Conan O'Brien for Treasury Secretary

[Ken Burch]

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/519924/conan_o_brien_for_treasury_secretary

snip:

"As the Democrats hysterically reel away from heath care reform in the wake of Scott ("My daughters are available") Brown's win in Massachusetts, I'd like to suggest the sort of personnel change President Obama needs to make in order to recoup his populist mojo: fire Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and replace him with Conan O'Brien. Why? Because Conan clearly has a grasp of exactly what you should do when, after years of grueling effort, the Man jerks your chain just as you're on the brink of realizing a long-cherished goal."

"Like a lot of people, I don't really care about these late-night shows or the celebrity "controversies" they generate (if I can stay up that late, I'm watching Colbert or the Maddow rerun anyway). But NBC's Jay Leno/Conan O'Brien saga has started to display the same structural shape--that is, high-handed corporate incompetence in which all nasty consequences are relentlessly shifted onto workers below the perpetrator in the pecking order--that has characterized our nation's financial crisis. And Conan has the cojones to be admirably, even hilariously, petty about it in public. "

[thesquanderer]

1. Anyone who can get $20M for doing nothing should be treasury sec'y! (n/t)

[Ken Burch]

2. You do get it that the article is basically satire, don't you?

n/t.

[thesquanderer]

3. You do get that my response was also satire, don't you? (n/t)

[Ken Burch]

4. dupe post

self-delete.

[Ken Burch]

5. Wasn't sure, actually Now I know.

n/t.

[Ken Burch]

7. Now that Conan's out...Rahm should be put in the late time slot...

As a politician, he's basically an insult comic, so he'd work where Fallon is now.

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