Who Do You Feel Sorry For?
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Who Do You Feel Sorry For?


I feel sorry for Katherine Harris. It took years of hard work and concerted effort to become the biggest joke in Florida politics, but a couple of IM's leaked to the press and Foley wiped her right off the late night map.

I feel sorry for George Smoot. Sure, he's achieved immortality as a Nobel Prize laureate, but his name is still Smoot. Third grade must have been one tough year.

Finally, I feel sorry for the New York Yankees and their fans...actually, no I don't.

So who do you feel sorry for this week?




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- Pity Party: Who Do You Feel Sorry For?
I feel sorry for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Having to wait to see if the Senate passed a no confidence resolution against you. Man, that had to be torture. No one should have to go through that. I feel sorry for the guy who (purportedly) supplied...

- Who Do You Feel Sorry For?
I feel sorry for former Maryland Lieutenant governor Kathleen Kennedy Townshend. Before George "Macaca" Allen's implosion took him from shoe-in to laughing stock, she had a firm grip on the title of "worst political campaign in the last decade." I...

- Pity Party: Whom Do You Feel Sorry For Today?
A lot of people to feel sorry for in this installment: I feel sorry for the writers of The Onion. With the announcement of a "White House Director of Lessons Learned," how do you possibly write satire that outpaces this administration? I feel sorry for...

- Who Do You Feel Sorry For?
I feel sorry for the White House staffer in the communications office who is part of the group that needs to track media coverage of the administration and has the job of reporting back every morning about the Daily Show with a straight face and a somber...



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