectacle may have aided their cause: it finally coalesced hundreds of thousands of Zelaya supporters on the ground and helped prompt Honduran coup leaders, already facing international condemnation, to reconsider their hard-line stance...
...Elected South Carolina's governor in 2002. Considered something of a quirky showman, he once sneaked two piglets into the state capitol to blast pork-barrel spending. The animals relieved themselves on the statehouse carpet, angering lawmakers, but the public approved of the stunt. Holds five-minute meetings with constituents as part of his "Open Door After Four" policy...
...never been a stunt for me. The first thing I bought when I got my book advance was a milk goat, because I had always wanted to have one. It's so wonderful to have the animals around, especially now when I'm having these [book] events and it can be kind of stressful. I come home and the goats don't think anything of it. I find it very soothing...
Obviously staged EMINEM-AND-BRUNO MTV stunt fools...
Olbermann, Keith •sanctimonious self-righteousness of is undercut by complicity of in promoting Mancow's waterboarding despite knowledge of that it was, in reality, a mere cheap stunt...